Papyrocentric Performativity Presents…
• Bestial at the Festival – The Festival, D.M. Mitchell (2021)
• Linkin’ Lawyer – Resurrection Walk, Michael Connelly (2023)
• Mini Miki – Maximal Mikita: The Mostly Morbid Memoirs of Mikita Brottman, Mikita Brottman (2024)
• Spider Guider – Britain’s Spiders: A Field Guide, Lawrence Bee, Geoff Oxford and Helen Smith (2020)
• Gnostalgie du Perdu – Gnosticism: An Anthology, ed. Robert M. Grant (1961)
Or Read a Review at Random: RaRaR
« Les valeurs oniriques l’ont définitivement emporté sur les autres et je demande à ce qu’on tienne pour un crétin celui qui se refuserait encore, par exemple, à voir un cheval galoper sur une tomate. » André Breton (1896-1966)
• “Oneiric values have definitely won out over the others, and I maintain that anyone who still refuses to see, for instance, a horse galloping on a tomato, must be an idiot.” — André Breton, viâ Soluble Fish by Incunabula Media
Some examples of impossible geometry (poster at Tarquin)
snow (n.) Middle English snou, from Old English snaw “snow, that which falls as snow; a fall of snow; a snowstorm,” from Proto-Germanic *snaiwaz (source also of Old Saxon and Old High German sneo, Old Frisian and Middle Low German sne, Middle Dutch snee, Dutch sneeuw, German Schnee, Old Norse snjor, Gothic snaiws “snow”), from PIE root *sniegwh– “snow; to snow” (source also of Greek νίφα, nipha, Latin nix (genitive nivis), Old Irish snechta, Irish sneachd, Welsh nyf, Lithuanian sniegas, Old Prussian snaygis, Old Church Slavonic snegu, Russian snieg’, Slovak sneh “snow”). The cognate in Sanskrit, स्निह्यति snihyati, came to mean “he gets wet.” — “Snow” at EtymOnline
In “Diamonds to Dust”, I showed how the Mitsubishi logo could be turned into a fractal, like this:
The Mitsubishi diamonds (source)
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Mitsubishi logo to fractal (animated)
Now I want to look at another famous symbol and its fractalization. Here’s the symbol, the hexagram:
Hexagram, a six-pointed star
The hexagram can be dissected into twelve equilateral triangles like this:
Hexagram dissected into 12 equilateral triangles
If each triangle in the dissection is replaced by a hexagram, then the hexagram is dissected again into twelve triangles, you get a famous fractal, the Koch snowflake:
The Koch snowflake
The Koch snowflake again
Hexagram to Koch snowflake (animated)
If you color the triangles, you get something like this:
Colored hexagram to fractal (animated)
Of course, this is a very inefficient way to create a Koch snowflake, because the interior hexagrams consume processing time while not contributing to the fractal boundary of the snowflake. But in a way you can fully fractalize the hexagram if you draw only the point at the center of each triangle and then color it according to how many times the pixel in question has been drawn on before. To see how this works, first look at what happens when the center-points are represented in white:
White center-points (animated)
And here’s the fully fractalized hexagram, with colored center-points:
Colored center-points (animated)
Previously Pre-Posted…
• The Hex Fractor #1 — hexagons and fractals
• The Hex Fractor #2 — hexagons and fractals again
• Diamonds to Dust — turning the Mitsubishi logo into a fractal
« Le noir, une non-couleur ? Où avez-vous encore pris cela ? Le noir, mais c’est la reine des couleurs ! » — Renoir (1841-1919)
• “Black, a non-color? Where did you get that idea? Black, why, it’s the queen of colors!”
The colonial cyanobacterium Nostoc commune (image from Wikipedia)
Post-Performative Post-Scriptum…
The title of this incendiary intervention is a reference to the French phrase nostalgie de la boue, literally meaning “nostalgia for mud” and referring to a longing for social or sexual degradation.
“Each of Robyn’s three Honey-era Later performances featured a moment. Towards the end of ‘Missing U’, she finally stared down the camera, having avoided eye contact for fear of emotional collapse, while during ‘Honey’ she did away with the mic stand to make room for supple dance moves. With ‘Every Heartbeat’, meanwhile, peaked when she punctured the highwire emotional blood-letting with a cheeky wink.” — “The 100 greatest BBC music performances – ranked!”, The Guardian, 6×22
Post-Performative Post-Scriptum…
If you think it’s easy to mix so many metaphors in so few words, all I can say is: Try it for yourself!
When you stare at the cross for at least 30 seconds, you see three illusions:
• A gap running around the circle of lilac discs;
• A green disc running around the circle of lilac discs in place of the gap; and
• The green disc running around on the grey background, with the lilac discs having disappeared in sequence. — Lilac Chaser, Wikipedia
Elsewhere Other-Accessible…
• Troxler’s fading at Wikipedia
“The fact is, that, of all God’s gifts to the sight of man, color is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.” — John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice, Vol. 2 (1853)
Overlord In Terms of Core Issues Around Maximal Engagement with Key Notions of the Über-Feral 
