Faster Than Lichen #6 (front cover)
Faster Than Lichen #6 (back cover)
Elsewhere Other-Accessible…
• Songs from the Center of the Sun — an interview with Faster Than Lichen
Forty Thousand Līchs
Category Archives: Biology
Straight to Shell
Ernst Haeckel’s “Prosobranchia” from Kunstformen der Natur (1904), or Artforms in Nature
Spied a Lily
Spider Lily, Hymenocallis sp. (source)
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Summer’s Hummer
Hummingbird hawk-moth, Macroglossum stellatarum (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Goatsphered
Seedhead of western goat’s-beard, Tragopogon dubius (Scop.)
Was Guckte Dü?
Albrecht Dürer, Das große Rasenstück / Great Piece of Turf (1503)
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Bong of Bongs
Dopelord, Polish stoner-doom band (photo by Marcin Pawłowski)
“Navigator” by Dopelord from Children of the Haze (2017)
Leaf burns to ashes — Hail the Holy Smoke!
Deepspace traveller, folding time with bong;
Green smoke inhaler — space defeated bends.
Skilled time deflector, holding bong in hand
Holding bong in hand…Slowly he’s dying,
Slowly he’s turning,
Into stones and into ashes:
Slowly gets high.Galaxy raider flights the mothership;
Mind decompressor on eternal trip;
Green smoke inhaler — space defeated bends.
Skilled time deflector, holding bong in hand
Holding bong in hand…
Elsewhere Other-Accessible…
• Dopelord at Bandcamp
Post-Performative Post-Scriptum
The title of this incendiary intervention is a paronomasia on Song of Songs, the Biblical book traditionally ascribed to King Solomon and known in Hebrew as שִׁיר הַשִּׁירִים Šīr hašŠīrīm and in Polish as Pieśń nad Pieśniami. Please note that the Overlord of the Über-Feral abhors and abominates the taking of all and any drugs. Except the purest and most potent: water, language, mathematics and music dot dot dot
Perplexing Purple
We have three sets of cones (or colour sensors) in our retinas, each of which is sensitive to a different part of the colour spectrum; the brain then constructs the rest of the spectrum by extrapolating from the relative strength of these three. In the case of purple, which occurs when the red and blue sensors but not the green ones are triggered, the brain creates a colour to fill the gap. If your brain were more objective, rather than showing you purple, it would display a patch of flickering grey with the words “system error” on it. — Rory Sutherland in Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don’t Make Sense (2019), section 6.2
Performativizing Papyrocentricity #72
Papyrocentric Performativity Presents…
• Homing in the Gloaming – Homing: On Pigeons, Dwellings and Why We Return, Jon Day (John Murray 2019)
• Niceberg – The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music, Dave Grohl (Simon & Schuster 2021)
• Nasty Lastly – Nasty Endings 1, compiled by Dennis Pepper (Oxford University Press 2001)
• Daysed and Confused – Hawkwind: Days of the Underground: Radical Escapism in the Age of Paranoia, Joe Banks (Strange Attractor 2020)
• World-Wide Wipe-Out – Empty World, John Christopher (1977)
• Chuck Off – Post Office, Charles Bukowski (1971)
• #AllDayDong – Dong, Peter Sotos and Sam Salatta (TransVisceral Books 2022)
• Meet the Maverick Munch-Bunch… – Naked Krunch: The Sinister, Sordid and Strangely Scrumptious Story of SavSnaq, Dr David M. Mitchell (Savoy Books 2022)
Or Read a Review at Random: RaRaR
Quake Your Booty
Greater quaking-grass, Briza maxima (Linnaeus 1753)
Overlord In Terms of Core Issues Around Maximal Engagement with Key Notions of the Über-Feral 