Christopher E Stacey

Field Ontology and The Rings of Saturn “We, the survivors, see everything from above, see everything at once, and still we do not know how it was.”

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Seamus Perry · Pluralism and the Modern Poet ‘Art arises,’ Auden writes, ‘out of our desire for both beauty and truth and our knowledge that they are not...

An exceptional essay on pluralism, poetics and experimental thought. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Distributed Identity in Late Modernity: A Reading of DeLillo. “All plots tend to move deathward.”

They are not individuals, they are post individual: an emergent artefact of distributed processes. Identity is environmentally sustained, narratively inferred and continuously reassembled under conditions of existential, technological and symbolic flux.
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An exceptional essay on, among other things; place, other worlds and the transcendence of rear projection ijosts.glasgow.ac.uk/vol-8/scotla... #IKWIG #powellandpressburger

Distributed Identity in Late Modernity: A Reading of DeLillo. “All plots tend to move deathward.”

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Distributed Identity in Late Modernity: A Reading of DeLillo. “All plots tend to move deathward.”

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22. The Big Ships She appeared in his kitchen as something unequivocal, equal to the world around her and indifferent to its movements.

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God, I’d forgotten this. Glad you noted it.

21. A Flat Earth He lay on his back on the edge of the woods, at the edge of his world waiting for the stars to stop still for long enough, to place himself as close as possible to a centre of sorts so that the univer...

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A Willing Machine The slate grey container had sat mute since he had installed, fitted and dressed it.

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19. A Prosthetic He wore a heavy blue waxed cotton jacket with five dull brass buttons.

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Christopher E Stacey | Substack Writer, essayist. Psychologist.

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The Invention of Reading Requiring a position in his resistance, in his distribution; he was meticulous, a microscopy seen in his microbiology, in what he gave his attention to; a ball of cells that forming early in developme...

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A Museum of Western Approaches She was intricately embroidered, her tattoos an account of ancient maritime histories and haunted isolations of an institutionalised life; large bitumen crosses on the heavily freckled concave of her ...

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English Electric St Anne’s Limehouse, a superposition collapsed into rigidity.

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Sebald, DeLillo, Ballard, Bachelard and Baudrillard. “When the image is new, the world is new.”

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The Beautiful Loop. "These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased"

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Beautiful. Delighted that you were able to photograph them. Thank you.

The very same, seen travelling from Cambridge North to Liverpool Street.

I have just been writing about this, seen from the train.

This has made my day.

“He’s laughing at your dreams”

Stunning

Edge of Darkness. BBC, 1985.

Yes.

Beautiful.

Brilliant.