“The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man's wish to rest for a moment an attempt to falsify the fact of knowledge, to try to turn the knowledge into the goal.” MenWorldTryingWholeMomentsFactsMotivationTurnsWishGoalVisible Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“I have been trying to think of the earth as a kind of organism, but it is no go. I cannot think of it this way. It is too big, too complex, with too many working parts lacking visible connections. The other night, driving through a hilly, wooded part of southern New England, I wondered about this. If not like an organism, what is it like, what is it most like? Then, satisfactorily for that moment, it came to me: it is most like a single cell” IfsThinkingWayTryingKindHas BeensMomentsBigsEarthNightConnectionsEnglandComplexesDrivingCellsVisibleThat MomentSouthernOrganismsLackingNew England Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
“This is a strange book: visionary and dark. It stutters out a kind of music: repeated phrases which accumulate errors and mutate as they go like chromosomes or, as Woodward puts it better, 'visible fissile ribbons.' It's as if we were present for the moments of creation and extinction. Uncanny Valley is ominous and beautiful.” IfsKindBookMomentsBeautifulDarkCreationStrangeErrorsPhrasesVisibleValleysExtinctionVisionariesRibbonsUncannyOminousChromosomes Author:Rae Armantrout