Seeing the Music in the Makers #12: Miles Davis Quintet

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Earthsea | What the Original Wizard School Got Right

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) was the celebrated author of twenty-three novels, twelve volumes of short stories, eleven volumes of poetry, thirteen children’s books, five essay collections, and four works of translation. Her acclaimed books received the Hugo, Nebula, Endeavor, Locus, Otherwise, Theodore Sturgeon, PEN/Malamud, and National Book Awards; a Newbery Honor; and the Pushcart and Janet Heidinger Kafka Prizes, among others. In 2014, she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and in 2016 joined the short list of authors to be published in their lifetimes by the Library of America.

The Earthsea Cycle, also known as Earthsea, is a series of high fantasy books written by the American author Ursula K. Le Guin. Beginning with A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), The Tombs of Atuan, (1970) and The Farthest Shore (1972), the series was continued in Tehanu (1990), and Tales from Earthsea and The Other Wind (both 2001). In 2018, all the novels and short stories were published in a single volume, The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition, with artwork by Charles Vess.

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Leaning into Our Shadows Under the Cold Bright Sun

Beginning

The moon drops one or two feathers into the field.   
The dark wheat listens.
Be still.
Now.
There they are, the moon’s young, trying
Their wings.
Between trees, a slender woman lifts up the lovely shadow
Of her face, and now she steps into the air, now she is gone
Wholly, into the air.
I stand alone by an elder tree, I do not dare breathe
Or move.
I listen.
The wheat leans back toward its own darkness,
And I lean toward mine.

— James Wright

In the future we will have the impression of a day that is endlessly clear and endlessly cold.

Thomas Bernhard

NO EXIT

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Protest only serves as the prenatal expression of an attitude that must still give birth to direct action.

In order to create new possibilities, oppositional fervour needs to collaborate in the work of a complete reinvention of the current order of “reality.”

Power cannot be importuned to deconstruct itself.

The Anthropocene isn’t an artefact of the Corporate-State Apparatus but its reification.

It isn’t a symptom, but a system.

It is a system that has closed off all the exits & has the force of negation on its side.

The work required to defeat it is that of a relentless & unremitting deconstruction.

An unreasonable & onerous task, perhaps, yet without fulfilling it the future will indeed be devoured by the still incomplete project of the Corporate-State Apparatus.

For its apotheosis will be the final catastrophe.

Tomorrow, the Corporate-State Apparatus will no longer be merely the dominant ideological form, it will be the Death Star that has consumed the World.

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On the Trail of the Salamander

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Water Under the Bridge

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