Month: January 2017

• Fragmentary, No. 14

  In the past we have always assumed that the external world around us has represented reality, however confusing or uncertain, and that the inner world of our minds, its dreams, hopes, ambitions, represented the realm of fantasy and the imagination. These roles, it seems to me, have been reversed. The most prudent and effective method […]

  R l powell

  January 4, 2017

  Books, Fragments, Impensive, Introductions

  Ballard, Crash, dream, fantasy, hypermodernity, J. G. Ballard, Modernity, reality, supermodernity, urban life, urban sprawl

• Fragmentary, No. 13

  Of course the pornographic imagination is hardly the only form of consciousness that proposes a total universe. Another is the type of imagination that has generated modern symbolic logic. In the total universe proposed by the logician’s imagination, all statements can be broken down or chewed up to make it possible to rerender them in the form of logical […]

  R l powell

  January 3, 2017

  Fragments, Image, Theory

  cannibalism, equivalence, imagination, logic, pornography, Sontag, Susan Sontag, symbolic logic