Read all about Hans Bellmer in this exquisite essay by Robert Morgan: ”With Bellmer the question of sexuality was not simply an issue of the imagination; it became a spiritual necessity – a desire that needed an object of projection. Sexuality was not simply an imaginative fancy, but a reality of the mind perpetually in search of the corporeal substance of the body. Thus, Bellmer’s Dolls are not simply mannequins that signify the metaphysical condition of reality as they might be interprered in the paintings of De Chirico or Oskar Schlemmer; nor is the Doll a surrogate as in the pathetic case of Oskar Kokoschka after his affair with Alma Mahler. Bellmer was clearly aware of these antecedents when he adopted his lifelong motif at the beginning of the thirties.” #hansbellmer #robertcmorgan #surrealism #diepuppe #thedoll #lapoupee #occulture #thefenriswolf #carlabrahamsson

In today’s WEEKLIES post at our Patreon, I write (again) about truth vs lies on our contemporary take away media menu: ”The human qualities being eroded are precisely those that evolved to help us navigate actual rather than virtual environments: skepticism, curiosity, stratification, discernment, the ability to tolerate uncertainty and contradiction. These cognitive tools, refined over millennia of engagement with an indifferent natural world, prove poorly adapted to an environment designed specifically to exploit our psychological vulnerabilities. We find ourselves like deep-sea creatures suddenly exposed to atmospheric pressure—our internal architecture collapsing under conditions we never evolved to handle.” #vanessasinclair #carlabrahamsson

In today’s Magic Monday post at our Patreon, I write about LaVey’s ”total environment” as an important part of the magic of embracing the ideal: ”There is a lot to unpack in this, as is the case with many of LaVey’s magical innovations. Basically, being in an environment that is to as great a degree as possible styled by you based on honesty and resonance, will create a more or less perfect harmony and power that is in every way uniquely yours. In this environment and ensuing state of mind you will be able to formulate and perform magic of a different kind than the genie in the bottle kind; you will basically be your own genie, and the bottle could be anything from a designated corner, a room or an entire house. Or a preferred place in nature. Of course this doesn’t need to have anything to do with thematically magical objects or atmospheres. Only you know what’s creating that ultimate resonance in your sphere. Nostalgia is usually a great tool; weave an outer web filled with...

Just posted some thoughts about the streamings of monocultural unconsciousness: “And how will this change us? Optimistically, we gain a wider republic of stories. A village without a cinema can still host a festival on a Tuesday night. We travel by subtitle; we acquire the grammar of distant lives. The long form affords moral patience, letting characters unfold beyond caricature. But attention, stretched and smoothed by auto-play, loses the useful roughness of intervals. The week between episodes once invited speculation, memory, the embroidery of talk. Compressed into a night, a season flows through us like a river whose banks we scarcely see.” #dystopia #streaming #apocalypse #monoculture #ragnarok #occulture #anartapart #carlabrahamsson