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Remi Sussan @sremi.bsky.social · 2d

Not a new article, but I discovered it today. It’s the first time I’ve read about a connection between Gregory Bateson and Maya Deren.
lareviewofbooks.org/article/tens...

Tension and Drive: Maya Deren and Gregory Bateson’s Plateau | Los Angeles Review of Books

Vinícius Portella forges the historical and intellectual connection between Maya Deren’s cinema and her reading of Gregory Bateson’s concept of the “plateau.”

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Remi Sussan @sremi.bsky.social · 2d

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Dice, Divination and the Silk Road

Constance Cook decodes an ancient manuscript to find a connection between gaming and divination.

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Remi Sussan @sremi.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not sure I've read this Catherine Moore's story. I'll have to check it out. But Catherine Moore was an incredibly influential author for me as a teenager, either though Northwest Smith stories or through "Mimsy were the Borogoves in collaboration with Henri Kuttner (a.k.a Lewis Padgett).

Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 2d

The early career retrospective of C. L. Moore continues with "Greater Than Gods," a sci-fi epic of gender politics, eugenics, time travel, and 1950s marriage norms.

deepcuts.blog/2025/10/22/g...

“Greater Than Gods” (1939) by C. L. Moore

If a man could see the end of his act, the end that comes at the far end of Time, and know what it meant—would men be greater than gods?—Editor’s opening to C. L. Moore’s “Greater…

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Remi Sussan @sremi.bsky.social · 3d

(apparently in open access, this is not always the case for SciAm. If you are interested, save it to your hard disk, because I'm not sure how long it will last)

Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 3d

Storytelling Methods Alter How Memories Are Stored in the Brain, Neuroscientists Find www.scientificamerican.com/article/stor...

Your Brain’s Memory of a Story Depends on How It Was Told

Telling the same story in different ways can change the brain networks that the listener uses to form memories

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Gary Lachman @garylachman.bsky.social · 3d

My chat with Whitley Strieber about how one gets from rock and roll to what I do now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqBn...

Rock n Roll Hall of Famer Gary Lachman: Life from Blondie through Alistair Crowley to Chaos Magic

YouTube video by Whitley Strieber

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Remi Sussan @sremi.bsky.social · 3d

Very interesting stuff. Info I never read anywhere else before

The Philosopher @philosopher1923.bsky.social · 5d

Your Sunday read:
"Neoplatonic Voyaging"

Jonathan Egid traces the global journey of Neoplatonism across Europe, Africa, and Asia, as it was transformed by encounters with Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism and by those who engaged with it.
#Philosophy
www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/neoplat...

Neoplatonic Voyaging

This essay traces the global journey of Neoplatonism across Europe, Africa and Asia and how it evolved through encounters with Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism. From its origins in Alexandria to its ...

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Remi Sussan @sremi.bsky.social · 3d

True, that"s complex, especially as the Laozi is incredibly difficult to understand. I'm currently reading Thomas Michael's book Philosophical Enactment and Bodily Cultivation in Early Daoism, which proposes a new interpretation (I just started it, so I’m not sure what he says yet).

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Remi Sussan @sremi.bsky.social · 3d

An other aspect worrying me is the anti-intellectualist stance. "Thought is limited", "you think too much" (yes I have frequently been accused of that :-). This my lead to a trust in "gut feeling" favorizing some very reactionary positions...

Remi Sussan @sremi.bsky.social · 3d

in fact taoism has always been on the side of the people. What worries me is that this definition of esotericism seems to have influenced the academia, including Faivre (i don't say that Faivre is guenonian, or far right. But I suspect an intellectual influence) 3/

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Remi Sussan @sremi.bsky.social · 3d

Agrippa, Dee, Bohme, Swedenborg etc. were not "esoteric christians". they were maverick finding themselves at the margin of orthodoxy. Even truer dor eastern doctrines. I remember this incredibly silly idea by Guenon in "La grande triade": "The taoist elite and confucianism for the people". 2/

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Remi Sussan @sremi.bsky.social · 3d

The question one may ask is: does their politics influence, even indirectly, their other ideas? For instance, take the very idea of esotericism : an 'inner core' of an exoteric tradition, reserved for the "elite." Is that even historically true?”

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Remi Sussan @sremi.bsky.social · 3d

Undoubtedly an important document. But we should go beyond Evola, who is the elephant in the room, and also question the impact of a René Guénon (whose reactionary politics are self-evident) , but also more "discreet" far-right influencers, like D.T. Suzuki or Mircea Eliade.

Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 6d

Timely! 𝘼𝒓𝙞𝒆𝙨: 𝑱𝙤𝒖𝙧𝒏𝙖𝒍 𝒇𝙤𝒓 𝒕𝙝𝒆 𝑺𝙩𝒖𝙙𝒚 𝒐𝙛 #𝑾𝙚𝒔𝙩𝒆𝙧𝒏𝙀𝒔𝙤𝒕𝙚𝒓𝙞𝒄𝙞𝒔𝙢 special issue ' #FarRight Politics and the Study of #Esotericism' just published by @degruyterbrill.bsky.social– open access articles on #JuliusEvola, and the uses of scholarship on the #esoteric by the #altright: brill.com/view/journal...

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Remi Sussan @sremi.bsky.social · 5d

oh no ...

(And seriously: when someone shows such a lack of critical thinking, how can we trust his Greek translations and text interpretations?)

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Remi Sussan @sremi.bsky.social · 5d

The software was created by Steve Nichols, who wrote some books on the topic for Mandrake of Oxford (I haven't read them and, as i wrote, didn't test his game). I'm not sure if his program is still available

Remi Sussan @sremi.bsky.social · 5d

the 90's version was not online, it was a software you had to buy. If one day I find the courage to do my version, it will be online (and free). Interesting this gnostic chess !

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Remi Sussan @sremi.bsky.social · 5d

I'm working on a game project using magical concepts. It will take time before I have something to show, though...But if you want to be a beta tester, one day....😉

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Remi Sussan @sremi.bsky.social · 5d

But making it multiplayer (for 4 players) is well beyond my competence. Creating AI players feels improper for this practice. I know there was a computer version of E-Chess in the 90s, but I never used it. Anyway, we could probably do better now. /2

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Remi Sussan @sremi.bsky.social · 5d

In fact, Enochian Chess was the reason I became interested in Magick. I have the new edition of Chris Zalewski's book, but I haven't played it yet (or built it). I'm seriously considering creating an online version in JavaScript/p5.js. The UI (board and pieces) should be doable. 1/

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Remi Sussan @sremi.bsky.social · 6d

This is quite close to my point of view. A conscious universe doesn’t mean it has to be good. The real hope offered by idealism or panpsychism is that, if true, we could develop technologies of consciousness to alleviate suffering more efficiently than “materialist” ones.

Bernardo Kastrup @bernardokastrup.bsky.social · 6d

In this remarkably Schopenhauerian essay, Arthur Haswell argues that a world where consciousness is fundamental may still be a world of suffering; even fundamental suffering.
www.essentiafoundation.org/is-ours-a-wo...

Is ours a world of fundamental conscious suffering?

In this remarkably Schopenhauerian essay, Arthur Haswell argues that a world where consciousness is fundamental may still be a world of suffering; even fundamental suffering: "Does a universe imbued w...

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Remi Sussan @sremi.bsky.social · 10d

Congratulations !

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Gabriel Kennedy aka Prop Anon @propanon.bsky.social · 10d

Very Happy to Announce that my book, "Chapel Perilous: The Life & Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson" is this year's winner of the S.I. Hayakawa Book Award from the Institute of General Semantics!

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Remi Sussan @sremi.bsky.social · 10d

This was where my favorite historian of religions, Ioan P. Couliano, worked. He was mysteriously assassinated in the bathroom of the University Divinity School (probably tied to Romanian Politics)

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Morris Alper @malper.bsky.social · 12d

I’m fascinated by the idea of a game like No Man’s Sky where infinite new civilizations could be generated dynamically with their own languages as the player explores the universe.

Morris Alper @malper.bsky.social · 13d

ConlangCrafter could potentially be used in pedagogy, typological and NLP work, and many entertainment applications. Imagine a video game where aliens can speak countless new procedurally-generated languages.

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Morris Alper @malper.bsky.social · 13d

Try out some of the newest languages on our project page:
conlangcrafter.github.io

ConlangCrafter: Constructing Languages with a Multi-Hop LLM Pipeline

A fully automated system for constructing languages using large language models. Our multi-stage pipeline creates coherent, diverse artificial languages with their own phonology, grammar, lexicon, and...

conlangcrafter.github.io

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Remi Sussan @sremi.bsky.social · 16d

Ordered. Exactly my field of interest !

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