wonder

By Malene Fonnes, 26 September, 2017

Anomalies

Author
Rob Swigart
Publication Type
Article in an online journal
Language
English
Year
Publisher
Electronic Book Review (ebr)
Series
Critical Ecologies
URL
Anomalies
Appears in
Critical Ecologies
License
CC Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike
Record Status
Not yet reviewed
Tags
supernatural
aliens
unknown
paranormal
magical
fantastic
science
wonder
mystery
telepathy
history
psychology
Abstract (in English)

Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred

Jeffrey J. Kripal

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. Print.

Investigating the Anomalies: Mysteries from Behind the Former Iron Curtain

Vladimir V. Rubtsov

Kharkov, Ukraine: Research Institute on Anomalous Phenomena, 2011. Kindle eBook.

Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects from Antiquity to Modern Times

Jacques Vallee and Chris Aubeck

New York: Tarcher/Penguin, 2010. Print.

From the heavens to the stars, the number three has often been tied to the occult. Carrying on this tradition, Rob Swigart has brought together three books that investigate the anomalous, address the unexplained, and answer the impossible. The truth is in here.

(source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/anomalous)

truth, or ILLUSION?

Content type
Creative Work
Author
Alan Sondheim
Year
Archive URL
truth, or ILLUSION? (UbuWeb)
Language
English
Publication Type
Published on the Web (online gallery)
Record Status
Incomplete record (stub)
Tags
codework
HTML
human-computer collaboration
wonder
readable
unreadable
machine translation
Description (in English)

A codework piece readable by humans in an HTML editor. On Sondheim's UbuWeb: Contemporary page, here's the paratext: "INSTRUCTIONS: Cut and paste into your own html editor, convert into html document, and view in browser."

As Sondheim states, it is text before and after the "wonder" of resurfacing: "(...) some of the letters are represented by their codes; in the second, the upper ascii codes are inserted between the mayas, illusions. So the translations work with codes into codes, implying codes all the way up and down …

There's also of course the wonder—James Ellroy and Merleau-Ponty both talk about wonder—which comes with the text emerging as readable. Of course it was text before and after as well …

In my dialup program, there are also colors in the second piece—"maya-prayer-extension" standing out—the chanting of the syllables of god, speaking the unspeakable …"

(Source: http://home.jps.net/~nada/sondheim.htm)

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