Sources - Making Space - Letter to Saario 2007

Making space didnt come out of a bubble - the ideas Antti and I articulated in response to the blackened gloom of the nuffield theatre had been swirling around in our discussion throughout the year. I include a letter I wrote to Antti a few months before the piece was composed - it was written as the first letter in a series examining the christian tradition in a postmodern setting :

Letter to Saario Easter 2007

The Blunt Smokes You

'Tricky is not so much a narcissist as a narcossist. Narcissists never smoke, never do drugs because drugs take time away from yourself, precious time that the narcissist could be spending on themselves. The narcissist gets high on the endless supplies of themselves. The narcissist works fulltime on the endless job that is themselves. For the narcossist, on the other had, the self goes up in smoke. Being is an unbearable heaviness.'

Kodwo Eshun (1999) More Brilliant Than The Sun: Adventures In Sonic Fiction. London, Quartet Books. p.59.

quote for the day

Much like Bataille, Crowley finds in sexual magick the most powerful means to shattering the limited rational mind and finite human ego. Sexual transgression is also a transgression of the boundaries of ordinary consciousness itself. Following Nietzsche, Crowley sees the rational, logical thinking mind as a kind of epi-phenomenon and aberration of the true human self, which is bodily, instinctive and sensual. "Consciousness is a symptom of disease;" but in the moment of sexual union and orgasm -- called here "the Charioting" -- the thinking mind is temporarily blotted out, allowing a fleeting glimmer of "universal consciousness:"

http://www.esoteric.msu.edu/VolumeV/Unleashing_the_Beast.htm#_edn5