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Grand-Unified Theories of Meaning
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Enchanter's Journal
100 Mind-Seals

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Roots of Dimensionism / Dimensionalism in Picabia

Quotes by Nathan Coppedge:

"Translating age might yield youth.
Youth is age’s experience, except with the avant-garde.
Psychiatrists would say God is the avant-garde.
We shouldn’t age except by holiness.
Holiness has the promise of the sacred life."
 ---Spiritual Writings (#1)

"For it (truth) is (inherently) coherent. What is incoherent is coherently incoherent. I find this to be a rule of nature." ---2014

"Coherence breeds incoherence."

I have recently noted that Picabia wrote similarly in 1949: "Knowledge is an old error that thinks of its youth. Illogicity invented logic...Art is the worship of error. To fear the senses is to become a philosopher." (Francis Picabia, 4 March 1949, quoted in I AM A BEAUTIFUL MONSTER: Poetry, Prose, and Provocation by Francis Picabia, p. 379).

A translation of parts of Picabia's work is subsequently being added to the Golden Notebook (the new addition has not yet been published, as of 2016/01/13).

More later, perhaps.

Periodic Link to My Great Art Galleries:::

Attention art collector: Hyper-Cubism is a deserving movement that has been valued in the hundreds: http://www.etsy.com/shop/HyperCubism


Gallery 2 (Older work): http://www.impossiblemachine.com/Gallery2

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To my Dimensionism and Hyper-Cubism groups:

https://www.facebook.com/HyperCubism

https://www.facebook.com/dimensionism

Thank you!

Recent Nathan Coppedge Quotes, as posted at Poemhunter.com

"I found a system without math!"

- Nathan Coppedge (2013).

"Representational reality is virtual reality."---Nathan Coppedge (2014).

"Preferring subjectivity over death is still absolutism." ---Nathan Coppedge (2014).

"[C]ompleteness. It was the most outrageous fact - - the kind of fact some authors have mistaken for death." --- Nathan Coppedge (The Techne,2014)

"Somewhere beyond the exercise of the imagination...was an outer boundary...Every question appertained to it." --- Nathan Coppedge (The Techne,2014)

"The symbol of everything belonged anywhere". --- Nathan Coppedge (The Techne,2014)

"Metaphysics granted me that all were variables". --- Nathan Coppedge (The Techne,2014)

"Practical advice was the domain of a scripted set of perfections". --- Nathan Coppedge (The Techne,2014)

"Imagination could live there if it's whole point was not to be dangerous. But the merest hint of adventure, and the mind would snap, and the subject would not longer be practical".

 --- Nathan Coppedge (The Techne,2014)

"Not only practicality was perfect". --- Nathan Coppedge (The Techne,2014)

"Nihilism was the conviction that a person was no more than a value". --- Nathan Coppedge (The Techne,2014)

"Successful religions are subtle annihilations- -the apocrypha of nihilists... Successful people use value as neutral currency, in this sense becoming profoundly immoral". --- Nathan Coppedge (The Techne,2014)

"Imagination can be a force of politics when it is seen that it is imagination doing the computation". --- Nathan Coppedge (The Techne,2014)

"Perhaps, I thought, I was having an absurd religious experience". --- Nathan Coppedge (The Techne,2014)

"[I]t was a representation, so it was a polytheism". --- Nathan Coppedge (The Techne,2014)

"I was now a politician of the meaningless. The sort of person who has meaningful things to say..." --- Nathan Coppedge (The Techne,2014)

"And sometimes EVERYTHING is what people need..." ---Nathan Coppedge (The Techne,2014)

"The sages are full of advice about doing nothing. It is often better than doing the wrong thing". --- Nathan Coppedge (The Techne,2014)

"[W]hen I think of the practical, I think of returning to EVERYTHING..." ---Nathan Coppedge (The Techne,2014)

"We can't get everything merely by being practical, and hence, we can't get practicality merely from being practical". --- Nathan Coppedge (The Techne,2014)

"Practicality is inevitably a simplification". --- Nathan Coppedge (The Techne,2014)

"If the task is difficult and ordinary, then chances are, there is someone who can say that it involves a ‘special technique'. If there is no special technique available, it is either sacred knowledge, or you're supposed to delegate the task to someone else. If you cannot delegate, and you don't think it's sacred knowledge, and it doesn't involve a special technique, then you know that Fate will step in, for better or worse". --- Nathan Coppedge (The Techne,2014)

"To avoid mediocrity, it is important to delegate". ---Nathan Coppedge (The Techne,2014)

"[O]nly the trickiest, most intelligent people seem self-sufficient...They have learned to depend on other people's minds instead of their bodies. They have raised the standard, and climbed on top of other people's backs. Only by being dependent have they begun to look independent". ---Nathan Coppedge (The Techne,2014)

"[Concerning the higher life...] it is partly because they're delegating about their fate, and their sacred knowledge is a special technique". ---Nathan Coppedge (The Techne,2014)


THESE AND OTHER QUOTES AT POEMHUNTER!

Free Hyper-Cubism, Maybe the Next Picasso

For those that don't know, I've been giving away free artwork at a cafe in New Haven.

Jojo's cafe has been the only cafe to allow me to do so. I try to give thanks to the owner as often as I can.

I've already given away over 100 artworks in the last year or so. The project will continue.

Many young women, including several Yale students have framed my artwork themselves.

In some ways its been the most inspiring activity of my life.

According to U.S. law by the way, artwork is an exception to the rule, it IS IN FACT LEGAL TO RE-SELL THE WORK.

FYI: It's value may grow.

Current major collectors include Gail Hardin (a former neighbor), and my father. There are others, but I'm terrible with names. Someone should make a list of the names and numbers of the artwork and who owns them. There are (at least) dozens. And I still have a big folder full. I produced three or four good ones today.

Book News

I gave my approval for the cover and text layout of my book.

1-Page-Classics

It will be featured on Amazon by May 14th.

The Age of the Mitochondria and Space Exploration

It seems, upon some recent science fiction musings, that we have entered an age of the Mitochondria; Refueling space-ships that travel between stars will require a vast amount of fuel; The obvious source of energy for this fuel is the sun, but situated so far from the sun as the earth, that energy is not fully available; Although eventually such energy might be "quantum teleported" into the fuel tank, or back to earth, in what might seem like the near future to the industrial space agencies, the sun might be used like a solar generator for sun-orbiting satellites or local spacecraft, even before exploration moves beyond our solar system.

As it is known, various "capsules" have already traveled the distance of Mars, and I believe one even went to Pluto; A new generation of scientists is currently working on a manned spacecraft to travel to mars---as reported in Popular Science; What this might be called is the age of the Mitochondria, the power generator for individual animal's cell structure;

Suitably, philosophy of this period could become highly advanced, beyond mere "postulations" into an age of "active, dynamic information;" I'm excited, as I feel some of these 'advents' have direct social applications that may appear in cafes or other public areas vis. 'modular citizen' and 'virtual capital'

Also see my comments at Esther Dyson's technology column at http://www.project-syndicate.org recently, "avant-garde information" and in other places, "digital marketing devices" and the correspondence between games and society.