Science  Write  Now

Soon

I’ll write Imagine like it is an instruction and it is an instruction

like it is an invitation in to intra-action and it is one     if you know 

the letters and the sound of the letters and the way they sit together 

to make the words     and if you know the way the words sit together 

to make the meanings     it will be like it is all happening in your body

now     and in the mind of your bodymind     this some thing

this some where any where every thing any thing is happening the

meanings     your meanings     cut     unlike my meanings     cut     but

like them too.

Soon

I’ll write Imagine the full bright moon like the moon of my 

bodymind     cut     is like the moon of your bodymind     cut     is like

the moon we are imagining in our bodyminds     like and unlike     

the full bright moon.

Soon

I’ll write Imagine the Homing Machine like it is a great metaphor

into Subjective Death Experience     our last first most precious

things     emptying the drawers     slide soundlessly in     out in out in

at rest     now     there is no resting     your bodymind     cut     like and

unlike my bodymind inscaping into resonance with The Equilibrium

your body    too body    for The Transport     as is mine.

Soon

I’ll write Imagine the Black Square like it is a great metaphor

a living portal     into the inmost of the cause     a zero point energy

field of zero point oscillators harmonically oscillating around their

equilibrium positions     all indeterminacy possible     at the Zero

point of painting     now     cut     now     if we are not     the object

we are     the instrument     if we are not     the instrument     we are 

the measurement.

This piece is heavily influenced by ideas in Quantum mechanics - particularly the work of Karen Barad, who I had some email exchanges with while writing the book. Ideas in the text drawn from Quantum mechanics include 'intra-action', 'indeterminacy', 'zero point energy field/oscillations', and the way experimentors make 'constructed cuts' from reality when they conduct observations and the intra-actions at work between the object being measured and the measuring device.

First published in The Inclination Compass (Puncher & Wattman, 2023)