Know

In the Russian North (in Archangelsk, Komi, and Udmurtiya, but also in the Urals in Siberia) the word ‘hiccups’ is used to denote something else than usual hiccupping: a form of involuntary speaking, believed to be produced by a little creature called a hiccup. The hiccup can get inside the mouth when it is left unguarded for a moment, or can enter through any other orifice. Women speak of giving birth to a hiccup. The hiccup has a voice distinctly different from that of the host, and leads the good life of a parasite, but quite openly. It may demand treats or drink, swear, offer a live commentary on life’s happenings, talk about itself, have a gender, a name, and can generally either torture or coexist peacefully with its victim/host. (8)
Olga Goriunova, ‘The Bodily Sounds of the Abyss.’
In Unsound : Undead, Goodman, Heys, and Ikoniadou (eds).

Knowing as an apparatus of capture, a stratification and commodification of desire, or instead knowing as a mode of non-dominant relationality.

What are you/we able to accept as knowing, as knowledge? What makes you anxious, think something is flaky, think something is fascist?

What if the world depended on our ability to be as expansive as possible about what knowing can mean?

Maintaining precision and conceptual differentiation in relational knowing without succumbing to either complete mysticism (mysticism in itself ain’t a problem) or taxonomic zeal on the other.

(From 18.5 Sky Medecine, Shkaabewis Moose, Ouisconsin, 2458)

Welcome travellers
I’ve returned
to this important site
to these beautiful islands of stone in the river

the echoing of earth
and sky
in the meandering water

Just like the river through red stone in this valley
So

we’ve shaped the future Carving out pathways previously
unknown:

I return here so we don’t forget

Travellers,
be you on the hardscrabble
surface of Mars,
Floating elegantly
in the gas clouds
above Venus
Exploring Jupiter’s moons,
or even still here on this beautiful Earth

Pause a moment
to connect
with your ancestors:

Those who with mathematics, equations
drawn from the stars themselves Uncovered the traces left for us in the cosmos

To launch us further
to travel faster than light itself