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macrocosmos | supercontexts It's perhaps worth noting that the task of creating an "everything device" (see Tuesday's post) crops up outside of artistic circles as well: a great many mystical or occult systems hinge on the idea that usable models of the macrocosm (or "God's design" if you prefer) can be created here on the microcosmic level of reality, and initiates to mystical or occult traditions are often encouraged to familiarize themselves with the workings of these models. Viewed from this perspective, things like the i Ching, Tarot decks, runes, or the Kabbalist's Tree of Life all can be said to qualify as "everything devices" of one sort or another. Someone like Grant Morrison sits pretty squarely on the intersection of "occult weirdo" and "cultural creative," and so it doesn't really come as a great surprise to hear him talk about The Invisibles as a sort of microcosmic distillation of his own macrocosmic ACEPOS, the "Supercontext." From this page of this interview: ""The Supercontext to me is what you get born into when you 'die' - remember at the end that these are just my personal metaphors for something that may be quite different. These are the words; I'm straining it down through The Invisibles, that's the shape I'm straining it down through. The Supercontext to me is a fifth-dimensional, informational continuum where things that we don't quite understand go on - higher processes, adult processes." Still planning to talk about the Kim and Spahr poetry books in this context, but I'm currently in Hartford on the eve of the Birds of Delay / Son of Earth / Number None tour, so deeper thoughts on poetry may be a week or so away yet. Stay tuned. Labels: spirituality

Thursday, March 23, 2006 11:06 PM   Comments: Post a Comment