Dear Elements,

I scratched this itch in the back of my volcano catalogue. The archaeology is syncategorematically abbreviated but if you look over the ledge you can see under the edge. The appended polaroids are ahistorical but open-source. Subsequence underwayÉ

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ÒImagination is only possible if itÕs not forced.Ó
- Paul ValŽry

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What is force?
(mass x acceleration)
-Isaac Newton

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Imagination is only possible in the absence of accelerated mass.
(imagination is only possible in immaterial stillness)

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Imagination is caused by nothing
(imagination is causelessness)

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Imagination struggles to occur in the presence of a cause.

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ÒThe most important factor of change is imagination over a gap in memory.Ó
-Ferdinand de Saussure

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Knowledge can always be incorrect, but it is never imaginary.
(imagining is not knowing)

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"The mind needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate in truth.Ó
- Henry of Ghent on illuminationism

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Ironically, illuminationism was undone by enlightenism.

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The enlightenment didnÕt give us reason; it eliminated all but one kind of reasoning.

ÒTo claim that reason or rationality is Ôby natureÕ a patriarchal enterprise is to concede defeatÉIf today [science] is dominated by masculine egos, then it is at odds with itselfÉReason wants to be free, and patriarchy cannot give it freedomÉFeminism must be a rationalismÑbecause of this miserable imbalance, and not despite it.Ó
- Laboria Cuboniks

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Xenofeminism welcomes strange knowledge.
(imagination is strange)

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ÒThe gateway to the invisible must be symbolically authentic.Ó
(Thus, an entire physical mountain is brought into existence through sheer epiphany)

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Òa fiction that makes itself realÓ
(Definition of 'hyperstitionÕ)

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Abduction is a hypothesis making strategy.

- Charles Peirce

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ÒAbduction: Peircian UFOs and Semiotic CaptureÓ
- unwritten paper

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UFO sightings suggest an eagerness to attain knowledge from outside ourselves, a dissatisfaction with our capacity to generate knowledge.
(UFOs are a lack of imagination)

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Òthe UFO/alien abduction phenomenon is exclusively experienced by white people in the United States. But while scholars have probed abductee narratives to surface political and symbolic anxieties for decades, none have thought of the phenomenonÕs whiteness alongside the archival absence of Black abducteesÓ
- Jonathan Jacob Moore

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Òthe speculative device admits that a crucial pull of imagination is intrinsic to the workings of rationality.Ó
- Luciana Parisi

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Those that are abducted are caught in a pre-meaning, captured in a limbo of meaninglessness.

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Epiphanies are not normal; we arenÕt having them most of the time.

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Creating the conditions for abnormality might be useful for engendering epiphany.

(Epiphanies donÕt have causes)

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This is what archaeology does: opens up abnormality.

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ÒMateriality is a living hypothesisÓ
- Reza Negarestani