Est. 2012 · Specimen No. 4.2

The Museum of Vestigial Desire

Business tags: pen

Money has become a media. Media is manic. Once it is out there, creating havoc with the possibilities that people search for and demonstrating how meaning emerges through desperation, it cannot be reigned in. If money were still a currency, we would bother enough to sit on it. With the heat of our body it would have become warm enough to come back to life. The oldest token of currency known to humans is human life itself. If currency notes were to come to life, it would be a kind of return. Med

Conversation tags: air

Every time we try to communicate, we expose ourselves. Exposure is dangerous as well as highly potential in an exponential way. There is a possibility to trigger a reaction between the two worlds that get locked-in together because of this exposure. When our species first rose above functional and low-level communication of the animal, we quickly got distracted. Whereas communication could have allowed us to reveal our secrets to each other and allow us to compare our perspectival frames in orde

Commerce tags: bills

When we were young, we thought that money was the answer to all our problems. With a little effort, we imagined we will be past all our struggle and soon have more than enough money to spend. Having money to spend is a kind of privilege in the system. If we draw our privilege from something other than money then we are not really on the same ladder. We are not really geared up to reach the same place. Our sense of grief and our sense of joy are both calibrated against our sense of profit and los

Examinations tags: abrasion

Evaluating and ascertaining the worth of another is our obsession. We want size others up only for the sake of figuring out if we are in any danger of falling in our own eyes. Examinations could have been about testing ourselves, they could have been about realising what we can muster time and time and again. Examinations could have been rehearsals, but instead they are events of finality. We regret your obsession with wanting to know us. You can't operate under ambiguous terms, you have to know

Institutions tags: restaurant

Institutions were imagined to set things into motion. But things have been in motion anyway. Of course they have not fit our search pattern very well. When we look out of our window, we see a set of random activities in play. We do not have the patience to formulate a pattern from what we find in front of us. We want do more of what we do but we do not want to observe and appreciate what is out there. This is a catastrophic event. We keep releasing venom into the world and the world keeps becomi

Suicide tags: leader

Living entities generally do not want to die. If they do, they believe that life is at least dissimilar from death. Life and death are only states, they cannot possibly be distinguished from each other because they are only known as different states of consciousness. These states might switch but they still remain states of consciousness. It is not that life is signified by consciousness and death by some idea of eternal sleep. Both being states of consciousness, limit the actor’s behaviour in

Co-operatives tags: fountain

We have desire for co-operation when we want something out of the system. When we need to give, we are competitive. Competition is just a logic that enables us to isolate ourselves and keep what we accumulate just for ourselves. Co-operation is not linked in an absolute fashion to the pursuit of a common good. Co-operating towards a common goal, having common interests or objectives or otherwise does not betray a strategic sync. It can also just be a very practical arrangement. Co-operatives a

Technique tags: synapse

The technique that we want to discuss is not our approach or the process that we will follow in doing what you want us to do. The technique that this text describes is the know-how that we accumulate in order to process our own inertia and remain in continuous production. Inertia is easily perceived as a problem. What stops us from doing what we want to? How are we becoming more passive rather than active. What suffocates us rather than emancipates us, what amplifies rather than muffles our vo