ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE: Genesis Dzogchen

Friday, January 20, 2012

Genesis Dzogchen

Oh bloody hell. This is really serious. I've posted about this before but here are the full lyrics to “Paperlate.” I find them uncannily evocative of Dzogchen instructions for recognizing the nature of mind:

Paperlate paperlate
Paperlate paperlate

Paperlate, ooh I'm sorry but there's no one on the line
Paperlate, ooh I'm sorry but rest easy no news is good news

Ooh it's too easy to live like clockwork
Tick tock watching the world go by
Any change would take too long
So dry your eyes
Ooh it's too easy to live in a cold sweat
Just sitting dripping in pools below
You can wipe your face
Kill the pain
But the fever won't go, no no

Paperlate
Pull it together now
Put your feet back on the ground
Paperlate
Ooh don't worry now
You're not alone
Look around you
Paperlate
Ooh I'm sorry but there's no one on the line
Paperlate
Ooh I'm sorry but rest easy no news is good news

Ooh it's too easy to compute your future
Taking no risks and playing too safe
Any change would take too long
So dry your eyes
Ooh it's too easy to talk about rocking the boat
Making changes and changing track
But you'd better not lock that door
Cos you'll be coming back

Ah you're breathing faster
Silence the only sound
There's no need to be nice on the way up
Cos you're not coming down

Paperlate paperlate
Paperlate paperlate
Paperlate paperlate
Paperlate paperlate

Paperlate
Ooh I'm sorry but there's no one on the line
Paperlate
Oh I'm sorry but rest easy no news is good news...

*****

Sometimes it's good to find instructions in corny unexpected places.

1 comment:

Henry Warwick said...: eeeew. Genesis with horns. That hurts. When it comes to paper songs (other than Paper by Talking Heads) I always go back to the Cocteau Twins and Persephone. Stunnign vocals on this and the bass is uber-creepy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P65yqlxkFE

Hey, the chances I must waste
Hey, ever dirt even there month got a car
Here's what it takes (x4)

Paper chase is on
These are on my speed
For he warbled
Bought arachnophobe
On the tiara, By the gin track
Paper chase is on
These are on my space

Paper chase is on
(Hey, the chances I must face)
These are on my speed
(Oh, you warbler)
For he warbled
(Hey, that's by the car)
Bought arachnophobe
On the tiara
By the gin track
Paper chase is on
These are on my space

I watch him trail (x4)

Hey, for eight means a paper chase Paper warm beings means the paper chase
For our time being's never changes place
Never changes this (x2)

Here's what it takes (x6)

Paper warm beings means the paper chase
(Here's what it takes)
For our time being's never changes place
(x3)

Here's what it takes

Hey, for eight means a paper chase
For our time being's never changes place
(x2); January 22, 2012 at 12:45 AM

Timothy Morton

Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. They have collaborated with Laurie Anderson, Björk, Jennifer Walshe, Hrafnhildur Arnadottir, Sabrina Scott, Adam McKay, Jeff Bridges, Justin Guariglia, Olafur Eliasson, and Pharrell Williams. Morton co-wrote and appears in Living in the Future’s Past, a 2018 film about global warming with Jeff Bridges. They are the author of the libretto for the opera Time Time Time by Jennifer Walshe. Morton has written All Art Is Ecological (Penguin, 2021), Spacecraft (Bloomsbury, 2021), Being Ecological (Penguin, 2018), Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People (Verso, 2017), Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (Columbia, 2016), Nothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism (Chicago, 2015), Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (Minnesota, 2013), Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality (Open Humanities, 2013), The Ecological Thought (Harvard, 2010), Ecology without Nature (Harvard, 2007), 8 other books and 250 essays on philosophy, ecology, literature, music, art, architecture, design and food. Morton’s work has been translated into 10 languages. In 2014 they gave the Wellek Lectures in Theory.

“Outstanding.”
—Slavoj Zizek, In Defense of Lost Causes

“Dark ecology has the potential to be the punk rock or experimental pop of ecological thinking.”
—Kasino A4

“It isn’t [nature] itself that needs trashing — we’re doing a fine job of that already; it’s our way of thinking about it that needs to be structurally realigned ... it's an important book that, in a scant 205 pages of main text ... frames a debate that no doubt will be carried on for years to come.”
—Vince Carducci, Pop Matters

“He practices what he theorizes: nothing is wasted in his argumentation.”
—Emmanouil Aretoulakis, Synthesis

“Picking up where his most obvious predecessors, Gregory Bateson and Felix Guattari, left off, Morton understands mental ecology as the ground zero of ecological thinking, as that which must be redressed before anything else and above all. Morton goes beyond both his forebears, however, in repairing the rift between science and the humanities, which the Enlightenment opened up and against which Romanticism reacted. Perhaps most pleasantly surprising, given its erudition, is that in its stylistic elegance The Ecological Thought is as satisfying to read as it is necessary to ponder.”
—Vince Carducci

ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE

Friday, January 20, 2012

Genesis Dzogchen

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