Cosmic Edges

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Freaky Clocks

Freaky Clocks

But we must not speak of astrology....

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“We must rediscover the time of the other.” — Byung-Chul Han, The Expulsion of the Other

“Mark the power of the temples: through them revolves the entire procession of the zodiac, which draws from them their laws and lends to them its own.” —Manilius, Astronomica (30-40 AD)

15th century, German astrological mss.
Louise Bourgeois, Self Portrait, 2009.
Freud’s model of the mind in The Ego and the Id, 1923

Since Psycho-Cosmos: my dreams more vivid, vivider—?—in a long weird winter. I wrote about a week of my January life for

Chloe Pingeon
’s Collected Agenda.

Below, scattered notes toward this month’s Psycho-Cosmos workshop (more here) on February 23, where we’ll discuss the psychoanalytic hour, hysteria, and astrological hours.

Louise B.’s self-portrait, a berserk moment in time, like a birth chart as freaky clock with its jokes, dreams, and mistakes, slips: what Freud called the products, productions of the unconscious. The secret spots in the zodiac, like

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