This might be of much interest to many fluxers and spiders--
_Ether: The Nothing That Connects Everything_ is now available.
visit www.joemilutis.com for more info and link to buy
ETHER~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Advance praise for _Ether: The Nothing That Connects Everything_:
³Marvelously written, witty and inspiring. A significant and needed
contribution to our understanding of the nebulous intersection of
technology, subjectivity, spirituality, avant-garde art, and premodern
cosmologies²
--Erik Davis, author of Techgnosis
³A Sheer delight. It brings together literature, philosophy, history of
science, occult studies, music, audio art, film, American studies and
poststructuralism with frightening fluidity and sure-footedness. I can
think of a number of projects that attempt this far-reaching
transdisciplinarity, but none that does it quite this well.²
--John Corbett, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
³Milutis is a skilled ringmaster of difficult ideas that might otherwise
bite.²
--Gregory Whitehead, radio artist
www.joemilutis.com
Every culture has its own word for this nothing. Synonymous with the idea
of
absolute space and time, the ether is an ancient concept that has
continually determined our definition of environment, our relations to each
other, and our ideas about technology. It has also instigated our desire to
know something irrepressibly beyond all that. In Ether, the histories of
mysticism and the unseen merge with discussions
of the technology and science of electromagnetism. Joe Milutis explores how
the ideas of Anton Mesmer and Isaac Newton have manifested themselves as
the
inspiration for occult theories and artistic practices from Edgar Allan
Poe¹s works to today. In doing so, he demonstrates that fading in and out
of
scientific favor has not prevented the ether, a uniquely immaterial
concept,
from being a powerful force for material progress. Milutis deftly weaves
the origins of electrical science with alchemical
lore, nineteenth-century industrialism with yogic science, and network
space
with dreams of the absolute. Linking the ether to phenomena such as radio
noise, space travel, avant-garde film, and the rise of the Internet, he
lends it an almost physical presence and currency. From Federico Fellini to
Gilles Deleuze, Japanese anime to Italian Futurism, Jean Cocteau to NASA,
Shirley Temple to Wilhelm Reich, Ether traverses geographical boundaries,
spiritual planes, and the divide between popular and high culture.
Navigating more than three hundred years of the ether¹s cultural and
artistic history, Milutis reveals its continuous reinvention and tangible
impact without ever losing sight of its ephemeral, elusive nature. The true
meaning of ether, Milutis suggests, may be that it can never be fully
grasped.
www.joemilutis.com
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