I see the Chimeric Glyphic System (CGS) not simply as a collection of symbols, nor as an invented alphabet, but as an attempt to create a new space between visual art and literature. My ambition is to develop it into a language in which an image can be read, a sentence can be seen, a … Continue reading CGS: Toward a New Language Between Image and Literature
Artists Have to Die Before We Canonize Them
There’s also a suspiciously Catholic logic to the whole thing: first you suffer, then you die, then everyone agrees you were a genius. Van Gogh struggles in obscurity; after death, he becomes practically the patron saint of tortured artists. Kafka wants his manuscripts burned; posterity canonizes him anyway. Emily Dickinson spends much of her life … Continue reading Artists Have to Die Before We Canonize Them
51. Candide — Voltaire
Voltaire performs a satirical stress-test on Leibnizian optimism, exposing the absurdity of claiming this to be “the best of all possible worlds.”. His verses act as satirical quanta at the doctrine of optimism, arguing that Leibniz’s “best of all possible worlds” is an elegant theory unsupported by experimental results. Candide is a naïve test particle … Continue reading 51. Candide — Voltaire
When I had to fill in my first tax declaration.
Daily writing promptWhat’s a moment when you realized you were officially an adult?View all responses I think the moment I officially realized I was an adult was when I had to fill in my first tax declaration. Until then, adulthood had mostly meant more freedom, making my own decisions, and being responsible for my own … Continue reading When I had to fill in my first tax declaration.
From Literary Particles to Visual Worlds: SLM and CGS
I have come to see the Standard Literary Model (SLM) and the Chimeric Glyphic System (CGS) as two stages of the same larger investigation into how meaning is constructed. The SLM began with a simple but ambitious question: what happens if I look at literary analysis through the conceptual lens of the Standard Model of … Continue reading From Literary Particles to Visual Worlds: SLM and CGS
Talking with an author about his writings at the dinner table? That’s usually called business lunch.
Daily writing promptWhich author would you love to have dinner with?View all responses The warning signs are easy to miss. It begins innocently. Someone asks, “So, what are you working on?” The author says, “Oh, just a small book.” Twenty minutes later, the bread has gone stale, the wine is untouched, and everyone at the … Continue reading Talking with an author about his writings at the dinner table? That’s usually called business lunch.
50. The Narrow Road to the Interior — Bashō (Japan)
Bashō’s travel haiku operate as compact operators reducing perceptual noise. His work models how ephemeral attention to small phenomena can shift internal Higgs fields toward humility. The haiku are condensates—high information, low energy—that realign mental states with natural rhythms.A Memoirion of poetic travel. Narratons record movement; Temporalons suspend chronological progression in favor of seasonal recurrence. … Continue reading 50. The Narrow Road to the Interior — Bashō (Japan)
Barcelona. Book of the passages by Jorge Carrión.
Carrión would be the strongest additional figure for the specific idea of Barcelona as an archive, network and living text . Jorge Carrión's Barcelona. Book of the passages is a hybrid work of urban essay, travel chronicle, autobiography, journalism and archival investigation. Rather than describing Barcelona through its famous monuments or official neighborhoods , Carrión … Continue reading Barcelona. Book of the passages by Jorge Carrión.
49. The Nine Cloud Dream — Kim Man-jung (Korea)
This Romantic and Buddhist narrative explores illusion and awakening—how transient states (cloud-dreams) lack real mass, yet their effects on agents are profound. The text probes particle-like desires dissolving into a clearer field upon insight.A Memoirion–Mythoplasma composite. Temporalons create layered dream/afterlife cycles. Narratons follow a monk reborn into worldly splendor; Metaphorons translate Buddhist cosmology into sensuous … Continue reading 49. The Nine Cloud Dream — Kim Man-jung (Korea)
The Chimeric Glyph System and Evru / Zush in brief
Albert Porta adopted the identity Zush in 1968 and replaced it with Evru in 2001. “ Evru ” expressed his self-conception as an artist, scientist and mystic . Rather than treating these names as ordinary pseudonyms, he used them as successive creative identities, each capable of producing a different world and mode of perception. He … Continue reading The Chimeric Glyph System and Evru / Zush in brief
48. Paradise Lost — John Milton
A mythic Mythoplasma (N + Mγ + T) of angelic rebellion and human fall. Narratons trace cosmic revolt; Metaphorons operate at maximal amplitude—light/dark, ascent/descent, war/music—building cosmological architecture. Dissonatons structure the field via Satan’s defiance and Adam/Eve’s temptation. Temporalons fold prehistory, eternity, and prophetic future into one manifold. Silentions appear around divine motives, functioning as theological … Continue reading 48. Paradise Lost — John Milton
The origins of the Chimeric Glyph System: the Barcelona Five.
This post is dedicated to the five Barcelonese that were especially relevant to the CGS project : Evru / Zush , Lluís Permanyer , Claudi Alsina, Colita, and Jorge Wagensberg . Together, they represent five different ways of understanding Barcelona: as an invented symbolic territory, a historical memory, a geometric structure, a photographed social body, … Continue reading The origins of the Chimeric Glyph System: the Barcelona Five.
A good quote can reduce a complex situation into a oneliner.
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47. King Lear — William Shakespeare
Lear’s kingdom is a broken symmetry: a unified field (authority as identity) violently split into irreconcilable sectors. His abdication is the Higgs catastrophe of the play—the moment mass transfers unpredictably, granting disproportionate weight to unworthy daughters while leaving the king himself nearly massless, vulnerable to every passing storm. The heath is a quantum vacuum in … Continue reading 47. King Lear — William Shakespeare
46. Hamlet — William Shakespeare
Hamlet is the Standard Model drama of undecay: a particle with every reason to interact yet trapped in a metastable state of hesitation. His mind is an overpopulated phase space, crowded with virtual possibilities—each thought a diagram branching into infinite loops of doubt. Claudius serves as the weak force, subtle and insinuating, enabling transformations that … Continue reading 46. Hamlet — William Shakespeare
The Chimeric Protocols of Transmutation and The Book of Split Ink (2)
Two entities. One single volume. One shared transformation.The chimeric protocols of transmutation and The Book of Divided Ink is a hybrid work that unites glyphic art, existential fiction, symbolic alchemy and urban fantasy in the visible and hidden strata of Barcelona.The first entity, The Chimeric Protocols of Transmutation , consists of a sequence of plates … Continue reading The Chimeric Protocols of Transmutation and The Book of Split Ink (2)
45. Don Quixote — Miguel de Cervantes
In SM terms, Don Quixote is a spontaneous symmetry breaking of reality: a vacuum fluctuation so strong it propagates through the social field and drags a reluctant squire into its alternate mass regime. Quixote behaves like a particle with imaginary mass—tachyonic in spirit, outrunning the constraints of material law and thus triggering a redefinition of … Continue reading 45. Don Quixote — Miguel de Cervantes
The Chimeric Protocols of Transmutation and the Book of Split Ink (1)
Everyone who follows me, knows that I can become quiete eratic in my blogging when I get absorbed into the final phase of an ongoing project. So was it this time and finaly: the mouse birthed a mountain. The Chimeric Glyph System was brewing and coming to fruition over years on a subconscient level till, … Continue reading The Chimeric Protocols of Transmutation and the Book of Split Ink (1)
44. The Prince — Niccolò Machiavelli
Machiavelli proposes a political Standard Model in which rulers must understand the fundamental forces governing human behavior. Fear and love are not moral categories but competing charges; a prince must balance them like electric and magnetic fields to maintain equilibrium. Fortuna is a stochastic force, unpredictable yet patterned, a turbulence requiring constant recalibration of strategy. … Continue reading 44. The Prince — Niccolò Machiavelli
43. Timbuktu Chronicles (Tarikh al-Fattash / Tarikh al-Sudan) (Mali)
These chronicles function as historiographic propagators—field-theory Green’s functions that transmit institutional memory through time. They record the activation and damping of scholarly, trade, and religious modes in the trans-Saharan lattice. Their accounts let later generations reconstruct coupling constants—who held power, how trade currents flowed, how doctrinal changes altered civic mass. In SM terms, the chronicles … Continue reading 43. Timbuktu Chronicles (Tarikh al-Fattash / Tarikh al-Sudan) (Mali)