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Our research organization, The Sparric Institute, has published a few thoughts on the faulty western conception of time, as outlined by writer J.B. Priestley.

To quote The Premonitions Bureau, a book that in part digs into Priestley's writing, "[He] equated a strict, materialist reading of how time passes—each second of our lives flowing remorselessly, one after the other, until death—with the intellectual barrenness of capitalist consumption... He proposed a model of three concurrent times (the present, the unconscious and a collective unconscious)."

Why should we be limited by a conception of time that pushes inexorably forward? Well, we think we shouldn't.

Curious to hear what you all think.

Hello all! I’m affiliated with a research organization that studies the esoteric properties of Iceland spar and its intersection with art. Of course we had to check out Shadow Ticket for our latest dispatch, what with its Lew Basnight-led connection to Against the Day, which obviously was chock full of spar. We also talk asporting and apporting.

You can read it here: https://sparricinstitute.substack.com/p/bulletin-from-the-refractory-801

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Hello! I’m affiliated with an organization that dabbles in esoterica (primarily based around the Iceland sparr) and art, and we’ve just started posting our long-running dispatch online.

This entry is about the film It’s Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books, specifically the version with Richard Linklater’s commentary from 2004, and how it relates to time, Voyaging, and sparric art. Thought you all might enjoy. Thanks! 

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https://sparricinstitute.substack.com/p/bulletin-from-the-refractory-800