Dreams and illusions

Garden Robin's dream is the dream of perfect possession.

Next Door Robin is the nightmare reality... sneaking in when Garden Robin's back is turned.

I'm reading Robert Romanyshyn's Technology as Symptom and Dream which is so thought provoking... I have to read it in small bursts, but I truly recommend it. Here is the blurb:

This book, which has been reprinted four times since its publication, is a cultural-historical exploration of the origins of the technological attitude that has shaped the contemporary world. Relying on the work of J.H. van den Berg, it shows how the invention of linear perspective art in the 15th century has become a cultural habit of mind. Within this shared collective dream, the self behind a window becomes a spectator who, with its eye upon the world, takes leave of the body's sensuous ties to the world, which opens the path toward the body becoming a specimen for the anatomical gaze and for the world becoming a spectacle to be mapped and measured. Approached as a collective symptom, the book is a work against forgetting, a work of returning to origins to recover technology as a cultural and historical achievement that allows us to appreciate its values and its limits. In this regard, the book is an example of how phenomenology can be the practice of a cultural therapeutics.

I came across it somewhat randomly - it was quoted in an essay about something so entirely different that I have now forgotten entirely what it was.

Not much else to report... except fr it's been cold and the cats have been demanding.