The links

abolition 3 ↑

• Abolition and Reparations: Histories of Resistance, Transformative Justice, and Accountability
  • No torture. No humiliation. No collective punishment. Conduct must end; no human category is made from it. The Crown in the World
• Dorothy Roberts — Building a World Without Family Policing (LPE Project)
  • Care grants no jurisdiction. Mystery grants no command. Covenant
• Rhiannon Giddens — At the Purchaser’s Option (rhiannongiddens.bandcamp.com)
  • Nothing living is mine to use. Covenant
  • No one is raw material, including the person being stopped. The Crown in the World
  • Water, field, forest, path, house, seed, story, body, time. The Crown in the World

access 8 ↑

• adrienne maree brown — Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
  • Some things matter without being for anything. Attention and Love
• Before the Law — Franz Kafka; trans. Mark Harman
  • who can say no, what follows refusal, and who controls the alternatives Attention and Love
• Hill of Uisneach site stewards and guides — The Hill of Uisneach: guided landscape encounter
  • The mound has an owner on paper. I see the parcel the deed never fully settled. The Near Otherworld
• James Turrell — Aten Reign (guggenheim.org)
  • The ordinary world does not disappear. Its assignments become unreliable. The Near Otherworld
• Johanna Hedva — Sick Woman Theory (topicalcream.org)
  • The descent was no method. The Great Work
• Marginalia: Aesthetics, Ecology, and Urban Wastelands
  • Stay long enough and the categories get wet. The Returning Way
• Mia Mingus — Access Intimacy, Interdependence and Disability Justice
  • Interdependence proves no kindness. The Ground
  • There is a third thing between swallowing someone and standing alone. Attention and Love
  • they are owed more of the conditions, not fewer of the rights. Star and Commons
• Pauline Oliveros with IONE and Heloise Gold — Deep Listening (including Sonic Meditations)
  • Attention is the aperture: the finite opening through which one life meets another. Attention and Love

accountability 9 ↑

• Abolition and Reparations: Histories of Resistance, Transformative Justice, and Accountability
  • No torture. No humiliation. No collective punishment. Conduct must end; no human category is made from it. The Crown in the World
• Audre Lorde — The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism
  • Anger often carries a boundary. Returning
• Bayo Akomolafe — A Slower Urgency
  • Waiting for certainty is abdication performed slowly, with excellent manners. The Crown in the House
  • Begin where the weather demands: repair where harm is plain, departure where danger is present, rest where survival has spent everything. Returning
• bell hooks — Love as the Practice of Freedom
  • Love is attention consenting to consequence. Attention and Love
• EZLN, Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee–General Command — Sixth Declaration of the Selva Lacandona (enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx)
  • A commons is shared provision and shared rule. It has boundaries and ways to dispute them. Returning
  • A federation of the dissolved is a meeting that cannot deliver a no. Star and Commons
• Nick Seaver — Captivating Algorithms: Recommender Systems as Traps
  • Adaptation to me is not answerability to me. Attention and Love
• Please Call Me by My True Names
  • These histories are not symmetrical The Crown in the House
• The Recorded Sayings of Layman Pang
  • The ground was never the feeling. The Returning Way
  • Somebody who has to make the phone call anyway. The Ground
• Wanting to Be Indian: When Spiritual Searching Turns into Cultural Theft
  • Traditions are relations, not supplies The Table
  • Invitation, not conquest. The Near Otherworld

agency 5 ↑

• David Loy — The Many Faces of Nonduality (Barre Center for Buddhist Studies)
  • Both are true. Neither is an address. The Great Work
• The Ethics of Care, Dependence, and Disability
  • Care grants no jurisdiction. Mystery grants no command. Covenant
  • Eva Kittay names the double charge Attention and Love
  • A person becomes distinct by being held by someone who did not require them to be an extension. Star and Commons
• The Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom, the Blessed Mother (Toh 21)
  • The self is real enough to suffer, consent, refuse, promise, remember, ask for help, make a mess, and answer for what it does. The Ground
  • Emptiness is a claim about origin. Individuation is a claim about organization. Star and Commons
• The Sūtra Teaching the Fundamental Exposition and Detailed Analysis of Dependent Arising
  • What arose through conditions can be changed through conditions. The Ground
• Tools for Conviviality — Ivan Illich
  • A useful role is only a coat. Returning

algorithms 5 ↑

• Excavating AI: The Politics of Images in Machine Learning Training Sets
  • Another being exceeds the name I arrived with, and the excess alters what I permit myself to do. Attention and Love
• Hito Steyerl — A Sea of Data: Apophenia and Pattern (Mis-)Recognition
  • The recommendation engine is also paying attention. The Returning Way
  • Then there is glamour: fog lit beautifully from behind. The Crown in the House
• Hito Steyerl — How Not to Be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File
  • Surveillance attends Attention and Love
• Nick Seaver — Captivating Algorithms: Recommender Systems as Traps
  • Adaptation to me is not answerability to me. Attention and Love
• Understanding Social Media Recommendation Algorithms
  • The recommendation engine is also paying attention. The Returning Way

anti-extraction 3 ↑

• adrienne maree brown — Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
  • Some things matter without being for anything. Attention and Love
• Rhiannon Giddens — At the Purchaser’s Option (rhiannongiddens.bandcamp.com)
  • No one is raw material, including the person being stopped. The Crown in the World
  • Water, field, forest, path, house, seed, story, body, time. The Crown in the World
• Tricia Hersey — Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
  • I refuse the demand for yield even when rest makes nobody stronger, harder to own, or ready for tomorrow. Returning

appropriation 3 ↑

• Doing No Harm: Mindfulness, Western Buddhism, Appropriation, Systemic Racism
  • Traditions are relations, not supplies The Table
• The Roots of Buddhist Modernism
  • Traditions are relations, not supplies The Table
• Wanting to Be Indian: When Spiritual Searching Turns into Cultural Theft
  • Traditions are relations, not supplies The Table
  • Invitation, not conquest. The Near Otherworld

archive 8 ↑

• A Historical Review of Second Sight: The Collectors, Their Accounts and Ideas
  • In the old accounts the seer is mostly to be pitied. The Near Otherworld
• Barney McDowell, informant; Sam Hanna Bell, collector; National Folklore Collection — Fairy Faith: Fairy Music (SD0632BB.3)
  • These Irish and Scottish stories reached me changed. The Mystery
• Fernando Pessoa and His Heteronyms
  • they will not stop arguing The Table
  • A part is partial, which is not the same as false. The Crown in the House
  • This is how the branch reached my hand. The Great Work
• Imirce: Irish Emigrant Letters and Life Stories
  • The beloved dead already return this way. Recipes. Warnings. Gestures. Debts. Jokes with missing tellers. The shape of a hand reaching for a light switch. The Great Work
  • Names loosened from the mouths that had carried them. The Branch Carried Home
• Pauline Oliveros Papers, UC San Diego Special Collections
  • Attention is the aperture: the finite opening through which one life meets another. Attention and Love
  • On the return: water passed hand to hand, music made, floor swept, bus driven, food grown, medicine made. The Great Work
• Rhiannon Giddens — At the Purchaser’s Option (rhiannongiddens.bandcamp.com)
  • Nothing living is mine to use. Covenant
  • No one is raw material, including the person being stopped. The Crown in the World
  • Water, field, forest, path, house, seed, story, body, time. The Crown in the World
• Róis Níc A’ Bháird; National Folklore Collection Schools’ Collection — A Fairy Fort (Corliss)
  • Its first makers are gone. The story puts another household beneath the earthworks The Near Otherworld
• Somnyama Ngonyama (Hail the Dark Lioness)
  • No one is raw material, including the person being stopped. The Crown in the World

attention 14 ↑

• Guy Debord — Society of the Spectacle
  • The other four take the world; this one takes the looking. The Crown in the World
• Hito Steyerl — A Sea of Data: Apophenia and Pattern (Mis-)Recognition
  • The recommendation engine is also paying attention. The Returning Way
  • Then there is glamour: fog lit beautifully from behind. The Crown in the House
• James Turrell — Aten Reign (guggenheim.org)
  • The ordinary world does not disappear. Its assignments become unreliable. The Near Otherworld
• Jenny Odell — how to do nothing
  • Some things matter without being for anything. Attention and Love
• Mendi + Keith Obadike — Black Net.Art Actions (particularly Blackness for Sale)
  • The glowing rectangle sells what remains in bright little pieces. The Crown in the World
• Nick Seaver — Captivating Algorithms: Recommender Systems as Traps
  • Adaptation to me is not answerability to me. Attention and Love
• Pauline Oliveros with IONE and Heloise Gold — Deep Listening (including Sonic Meditations)
  • Attention is the aperture: the finite opening through which one life meets another. Attention and Love
• Ram Dass — I Am Loving Awareness (Love Serve Remember Foundation)
  • Loving Awareness The Ground
• Robert Anton Wilson — Prometheus Rising (1983; Hilaritas Press)
  • Robert Anton Wilson's Small Practices for the Great Work of Returning
• Simone Weil — Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God (1942; Internet Archive)
  • Attention becomes love when it lets what it meets remain irreducible. Attention and Love
• T. M. Luhrmann — How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others (Princeton University Press, 2020)
  • Attention makes gods. The Mystery
• Terry Pratchett — Small Gods (Gollancz, 1992)
  • Attention makes gods. The Mystery
• Understanding Social Media Recommendation Algorithms
  • The recommendation engine is also paying attention. The Returning Way
• Vijñānabhairava, with the commentary of Kṣemarāja and Śivopādhyāya (Kashmir Series of Texts and Studies, 1918)
  • A Kashmir Shaiva manual called the *Vijñānabhairava* The Ground

authority 4 ↑

• A Historical Review of Second Sight: The Collectors, Their Accounts and Ideas
  • In the old accounts the seer is mostly to be pitied. The Near Otherworld
• Aleister Crowley — Magick in Theory and Practice: Definitions and Theorems
  • Magick is change made on purpose: attention gathered, imagination given a task, intention given material form. Returning
  • No Work but the Great Work. The Great Work
• Aleister Crowley: Liber AL vel Legis (The Book of the Law)
  • Ecstasy makes a poor property deed. Attention and Love
  • His scripture says that every man and every woman is a star, and that love is the law, love under will. Star and Commons
• Introduction to the Special Issue on Aleister Crowley and Thelema
  • Ecstasy makes a poor property deed. Attention and Love
  • A borrowed star is a streetlight pointed by somebody else. Star and Commons

autonomy 3 ↑

• Jennifer Nedelsky — Reconceiving Autonomy: Sources, Thoughts and Possibilities (Yale J.L. & Feminism, 1989)
  • Care grants no jurisdiction. Mystery grants no command. Covenant
  • It carries keys, not the deed. The Ground
  • The liberal individual is a premise. Star and Commons
• June Jordan — Poem about My Rights
  • Refusal must be survivable. Covenant
• Kahlil Gibran — On Marriage (from The Prophet)
  • A vow is a word left for the self who returns changed. Returning

baldwin 4 ↑

• James Baldwin — Giovanni's Room (1956; Internet Archive)
  • Arcadia is a fine place to spend an afternoon. The Near Otherworld
• James Baldwin — Letter from a Region in My Mind (The New Yorker, 17 November 1962; collected as Down at the Cross in The Fire Next Time, 1963)
  • The contract comes wearing my hunger and speaking in the voice I hoped the world would use when it finally recognized me. The Crown in the House
• James Baldwin — Notes of a Native Son (Beacon Press, 1955; Internet Archive)
  • Some things do not reconcile. The Great Work
• James Baldwin — Nothing Personal (with Richard Avedon, 1964; Internet Archive)
  • The return will have to be made by someone else. The Great Work

belief 4 ↑

• Émile Durkheim — The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (1912; trans. Joseph Ward Swain, 1915)
  • Attention makes gods. The Mystery
• Robert Anton Wilson — Prometheus Rising (1983; Hilaritas Press)
  • Robert Anton Wilson's Small Practices for the Great Work of Returning
• T. M. Luhrmann — How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others (Princeton University Press, 2020)
  • Attention makes gods. The Mystery
• Terry Pratchett — Small Gods (Gollancz, 1992)
  • Attention makes gods. The Mystery

black-feminism 7 ↑

• Audre Lorde — A Litany for Survival
  • Listen for the no it can survive. Attention and Love
• Audre Lorde — Recreation
  • It begins when two beings meet in delight and neither becomes the other’s function. Attention and Love
• Audre Lorde — The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism
  • Anger often carries a boundary. Returning
• Audre Lorde — The Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power (sheedylit.com)
  • Audre Lorde named the erotic a source of knowledge about what a life wants. Star and Commons
• Audre Lorde: Poetry Is Not a Luxury
  • Magick is change made on purpose: attention gathered, imagination given a task, intention given material form. Returning
• Denise Ferreira da Silva — 1 (life) ÷ 0 (blackness) = ∞ − ∞ or ∞ / ∞ (e-flux.com)
  • The More is not a second world set behind this one. The Mystery
  • No one is raw material, including the person being stopped. The Crown in the World
• won't you celebrate with me
  • Depth cannot be a virtue. The Great Work

black-liberation 5 ↑

• Hell You Talmbout
  • Erasure makes the witness believe their memory is private grief and not public record. Returning
• James Cone on Black Liberation Theology
  • The liberation theologians want to know who cooked. The Table
• James H. Cone — A Black Theology of Liberation (orbisbooks.com)
  • The liberation theologians want to know who cooked. The Table
• Tricia Hersey — Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
  • I refuse the demand for yield even when rest makes nobody stronger, harder to own, or ready for tomorrow. Returning
  • What it dethrones is not labor The Great Work
• Tricia Hersey / The Nap Ministry — Rest is anything that connects your mind and body
  • It defends time that produces nothing anyone can sell. The Great Work

blackness 3 ↑

• Denise Ferreira da Silva — 1 (life) ÷ 0 (blackness) = ∞ − ∞ or ∞ / ∞ (e-flux.com)
  • The More is not a second world set behind this one. The Mystery
  • No one is raw material, including the person being stopped. The Crown in the World
• Fred Moten — Blackness and Nothingness (Mysticism in the Flesh) (South Atlantic Quarterly 112.4, 2013)
  • not dissolved into one another and not fused Star and Commons
• Somnyama Ngonyama (Hail the Dark Lioness)
  • No one is raw material, including the person being stopped. The Crown in the World

body 4 ↑

• Ana Mendieta — Untitled, from the Silueta series (americanart.si.edu)
  • Stay long enough and the categories get wet. The Returning Way
  • The mound has an owner on paper. I see the parcel the deed never fully settled. The Near Otherworld
• Audre Lorde — Recreation
  • It begins when two beings meet in delight and neither becomes the other’s function. Attention and Love
• Contact Quarterly — About Contact Improvisation
  • contact improv Small Practices for the Great Work of Returning
• Tricia Hersey / The Nap Ministry — Rest is anything that connects your mind and body
  • It defends time that produces nothing anyone can sell. The Great Work

buddhism 5 ↑

• Doing No Harm: Mindfulness, Western Buddhism, Appropriation, Systemic Racism
  • Traditions are relations, not supplies The Table
• Mark Epstein — Open to Desire: Embracing a Lust for Life. Insights from Buddhism and Psychotherapy (Gotham Books, 2005)
  • I take seriously the treatment of pleasure and ecstasy as ways of knowing The Ground
• Thanissaro Bhikkhu — We Are Not One (Noble & True)
  • Interdependence proves no kindness. The Ground
• The Sūtra Teaching the Fundamental Exposition and Detailed Analysis of Dependent Arising
  • What arose through conditions can be changed through conditions. The Ground
• Whither Dependent Origination?
  • What arose through conditions can be changed through conditions. The Ground

capitalism 4 ↑

• Ivan Illich, Gender
  • When vocation becomes identity, ask who benefits if the role cannot be put down. The Crown in the World
• Mark Fisher — Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
  • The day gets a supervisor, the supervisor gets a wand, and soon the soul is filling out time sheets for eternity. The Great Work
• Mark Fisher — Culture Has Lost the Ability to Grasp the Present
  • the opening closes until the world is exactly as wide as the next required thing. The Ground
  • Nobody can enclose the ocean. They can enclose my Tuesday, and they have. Attention and Love
• Tricia Hersey / The Nap Ministry — Rest is anything that connects your mind and body
  • It defends time that produces nothing anyone can sell. The Great Work

care 10 ↑

• A Feminist Ethic of Care in the Neoliberal University
  • The anarchist can become a never-ending series of meetings in which everything is argued and nothing is done. The Table
• bell hooks — Love as the Practice of Freedom
  • Love is attention consenting to consequence. Attention and Love
• Dorothy Roberts — Building a World Without Family Policing (LPE Project)
  • Care grants no jurisdiction. Mystery grants no command. Covenant
• Media Art-Ritual as Feminist Praxis: Diasporic Worldmaking in A Place of Care
  • Every rite rehearses a world. Returning
• Mia Mingus — Access Intimacy, Interdependence and Disability Justice
  • Interdependence proves no kindness. The Ground
  • There is a third thing between swallowing someone and standing alone. Attention and Love
  • they are owed more of the conditions, not fewer of the rights. Star and Commons
• Silvia Federici, Wages Against Housework
  • When labor is called love, ask who is not being paid. The Crown in the World
• Stine Krøijer and Cecilie Rubow, Introduction: Enchanted Ecologies and Ethics of Care
  • Nothing here is disenchanted. The Returning Way
  • Nothing here is disenchanted. It was enclosed. The Crown in the World
• Sunaura Taylor — Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert
  • The taking works on land, bodies, hours, attention, memory, belief, and desire. The Crown in the World
• The Social Determinants of Mental Health and Disorder: Evidence, Prevention, and Recommendations
  • I came back partly because there was money, medicine, a bed, and two or three people who did not leave. The Great Work
• Ursula K. Le Guin — The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction (ursulakleguin.com)
  • What it dethrones is not labor The Great Work

care-labor 7 ↑

• Mia Mingus — Access Intimacy, Interdependence and Disability Justice
  • Interdependence proves no kindness. The Ground
  • There is a third thing between swallowing someone and standing alone. Attention and Love
  • they are owed more of the conditions, not fewer of the rights. Star and Commons
• Mierle Laderman Ukeles — Manifesto for Maintenance Art, 1969!
  • It opposes needless labor, coerced labor, invisible labor, and labor made sacred so the worker cannot refuse it. The Great Work
• Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Vernacular Sexism: An Anthropological Response to Ivan Illich
  • When vocation becomes identity, ask who benefits if the role cannot be put down. The Crown in the World
• Silvia Federici, Wages Against Housework
  • When labor is called love, ask who is not being paid. The Crown in the World
• The Ethics of Care, Dependence, and Disability
  • Care grants no jurisdiction. Mystery grants no command. Covenant
  • Eva Kittay names the double charge Attention and Love
  • A person becomes distinct by being held by someone who did not require them to be an extension. Star and Commons
• Unequal and Invisible: Valuing Women's Care Labor in the COVID-19 Response
  • Realization has a supply chain, like bread: hours not owned by fear, a door that locks, somebody covering the shift. The Great Work
• Washing/Tracks/Maintenance: Outside
  • When labor is called love, ask who is not being paid. The Crown in the World

christianity 6 ↑

• Disability Theology — St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology
  • The flesh is not a trap. It is a term. The Ground
  • Depth cannot be a virtue. The Great Work
• Gustavo Gutiérrez — A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation (orbisbooks.com)
  • Shared freedom is not the absence of conditions but the widening of livable conditions in which a person or a people can turn. Returning
• James Cone on Black Liberation Theology
  • The liberation theologians want to know who cooked. The Table
• James H. Cone — A Black Theology of Liberation (orbisbooks.com)
  • The liberation theologians want to know who cooked. The Table
• John B. Cobb, Jr. — Process Theology and the Bible (lecture, Calgary, 2003)
  • Living attention can be interrupted by what it meets. Attention and Love
  • God is a verb The Mystery
  • The Ocean does not apologize. I do. The Great Work
• Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (attributed) — The Mystical Theology (tertullian.org)
  • No name owns the encounter. The Near Otherworld

coercion 4 ↑

• Christina Rossetti — Goblin Market
  • The trouble was never the orchard. The trouble is pretending it has no gate, and then telling another person that they are the orchard. The Near Otherworld
• Dead Zones of the Imagination: On Violence, Bureaucracy, and Interpretive Labor — David Graeber
  • Enforcement makes the taking permanent. The Crown in the World
• Traditional Scottish Borders ballad; Voices of Scotland text — Thomas The Rhymer
  • Fairy tales know that thresholds require manners. They also know politeness is sometimes the technique. The Near Otherworld
• Zombie — Fela Kuti
  • The branch stayed in the song. The Crown in the World

collaboration 3 ↑

• Cecilia Vicuña with Ricardo Gallo and community collaborators — Brain Forest Quipu (tate.org.uk)
  • The More is not a second world set behind this one. The Mystery
  • Every rite rehearses a world. Returning
• Céline Sciamma — Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  • A person is not a text I finish reading. Attention and Love
• Trauma-Informed Approaches and Programs — SAMHSA
  • A yes lives only while it can turn to no. Covenant
  • Food, choice, laughter, an accessible room, and an exit unlocked from the inside rehearse another world. Returning

collectivity 3 ↑

• adrienne maree brown — Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
  • Some things matter without being for anything. Attention and Love
• Pauline Oliveros with IONE and Heloise Gold — Deep Listening (including Sonic Meditations)
  • Attention is the aperture: the finite opening through which one life meets another. Attention and Love
• The Family — Karrabing Film Collective
  • The records remain: surveys, shipping returns, workhouse books, school rules, names. The Crown in the World

colonialism 7 ↑

• Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation — Silvia Federici
  • Not a ladder. A spiral. The Crown in the World
• Frantz Fanon — The Pitfalls of National Consciousness (The Wretched of the Earth, 1961)
  • An archon is a pattern, and patterns have hands. The Crown in the World
• Gustavo Gutiérrez — A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation (orbisbooks.com)
  • Shared freedom is not the absence of conditions but the widening of livable conditions in which a person or a people can turn. Returning
• Introduction to the Special Issue on Aleister Crowley and Thelema
  • Ecstasy makes a poor property deed. Attention and Love
  • A borrowed star is a streetlight pointed by somebody else. Star and Commons
• Stine Krøijer and Cecilie Rubow, Introduction: Enchanted Ecologies and Ethics of Care
  • Nothing here is disenchanted. The Returning Way
  • Nothing here is disenchanted. It was enclosed. The Crown in the World
• The Family — Karrabing Film Collective
  • The records remain: surveys, shipping returns, workhouse books, school rules, names. The Crown in the World
• The Roots of Buddhist Modernism
  • Traditions are relations, not supplies The Table

commons 7 ↑

• Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation — Silvia Federici
  • Not a ladder. A spiral. The Crown in the World
• Elinor Ostrom — Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems (nobelprize.org)
  • A commons is shared provision and shared rule. It has boundaries and ways to dispute them. Returning
• Ivan Illich, Gender
  • When vocation becomes identity, ask who benefits if the role cannot be put down. The Crown in the World
• Silvia Federici, Feminism and the Politics of the Commons
  • let the labor holding it be seen, shared, and paid. Returning
• The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study — Stefano Harney and Fred Moten
  • Against Enclosure: the commons. Returning
• Washing/Tracks/Maintenance: Outside
  • When labor is called love, ask who is not being paid. The Crown in the World
• Wasteland — Arte Útil
  • After rain, mushrooms lift the cracked asphalt by fractions. The Returning Way
  • Against Enclosure: the commons. Returning

conditions 5 ↑

• Gerasimos Kakoliris — The Ethics of Hospitality: Jacques Derrida on Unconditional and Conditional Hospitality
  • Hospitality binds. A meal may nourish or entangle. A gift begins a relation. The danger begins when only one party keeps the ledger. The Near Otherworld
• Gustavo Gutiérrez — A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation (orbisbooks.com)
  • Shared freedom is not the absence of conditions but the widening of livable conditions in which a person or a people can turn. Returning
• Thanissaro Bhikkhu — We Are Not One (Noble & True)
  • Interdependence proves no kindness. The Ground
• The Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom, the Blessed Mother (Toh 21)
  • The self is real enough to suffer, consent, refuse, promise, remember, ask for help, make a mess, and answer for what it does. The Ground
  • Emptiness is a claim about origin. Individuation is a claim about organization. Star and Commons
• The Sūtra Teaching the Fundamental Exposition and Detailed Analysis of Dependent Arising
  • What arose through conditions can be changed through conditions. The Ground

consent 12 ↑

• adrienne maree brown — Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
  • Some things matter without being for anything. Attention and Love
• Betty Martin — The Wheel of Consent (School of Consent)
  • Betty Martin's wheel of consent Small Practices for the Great Work of Returning
• Contact Quarterly — About Contact Improvisation
  • contact improv Small Practices for the Great Work of Returning
• Excavating AI: The Politics of Images in Machine Learning Training Sets
  • Another being exceeds the name I arrived with, and the excess alters what I permit myself to do. Attention and Love
• James P. Carse — Finite and Infinite Games (1986)
  • Play stops at the word. Attention and Love
• Lauren McCarthy — Follower
  • Surveillance attends Attention and Love
• Mia Mingus — Access Intimacy, Interdependence and Disability Justice
  • Interdependence proves no kindness. The Ground
  • There is a third thing between swallowing someone and standing alone. Attention and Love
  • they are owed more of the conditions, not fewer of the rights. Star and Commons
• Mia Mingus — Forced Intimacy: An Ableist Norm
  • Belonging becomes conditional on agreement, availability, disclosure, silence, or gratitude performed on demand. The Crown in the House
• O eu e o tu (The I and the you)
  • Play stops at the word. Attention and Love
• Talking Politics of Contact Improvisation with Steve Paxton
  • On the return: water passed hand to hand, music made, floor swept, bus driven, food grown, medicine made. The Great Work
• Traditional Scottish Borders ballad; Voices of Scotland text — Thomas The Rhymer
  • Fairy tales know that thresholds require manners. They also know politeness is sometimes the technique. The Near Otherworld
• Yoko Ono — Cut Piece
  • Listen for the no it can survive. Attention and Love

crisis 3 ↑

• Bayo Akomolafe — A Slower Urgency
  • Waiting for certainty is abdication performed slowly, with excellent manners. The Crown in the House
  • Begin where the weather demands: repair where harm is plain, departure where danger is present, rest where survival has spent everything. Returning
• Dean Spade — Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) (deanspade.net)
  • A commons is shared provision and shared rule. It has boundaries and ways to dispute them. Returning
• Marsha Linehan — DBT distress-tolerance skills (Behavioral Tech)
  • distress-tolerance skills Small Practices for the Great Work of Returning

crowley 3 ↑

• Aleister Crowley — Magick in Theory and Practice: Definitions and Theorems
  • Magick is change made on purpose: attention gathered, imagination given a task, intention given material form. Returning
  • No Work but the Great Work. The Great Work
• Aleister Crowley: Liber AL vel Legis (The Book of the Law)
  • Ecstasy makes a poor property deed. Attention and Love
  • His scripture says that every man and every woman is a star, and that love is the law, love under will. Star and Commons
• Introduction to the Special Issue on Aleister Crowley and Thelema
  • Ecstasy makes a poor property deed. Attention and Love
  • A borrowed star is a streetlight pointed by somebody else. Star and Commons

debt 3 ↑

• David Graeber — Debt: The First Five Thousand Years (Mute, 2009)
  • The branch is not a bill. It is a flowering thing placed in an empty hand. The Near Otherworld
• Edwidge Danticat — The Price of Sugar
  • the garden and not the gate, the feast and not the kitchen The Crown in the World
• Gifts — Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology
  • The branch is not a bill. It is a flowering thing placed in an empty hand. The Near Otherworld

dependent-arising 3 ↑

• Kaccānagottasutta (SN 12.15: Kaccānagotta)
  • The ego does not need to die. It needs a different job. The Ground
• Thanissaro Bhikkhu — We Are Not One (Noble & True)
  • Interdependence proves no kindness. The Ground
• The Sūtra Teaching the Fundamental Exposition and Detailed Analysis of Dependent Arising
  • What arose through conditions can be changed through conditions. The Ground

desire 4 ↑

• Céline Sciamma — Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  • A person is not a text I finish reading. Attention and Love
• Mark Epstein — Open to Desire: Embracing a Lust for Life. Insights from Buddhism and Psychotherapy (Gotham Books, 2005)
  • I take seriously the treatment of pleasure and ecstasy as ways of knowing The Ground
• Neil Jordan; screenplay by Neil Jordan and Angela Carter — The Company of Wolves
  • Beauty with teeth. The strange is not thereby wise. The Near Otherworld
• Sappho; translation by Anne Carson — 31 [“He seems to me equal to gods”]
  • No intensity, however mutual or transformative, makes one life the missing half of another. Attention and Love

diaspora 3 ↑

• Imirce: Irish Emigrant Letters and Life Stories
  • The beloved dead already return this way. Recipes. Warnings. Gestures. Debts. Jokes with missing tellers. The shape of a hand reaching for a light switch. The Great Work
  • Names loosened from the mouths that had carried them. The Branch Carried Home
• Julie Dash — Daughters of the Dust (moma.org)
  • The return was never mine alone. The Great Work
• Media Art-Ritual as Feminist Praxis: Diasporic Worldmaking in A Place of Care
  • Every rite rehearses a world. Returning

dignity 3 ↑

• Mia Mingus — Access Intimacy, Interdependence and Disability Justice
  • Interdependence proves no kindness. The Ground
  • There is a third thing between swallowing someone and standing alone. Attention and Love
  • they are owed more of the conditions, not fewer of the rights. Star and Commons
• No Humans Involved: An Open Letter to My Colleagues — Sylvia Wynter
  • Nobody is disposable. Not even the one signing the warrant. The Crown in the World
• The Ethics of Care, Dependence, and Disability
  • Care grants no jurisdiction. Mystery grants no command. Covenant
  • Eva Kittay names the double charge Attention and Love
  • A person becomes distinct by being held by someone who did not require them to be an extension. Star and Commons

disability-justice 3 ↑

• Johanna Hedva — Sick Woman Theory (topicalcream.org)
  • The descent was no method. The Great Work
• Mia Mingus — Access Intimacy, Interdependence and Disability Justice
  • Interdependence proves no kindness. The Ground
  • There is a third thing between swallowing someone and standing alone. Attention and Love
  • they are owed more of the conditions, not fewer of the rights. Star and Commons
• Mia Mingus — Access Intimacy: The Missing Link (leavingevidence.wordpress.com)
  • Care does not make me property. The Ground

dissent 3 ↑

• Insertions into Ideological Circuits: Banknote Project — Cildo Meireles
  • The advertisement is the story conscripted. The Crown in the World
• Sara Ahmed — Feminist Killjoys (And Other Willful Subjects)
  • Intensity becomes destiny. Care becomes debt. A shared dream becomes a lease on another person’s future. The Crown in the House
• Zombie — Fela Kuti
  • The branch stayed in the song. The Crown in the World

ecology 7 ↑

• Feral Atlas and the More-than-Human Anthropocene
  • Enclosure takes the ground. The Crown in the World
• Marginalia: Aesthetics, Ecology, and Urban Wastelands
  • Stay long enough and the categories get wet. The Returning Way
• Rewilding as Re-Enchantment
  • The mound has an owner on paper. I see the parcel the deed never fully settled. The Near Otherworld
• Robin Wall Kimmerer — The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance
  • Against Extraction: the holy useless, and the yield withheld. Returning
• Ruderal Resilience: Applying a Ruderal Lens to Advance Multispecies Urbanism
  • Root enters wire. Rust flowers. The Returning Way
• Stine Krøijer and Cecilie Rubow, Introduction: Enchanted Ecologies and Ethics of Care
  • Nothing here is disenchanted. The Returning Way
  • Nothing here is disenchanted. It was enclosed. The Crown in the World
• Thomas Berry — The Great Work: Our Way into the Future (Bell Tower, 1999)
  • No Work but the Great Work. The Great Work

embodiment 7 ↑

• Catherine M. Bell: The Ritual Body and the Dynamics of Ritual Power
  • Ritual is attention given a body. Returning
• Disability Theology — St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology
  • The flesh is not a trap. It is a term. The Ground
  • Depth cannot be a virtue. The Great Work
• Embodied World Construction: A Phenomenology of Ritual
  • Every rite rehearses a world. Returning
• Ivone Gebara, Feminism and Religious Identity
  • The feminists want to know who was expected to keep cooking while everyone else became profound. The Table
• Nancy L. Eiesland — Encountering the Disabled God (The Bible in Transmission, Spring 2004)
  • The flesh is not a trap. It is a term. The Ground
  • The only Christ at this table is Nancy Eiesland’s The Ground
  • Depth cannot be a virtue. The Great Work
• Sappho; translation by Anne Carson — 31 [“He seems to me equal to gods”]
  • No intensity, however mutual or transformative, makes one life the missing half of another. Attention and Love
• Vijñānabhairava, with the commentary of Kṣemarāja and Śivopādhyāya (Kashmir Series of Texts and Studies, 1918)
  • A Kashmir Shaiva manual called the *Vijñānabhairava* The Ground

emptiness 3 ↑

• Simone Weil — Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God (1942; Internet Archive)
  • Attention becomes love when it lets what it meets remain irreducible. Attention and Love
• The Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom, the Blessed Mother (Toh 21)
  • The self is real enough to suffer, consent, refuse, promise, remember, ask for help, make a mess, and answer for what it does. The Ground
  • Emptiness is a claim about origin. Individuation is a claim about organization. Star and Commons
• The Recorded Sayings of Layman Pang
  • The ground was never the feeling. The Returning Way
  • Somebody who has to make the phone call anyway. The Ground

enclosure 7 ↑

• Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation — Silvia Federici
  • Not a ladder. A spiral. The Crown in the World
• Hill of Uisneach site stewards and guides — The Hill of Uisneach: guided landscape encounter
  • The mound has an owner on paper. I see the parcel the deed never fully settled. The Near Otherworld
• Marginalia: Aesthetics, Ecology, and Urban Wastelands
  • Stay long enough and the categories get wet. The Returning Way
• Mark Fisher — Culture Has Lost the Ability to Grasp the Present
  • the opening closes until the world is exactly as wide as the next required thing. The Ground
  • Nobody can enclose the ocean. They can enclose my Tuesday, and they have. Attention and Love
• Silvia Federici, Feminism and the Politics of the Commons
  • let the labor holding it be seen, shared, and paid. Returning
• The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study — Stefano Harney and Fred Moten
  • Against Enclosure: the commons. Returning
• Understanding Social Media Recommendation Algorithms
  • The recommendation engine is also paying attention. The Returning Way

esotericism 3 ↑

• Peter J. Carroll: Chaos Magic in a Nutshell
  • Chaos magick taught me that the deck can be changed. The Mystery
• Robert Anton Wilson — Prometheus Rising (1983; Hilaritas Press)
  • Robert Anton Wilson's Small Practices for the Great Work of Returning
• Rosarium Philosophorum (Frankfurt, 1550), in the eighteenth-century English translation transcribed by Adam McLean
  • The alchemists called their operation the Magnum Opus. The Great Work

evidence 4 ↑

• A Historical Review of Second Sight: The Collectors, Their Accounts and Ideas
  • In the old accounts the seer is mostly to be pitied. The Near Otherworld
• Adrienne Rich — Diving into the Wreck
  • The descent was no method. The Great Work
• Internal Family Systems: Exploring Its Problematic Popularity
  • The ego does not need to die. It needs a different job. The Ground
  • A part is partial, which is not the same as false. The Crown in the House
• Karrabing Indigenous Corporation / Karrabing Film Collective — The Mermaids, Mirror Worlds (karrabing.info)
  • Mystery excuses nothing. The Mystery

extraction 3 ↑

• Cooking Sections — CLIMAVORE: On Tidal Zones
  • Bread arises with field, seed, rain, fuel, hands, wages, roads, hunger, yeast, and heat. The Ground
• Silvia Federici, Wages Against Housework
  • When labor is called love, ask who is not being paid. The Crown in the World
• The Family — Karrabing Film Collective
  • The records remain: surveys, shipping returns, workhouse books, school rules, names. The Crown in the World

feminism 12 ↑

• A Feminist Ethic of Care in the Neoliberal University
  • The anarchist can become a never-ending series of meetings in which everything is argued and nothing is done. The Table
• Donna Haraway — A Cyborg Manifesto (1985; The Anarchist Library)
  • Arcadia is beauty without price: eternal spring, perfect union, no rent due, no body failing, no labor hidden, no morning after. The Near Otherworld
• Elaine Pagels, The Suppressed Gnostic Feminism
  • The Gnostics came early and will not eat The Table
• Feminism and the Lore of Gaelic in Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
  • Its first makers are gone. The story puts another household beneath the earthworks The Near Otherworld
• Ivone Gebara, Feminism and Religious Identity
  • The feminists want to know who was expected to keep cooking while everyone else became profound. The Table
• Jennifer Nedelsky — Reconceiving Autonomy: Sources, Thoughts and Possibilities (Yale J.L. & Feminism, 1989)
  • Care grants no jurisdiction. Mystery grants no command. Covenant
  • It carries keys, not the deed. The Ground
  • The liberal individual is a premise. Star and Commons
• Mary Daly — Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation (Beacon Press, 1973)
  • God is a verb The Mystery
• Media Art-Ritual as Feminist Praxis: Diasporic Worldmaking in A Place of Care
  • Every rite rehearses a world. Returning
• Mikva Dreams: Judaism, Feminism, and Maintenance in the Art of Mierle Laderman Ukeles
  • I do the dishes. The Table
  • Every rite rehearses a world. Returning
• Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Vernacular Sexism: An Anthropological Response to Ivan Illich
  • When vocation becomes identity, ask who benefits if the role cannot be put down. The Crown in the World
• Silvia Federici, Feminism and the Politics of the Commons
  • let the labor holding it be seen, shared, and paid. Returning
• Silvia Federici, Wages Against Housework
  • When labor is called love, ask who is not being paid. The Crown in the World

food 3 ↑

• Agnès Varda — The Gleaners and I (criterion.com)
  • A shopping cart lies on its side in the reeds like the antlered skeleton of an animal that capitalism invented and could not keep alive. The Returning Way
• Joy Harjo — Perhaps the World Ends Here
  • Come in. Eat something. The dead are already arguing. They left a chair for us. The Returning Way
• Robin Wall Kimmerer — The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance
  • Against Extraction: the holy useless, and the yield withheld. Returning

gaze 5 ↑

• Céline Sciamma — Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  • A person is not a text I finish reading. Attention and Love
• Hito Steyerl — A Sea of Data: Apophenia and Pattern (Mis-)Recognition
  • The recommendation engine is also paying attention. The Returning Way
  • Then there is glamour: fog lit beautifully from behind. The Crown in the House
• Hito Steyerl — How Not to Be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File
  • Surveillance attends Attention and Love
• Rainer Maria Rilke — Archaic Torso of Apollo (Poetry Foundation)
  • Another being exceeds the name I arrived with, and the excess alters what I permit myself to do. Attention and Love
• Trinh T. Minh-ha — Reassemblage (wmm.com)
  • It is not a symbol waiting for my arrival. The Returning Way
  • speak near one The Table
  • Sometimes I am looking. Sometimes I am looked upon. The Mystery

gender 5 ↑

• Elaine Pagels, The Suppressed Gnostic Feminism
  • The Gnostics came early and will not eat The Table
• Introduction to the Special Issue on Aleister Crowley and Thelema
  • Ecstasy makes a poor property deed. Attention and Love
  • A borrowed star is a streetlight pointed by somebody else. Star and Commons
• Ivan Illich, Gender
  • When vocation becomes identity, ask who benefits if the role cannot be put down. The Crown in the World
• Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Vernacular Sexism: An Anthropological Response to Ivan Illich
  • When vocation becomes identity, ask who benefits if the role cannot be put down. The Crown in the World
• Unequal and Invisible: Valuing Women's Care Labor in the COVID-19 Response
  • Realization has a supply chain, like bread: hours not owned by fear, a door that locks, somebody covering the shift. The Great Work

glamour 4 ↑

• Hito Steyerl — A Sea of Data: Apophenia and Pattern (Mis-)Recognition
  • The recommendation engine is also paying attention. The Returning Way
  • Then there is glamour: fog lit beautifully from behind. The Crown in the House
• James Baldwin — Letter from a Region in My Mind (The New Yorker, 17 November 1962; collected as Down at the Cross in The Fire Next Time, 1963)
  • The contract comes wearing my hunger and speaking in the voice I hoped the world would use when it finally recognized me. The Crown in the House
• Traditional Scottish Borders ballad; Voices of Scotland text — Thomas The Rhymer
  • Fairy tales know that thresholds require manners. They also know politeness is sometimes the technique. The Near Otherworld
• W. B. Yeats — The Hosting of the Sidhe
  • Arcadia is beauty without price: eternal spring, perfect union, no rent due, no body failing, no labor hidden, no morning after. The Near Otherworld

grief 3 ↑

• Continuing Bonds in Marriage, Death and Divorce
  • The beloved dead already return this way. Recipes. Warnings. Gestures. Debts. Jokes with missing tellers. The shape of a hand reaching for a light switch. The Great Work
• Hell You Talmbout
  • Erasure makes the witness believe their memory is private grief and not public record. Returning
• Joy Harjo — Perhaps the World Ends Here
  • Come in. Eat something. The dead are already arguing. They left a chair for us. The Returning Way

hospitality 6 ↑

• Gerasimos Kakoliris — The Ethics of Hospitality: Jacques Derrida on Unconditional and Conditional Hospitality
  • Hospitality binds. A meal may nourish or entangle. A gift begins a relation. The danger begins when only one party keeps the ledger. The Near Otherworld
• Gifts — Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology
  • The branch is not a bill. It is a flowering thing placed in an empty hand. The Near Otherworld
• Homer; translations by Samuel Butler and A. T. Murray — Odyssey, Book 8.382–Book 9.82 (scaife.perseus.org)
  • Time goes strange. Consequence does not. The Near Otherworld
• Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, "The Guest House", in Coleman Barks, The Essential Rumi (HarperCollins, 1995)
  • The guest is Rumi's Small Practices for the Great Work of Returning
• Rirkrit Tiravanija at MoMA PS1
  • The liberation theologians want to know who cooked. The Table
• Traditional Scottish Borders ballad; Voices of Scotland text — Thomas The Rhymer
  • Fairy tales know that thresholds require manners. They also know politeness is sometimes the technique. The Near Otherworld

ifs 3 ↑

• A Pilot Study of an Online Group-Based Internal Family Systems Intervention for Comorbid PTSD and Substance Use
  • I listen for what the guard protects. Returning
• Internal Family Systems: Exploring Its Problematic Popularity
  • The ego does not need to die. It needs a different job. The Ground
  • A part is partial, which is not the same as false. The Crown in the House
• Richard C. Schwartz — No Bad Parts
  • I listen for what the guard protects. Returning

infrastructure 6 ↑

• Feral Atlas and the More-than-Human Anthropocene
  • Enclosure takes the ground. The Crown in the World
• Invisible Aesthetic: Revisiting Mel Chin’s Revival Field
  • Root enters wire. Rust flowers. The Returning Way
• Mikva Dreams: Judaism, Feminism, and Maintenance in the Art of Mierle Laderman Ukeles
  • I do the dishes. The Table
  • Every rite rehearses a world. Returning
• Ryoji Ikeda — datamatics
  • Enticement makes the taking desirable. The Crown in the World
• Sunaura Taylor — Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert
  • The taking works on land, bodies, hours, attention, memory, belief, and desire. The Crown in the World
• Understanding Social Media Recommendation Algorithms
  • The recommendation engine is also paying attention. The Returning Way

institutions 7 ↑

• Abolition and Reparations: Histories of Resistance, Transformative Justice, and Accountability
  • No torture. No humiliation. No collective punishment. Conduct must end; no human category is made from it. The Crown in the World
• Elinor Ostrom — Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems (nobelprize.org)
  • A commons is shared provision and shared rule. It has boundaries and ways to dispute them. Returning
• James Turrell — Aten Reign (guggenheim.org)
  • The ordinary world does not disappear. Its assignments become unreliable. The Near Otherworld
• No Humans Involved: An Open Letter to My Colleagues — Sylvia Wynter
  • Nobody is disposable. Not even the one signing the warrant. The Crown in the World
• Prefigurative Politics — Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology
  • Every rite rehearses a world. Returning
• The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study — Stefano Harney and Fred Moten
  • Against Enclosure: the commons. Returning
• Tools for Conviviality — Ivan Illich
  • A useful role is only a coat. Returning

interdependence 6 ↑

• James A. Coan and David A. Sbarra — Social Baseline Theory: The Social Regulation of Risk and Effort (Current Opinion in Psychology, 2015)
  • Nobody arrives separate. Star and Commons
• Johanna Hedva — Sick Woman Theory (topicalcream.org)
  • The descent was no method. The Great Work
• Mia Mingus — Access Intimacy, Interdependence and Disability Justice
  • Interdependence proves no kindness. The Ground
  • There is a third thing between swallowing someone and standing alone. Attention and Love
  • they are owed more of the conditions, not fewer of the rights. Star and Commons
• Mia Mingus — Access Intimacy: The Missing Link (leavingevidence.wordpress.com)
  • Care does not make me property. The Ground
• Talking Politics of Contact Improvisation with Steve Paxton
  • On the return: water passed hand to hand, music made, floor swept, bus driven, food grown, medicine made. The Great Work
• Thanissaro Bhikkhu — We Are Not One (Noble & True)
  • Interdependence proves no kindness. The Ground

irish 6 ↑

• Anonymous medieval Irish author; CELT edition of the Irish text, ed. Séamus Mac Mathúna — Immram Brain: Bran’s Journey to the Land of Women (celt.ucc.ie)
  • Time goes strange. Consequence does not. The Near Otherworld
  • On the return: water passed hand to hand, music made, floor swept, bus driven, food grown, medicine made. The Great Work
  • The branch came first. The Branch Carried Home
• Anonymous medieval Irish tradition; CELT edition — The Metrical Dindshenchas: Druim Fingin II
  • These Irish and Scottish stories reached me changed. The Mystery
• Hill of Uisneach site stewards and guides — The Hill of Uisneach: guided landscape encounter
  • The mound has an owner on paper. I see the parcel the deed never fully settled. The Near Otherworld
• John (Johnny) Doherty and Michael (Mickey) Doherty; recorded by Peter Kennedy — The Fiddler and the Fairy
  • This is how the branch reached my hand. The Great Work
• Kuno Meyer, ed. and trans. — The Voyage of Bran, Son of Febal, to the Land of the Living (London: David Nutt, 1895)
  • Time goes strange. Consequence does not. The Near Otherworld
  • The branch came first. The Branch Carried Home
• Róis Níc A’ Bháird; National Folklore Collection Schools’ Collection — A Fairy Fort (Corliss)
  • Its first makers are gone. The story puts another household beneath the earthworks The Near Otherworld

labor 9 ↑

• Digging into Seamus Heaney’s Connection to the Bog — National Library of Ireland
  • The records remain: surveys, shipping returns, workhouse books, school rules, names. The Crown in the World
• Edwidge Danticat — The Price of Sugar
  • the garden and not the gate, the feast and not the kitchen The Crown in the World
• In Praise of Idleness — Bertrand Russell
  • Against Extraction: the holy useless, and the yield withheld. Returning
  • The stump is not a moral failure. The Great Work
• Ivan Illich, Gender
  • When vocation becomes identity, ask who benefits if the role cannot be put down. The Crown in the World
• Joy Harjo — Perhaps the World Ends Here
  • Come in. Eat something. The dead are already arguing. They left a chair for us. The Returning Way
• Kara Walker — A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
  • the garden and not the gate, the feast and not the kitchen The Crown in the World
• Nick Seaver — Captivating Algorithms: Recommender Systems as Traps
  • Adaptation to me is not answerability to me. Attention and Love
• Rirkrit Tiravanija at MoMA PS1
  • The liberation theologians want to know who cooked. The Table
• Silvia Federici, Feminism and the Politics of the Commons
  • let the labor holding it be seen, shared, and paid. Returning

land 6 ↑

• Ana Mendieta — Untitled, from the Silueta series (americanart.si.edu)
  • Stay long enough and the categories get wet. The Returning Way
  • The mound has an owner on paper. I see the parcel the deed never fully settled. The Near Otherworld
• Hill of Uisneach site stewards and guides — The Hill of Uisneach: guided landscape encounter
  • The mound has an owner on paper. I see the parcel the deed never fully settled. The Near Otherworld
• Joy Harjo — Remember (poets.org)
  • Invitation, not conquest. The Near Otherworld
• Leanne Betasamosake Simpson — Land as pedagogy: Nishnaabeg intelligence and rebellious transformation (jps.library.utoronto.ca)
  • Traditions are relations, not supplies The Table
  • A commons is shared provision and shared rule. It has boundaries and ways to dispute them. Returning
• Marginalia: Aesthetics, Ecology, and Urban Wastelands
  • Stay long enough and the categories get wet. The Returning Way
• The Family — Karrabing Film Collective
  • The records remain: surveys, shipping returns, workhouse books, school rules, names. The Crown in the World

law 3 ↑

• Before the Law — Franz Kafka; trans. Mark Harman
  • who can say no, what follows refusal, and who controls the alternatives Attention and Love
• Jennifer Nedelsky — Reconceiving Autonomy: Sources, Thoughts and Possibilities (Yale J.L. & Feminism, 1989)
  • Care grants no jurisdiction. Mystery grants no command. Covenant
  • It carries keys, not the deed. The Ground
  • The liberal individual is a premise. Star and Commons
• John M. Newman — Attention Capitalism: The Law and Political Economy of Attention Markets
  • Nobody can enclose the ocean. They can enclose my Tuesday, and they have. Attention and Love

liberation 4 ↑

• Frantz Fanon — The Pitfalls of National Consciousness (The Wretched of the Earth, 1961)
  • An archon is a pattern, and patterns have hands. The Crown in the World
• James Cone on Black Liberation Theology
  • The liberation theologians want to know who cooked. The Table
• James H. Cone — A Black Theology of Liberation (orbisbooks.com)
  • The liberation theologians want to know who cooked. The Table
• Nancy L. Eiesland — Encountering the Disabled God (The Bible in Transmission, Spring 2004)
  • The flesh is not a trap. It is a term. The Ground
  • The only Christ at this table is Nancy Eiesland’s The Ground
  • Depth cannot be a virtue. The Great Work

love 3 ↑

• bell hooks — Love as the Practice of Freedom
  • Love is attention consenting to consequence. Attention and Love
• James Baldwin — Letter from a Region in My Mind (The New Yorker, 17 November 1962; collected as Down at the Cross in The Fire Next Time, 1963)
  • The contract comes wearing my hunger and speaking in the voice I hoped the world would use when it finally recognized me. The Crown in the House
• Simone Weil — Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God (1942; Internet Archive)
  • Attention becomes love when it lets what it meets remain irreducible. Attention and Love

maintenance 3 ↑

• Mierle Laderman Ukeles — Manifesto for Maintenance Art, 1969!
  • It opposes needless labor, coerced labor, invisible labor, and labor made sacred so the worker cannot refuse it. The Great Work
• Mikva Dreams: Judaism, Feminism, and Maintenance in the Art of Mierle Laderman Ukeles
  • I do the dishes. The Table
  • Every rite rehearses a world. Returning
• Ursula K. Le Guin — The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction (ursulakleguin.com)
  • What it dethrones is not labor The Great Work

memory 12 ↑

• Cecilia Vicuña with Ricardo Gallo and community collaborators — Brain Forest Quipu (tate.org.uk)
  • The More is not a second world set behind this one. The Mystery
  • Every rite rehearses a world. Returning
• Cecilia Vicuña: Quipu Viscera
  • Traditions are relations, not supplies The Table
• Conceived by Okwui Enwezor; New Museum — Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America
  • Erasure makes the witness believe their memory is private grief and not public record. Returning
• Continuing Bonds in Marriage, Death and Divorce
  • The beloved dead already return this way. Recipes. Warnings. Gestures. Debts. Jokes with missing tellers. The shape of a hand reaching for a light switch. The Great Work
• Digging into Seamus Heaney’s Connection to the Bog — National Library of Ireland
  • The records remain: surveys, shipping returns, workhouse books, school rules, names. The Crown in the World
• Hell You Talmbout
  • Erasure makes the witness believe their memory is private grief and not public record. Returning
• Imirce: Irish Emigrant Letters and Life Stories
  • The beloved dead already return this way. Recipes. Warnings. Gestures. Debts. Jokes with missing tellers. The shape of a hand reaching for a light switch. The Great Work
  • Names loosened from the mouths that had carried them. The Branch Carried Home
• Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum Collection
  • The records remain: surveys, shipping returns, workhouse books, school rules, names. The Crown in the World
• James Baldwin — Giovanni's Room (1956; Internet Archive)
  • Arcadia is a fine place to spend an afternoon. The Near Otherworld
• Joy Harjo — Remember (poets.org)
  • Invitation, not conquest. The Near Otherworld
• M. NourbeSe Philip — Zong! reading and discussion (writing.upenn.edu)
  • the silence of the robbed is entered into evidence as consent. The Crown in the World
• Mother Lines: Recovering Irish Famine Architecture through Women’s Labour and Art Practice
  • Erasure takes the memory of having held the ground. The Crown in the World

music 4 ↑

• Cauleen Smith — Sojourner (whitney.org)
  • The story is history with the door left open. Returning
• Hell You Talmbout
  • Erasure makes the witness believe their memory is private grief and not public record. Returning
• John (Johnny) Doherty and Michael (Mickey) Doherty; recorded by Peter Kennedy — The Fiddler and the Fairy
  • This is how the branch reached my hand. The Great Work
• Zombie — Fela Kuti
  • The branch stayed in the song. The Crown in the World

naming 3 ↑

• Audre Lorde: Poetry Is Not a Luxury
  • Magick is change made on purpose: attention gathered, imagination given a task, intention given material form. Returning
• Hell You Talmbout
  • Erasure makes the witness believe their memory is private grief and not public record. Returning
• Paulo Freire — Pedagogy of the Oppressed, chapter 3 (1968; History Is a Weapon)
  • I call it true naming Returning

obligation 3 ↑

• Anonymous Sumerian composition; ETCSL translation — Inana’s descent to the nether world (etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk)
  • The descent was no method. The Great Work
• David Graeber — Debt: The First Five Thousand Years (Mute, 2009)
  • The branch is not a bill. It is a flowering thing placed in an empty hand. The Near Otherworld
• Gifts — Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology
  • The branch is not a bill. It is a flowering thing placed in an empty hand. The Near Otherworld

oral-history 5 ↑

• A Historical Review of Second Sight: The Collectors, Their Accounts and Ideas
  • In the old accounts the seer is mostly to be pitied. The Near Otherworld
• Barney McDowell, informant; Sam Hanna Bell, collector; National Folklore Collection — Fairy Faith: Fairy Music (SD0632BB.3)
  • These Irish and Scottish stories reached me changed. The Mystery
• Fannie Lou Hamer; interviewed by Colin Edwards — Fannie Lou Hamer Interview
  • Erasure makes the witness believe their memory is private grief and not public record. Returning
• Interview with Kelly Brown Douglas — Seizing Freedom
  • The liberation theologians want to know who cooked. The Table
• Róis Níc A’ Bháird; National Folklore Collection Schools’ Collection — A Fairy Fort (Corliss)
  • Its first makers are gone. The story puts another household beneath the earthworks The Near Otherworld

otherworld 8 ↑

• Anonymous medieval Irish author; CELT edition of the Irish text, ed. Séamus Mac Mathúna — Immram Brain: Bran’s Journey to the Land of Women (celt.ucc.ie)
  • Time goes strange. Consequence does not. The Near Otherworld
  • On the return: water passed hand to hand, music made, floor swept, bus driven, food grown, medicine made. The Great Work
  • The branch came first. The Branch Carried Home
• Anonymous medieval Irish author; edited and translated by Kuno Meyer — The Adventures of Nera (Echtra Nerai)
  • The gift has a cost. Someone must return. The Near Otherworld
  • On another Samhain, while Ailill and Medb kept feast at Cruachan, Nera went out to fasten a withy around the foot of a hanged captive. The Branch Carried Home
• Anonymous medieval Irish author; translation by P. W. Joyce — The Voyage of Connla the Fair (Echtra Chondla)
  • Invitation, not conquest. The Near Otherworld
• Feminism and the Lore of Gaelic in Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
  • Its first makers are gone. The story puts another household beneath the earthworks The Near Otherworld
• Heather C. Key — The “Otherworld” of Early Ireland
  • Technique can rehearse a crossing; it cannot make the Otherworld into a resource. The Near Otherworld
• John (Johnny) Doherty and Michael (Mickey) Doherty; recorded by Peter Kennedy — The Fiddler and the Fairy
  • This is how the branch reached my hand. The Great Work
• Róis Níc A’ Bháird; National Folklore Collection Schools’ Collection — A Fairy Fort (Corliss)
  • Its first makers are gone. The story puts another household beneath the earthworks The Near Otherworld
• Traditional Scottish Borders ballad; Voices of Scotland text — Thomas The Rhymer
  • Fairy tales know that thresholds require manners. They also know politeness is sometimes the technique. The Near Otherworld

participation 4 ↑

• Pauline Oliveros with IONE and Heloise Gold — Deep Listening (including Sonic Meditations)
  • Attention is the aperture: the finite opening through which one life meets another. Attention and Love
• Prefigurative Politics — Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology
  • Every rite rehearses a world. Returning
• Rirkrit Tiravanija at MoMA PS1
  • The liberation theologians want to know who cooked. The Table
• Wasteland — Arte Útil
  • Against Enclosure: the commons. Returning

perception 3 ↑

• Embodied World Construction: A Phenomenology of Ritual
  • Every rite rehearses a world. Returning
• James Turrell — Aten Reign (guggenheim.org)
  • The ordinary world does not disappear. Its assignments become unreliable. The Near Otherworld
• Ryoji Ikeda — datamatics
  • Enticement makes the taking desirable. The Crown in the World

performance 7 ↑

• Chris Hoff — Therapy After Woke (Liminal Lab, 10 September 2026)
  • A short list is not innocence. The Crown in the House
  • Unbinding alone can leave me able to name every arrangement and still live inside all of them. Returning
• John (Johnny) Doherty and Michael (Mickey) Doherty; recorded by Peter Kennedy — The Fiddler and the Fairy
  • This is how the branch reached my hand. The Great Work
• Lauren McCarthy — Follower
  • Surveillance attends Attention and Love
• Mendi + Keith Obadike — Black Net.Art Actions (particularly Blackness for Sale)
  • The glowing rectangle sells what remains in bright little pieces. The Crown in the World
• Scottish Traveller Oral Narrative Study Featuring Sheila Douglas
  • The story is history with the door left open. Returning
  • This is how the branch reached my hand. The Great Work
• Tehching Hsieh and Linda Montano — Art/Life One Year Performance 1983–1984 (Rope Piece)
  • Love leaves room for another person’s solitude, and that room has to work against me too. Attention and Love
• Yoko Ono — Cut Piece
  • Listen for the no it can survive. Attention and Love

pleasure 3 ↑

• adrienne maree brown — Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
  • Some things matter without being for anything. Attention and Love
• Audre Lorde — The Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power (sheedylit.com)
  • Audre Lorde named the erotic a source of knowledge about what a life wants. Star and Commons
• Mark Epstein — Open to Desire: Embracing a Lust for Life. Insights from Buddhism and Psychotherapy (Gotham Books, 2005)
  • I take seriously the treatment of pleasure and ecstasy as ways of knowing The Ground

poetry 7 ↑

• Audre Lorde: Poetry Is Not a Luxury
  • Magick is change made on purpose: attention gathered, imagination given a task, intention given material form. Returning
• Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, "The Guest House", in Coleman Barks, The Essential Rumi (HarperCollins, 1995)
  • The guest is Rumi's Small Practices for the Great Work of Returning
• Joy Harjo — Remember (poets.org)
  • Invitation, not conquest. The Near Otherworld
• M. NourbeSe Philip — Zong! reading and discussion (writing.upenn.edu)
  • the silence of the robbed is entered into evidence as consent. The Crown in the World
• Rainer Maria Rilke — I Live My Life in Widening Circles (Book of Hours I,2; trans. Barrows and Macy, 1996)
  • God is a verb The Mystery
• W. B. Yeats — The Hosting of the Sidhe
  • Arcadia is beauty without price: eternal spring, perfect union, no rent due, no body failing, no labor hidden, no morning after. The Near Otherworld
• won't you celebrate with me
  • Depth cannot be a virtue. The Great Work

politics 3 ↑

• Gustavo Gutiérrez — A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation (orbisbooks.com)
  • Shared freedom is not the absence of conditions but the widening of livable conditions in which a person or a people can turn. Returning
• Johanna Hedva — Sick Woman Theory (topicalcream.org)
  • The descent was no method. The Great Work
• Talking Politics of Contact Improvisation with Steve Paxton
  • On the return: water passed hand to hand, music made, floor swept, bus driven, food grown, medicine made. The Great Work

power 5 ↑

• Catherine M. Bell: The Ritual Body and the Dynamics of Ritual Power
  • Ritual is attention given a body. Returning
• Excavating AI: The Politics of Images in Machine Learning Training Sets
  • Another being exceeds the name I arrived with, and the excess alters what I permit myself to do. Attention and Love
• Frantz Fanon — The Pitfalls of National Consciousness (The Wretched of the Earth, 1961)
  • An archon is a pattern, and patterns have hands. The Crown in the World
• Gerasimos Kakoliris — The Ethics of Hospitality: Jacques Derrida on Unconditional and Conditional Hospitality
  • Hospitality binds. A meal may nourish or entangle. A gift begins a relation. The danger begins when only one party keeps the ledger. The Near Otherworld
• Talking Politics of Contact Improvisation with Steve Paxton
  • On the return: water passed hand to hand, music made, floor swept, bus driven, food grown, medicine made. The Great Work

practice 8 ↑

• Alcoholics Anonymous — The Twelve Steps
  • The search is twelve-step. Small Practices for the Great Work of Returning
• Contact Quarterly — About Contact Improvisation
  • contact improv Small Practices for the Great Work of Returning
• Marsha Linehan — DBT distress-tolerance skills (Behavioral Tech)
  • distress-tolerance skills Small Practices for the Great Work of Returning
• Peter J. Carroll: Chaos Magic in a Nutshell
  • Chaos magick taught me that the deck can be changed. The Mystery
• Prefigurative Politics — Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology
  • Every rite rehearses a world. Returning
• Ram Dass — I Am Loving Awareness (Love Serve Remember Foundation)
  • Loving Awareness The Ground
• The Recorded Sayings of Layman Pang
  • The ground was never the feeling. The Returning Way
  • Somebody who has to make the phone call anyway. The Ground
• Vijñānabhairava, with the commentary of Kṣemarāja and Śivopādhyāya (Kashmir Series of Texts and Studies, 1918)
  • A Kashmir Shaiva manual called the *Vijñānabhairava* The Ground

privacy 6 ↑

• Benjamin P. Davis, engaging Édouard Glissant — Édouard Glissant’s Right to Opacity in Practice (cccct.law.columbia.edu)
  • Sovereignty is enough room to say what happened, keep something back, refuse, revise, ask for help, and go. Attention and Love
• Hito Steyerl — How Not to Be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File
  • Surveillance attends Attention and Love
• John M. Newman — Attention Capitalism: The Law and Political Economy of Attention Markets
  • Nobody can enclose the ocean. They can enclose my Tuesday, and they have. Attention and Love
• Mia Mingus — Forced Intimacy: An Ableist Norm
  • Belonging becomes conditional on agreement, availability, disclosure, silence, or gratitude performed on demand. The Crown in the House
• Tehching Hsieh and Linda Montano — Art/Life One Year Performance 1983–1984 (Rope Piece)
  • Love leaves room for another person’s solitude, and that room has to work against me too. Attention and Love
• Trevor Paglen with Jacob Appelbaum — Autonomy Cube
  • If I object, the objection becomes more data. Attention and Love

property 3 ↑

• Agnès Varda — The Gleaners and I (criterion.com)
  • A shopping cart lies on its side in the reeds like the antlered skeleton of an animal that capitalism invented and could not keep alive. The Returning Way
• Jennifer Nedelsky — Reconceiving Autonomy: Sources, Thoughts and Possibilities (Yale J.L. & Feminism, 1989)
  • Care grants no jurisdiction. Mystery grants no command. Covenant
  • It carries keys, not the deed. The Ground
  • The liberal individual is a premise. Star and Commons
• Marginalia: Aesthetics, Ecology, and Urban Wastelands
  • Stay long enough and the categories get wet. The Returning Way

provenance 4 ↑

• Excavating AI: The Politics of Images in Machine Learning Training Sets
  • Another being exceeds the name I arrived with, and the excess alters what I permit myself to do. Attention and Love
• Imirce: Irish Emigrant Letters and Life Stories
  • The beloved dead already return this way. Recipes. Warnings. Gestures. Debts. Jokes with missing tellers. The shape of a hand reaching for a light switch. The Great Work
  • Names loosened from the mouths that had carried them. The Branch Carried Home
• John (Johnny) Doherty and Michael (Mickey) Doherty; recorded by Peter Kennedy — The Fiddler and the Fairy
  • This is how the branch reached my hand. The Great Work
• Trinh T. Minh-ha — Reassemblage (wmm.com)
  • Sometimes I am looking. Sometimes I am looked upon. The Mystery

racialization 3 ↑

• Excavating AI: The Politics of Images in Machine Learning Training Sets
  • Another being exceeds the name I arrived with, and the excess alters what I permit myself to do. Attention and Love
• No Humans Involved: An Open Letter to My Colleagues — Sylvia Wynter
  • Nobody is disposable. Not even the one signing the warrant. The Crown in the World
• Unequal and Invisible: Valuing Women's Care Labor in the COVID-19 Response
  • Realization has a supply chain, like bread: hours not owned by fear, a door that locks, somebody covering the shift. The Great Work

racism 7 ↑

• Audre Lorde — The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism
  • Anger often carries a boundary. Returning
• Doing No Harm: Mindfulness, Western Buddhism, Appropriation, Systemic Racism
  • Traditions are relations, not supplies The Table
• James Cone on Black Liberation Theology
  • The liberation theologians want to know who cooked. The Table
• James H. Cone — A Black Theology of Liberation (orbisbooks.com)
  • The liberation theologians want to know who cooked. The Table
• Mendi + Keith Obadike — Black Net.Art Actions (particularly Blackness for Sale)
  • The glowing rectangle sells what remains in bright little pieces. The Crown in the World
• My Calling (Card) #2 — Adrian Piper
  • a joke that always lands on one body The Crown in the House
• Sara Ahmed — Feminist Killjoys (And Other Willful Subjects)
  • Intensity becomes destiny. Care becomes debt. A shared dream becomes a lease on another person’s future. The Crown in the House

reciprocity 3 ↑

• David Graeber — Debt: The First Five Thousand Years (Mute, 2009)
  • The branch is not a bill. It is a flowering thing placed in an empty hand. The Near Otherworld
• Gifts — Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology
  • The branch is not a bill. It is a flowering thing placed in an empty hand. The Near Otherworld
• Robin Wall Kimmerer — The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance
  • Against Extraction: the holy useless, and the yield withheld. Returning

refusal 10 ↑

• Captain Boycott 1832–1897 — Mayo County Council
  • The records remain: surveys, shipping returns, workhouse books, school rules, names. The Crown in the World
• Cauleen Smith — Sojourner (whitney.org)
  • The story is history with the door left open. Returning
• James Baldwin — Notes of a Native Son (Beacon Press, 1955; Internet Archive)
  • Some things do not reconcile. The Great Work
• James C. Scott, Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance
  • tenants and neighbors withdrew their hands, shops, services, and ordinary dealings. The Crown in the World
• Jenny Odell — how to do nothing
  • Some things matter without being for anything. Attention and Love
• June Jordan — Poem about My Rights
  • Refusal must be survivable. Covenant
• The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study — Stefano Harney and Fred Moten
  • Against Enclosure: the commons. Returning
• Tricia Hersey — Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
  • I refuse the demand for yield even when rest makes nobody stronger, harder to own, or ready for tomorrow. Returning
  • What it dethrones is not labor The Great Work
• Tricia Hersey / The Nap Ministry — Rest is anything that connects your mind and body
  • It defends time that produces nothing anyone can sell. The Great Work
• Zombie — Fela Kuti
  • The branch stayed in the song. The Crown in the World

relation 7 ↑

• A Process Theology of Hope: The Counter-Apocalyptic Vision of Catherine Keller
  • God is a verb The Mystery
  • Self-punishment repairs nothing. The Crown in the House
• Alfred North Whitehead — Science and the Modern World (Lowell Lectures, 1925)
  • The river happens to the valley. The valley happens to the river. The Mystery
• Benjamin P. Davis, engaging Édouard Glissant — Édouard Glissant’s Right to Opacity in Practice (cccct.law.columbia.edu)
  • Sovereignty is enough room to say what happened, keep something back, refuse, revise, ask for help, and go. Attention and Love
• John B. Cobb, Jr. — Process Theology and the Bible (lecture, Calgary, 2003)
  • Living attention can be interrupted by what it meets. Attention and Love
  • God is a verb The Mystery
  • The Ocean does not apologize. I do. The Great Work
• Joy Harjo — Remember (poets.org)
  • Invitation, not conquest. The Near Otherworld
• Mia Mingus — Access Intimacy: The Missing Link (leavingevidence.wordpress.com)
  • Care does not make me property. The Ground
• O eu e o tu (The I and the you)
  • Play stops at the word. Attention and Love

relationality 4 ↑

• A Process Theology of Hope: The Counter-Apocalyptic Vision of Catherine Keller
  • God is a verb The Mystery
  • Self-punishment repairs nothing. The Crown in the House
• James A. Coan and David A. Sbarra — Social Baseline Theory: The Social Regulation of Risk and Effort (Current Opinion in Psychology, 2015)
  • Nobody arrives separate. Star and Commons
• Jennifer Nedelsky — Reconceiving Autonomy: Sources, Thoughts and Possibilities (Yale J.L. & Feminism, 1989)
  • Care grants no jurisdiction. Mystery grants no command. Covenant
  • It carries keys, not the deed. The Ground
  • The liberal individual is a premise. Star and Commons
• Mia Mingus — Access Intimacy, Interdependence and Disability Justice
  • Interdependence proves no kindness. The Ground
  • There is a third thing between swallowing someone and standing alone. Attention and Love
  • they are owed more of the conditions, not fewer of the rights. Star and Commons

repair 3 ↑

• Cecilia Vicuña with Ricardo Gallo and community collaborators — Brain Forest Quipu (tate.org.uk)
  • The More is not a second world set behind this one. The Mystery
  • Every rite rehearses a world. Returning
• Mierle Laderman Ukeles — Manifesto for Maintenance Art, 1969!
  • It opposes needless labor, coerced labor, invisible labor, and labor made sacred so the worker cannot refuse it. The Great Work
• WHEREAS: An Excerpt — Layli Long Soldier
  • The apology that does not ask to be admired. Returning

representation 3 ↑

• Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum Collection
  • The records remain: surveys, shipping returns, workhouse books, school rules, names. The Crown in the World
• Mendi + Keith Obadike — Black Net.Art Actions (particularly Blackness for Sale)
  • The glowing rectangle sells what remains in bright little pieces. The Crown in the World
• Trinh T. Minh-ha — Reassemblage (wmm.com)
  • It is not a symbol waiting for my arrival. The Returning Way
  • speak near one The Table
  • Sometimes I am looking. Sometimes I am looked upon. The Mystery

rest 4 ↑

• In Praise of Idleness — Bertrand Russell
  • Against Extraction: the holy useless, and the yield withheld. Returning
  • The stump is not a moral failure. The Great Work
• Johanna Hedva — Sick Woman Theory (topicalcream.org)
  • The descent was no method. The Great Work
• Tricia Hersey — Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
  • I refuse the demand for yield even when rest makes nobody stronger, harder to own, or ready for tomorrow. Returning
  • What it dethrones is not labor The Great Work
• Tricia Hersey / The Nap Ministry — Rest is anything that connects your mind and body
  • It defends time that produces nothing anyone can sell. The Great Work

return 7 ↑

• Adrienne Rich — Diving into the Wreck
  • The descent was no method. The Great Work
• Anonymous medieval Irish author; CELT edition of the Irish text, ed. Séamus Mac Mathúna — Immram Brain: Bran’s Journey to the Land of Women (celt.ucc.ie)
  • Time goes strange. Consequence does not. The Near Otherworld
  • On the return: water passed hand to hand, music made, floor swept, bus driven, food grown, medicine made. The Great Work
  • The branch came first. The Branch Carried Home
• Anonymous medieval Irish author; edited and translated by Kuno Meyer — The Adventures of Nera (Echtra Nerai)
  • The gift has a cost. Someone must return. The Near Otherworld
  • On another Samhain, while Ailill and Medb kept feast at Cruachan, Nera went out to fasten a withy around the foot of a hanged captive. The Branch Carried Home
• Anonymous Sumerian composition; ETCSL translation — Inana’s descent to the nether world (etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk)
  • The descent was no method. The Great Work
• Kuno Meyer, ed. and trans. — The Voyage of Bran, Son of Febal, to the Land of the Living (London: David Nutt, 1895)
  • Time goes strange. Consequence does not. The Near Otherworld
  • The branch came first. The Branch Carried Home
• Rhiannon Giddens — At the Purchaser’s Option (rhiannongiddens.bandcamp.com)
  • Nothing living is mine to use. Covenant
  • No one is raw material, including the person being stopped. The Crown in the World
  • Water, field, forest, path, house, seed, story, body, time. The Crown in the World
• Talking Politics of Contact Improvisation with Steve Paxton
  • On the return: water passed hand to hand, music made, floor swept, bus driven, food grown, medicine made. The Great Work

ritual 5 ↑

• Embodied World Construction: A Phenomenology of Ritual
  • Every rite rehearses a world. Returning
• Media Art-Ritual as Feminist Praxis: Diasporic Worldmaking in A Place of Care
  • Every rite rehearses a world. Returning
• Mikva Dreams: Judaism, Feminism, and Maintenance in the Art of Mierle Laderman Ukeles
  • I do the dishes. The Table
  • Every rite rehearses a world. Returning
• Peter J. Carroll: Chaos Magic in a Nutshell
  • Chaos magick taught me that the deck can be changed. The Mystery
• Planetary Dance
  • The measure of a ritual is the quality of the return Returning

sexism 3 ↑

• Ivan Illich, Gender
  • When vocation becomes identity, ask who benefits if the role cannot be put down. The Crown in the World
• Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Vernacular Sexism: An Anthropological Response to Ivan Illich
  • When vocation becomes identity, ask who benefits if the role cannot be put down. The Crown in the World
• Sara Ahmed — Feminist Killjoys (And Other Willful Subjects)
  • Intensity becomes destiny. Care becomes debt. A shared dream becomes a lease on another person’s future. The Crown in the House

sound 4 ↑

• Anaïs Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer — Tam Lin (Child 39), live session
  • Fairy tales know that thresholds require manners. They also know politeness is sometimes the technique. The Near Otherworld
• Pauline Oliveros Papers, UC San Diego Special Collections
  • Attention is the aperture: the finite opening through which one life meets another. Attention and Love
  • On the return: water passed hand to hand, music made, floor swept, bus driven, food grown, medicine made. The Great Work
• Pauline Oliveros with IONE and Heloise Gold — Deep Listening (including Sonic Meditations)
  • Attention is the aperture: the finite opening through which one life meets another. Attention and Love
• Zombie — Fela Kuti
  • The branch stayed in the song. The Crown in the World

surveillance 4 ↑

• Hito Steyerl — A Sea of Data: Apophenia and Pattern (Mis-)Recognition
  • The recommendation engine is also paying attention. The Returning Way
  • Then there is glamour: fog lit beautifully from behind. The Crown in the House
• Hito Steyerl — How Not to Be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File
  • Surveillance attends Attention and Love
• Lauren McCarthy — Follower
  • Surveillance attends Attention and Love
• Trevor Paglen with Jacob Appelbaum — Autonomy Cube
  • If I object, the objection becomes more data. Attention and Love

survival 3 ↑

• Audre Lorde — A Litany for Survival
  • Listen for the no it can survive. Attention and Love
• Audre Lorde: Poetry Is Not a Luxury
  • Magick is change made on purpose: attention gathered, imagination given a task, intention given material form. Returning
• won't you celebrate with me
  • Depth cannot be a virtue. The Great Work

time 3 ↑

• Anonymous medieval Irish author; CELT edition of the Irish text, ed. Séamus Mac Mathúna — Immram Brain: Bran’s Journey to the Land of Women (celt.ucc.ie)
  • Time goes strange. Consequence does not. The Near Otherworld
  • On the return: water passed hand to hand, music made, floor swept, bus driven, food grown, medicine made. The Great Work
  • The branch came first. The Branch Carried Home
• Mark Fisher — Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
  • The day gets a supervisor, the supervisor gets a wand, and soon the soul is filling out time sheets for eternity. The Great Work
• Mark Fisher — Culture Has Lost the Ability to Grasp the Present
  • the opening closes until the world is exactly as wide as the next required thing. The Ground
  • Nobody can enclose the ocean. They can enclose my Tuesday, and they have. Attention and Love

touch 4 ↑

• Betty Martin — The Wheel of Consent (School of Consent)
  • Betty Martin's wheel of consent Small Practices for the Great Work of Returning
• Contact Quarterly — About Contact Improvisation
  • contact improv Small Practices for the Great Work of Returning
• O eu e o tu (The I and the you)
  • Play stops at the word. Attention and Love
• Talking Politics of Contact Improvisation with Steve Paxton
  • On the return: water passed hand to hand, music made, floor swept, bus driven, food grown, medicine made. The Great Work

translation 8 ↑

• Aifric Mac Aodha — Echtrae Conlae (poetry reading)
  • The Otherworld kept entering through a language whose burial had been announced more than once. The Crown in the World
• Feminism and the Lore of Gaelic in Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
  • Its first makers are gone. The story puts another household beneath the earthworks The Near Otherworld
• Homer; translations by Samuel Butler and A. T. Murray — Odyssey, Book 8.382–Book 9.82 (scaife.perseus.org)
  • Time goes strange. Consequence does not. The Near Otherworld
• Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, "The Guest House", in Coleman Barks, The Essential Rumi (HarperCollins, 1995)
  • The guest is Rumi's Small Practices for the Great Work of Returning
• Kuno Meyer, ed. and trans. — The Voyage of Bran, Son of Febal, to the Land of the Living (London: David Nutt, 1895)
  • Time goes strange. Consequence does not. The Near Otherworld
  • The branch came first. The Branch Carried Home
• Sappho; translation by Anne Carson — 31 [“He seems to me equal to gods”]
  • No intensity, however mutual or transformative, makes one life the missing half of another. Attention and Love
• The Roots of Buddhist Modernism
  • Traditions are relations, not supplies The Table
• Whither Dependent Origination?
  • What arose through conditions can be changed through conditions. The Ground

trauma 4 ↑

• Doing No Harm: Mindfulness, Western Buddhism, Appropriation, Systemic Racism
  • Traditions are relations, not supplies The Table
• Eric Stiens — The Pharmakon Papers: AI as Poison/Remedy (Ghost in the Weights, January 2026) My own papers, written out of the years the Great Work describes.
  • Nobody arrives separate. Star and Commons
• Internal Family Systems: Exploring Its Problematic Popularity
  • The ego does not need to die. It needs a different job. The Ground
  • A part is partial, which is not the same as false. The Crown in the House
• Judith Lewis Herman — Complex PTSD: A Syndrome in Survivors of Prolonged and Repeated Trauma (Journal of Traumatic Stress, 1992)
  • The nearest exit starts to look like consent because time, sleep, privacy, money, distance, and other counsel have been taken away. The Crown in the House

unknowing 5 ↑

• Anonymous English author; Evelyn Underhill edition — The Cloud of Unknowing (ccel.org)
  • No name owns the encounter. The Near Otherworld
• James Turrell — Aten Reign (guggenheim.org)
  • The ordinary world does not disappear. Its assignments become unreliable. The Near Otherworld
• Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (attributed) — The Mystical Theology (tertullian.org)
  • No name owns the encounter. The Near Otherworld
• Rainer Maria Rilke — I Live My Life in Widening Circles (Book of Hours I,2; trans. Barrows and Macy, 1996)
  • God is a verb The Mystery
• William James — The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902), Lecture XX, "Conclusions"
  • The More The Ground

violence 5 ↑

• David Graeber — Debt: The First Five Thousand Years (Mute, 2009)
  • The branch is not a bill. It is a flowering thing placed in an empty hand. The Near Otherworld
• Dead Zones of the Imagination: On Violence, Bureaucracy, and Interpretive Labor — David Graeber
  • Enforcement makes the taking permanent. The Crown in the World
• Digging into Seamus Heaney’s Connection to the Bog — National Library of Ireland
  • The records remain: surveys, shipping returns, workhouse books, school rules, names. The Crown in the World
• Homer; translations by Samuel Butler and A. T. Murray — Odyssey, Book 8.382–Book 9.82 (scaife.perseus.org)
  • Time goes strange. Consequence does not. The Near Otherworld
• No Humans Involved: An Open Letter to My Colleagues — Sylvia Wynter
  • Nobody is disposable. Not even the one signing the warrant. The Crown in the World

warning 3 ↑

• A Historical Review of Second Sight: The Collectors, Their Accounts and Ideas
  • In the old accounts the seer is mostly to be pitied. The Near Otherworld
• Anonymous medieval Irish author; edited and translated by Kuno Meyer — The Adventures of Nera (Echtra Nerai)
  • The gift has a cost. Someone must return. The Near Otherworld
  • On another Samhain, while Ailill and Medb kept feast at Cruachan, Nera went out to fasten a withy around the foot of a hanged captive. The Branch Carried Home
• Róis Níc A’ Bháird; National Folklore Collection Schools’ Collection — A Fairy Fort (Corliss)
  • Its first makers are gone. The story puts another household beneath the earthworks The Near Otherworld

will 3 ↑

• Aleister Crowley — Magick in Theory and Practice: Definitions and Theorems
  • Magick is change made on purpose: attention gathered, imagination given a task, intention given material form. Returning
  • No Work but the Great Work. The Great Work
• Aleister Crowley: Liber AL vel Legis (The Book of the Law)
  • Ecstasy makes a poor property deed. Attention and Love
  • His scripture says that every man and every woman is a star, and that love is the law, love under will. Star and Commons
• Peter J. Carroll: Chaos Magic in a Nutshell
  • Chaos magick taught me that the deck can be changed. The Mystery

witness 4 ↑

• Cauleen Smith — Sojourner (whitney.org)
  • The story is history with the door left open. Returning
• Fannie Lou Hamer; interviewed by Colin Edwards — Fannie Lou Hamer Interview
  • Erasure makes the witness believe their memory is private grief and not public record. Returning
• Hell You Talmbout
  • Erasure makes the witness believe their memory is private grief and not public record. Returning
• James Baldwin — Nothing Personal (with Richard Avedon, 1964; Internet Archive)
  • The return will have to be made by someone else. The Great Work

no recurring subject 7 ↑

These carry only subjects joining fewer than three works across both books, so they have no thread to join. They are reachable from their own passage, and from here.

• C. G. Jung — Psychology and Alchemy (Collected Works 12; Princeton, 1968 ed.; Internet Archive)
  • Jung read the literature as an account of psychological change and drew it into his account of individuation. The Great Work
• Henry Corbin — Mundus Imaginalis, or the Imaginary and the Imaginal (swedenborg.com)
  • Call it psyche. Call it spirit. Call it the hill dreaming on its own behalf. The Near Otherworld
• June Jordan — Poem for South African Women (junejordan.net)
  • A poem can do it. A strike can do it. Returning
• Project Row Houses founders and organization — Project Row Houses (projectrowhouses.org)
  • open the library, keep the bench public Returning
• Scott Alexander — Meditations on Moloch (Slate Star Codex, 2014)
  • An archon is a pattern, and patterns have hands. The Crown in the World
• The Apocryphon of John (The Secret Book of John) — Anonymous Coptic text; trans. Frederik Wisse
  • The Gnostics came early and will not eat The Table
  • Certain Gnostic cosmologies made the body a prison of forgetfulness under a lesser ruler. The Ground
  • The demiurge is not always across the table. The Crown in the House
• The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas — Ursula K. Le Guin
  • the garden and not the gate, the feast and not the kitchen The Crown in the World