Freaked Landscapes ∙ Eric Ellingsen ∙ FL18
Aberrance Trailer
based on Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer in a Day”
Aberrance (n.)
Etymology:
latin, aberrans (wandering, straying,
deviating)
1. Deviating or diverging from standard (OED)
2. The failure of rays to converge at one focus (Google, optics)
3. The apparent displacement of a celestial object from its true position (Google, astronomy)
4. Unsoundness of the mind (Merriam-Webster)
5. Deviating from morality or truth (Shorter OED, Leslie Brown)
e.g.
- Aberrant movements: The Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze
- going astray from typical modes of thinking logic, metaphysics, and ethics
- irrational logic of aberrant movements
- Aberrant monism: Spinozism + Life in the Chaosmos
- monastic ontology
- ontology of networks
Redefined:
6. The becoming of terrains unsound
- The process of terrains becoming unsound
1. Deviating or diverging from standard (OED)
2. The failure of rays to converge at one focus (Google, optics)
3. The apparent displacement of a celestial object from its true position (Google, astronomy)
4. Unsoundness of the mind (Merriam-Webster)
5. Deviating from morality or truth (Shorter OED, Leslie Brown)
e.g.
- Aberrant movements: The Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze
- going astray from typical modes of thinking logic, metaphysics, and ethics
- irrational logic of aberrant movements
- Aberrant monism: Spinozism + Life in the Chaosmos
- monastic ontology
- ontology of networks
Redefined:
6. The becoming of terrains unsound
- The process of terrains becoming unsound
Narrative:
We
came from the hot and fiery, a volcanic eruption. There are only steam and
clouds. A long duration. As we cool down, a part descends. Rain. Tumultuous and
never-ceasing, forming the oceans below. This is The Greater Flood. These parts
of we do not stay distinct, or else nothing is created. The Swerve. We hit
another, a sound. Sounds upon sounds make a clash, a drumming so vigorous it
puts Miles Teller to shame. Tons and tons, avalanches of sound. We bleach the
jungle below, washing the color away, crushing new growth following a periodic
ritardando. The heat again. This time it’s different, more severe. From above
rather than within. To severe to remain. So severe, a sunbreak. A part apart
departs. An aberrance. Unsound. A failure of convergence. Silence. Piercing
light from above shines on the jungle below. Figures stir, the terrain wakens.
Briefly, then the devil beats his wife and we arrive again. Midnight.