Leon
@disincarnateevl.bsky.social
Weaver, Writer, Researcher
Art Historian | Esotericism, Abstraction, Science
Author | Triadic Intimacy ('23, @incastellated.bsky.social)
Art Historian | Esotericism, Abstraction, Science
Author | Triadic Intimacy ('23, @incastellated.bsky.social)
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Leon
@disincarnateevl.bsky.social
· Aug 24
Exploring the Parafloral: Mediumship and Plant-Human Entanglement | Center for the Study of World Religions
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A few months ago, I was invited by Harvard Divinity School’s Center for the Study of World Religions to blog about my parafloral research, a new ecocritical approach to mediumistic practice & the visual & material culture of spiritualism. Read here: share.google/hHY42vcbKOoc...
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November 26, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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The schematic or diagrammatic is seen throughout this series primarily as a structure of desire, a process of deformation, a reconfigurable structure that serves as an organizing principle, theoretical device, & topological figure.
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The Schematic Imagination
A new lecture series coming in 2026!
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December 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The schematic or diagrammatic is seen throughout this series primarily as a structure of desire, a process of deformation, a reconfigurable structure that serves as an organizing principle, theoretical device, & topological figure.
open.substack.com/pub/desertsu...
open.substack.com/pub/desertsu...
While conducting research on the absent parafloral history of Spiritualism this morn, I happened upon a 1929 photograph of Annie Besant in a garden. I couldn’t help but be taken by her robe, vines outlining her body like an aura, ascending from vegetal motifs reminiscent of the tree of life.
November 29, 2025 at 1:05 PM
While conducting research on the absent parafloral history of Spiritualism this morn, I happened upon a 1929 photograph of Annie Besant in a garden. I couldn’t help but be taken by her robe, vines outlining her body like an aura, ascending from vegetal motifs reminiscent of the tree of life.
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Gunta Stölzl (1897-983) German textile artist fundamental to development of the Bauhaus weaving workshop #WomensArt
November 28, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Gunta Stölzl (1897-983) German textile artist fundamental to development of the Bauhaus weaving workshop #WomensArt
Remedios Varo, The Red Weaver (La Tejedora Roja), 1956
November 27, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Remedios Varo, The Red Weaver (La Tejedora Roja), 1956
Weaving while a salted maple pie bakes in the oven.
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Weaving while a salted maple pie bakes in the oven.
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Alison Knowles (29 April 1933–29 October 2025)
At The Wire website, Irene Revell reflects on the life and work of Fluxus co-founder Alison Knowles, who died in October
www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/t...
At The Wire website, Irene Revell reflects on the life and work of Fluxus co-founder Alison Knowles, who died in October
www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/t...
Alison Knowles (29 April 1933–29 October 2025) - The Wire
Irene Revell reflects on the life and work of Fluxus co-founder Alison Knowles, who died in October
www.thewire.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Alison Knowles (29 April 1933–29 October 2025)
At The Wire website, Irene Revell reflects on the life and work of Fluxus co-founder Alison Knowles, who died in October
www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/t...
At The Wire website, Irene Revell reflects on the life and work of Fluxus co-founder Alison Knowles, who died in October
www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/t...
Reshare if interested in The Schematic Imagination, a 7-part, sliding-scale seminar & rding group on the philosophy of the diagram across literature, math, arts & crafts, DH, & occult practice: open.substack.com/pub/desertsu...
The Schematic Imagination
A new lecture series coming in 2026!
open.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Reshare if interested in The Schematic Imagination, a 7-part, sliding-scale seminar & rding group on the philosophy of the diagram across literature, math, arts & crafts, DH, & occult practice: open.substack.com/pub/desertsu...
"The grid's mythic power is that it makes us able to think we are dealing with materialism (or sometimes science, or logic) while at the same time it provides us with a release into belief (or illusion, or fiction)." -Raffaella della Olga
November 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM
"The grid's mythic power is that it makes us able to think we are dealing with materialism (or sometimes science, or logic) while at the same time it provides us with a release into belief (or illusion, or fiction)." -Raffaella della Olga
This morning, I'm thinking about tone on tone overshot; and (unrelated) how my experience w/ digital humanities at a private liberal arts college has contributed to cognitive decline rather than extending cognition.
November 16, 2025 at 12:38 PM
This morning, I'm thinking about tone on tone overshot; and (unrelated) how my experience w/ digital humanities at a private liberal arts college has contributed to cognitive decline rather than extending cognition.
Just going to leave this quote from Moby Dick here: "Take my body, who will, take it I say, it is not me."
November 14, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Just going to leave this quote from Moby Dick here: "Take my body, who will, take it I say, it is not me."
Getting so excited as I prepare the content for my new seminar The Schematic Imagination: The Diagram as Theory of Thought, forthcoming 2026.
October 30, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Getting so excited as I prepare the content for my new seminar The Schematic Imagination: The Diagram as Theory of Thought, forthcoming 2026.
open.substack.com/pub/desertsu...
New lecture series/reading group coming in 2026!
New lecture series/reading group coming in 2026!
The Schematic Imagination
A new lecture series coming in 2026!
open.substack.com
October 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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New lecture series/reading group coming in 2026!
New lecture series/reading group coming in 2026!
Weaving to Brian Eno's Night Thoughts.
October 21, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Weaving to Brian Eno's Night Thoughts.
In the early phase of developing a new lecture series on visual thinking, specifically geometric & diagrammatic methods. This series w/ a focus on the philosophy of the diagram explores a multiplicity of histories, theories, & practices from lit, math, arts & crafts, DH, occult & magical practice.
October 20, 2025 at 12:10 AM
In the early phase of developing a new lecture series on visual thinking, specifically geometric & diagrammatic methods. This series w/ a focus on the philosophy of the diagram explores a multiplicity of histories, theories, & practices from lit, math, arts & crafts, DH, occult & magical practice.
Spending time this morning thinking on the earth's own collective consciousness as I write a couple of abstracts for panels on weird modernisms & co-creation: human & non-human making processes & their environmental entanglements.
October 18, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Spending time this morning thinking on the earth's own collective consciousness as I write a couple of abstracts for panels on weird modernisms & co-creation: human & non-human making processes & their environmental entanglements.
If you want to lose your passion for knowledge production & intellectual engagement, work in higher ed.
October 18, 2025 at 10:29 AM
If you want to lose your passion for knowledge production & intellectual engagement, work in higher ed.
In my office on campus thinking about Bucky Fuller's earth:
October 6, 2025 at 12:04 PM
In my office on campus thinking about Bucky Fuller's earth:
I hope everyone is eating the Sun today.
October 3, 2025 at 11:39 AM
I hope everyone is eating the Sun today.
What is the last thing you watched? Me: Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land. What are you currently reading? Me: The Grid Book by Hannah B. Higgins
October 3, 2025 at 10:07 AM
What is the last thing you watched? Me: Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land. What are you currently reading? Me: The Grid Book by Hannah B. Higgins
Next up in my reading list: Memoirs of My Nervous Illness by Daniel Paul Schreber.
October 2, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Next up in my reading list: Memoirs of My Nervous Illness by Daniel Paul Schreber.