Laura Hyunjhee Kim

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Entering the Blobosphere: A Musing on Blobs

Published by Civil Coping Mechanisms / The Accomplices, June 17, 2019
​More information can be found HERE.


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SPECULATIVE THEORY
EXPERIMENTAL FICTION
ASIAN-AMERICAN / FEMINIST
BLOBS / ART / LANGUAGE


ISBN: 978-1-948700-18-4
100 pages

Release Date: June 17, 2019

​A blob is a raw amorphous form
A blob is a potentiality
A blob is an indeterminate destination
A blob is a liminal manifestation of the inexplicable
A blob is neither this nor that but points as is
A blob is a transitional state of being
A blob is a subtle deconstruction of preconceptions
A blob is a real-time negotiation
A blob is a polite refusal of hierarchy
A blob is a poetic irregularity
A blob is a vague matter of existence
A blob is a sensitization to nonlinearity
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Entering the Blobosphere: A Musing on Blobs boldly suggests blobs are the unsung, yet integral link in our language to build upon and describe ideas, culture, and knowledge. The common perspective of the blob is an amorphous form with an otherwise gooey texture, however, this is a gross undermining of the power of language and the vivacity of blobs. Fueled by the speculative ideology of blobs as both a theory and a practice, Kim illustrates the moldable and transcendent use of “blob” as a lens to understand the spaces lurking between life and art. Blobs aren’t solely a physical form. But what is a blob if not just a physical thing?
The simple answer is: everything. Here’s why.
"Read this book! It is full of wonders. I love the way it takes theory-izers (Haraway, Hugo Ball, Solnit, Adorno, Jung, Arendt…) and playfully inflects them as blobists – which is to say that Laura Hyunjhee Kim shows how great thinking/writing is quite often a wrestling with the ubiquitous presence of the morphing, ubiquitous shape of a blob. Blob names the signals we regularly receive from the world; they come in not directly but as side-perceptions, out of the corner of our sense organs. We are intimates with these proto-beings, these floaters. The figure of “blob” helps us to dote on them, to capture them long enough to feel them more intensely. A Dadaist once attributed much of the force of the ‘movement’ called dada to the sound of the word Dada. Also very satisfying is to vocalize “Blob”
​— and to do so in concert with Entering the Blobosphere.

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– Jane Bennett, author of Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things

​Entering the Blobosphere: A Musing on Blobs,
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Pardon me while I work on becoming a better blobologist...
In the meantime, you can find more projects HERE

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