The dynamic rhythm and design of Adams' imagining of the Vision's body's defensive actions.
The unreality of Adams'work is nevertheless inforned by physical processes of swirling movements that are universal in nature (P204).
Actions in nature - whether defence or offence - have an oppositional tendency that is in perpetual imbalance. Nature is hovering forever on the interplay of balance and imbalance. The swirls of galaxies; the strewn stars of the night sky.
This is the physical reality we see. Of course, it's not scientific since measurement is the key to scientific progress. Without going into massive detail, the news over the airways relies on a fantastic amount of measurement and analysis.
In a sense, the exercise neutralises a universe of conflict and balance into one where there is only one view: the view of expertise.
Towards the dormancy of the sofa the expertise is directed (P201). It's a topsy-turvy world-view since, as is visualised in Adams' pictures, primeval rhythms create the reality of defence and attack in nature.
The strength of the primordial universe is seen where balance is really externally visible in the tapestry of water and wood, moss, lichen and herbivores of an ancient temporal rainforest.
If the visibly physical universe exists in a state of primordial balance, the modern order exists in a state of omnipotent news that neutralises this primordial reality.
The primordial is often visible in fantasy and comics, needless to say. The animated X-Men (prev) manages to work in Nietzsche's'Beyond Good and Evil' when the Phoenix starts to manifest bad symptoms.
You want me to give up this body? Never! It has a power beyond good and evil. The power to create - and to destroy..
This is very close to Apocalypse's own creed: Louise Simonson develops this very effectively in the comic (of which more next post). For the nonce, it's worth noting that Jean's bombastic demonstrations and declarations are really equally close to a Clair Noto-esque underworld of revival from morbid fertility.
Noto uses blood for this power (see 'Red Lace' prev) in the form of giant sacrificial rocs and carniverous blood-sucking plants.
The fact that nastiness exists in nature is not exactly news and, in fact, the news deliberately skirts the issue. Unfortunately, without the underworld cycle of fertility - however debauched - there can be no revival and natural strength.
Apocalypse, in the comic, makes very good use of this type of argument, and it's fairly easy to make-out that it is a type of evil. On the other hand, the fact that evil exists is not exactly news either, and Noto seems to be seeking a type of primordial balance between that possibility and rejuvenation (Sonja's blindness is cured by a rocs heartblood, she is a pure spirit.)
Apocalypse makes an undeniable point that he has been around in all the ancient civilizations under various names (Kali, Set..) The ancient principle of balance allied to resurrection is powerful and enduring.
In this situation, primeval rhythm is archetypal and had always existed in nature. German naturalist and marine biologist Ernst Haeckel's detailed drawings from the 19th century tend to emphasize the Art Nouveau aspect of seaforms (poss prev.)
Scientific literature does contain these things; it's just that the mainstream downplays them as 'a flair for artistry'. Hence, the dominion or hegemony of the competitive Darwinian view that convinces the ego with the illusory 'facts'of a competitive order, at the expense of overarching rhythms of the pulsating universe that animates the shapes of living things.
Why does the competitive order appear to lead to global sameness? For the reason that rhythm is a product of diametrical opposites and makes things different.
Another way to put it is that Haeckel exists outside the mirror of illusions, 'facts' that are studied at the expense of rhythms (see DNA and fish swarms.)
Facts are neutral, whereas rhythms have the oppositional sense of balance that manifests in Art Nouveau embroidery. The selection of DNA rhythms by proteins (prev.)
Neutral facts could be said to be amenable to routine, whereas powerful rhythms are not. Pamela Geller had a few quotes along those lines recently. One was the NYPD are set to
record the race, gender and age of every person they pull over
Which is like racial profiling plus; communes do not require this type of data as they are self-governing to a degree (see Blaxploitation movies prev.) Communes that have low-level feuding resolve differences that way.
She also quotes the DT journalist Allison Pearson tweeting that 70% of London's Covid hospitalisations diagnosed after being treated for other ailments.
A positive test 8 days after admission means the hospital basically gave the patient Covid
Hospitals are the ultimate in sterilised routine, but clearly they don't repel viruses! Some sort of balance is required; somewhere between lack of medicare (of say Brazilian jungles) and advanced hospital facilities and algorithms.
Ensconced on the Western sofa, the head is sort of saturated by facts and routines which constitute news.
In days of yore, symbols were vastly more important for the transmission of 'news', and of course symbols tend to have archetypal significance of shape and structure. The Yorkist Rose, say
telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/12/28/richard-iii-may-not-have-killed-young-princes-tower-london-new/
A few years lateryoutu.be/-dMyeKWnp-0