Drew S. Burk, PhD

Shamanism, in other words, at the origins of of community and ritual, human cognition with both symbolic structures and meaning systems but also as form of shared interior journey...isn't that what literature is after all as well? stay tuned..

reading Charles Stépanoff's great work on shamanism and the invisible participatory journey between the shaman and the lost soul or the group...slowing crafting how literature is perhaps an offshoot of consciousness.

good day for a nice jog with Finn...

Eager to start reading this @violetlucca.bsky.social

YouTube video by The Guardian King of the Fells: Joss Naylor, the shepherd with an unbeatable running record

A marvelous ode to one of my running heroes..

YouTube video by DesmondTutu PeaceFoundation Ubuntu: The Essence of Being Human

youtu.be/44xbZ8MN1uk?...

Ubuntu in Africa

Enjoyable day it was to meet Bois-vert, the local artist nearby saint michel de la rive et st. joseph de la rive...Québec..has it already been 8 years...

is it a thing to have tattoo anniversary, as a kind of living memory? I would suggest, yes. here's to the skull, yak, heron, dragon, lotus flowers, and blue rose, the crow, and whale...I impressed into my flesh as living memory...of some of the many works I've translated or edited...

Multiple Worlds Vying to Exist: Philip K. Dick and Palestine - The Paris Review “Empathy is what allows one to circulate between worlds.”

Excellent review of Univocal author, David Lapoujade's book about how to see the world(s) through the eyes of Philip K. Dick...

Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates by Tom Robbins.

Beautiful Image I took of Lake Superior in the night sky prior to landing in Minneapolis...

l'art de lire ou bien l'art délire...je pense aujourd'hui avec l'oeuvre de Nicholas Roerich..reading over my training plan for the triathlon I signed up for..

Inner Canal Zones: Cine-District. October 15, 2075 — ∞ “Inner Canal Zones: Cine-District. October 15, 2075” (pdf) – Drew S. Burk Drew S. Burk is a writer, editor, and translator of contemporary French thought. He was a found…

Another excerpt from my sci-fi novel in progress, Exoplanet. You can read the chapter, Inner Canal Zones, Cine District, October 15, 2075.

A Recollection of the Long Sleep — ∞ “A Recollection of the Long Sleep” (pdf) -Drew S. Burk, 2019 Drew S. Burk is a writer, editor, and translator of contemporary French thought. He was a founding member of Univo…

I think it might be time to finally publish the science fiction novel I've been working on, given that reality is finally catching up to it..a bit faster than I had hoped. You can read five excerpts from it here if you can navigate to them. alienocene.com/2019/12/23/a...

Francois Laruelle and I present the bilingual edition of his work, Photo-Fiction, a Non-Standard Aesthetics, at the Minneapolis, MN, Midway Contemporary Art Library, October, 2013. He passed on to a different realm this past year, he was a good friend and mentor. May you journey onward, dear friend.

One of the most influential works I've ever read, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro's Cannibal Metaphysics, trans. Peter Skafish, 2014.

things I would like to be doing right now: cycling. Univocal author Michel Serres and Bernard Pivot cycling at Stanford in the 1980s..

Old memory: a surreal dreaming moment (and painting) whilst passing a marathon outside the art museum coming in from the harbour in Quebec City. A stack of Univocal books as well..

Univocal's Throwback Editions: Fernand Deligny and Felix Guattari. Only after I began working on the project did I learn from Guattari's wonderful daughter that Deligny was in fact their neighbor. She reminisced about growing up next to Deligny one day while we ate lunch in the Marais.

Remembering [for] the Future: Artificial Consciousness and Archival Anamnesis Drew S. Burk Drew Burk is a philosopher and translator of contemporary Francophone literature and philosophy.  He is also the editor of Univocal, a publishing series with University of Minnesota Pr…

A link to my recent essay, Remembering [for] the Future: On Artificial Consciousness and Archival Anamnesis over at the Alienocene Journal..

Recent releases in the Univocal Series.. Roger Bartra's Shamans and Robots: On On Ritual, he Placebo Effect, and Artificial Consciousness.