Temple ( "Faith, magic and mysticism, bodywork, and applied psychology"),.Switchboard ( "Politics, activism and current affairs"),.Laboratory ( "New technologies, pure science, medicine and medical ethics),.Head Shop ( "Philosophy, Cultural Studies and Identity Politics"),.Policy & Help ( "Board policy, technical errors & problems about trolls"),.Conversation ( "For off-topic discussion, introductions and chatting"),.Distributing the power rather more creates the opportunity to help the community define itself." In Tom Coates' words: "Communities are hard-work to maintain, prone to spats and arguments, can spiral out of control and don't always want to move in the same direction as the people who consider themselves 'in charge'.
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Unlike other online communities, moderation actions (such as editing or deleting posts or topics) were done through "distributed moderation": the code established a voting system in which more than one moderator had to agree before a change took place. It was run by Tom Coates and its code was written by Cal Henderson. As the forum's subject matter expanded, it was renamed Barbelith Underground and eventually moved to the front page of the domain.
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Over time, topics of discussion moved beyond the comic book, especially after the series came to an end in 2000. The forum was originally named The Nexus, created in 1998 as a part of The Invisiblesannotation site The Bomb. Perhaps of note, in Sethian gnosticism, the name of the first and highest emanation of the true God (as opposed to their description of the God of the Old Testament as Ialdabaoth or the demiurge) is called Barbelo. Dick novel VALIS in which the titular satellite, VALIS, appears as a sort of Gnostic information-satellite for humanity. Grant Morrison describes its origins as follows: "The word 'BARBELiTH' is derived from a dream I had when I was about 20 or 21 and coincided with my first structured 'magical' experiences and a minor nervous breakdown (in the dream, BARBELiTH was the name of some higher dimension or alternate reality)."īarbelith is inspired by the Philip K. Doom Patrol #54 in particular goes into more detail. It has also cropped up in other comics Morrison has written. The word first appeared on a sign post in House of Heart's Desire, a short story published in 1989 within the pages of A1, with art by Dom Regan. A sort of cosmic " stoplight" is also present in some instances, though also seems to precede any sort of contact with the "healthy" dimension of The Invisibles binary-based paradigm the realm of the Invisible College. Prior to contact with Barbelith, most characters undergo some sort of trauma or intensity- an alien abduction or shamanic initiation, for example. Barbelith's role is like that of a placenta in that it connects the hologram of our subjective reality to the realm outside of our space-time, the domain of the magic mirror, and helps humans to realize their true nature beyond the subjective concept of "self". It recurs throughout the story as a supernatural moon seeming both intelligent and benign. In The Invisibles, Barbelith is the name of the " placenta" for humanity a satellite-like object located on the dark side of the moon. JSTOR ( December 2009) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)īarbelith was an online forum, named after an element in the comic book series The Invisibles by Grant Morrison, initially conceived of as a space for the discussion of Morrison's works.Please improve this article by adding secondary or tertiary sources. If you’re interested in doing this, you can post and use the hashtag, follow along, or come in and out as is convenient for you.This article relies excessively on references to primary sources. I usually do my four favorite panels and an overall thought about the issue on the first Tweet, and then I go on to thread auxiliary thoughts and panels in a chain. ET, give or take an hour or two either way. This reading project will start on this coming Monday, September 14, and the hashtag is #TurningInvisibles.Įach night, my posts will go up at around 8:30 p.m. Now, I’m reading The Invisibles, which is a 1990s era Vertigo comic written by Grant Morrison and illustrated by several different artists, including Jill Thompson, Steve Yeowell, Steve Parkhouse, Phil Jimenez, John Stokes, Ivan Reis, Chris Weston, and Frank Quitely, to various degrees.
I do it one issue per night, Monday through Friday, and I invite folks to read or follow along, organizing my posts by a hashtag. I take a run that I’ve never read before, and I read it. By Zack Quaintance - So, as anyone who follows me on Twitter has surely seen (or seen, been confused by, and wondered about), I’m perpetually doing nightly reading projects.
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