GYUHAN LEE x McDonalds (upcycled paper bag lamp)
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Yeat for Complex Magazine Photographed By: Cian Moore (2022)
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Rosario Dawson photographed by Dah Len for Complex, 2002
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my mind is a very complex place (inferiority complex, god complex, martyr complex, etc)
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Seth Rollins: How to be a dad but with Drip
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If I had to make a statement about the very most ultimate nature of what I saw, I'd say it seemed to be a single complex sphere in flux, elaborating (yes, that's the word I want: elaborating) itself out of its continually greater number of stages of antecedent states/stages, always surpassing itself esthetically, in terms of wisdom, intricacy, efficiency, level of negentropy (organization): yes, perpetually surpassing itself in the level of organization (completeness) — filling in the gaps by a continually better and better — i.e., wiser, more efficient, more beautiful — use of its constituents and their arrangement — placement within — subsumed as parts — by the single over-all unitary structure. It may indeed develop from simplicity to complexity. But at the same time it progresses from plurality (many pieces) to incorporation into a unity. So its number is inversely proportional to its complexity: it goes from the many simple to the one absolutely complex.
Philip K. Dick, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick
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According to Jung...every complex consists primarily of a "nuclear element," a vehicle of meaning, which is beyond the realm of the conscious will, unconscious and uncontrollable; and secondarily, of a number of associations connected with the nuclear element, stemming in part from innate personal disposition and in part from individual experiences conditioned by the environment. [...] Once constellated and actualized, the complex can openly resist the intentions of the ego consciousness, shatter its unity, split off from it, and act as an "animated foreign body in the sphere of consciousness."
Jolande Jacobi, Complex/Archetype/Symbol in the Psychology of C.G. Jung
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Susan leafed frantically through the books.
Life wasn't simple. She knew that; it was the Knowledge, which went with the job. There was the simple life of living things but that was, well...simple...
There were other kinds of life. Cities had life. Anthills and swarms of bees had life, a whole greater than the sum of the parts. Worlds had life. Gods had a life made up of the belief of their believers.
The universe danced toward life. Life was a remarkably common commodity. Anything sufficiently complicated seemed to get cut in for some, in the same way that anything massive enough got a generous helping of gravity. The universe had a definite tendency toward awareness. This suggested a certain subtle cruelty woven into the very fabric of space-time.
Terry Pratchett, Soul Music
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