# Peter BG Shoemaker


## Posts

- [Hello world!](https://petershoemaker.com/hello-world/): Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
- [Valediction](https://petershoemaker.com/valediction/): After some thirty-five years writhing—sometimes happily sometimes not—in the heart of the thing that has become the social web, I’m retiring. Some three hundred thousand words, five thousand photographs, thousands of likes, a dozen blogs, five or six newsletters, four podcasts, a few memorable threads, a couple of careers, a few pieces of music, and nearly fifty pieces of video later, I’m done.  It’s not that I’m no longer interested in the creative energies and passionate experimentation that drew me to the internet and to the web all those years ago, and through which I felt often sustained and supported […]
- [We ought to eat like we fuck](https://petershoemaker.com/we-ought-to-eat-like-we-fuck-audio/): A little bit of slam poetry from the mid-oughts. Prelude…Piece of unione small bitelate at nightexploding rich, across my tonguetoes curledeyes closedforehead pressed against the wallbarely audible moandeep in my throat. We ought to eat like we fuck grocery storesfarmers marketsCSAsroadside standsbackyardsmeat marketsmeet marketsit’s all the same. What looks good? What catches your eye?What scents make you writhe? Plump? Lean? Hard? Soft? Silky? Rough? Stony inside? Stormy inside? Burst, and thennothing? Opening linehi, my name’s Peter5.99 Plump melonsreal, or re-engineered? Home finallyfrenzied revelationsno time contemplationssplay’d open ‘cross the countera little bit of heatmelting butter, silky smoothslippery. Foreplay / Fireplay Need […]

## Pages

- [](https://petershoemaker.com/): Peter BG Shoemaker *** I move between atelier, archive, and field pursuing a lifelong interest in the questions of how we make meaning through what we create and what we leave behind.  For some years now, I’ve been making ceramics and undertaking narrative experiments that blur history and imagination, working with fired clay, invented artifacts, and fragmentary texts to show how objects—real or conjured—carry the weight of our humanity. *** artiste du réel et de l’imaginaire @ atelier tushu ancien éditeur @ Lodestone Chronicles ** hello@petershoemaker.com
- [Minstrels of the New Epoch](https://petershoemaker.com/minstrels-of-the-new-epoch/): An ongoing exploration of digital music-making. [display-posts tag=”minstrels-of-the-new-epoch” posts_per_page=”10″]
- [The Middle Way at Middle Age](https://petershoemaker.com/the-middle-way-at-middle-age/): This was a short-lived video project on YouTube exploring ways I might bring my coaching and counselling experience and my sōtō Zen practice together in an effort to help folks wondering just what-the-hell is going on in their lives after forty or so years of living them. This work has taken other paths now, but here these are…
- [The Humanistic Algorithm](https://petershoemaker.com/the-humanistic-algorithm/): [display-posts tag=”the-humanistic-algorithm” posts_per_page=”100″]
- [La Bucherie](https://petershoemaker.com/la-bucherie/): [display-posts tag=”la-bucherie-in-france” posts_per_page=”100″]
- [The Manifest of the Gagarin Dawn](https://petershoemaker.com/the-manifest-of-the-gagarin-dawn/): [display-posts tag=”the-manifest-of-the-gagarin-dawn” posts_per_page=”55″ order=”ASC”]
- [Collections](https://petershoemaker.com/collections/): This page gathers together collections of material from various projects that have now found their forever home here at the Universal Wunderkammer (although some may still exist/operate in their place of birth). Minstrels of the New Epoch Every once and a while, I turn to a keyboard and the vastness of the Internet to create something auditory and experimental. Here are some of those… The Manifest of the Gagarin Dawn WRAPPED IN THE HOLD OF HUMANKIND’S LAST SPACE SHIP ARE 52 MEMORIALS—ALL THAT REMAINS OF WHAT WE WERE: OUR GIFT TO THE STARS What do we remember? What do we […]
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- [About](https://petershoemaker.com/about/): [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||-1px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”] The site [/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||45px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”] Peter’s Universal Wunderkammer launched in September 2023 as a last ditch effort to consolidate 35 years of wandering down byways, unearthing oddities, exploring frontiers, slipping and sliding from neolithic mental structures to post-Terran aesthetics, and generally making a curious nuisnance of myself. All of which is to say, you’ll probably find something herein that appeals. This is not a guarantee, of course. There is lots and lots and lots of stuff that holds no appeal for anyone […]


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