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Alexander Pope
The First Epistle
Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things
To low ambition, and the pride of Kings.
Let us (since Life can little more supply
Than just to look about us and to die)
Expatiate free o’er all this scene of Man;
A mighty maze! but not without a plan;
A Wild, where weeds and flow’rs promiscuous shoot,
Or Garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Together let us beat this ample field,
Try what the open, what the covert yield;
The latent tracts, the giddy heights explore
Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar;
Eye Nature’s walks, shoot Folly as it flies,
And catch the Manners living as they rise;
Laugh where we must, be candid where we can;
But vindicate the ways of God to Man.
Say first, of God above, or Man below,
What can we reason, but from what we know?
Of Man what see we, but his station here,
From which to reason, or to which refer?
Thro’ worlds unnumber’d tho’ the God be known,
‘Tis ours to trace him only in our own.
He, who thro’ vast immensity can pierce,
See worlds on worlds compose one universe,
Observe how system into system runs,
What other planets circle other suns,
What vary’d being peoples ev’ry star,
May tell why Heav’n has made us as we are.
But of this frame the bearings, and the ties,
The strong connections, nice dependencies,
Gradations just, has thy pervading soul
Look’d thro’? or can a part contain the whole?
Is the great chain, that draws all to agree,
And drawn supports, upheld by God, or thee?
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http://xkcd.com/
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The Grand Army of Prince Been, The Pacifier ….
*You will find the pacific ocean:*
*next to the pacific sun:*
*the low caldera has flown:*
*all violence has gone past us.*
*
*
* *PRINCE BEEN, THE PACIFIER
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p / s / i
*Ped-antic: *
the foot antique.
*Sem-antic:*
the seed antique.
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[dr]aft …
>From the guilded armor of the astrological totem:
from the ironic purity of gold (acoustic) leaf:
emerges:
the “fitted together”:
*bread:*
the electronic papacy of the tessellated
(pixellated) coin-incident:
astern:
as it jambs up: sus-pends: frames:
the (sanitary) (souled) (syntactic):
Terminus of [*arT*].
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the venusians
The Labour Party:
mother courage:
festivals of parturition.
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pen(i)tent
The Future:
hair extensions:
winged apotheosis:
the gambol of the flosses:
(sartorial reel):
*the dreamt: *
redemptive suture.
****/z*
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garden (stock of lexicons)
The garden of Eden:
already functions as an *after-* life:
the bibles cannot tell:
of *the numberless time:*
before the wall:
the building of the wall:
*the moment* of their confinement.
****/A*
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Leidseplein ||| 10 April
Spider web:
not nosed: not visibly acoustically present:
not perception/pattern/writing/code:
to the travellers
(winged planets):
whom it tethers, catches.
aa
*Auden:*
Martin Buber
never said Thou to a tuber.
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Unofficial Release
The culture of self-released music and sound art is one of the most vital, yet most overlooked, phenomena resulting from the 20th century revolution in communications technology. In this volume, Thomas Bailey surveys a fascinating realm of creative activity and identifies the key individuals and developments responsible for its continued relevance in the present age. From the networked “mail art” of the 1970s, to the home-taping boom, to the establishment of music labels dealing solely in digital sound files, this culture provides valuable insight into the evolution of the “official” art market and the artists who bypass it. Along the way, we are introduced to a world where networks are artworks in themselves, where blank tapes and recordable CDs are fashioned into elaborate art objects, and where relative freedom from creative supervision leads to both colorful innovations and violent aesthetic extremes.
‘Unofficial Release’ features material on mail art, cassette culture, industrial music, handmade packaging, releasing addiction, anti-promotion, net-labels, digital file sharing, circumventing censorship, extremist metal, sound poetry, imaginary music, ‘outsider’ art, tape nostalgia…and much more!
Exclusive long-form interviews are also included with artists such as Frans de Waard, Vittore Baroni, Rod Summers, GX Jupitter-Larsen and others, along with new insights from theorists and artists as varied as ‘Gen’ Ken Montgomery, The Tapeworm, Alexei Monroe (author of Interrogation Machine and more), Oren Ambarchi, and David Tibet. Also includes front and back cover photography courtesy of Scott Konzelmann / Chop Shop.
Unofficial Release is the first title available on the newly revived Belsona Books Ltd. imprint, TBWB’s home for personal projects that, while of a high written standard, can’t wait to be approved by peer review or accepted by established publishers.
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Hearth forest (foci) (leafy phoenix)
The book which has not burnt:
has not been read.
A.
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sssssToned
*Capi- toll . . .*
priapic
dome.
****/Z*
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The Intertidal Zone
The auto-mobile was not created
*self-* propelled.
*Fossilmobile. *Fossildome.
****/Z*
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License for the Trap
Wanton speech believes itself:
to coerce: to curse: the life:
prolific spring: which does not
pay worship: to the vise:
of wanton speech.
***/Z
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The texture of time
jH . . .
535 to 563: Part 4 of *Ada or Ardor :*
it is an evening’s reading: it is possible to read it
without reading all the novel, and its novelistics,
pyrotechnics . . . arsons, incests . . .
It appears that each of the novel’s six parts
may be read as the *initial *part.
V.N. gests (suggests) that the *final* part
is the *intro-duction *to the book . . .
*Ab-duction, sub-duction, sub-version: suction into earth:*
as with Lolita, Persephone (and Hades).
V.N. disentangles *time* from the familiar tumour:
from “science” (the generic drug),
which confuses *time* with *space:*
from *philosophy-religion* which deposits *time,*
safely “behind”, “to one side”, in *meta-physics.*
*
*
*
*
* *A.
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Rue L’err
Human selfishness: as the ruler: as the authority:
expands, extends itself: un-til: *time:*
intimate and ganglionic:
arrests: forgets it.
*Ru-ler : rue l’err :*
the smile-after: painted *over* sorrow.
****/Z*
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The march of hatters
Polis: begets: begot:
the Trap of History.
[Isaac is not spared:
he *spends* his life inside the Trap.]
****/Z*
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The march of hares
*Cult of the Difficult: *History:
mere coefficients of mere frictions.
****/Z*
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Re: Satyr day, Sun ikon
*Those *were the days — as *they* say . . .
*Let’s go *back *in time . . .*
Those ideas about “time travel” are “miraculous”,
exemplary for their disembodied stupefaction.
*
*
I’ve been thinking about Black Elk and Sitting Bull
lately.
The ways of the ancestors, specifically beings living
in relation to the powers which do not feed on conflict.
(consumerISM in this city is dominant, hegemonic;
to the exclusion of anything not dependent on conflict
and competition.)
Have you finished the writing ?
A
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the transparency grenade
Kiwi artist, Julian Oliver, presently based in Berlin, produced this provocative project to take note of. Elegant, well-designed, and with an explicit message for the misanthropic agglomerations of hierarchic power that are in extreme need of … detonation!
The lack of Corporate and Governmental transparency has been a topic of much controversy in recent years, yet our only tool for encouraging greater openness is the slow, tedious process of policy reform.
Presented in the form of a Soviet F1 Hand Grenade, the Transparency Grenade is an iconic cure for these frustrations, making the process of leaking information from closed meetings as easy as pulling a pin.
Equipped with a tiny computer, microphone and powerful wireless antenna, the Transparency Grenade captures network traffic and audio at the site and securely and anonymously streams it to a dedicated server where it is mined for information. Email fragments, HTML pages, images and voice extracted from this data are then presented on an online, public map, shown at the location of the detonation.
Whether trusted employee, civil servant or concerned citizen, greater openness was never so close at hand…
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[]
Monogram: the deaf republic:
with windy, factory-flagged:
prolixities.
****/Z*
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The Blessed Robber Among Curtains . . .
Robes clerical, robes litigant:
*Robespierre, **robes of stone, inerrant:*
excommunicate the body of time:
synaptic, effervescent, metabolic,
the core appears to be the corpse:
blindness, mutilation: refer at once:
to the moral permanence of god.
****/Z*
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Tender Interval
Paul Cézanne tilts the tables: listing the
horizons: celestial earthen bodies: game
about: unmoved.
***/Z
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Thanatropic
A.D. *After Death: *by that humourless deformation:
the Calendar of Crime and Crucifixion: deposits
uncertain posterity: into the perfect moral cause:
the cred-it of its *Heardafter.*
*
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*
*
* ***/Z*
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serri series
*Seriousness:* without humour:
the proleptic amputee.
***/Z
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Lugubrious
The linguists have confused the rippling,
mute nerves, the stillness, of Paul Cezanne
with clamorous tomb works and labored
operas.
***/Z
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frisson
The counterfeit bill, the axe, in Bresson’s
*L’Argent*, could be the frame, the blind
seam, of film itself.
***/Z
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Earwicker College
The society:* does all, all that it can do:* within the closed
circle of reflective generation.
***/Z
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tellus (earth)
Intelligence: knowledge: consciousness:
come founded on the blinds: of egg,
sleep, lapse, hibernation.
[Blind: transformation.]
***/Z
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artist’s desktops
Rod sent an invite along from Nate Larson for another one of these evolved digital projects — screen shots of artist’s computer desktops.
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Nora lands at the Center
EJ sends this along of his youngest daughter Nora (on the right) and a friend making the summer’s pilgrimage to the Center on the way to the Great Sand Dunes. the graffiti that was sprayed on the structure back in 2009 has been painted over (flip through the pop-up photos here to get to the Center, and you’ll see the juvenile work!) it did give me the idea of proposing a temporary exhibition of graffiti, say, Berlin-style (go through the pop-up photos to some classic Mauer-style stuff), on the three sides facing the road, wouldn’t that be awesome!
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the winner
Speech—-
that slave
owned and beaten
by Opinion—-
now forms
a regular occlusion;
it would censor Mind
and dismember
Thinking.
aaaz
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indices
pacific ocean
…………………………………………………..
restless kiloton
(dark
constellated
juice)
prolific embassy
(comet-
brushed)
devourer
(a)z’
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logos: psyche as a problem to be solved
Psychology did its job:
it eradicated psyche.
z^aa
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el viernes…..frigga…..freia……venus……
eliminates the varied, mobile,
and unusually concise
mysteries and subtleties of fable…..
it substitutes its large,
graduated narrative…..
the occupation.
zz^a
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carrer del bosq
To hold
a conversation
with this tree
I do not need
a mouth
I do not need
a word
, , , , , ,
vibratory
plenum-
vapour
, , ,
marrow-beam
to
marrow-beam
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azz
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wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww(AVE),,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,(bir)dddddddddddddddddddddddddd
*J.*
*
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Major features:
Massification—-
colonization and massified reservoirs of idolatry.
Private property—-
dismemberment of earth, water, fire, and air.
These features are not necessary to life—-
they begin with Egypt and Rome……
yet without a doubt, they will persist for some
“time”…….
Crazy Horse:
<
Here the individual body and individual mind are co-extensive
with earth, and with sky…..an inter- intra- penetration,
co-radiance,……. vibratory initiation-consummation-repose……
[Not that Psyche divided, "neurotic", which has seen the land
dismembered.]
Earth and Sky bring contra-diction—- they are living ancestors.
Private property is sclerotic—–the legal apparatus has private
property for its base—-the economic apparatus [banks, supply
of money] has the legal apparatus for its base……
Private property necessarily entails slavery; reforms do not
“change” the basic “conceptions” (impoverishments).
Our conception (our initiation) of space as a living plenum
sustains a community of relationships.
Property eradicates community and relationship.
[Is it really "private" when it robs and impoverishes an entire
body of relationships ??]
When one opens and finds that “dusts”, stones, and earth
are alive……as is the sun, as are the suns, which no one
owns……I belong to the stone which I cut; I belong to the
tree which I cut;…… when I make a shelter (of wood and stone),
I belong to the shelter. We are related.
Tactile and vibratory energies sustain life
through certain passage-ways……
on a way
which visual figure,
which speech figure,
cannot.
The stone cut
is not dead.
The wood cut
is not dead.
William Blake:
<
Our ancestors discovered that certain forms grow variously,
heterogeneously, when they are cut……
Roots particularly benefit from being cut.
I now think of
vapourous, atmospheric
Root.
(Convolutions:)
Cone-volutions of
blood,
of spinal fluid (bath and spring-source),
of marrow and ganglion;
Strophe—-neural twist,
Pneuma—-ganglionic wind,
Chiasmus X;
Hypo-campus, irrigation;
Spiral—-navigation;
(Cerebrum:)
Ceres broom—–a kind fog, a kind of clay……..
Spruce-cone,
Cedar-cone,
Magic pollen-cloud,
Nourishment for this bee.
Memory and imagination
grow from an omphalos
(navel).
A “bone” beginning at a navel,
and stretching toward a star…..
(and in some instances, le voile lactee, Milky Way):
while we sleep.
Vapourous, evaporative
bone.
Crazy Horse……
all that one might perceive:
all that one might encounter:
living body,
vibrant body.
["Dust to Dust" ??........not so bad.......
these stars, this sun, are dusts.......
we are already dusts........
<
This kind of cut
does not come from megalomania and subjugation.
Le Mepris.
{Megalomania and subjugation:
the reaction of those who refuse The Cut which life bestows.}
Here, I have, indeed, gone “off” in unexpected “directions”……
your Friend evaporating,
Anthony Z.
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the household and the owners
Peace and War
inflate their facile masks
to propitiate
their serration
in a decor of delusion.
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We have opted as a society
for a survival economy, instead of creativity……
J.
Thanks for the link.
“Post-capitalist” ??
I prefer to leave [capitalism] to itself:
self-consumption, auto-phagy, autotomy.
We do not need “historical” language to be present,
with memory, with imagination, with sleep;
relation(ship), community
are sufficient.
In too many instances, “story-telling”, “drama”,
“narrative”, and “discourse”
function as obstacles, occlusions—- not passages.
They remain within language.
Roland Barthes has a marvellous intelligence
about language and discourse: he sustains a vivid,
punctual awareness (vigilance) of what language
and discourse cannot do, of terrains (bodies) which
they cannot encounter (visit).
Language does not surround, control, encompass
vivid source, vivid encounter.
Language is exactly a fable.
“The legal profession” is entirely posthumous, mummified,
dead—-a necropolis, necrophagy, coprophagy.
No doubt: they censor Flaubert, Joyce, Faulkner.
Language is a dead (:definite, determined) process:
the “body” of Gregor Samsa, also the body of that “man”
who designs the Apparatus at the Penal Colony.
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Spermatic (sun).
Menstrual (moon).
Menses (thinking).
It impresses me that emotion draws an instantaneous
relation with
Emotion….one might say…..
the body of thinking: thinking begins.
Do the Oglala Sioux have a word for “emotion” as distinct
from “being”—- perhaps not.
The Hopi have no “past” tense.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^
^^
I happened to see Werner Herzog’s <
it is decidedly interesting, yet it suffers from “photography”…….
Atmospheric vapor, tactile-aural resonances, scents, tissues of energies
do not come through the mesh.
He notes that within Chauvet cave they felt the potent range of a gaze
which emanated from the walls; at last, it was too much; they could
remain in the cave for just so long: the field of the energy propelled them
to leave.
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night terrace
skin of water
and these
stones whose faces
draw
contours
of navels
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Spa- Salvation
Men are busy with a dung pile….
which they groom,
which they seek to enlarge,
which they seek to conserve and preserve
against decay.
A^zz
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mist glyph
J.
wwwwww ORD s
(co-ORD-i-nat-es)……
they must
splash and sparkle,
and disappear,
like fishes.
* **** **
Torah, Christ, Allah—-
with them,
the loss of all life-profusion
which originates,
lives and embodies,
before The Word (logos)
appears.
*** * * *
The paleolithic caves (Lascaux….Chauvet…. in France)—–
with drawings of Animals,
with bones, bear skulls, footprints of bears and wolves,
claw marks on the walls—–
were not domestic spaces.
These people—-
drawings, bones, hand-prints (without words).
No doubt—- they spoke: they were related.
* *** * * *
And yesterday, the 11th—-
I happened to encounter two men—one from Calagary, one from Jamaica—
and to elaborate two impromptu (serendipitous) conversations—-one in
the Street, one later in the Park……
These “conversations” simply “opened” of their own accord—-flow of air,
shift of water, thread of suns…..
R e l a t i o n s h i p
“Economy” has established a police system
where [all life] falls under the Surveillance of Currency.
“Economy” defines [relationship] as a conjugal pairing of human actors.
A living body sustains relationships—– with water, with air, with an
intricate
tissue of forms.
The Oglala Sioux speak of bison, hawks, insects, wolves as their
Emotion and thinking become vivid in the speaking.
*
*
intervals of stability
(not the “Everything is permitted” of Ivan Karamazov).
“The present age” seems preoccupied with saying “all” that can be “said”.
And on.
I often remember what Kris Kelvin’s father says <
With unfolding mysteries, encounters,
aa^Z
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to regard
Men have forgotten to carry
(to regard)
an originary space,
a vigilance
unmarked, unscored by The Word.
aa^z
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pit(ch)
Speech:
as that commodified, somatic “function” (part)
inflated, ordered, employed
to tyrannize
(repress, succeed, win against)
other commodified, somatic “functions” (parts).
aa)z
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Distance versus Desire :: Clearing the ElectroSmog (Eric Kluitenberg)
The desire to transcend distance and separation has accompanied the history of media technology for many centuries. Various attempts to realize the demand for a presence from a distance have produced beautiful imaginaries such as those of tele-presence and ubiquity, the electronic cottage and the re-invigoration of the oikos, and certainly not least among them the reduction of physical mobility in favor of an ecologically more sustainable connected life style. As current systems of hyper-mobility are confronted with an unfolding energy crisis and collide with severe ecological limits – most prominently in the intense debate on global warming – citizens and organizations in advanced and emerging economies alike are forced to reconsider one of the most daring projects of the information age: that a radical reduction of physical mobility is possible through the use of advanced tele-presence technologies.
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another traveler
Mari puts up a blog, Greener Grass, from her travel (by ship!) from Finland to the US and around, interviewing Finnish immigrants in New York, Washington (at the Pentagon!), Michigan, and Minnesota…
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woolly
Consciousness,
that old
Eraser,
sets itself
against
Our-Sun.
[Consciousness,
that old,
that big,
Eraser,
sets itself
against
Our-Suns.]
cine
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“indeterminacy”??……..life is not an idea, not an exchange of words…….
J.
An uncertain, unusual passage.
(Reason is one of several elements
which establish Consciousness).
The Resistance must out-play, out-flank, all of them.
The Resistance
must elude, disrupt, (in some instances) destroy,
the homogenizing mania-fixation
of Consciousness.
Homogenesis. Thanatogenesis.
“Man” as some “general” category.
“Death” as some “general” and “future” category.
I think that government and individual
autonomy remain incompatible.
Philosophy comes as a kind of soap (slippery)
making an illusion appear……
where precise limits hold forth (inviolate distinctions).
Philosophy gives to “man” and “woman”: two play-things,
almost toys: “liberty” and “freedom”;
meanwhile, untruth and tyranny against autonomy continue.
An autonomous being does not need to think “how free I am”.
Consciousness remains posthumous,
and separated from Necessity.
The life, the existence, of some one who is perpetually
chasing “some-thing” (an idea, a word, a dream, etcetera……)
is not life, not existence.
The-one-who-chases has perpetually a funereal odor…..
I am night
(……even when I am not night……)
I am sleep
(……even when I am not sleep……)
I am living
(……even when I am not living…..)
AAz
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It may be a god…
→ commentEs mag ein Gott auch, Sterblichen gleich
Erwählen ein Tagewerk und teilen alles das Schicksal
Daß alle sich einander erfahren,
Und wenn die Stille wiederkehret, eine Sprache unter Lebenden sei.
Wie der Meister tritt er dann, aus der Werkstatt
Geringer und größer,
Und ander Gewand nicht denn ein festliches ziehet er an.
Und andere sind noch bei ihm,
Und der Vater thront nimmer oben allein.
Viel hat erfahren der Mensch,
Der Himmlischen viele genannt,
Seit ein Gespräch wir sind
Und hören können voneinander.
Die Gesetze aber,
Die unter den Liebenden gelten,
Die schönausgleichenden sie sind dann allgeltend
Von der Erde bis hoch in den Himmel.– Friedrich Hölderlin, excerpt from “Versöhnender, der du nimmergeglaubt”
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limits zeros floods
J.
I have come to a life in which
that convention
which divides life- – -
into past, present, future- – -
is ridiculous,
untenable,
insupportable, inaccurate.
Memory.
Presence.
Waiting (Fermentation).
I find these to be authentic.
Recent eruptions of memory
have come to me…..
not from a “previous” “time”…..
have come with a fluidity (humour, spirit)
and a body
which are also presence.
I think that certain domains of our lives
are not related to words or numbers;
cannot be divided as words and numbers
are sectioned and divided.
Who are you? said the Caterpillar.
I think that in some mavellous way “the Caterpillar”,
with its linkages and sections, suggests “the Word”……
Yet certainly the valence-life of this “Caterpillar”
belongs neither to the Word, nor to the Wordless.
Michel Henry, writing in connection with the paintings
of Kandinsky,
says that European philosophers
(Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Heidegger)
have missed our essential relations with invisible life;
and given this, they are unreliable.
Specifically, they are not open to the invisible tonalities
of colors which Kandinsky evoked.
Chrysanthemum growers,
you are the slaves
of chrysanthemums……
says Issa.
In this way, subjects and subjectivity
remain enslaved by objects and objectivity—-
so long as subjects continue to reproduce,
and to refer to, objects.
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Rx: Strangelove
J.
All those people with their Che Guevara
shirts…..
I need one with the Doctor,
and another with Merkin Muffly (U.S. Prez.)……
My life now becomes just bizarre – - -
not a fear-and-loathing,
not “surreal”,
not an exile-on-main-street…..
This present interval brings a remarkable
(e)strangement.
Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point.
Chris Marker’s La Jette.
Another film: The Loved One.
Rod Steiger plays “Mr. Joyboy”, a mortician at
a sumptuous, expansive mortuary park-deluxe in
California. Mr. Joyboy is in love with a certain
Miss Thanatogenesis. She is beautiful and
very sensitive, more than desirable.
The mortuary park is called Whispering Glades.
First and foremost, it is a “business” – - -
“busy-ness”, what black humour, what irony;
the busy-ness capitalizes on mortality and
grief; mortality and grief become “revenue-
streams”…..It is an unusual film; I have not
researched who directed and who filmed it.
Excellent humour, excellent cinematography
and sets.
The Loved One, we might say, then meets
Werner Von Braun…..
Blast-off.
And Cuckoo’s Nest.
I find that a certain Sterility,
and certain Parental Controls,
persist beyond their “historical” “period”;
that Sterility, those Parental Controls,
become fixtures — even furnitures, architectures —
independent of any threat,
functionally death-less.
Another T-shirt: Joe McCarthy, senator from
Wisconsin. I have lists of “names”.
Art For The Sake Of Art.
That’s very funny.
Control For The Sake Of Control.
Marvellous.
The Mortician’s Art.
Rx/ Strangelove.
Why shouldn’t universities promote Dr. Freud??
He did nothing whatsoever to threaten The Crowd
and The Organization. He left them both intact.
Passolini’s Teorema.
Here the “owner” transfers “ownership” of the “factory”
to the “employees”: and the essential corruption
remains as it was: Love and transformative Rebirth
remain as by-standers.
Industry continues; it ingests aristocracies,
fascisms, tyrannies, employers and employees.
Marx, even as he accomplishes his goal,
leaves Industry intact.
The owner dies “like Christ” leaving the Apostles….
without spring, without resurrection, without rebirth of Love.
The flooding of the Nile…..
and stems reborn of roots…..
Isis and Osiris.
Did the Paris Commune in 1871 intend to leave
The Organization—-Industry—-
intact??
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