1.
daub de l’aube de la de lado
granular
“the/a”
body, closed or open
ZONE SYSTEM[S]
“‘Instantaneous information, what can be seen at one time (without turning one’s head), and understood apart from a study of its parts. Additive information, whatever takes time to be understood, what takes time to be understood. Sequential development, adding on, accumulations of information, the uses of time, precedents, juxtaposition.’
Her work ‘accumulated,’ often no beginning, ending, cycles, no ‘pieces,’ but notations, annotations, a feminist consciousness problematizing the cohesive totality of ‘form.’
‘Open systems, infinitely referential, radial, linear, not circular (enclosed), in which all aspects of one’s concerns relate to all others and form a continuous pattern in which many directions are equally possible and choices depend on personal necessity (and are not irreversible).
Perhaps some fleeting thought, already gone.’”
AND:
‘Zone system: I operate somewhere between the appearance of the first black and the disappearance of the last white, but closer to the last white and sometimes beyond.
Between the lines. Pieces as segments, without beginning or end, something from which to imagine a whole ….’
“(An undercurrent of violence). That sense of underlying violence – the potential of violence – under the apparent blandness, flatness, silence of things, under the controlled voice, behind a smile.”
AND:
‘There is always the possibility that I am not making sense, that this is not clear (etc.) However, to be sure that I am as clear as possible, I form the letters carefully, by hand. I add a certain distance, an appearance of objectivity (that helps).’”
Nancy Wilson Kitchel, Visibile and Invisible, in Alan Sondheim,
“Individuals: Post-Movement Art in America.”
“Whatever they’re made to speak is manufactured” (Failure to Overwhelm) “the beginning of writing therefore, the constraint of the symbolic, the beginning of culture … the symbolic, symbolic-maintenance, within and without those uncanny parcellations” (Vacating of the Symbolic) “is [that] ‘you’ thinking, or thinking-thinking” (Future Culture/rough draft) “The differential is because of the absent class, those not jacked in, those close to starvation; those in the midst of wars and famine, those producing these equations in dirt-poor factories around the world” (Future Culture/rough draft).
u s l o v n y e r e f l k s y
(conditioned reflex)
made her
being made here
imaginaries
you who are sure of
“fuck (with all the contingent issues of
oppression, power, desire, and violence the
command implies).”
“thinking as bang-path behaviour on
parallel channels of real and virtual syntactic
strategies – including the moment of the absence
of syntax altogether. If the unconscious is
structured as a language, it is structured as
either silence or yammering. The moment of
the absence is not the absence of thought, but
the absence of the symbolic; thinking has moved
to the imaginary and the symbolic”
[and its non-categorical] “movement
towards syntactic structuration is a thought
afterthought. this movement is dialectic; there
is also thinking in language, routing through
the formal syntactic as imaginary – this
is the case in pausological analyses for
example – how pauses operate in ordinary
conversation. (The pause comes after
the conjunction, i.e. after the structure
moves to parole before the semantics are
fixed / articulated.)”
L A N G U A G E I S A N A F T E R T H O U G H T
“Language [as] an effect of neural
processing / learning, rather than a
ground or ur-grund” “fading-objects”
“translucencies that shatter” (at the touch)
(glance of the eye) your reading eye
‘my’ so-called reading eye
how it seizes on the ‘part-object’
geared toward foreclosure
the eye (my eye) its hatchet job
the violence of the seizures
among this book or that
you do not read you raid
the raiding-reading, hacked texts
nerves, fits, the rolling eye
pen grabbed / words carved
WORDS GOUGED OUT
“It’s the looking of the eyes staring hard”
‘WORDS ARE THRUSTS’
“the work of thinking” are the / and the
“fuzzy domains”
“that we are doomed …
“that we refuse …
“that we are blind …
trauma #1 ________________________
trauma #2 ________________________
trauma #3 ________________________
trauma #4 ________________________
or ‘they are and are as they are’
on the Street of the Cockroaches
“You lying whore” (shout of a voice
from the street, Lark St., Sat. 2:26 p.m.)
“You whore, you fucking whore”
(same voice, 2:29 p.m.)
writing it down, does it belong to me
it doesn’t belong to me, masculinist-misogyny
or else the voice invades the ear
invasion / penetration / occupation
What is the head not a host to?
(‘site of inscription’) itch of the cockroach,
the rustle of roaches in my eyes-ears
interiorities’ continuum of injuries
debris of the voices in the street
am “I” or have “_” been or am now
or am the already past
record/event of the descent
of the virtual into the real
a spectacle that’s been produced
my heavy foot on the stairs
the imaginary (“uncanny
interpenetrations”) “and I was that
effect” – effect of my ascent –
and what kind of person is it
and what type of human is it
that keeps adding more to it
cement, mud, plaster, paste
it took a shit in cyberspace
stamped on or stomped on
who fucked himself for all of you
(the public view) the Jew
in the house on the street
of Cockroaches
are you doing for philosophy
here what another did to poetry
where what is happening here
is a book on a and a
the transfigurative
a ba – dialectic
“To whom should we speak? To what, in fact? Under what circumstances? The knowledge we carry is that of universal processes; perhaps, in our ignorance, we have discovered something even unknown to you? In the Rigveda, there is talk of an unknown god, but we are not concerned here with deity, only with protocol, etiquette: What is the nature of our address?”
NEGATION RELATED TO ALTERITY IN CYBERSPACE AND MATERIAL LIFE
THAT “there’s no other to cyberspace, no air anywhere”
THAT “the body appears to breath, its organs duplicated everywhere, laminated across the constructed world”
THAT “the invisible as the defined excluded, ‘excluded’ from the field of visibility and ‘defined’ as excluded”
THAT “there’s a mass psychosis underway, as if being offline meant you’re somehow deficient, in education, worldliness, style, income, and geographic location”
THAT “art became style, and has never left that position”
THAT “introjections of simulacra do strange things to human beings; the fallout’s just begun, and there’s no end to cite”
THAT “cyberspace presents the imagining of infinite territory, signs, cultures, spaces, depths, storage, bandwidth; New World genocide is just around the corner. If as I would have it, the flood is the hardening and construct of new capital, new consumption – if the flood is, in fact, creating the new subject subtended to the maw of the idiotic corporate (idiotic in the sense of Rosset, blunt, unresponsive, in-itself, ‘there,’ and not in the sense of ‘idiocy’), then we will witness a new form of anomie ‘within,’ in the midst of horrendous poverty and ecological catastrophe ‘without’
THAT “which returns us once again, to the phenomenology of the ‘cool,’ … “the pastiche of historicism, the layered or morphed landscape, the promise of the digital eternal – what’s ‘cool’
THAT “the notes, the ‘holes’ in the thing, become plateaus of past practices, maybe even colonialisms, they remained strange attractors, bending, cries, going on around them, in spite of them”
THAT “the measure of the eyelid is the measure of the cave or cyberspace, the world always already fallen when it is told so. The ‘cartoon’ is the sign of the world, the sign’s horizon, unreachable debris. The cartoon is the world gone awry in the face of the symbol; the oracle was the first cartoon, which still (Mickey Mouse) carries something (Donald Duck) prophetic (Krazy Kat) about it. This is why cartoons anger us, draw us within their stumbled power. This is why clowns, clawing the world apart, beg us to kill them.”
THAT “space of reading which is always open, penetrated, a perforated space splayed for reply or deletion and therefore fragile, the space of a membrane, torn-space, there is always ‘this’ space as the other end/other hand, space of writing which is foreclosed, null after sending”
THAT “save to file (slave to file”
2.
“‘the artist’s culture … cross circuited’”
“spill of speech (which chaotically can influence the real, material, environment) with its appearance of free labor,”
“a double-writing in which the boundary creates an imaginary and inchoate presence that will turn out to be the self, parceled out within the wall, dismembered, with the memory of a totality that comes from the wall itself”
“the sea of crisis of speech and of storm”
“definitions of ‘social,’ ‘order,’ and ‘narrative’”
“In real life … facial expressions, tone of voice, and the obdurate presence of the body that constitutes the agreement as ‘authentic,’”
every conversation is inauthentic,
every human contact problematic,
the lidless eye, TV Lacan
conspiracy theories, locks and keys
visuality and the pressure from the below-parole
documentaries, comic attempts to catch a worker on film, this one or that one saying whatever they think they’re supposed to although there will be flows,
blows,
spectacle of number, human numbers and is it a question of being counted
what if the problem isn’t one of disappearing, what do you belong to
“facial expressions, tone of voice,
and the obdurate presence of the body
that constructs”
negotiations
(agreements)
on the wall
at the wall
against the wall
before the wall
down the wall
across the wall
below the wall
beside the wall
over the wall
1. the “frozen inscription” and the “frame”
what is interpretation without suspicion
absorption: text as skin as sponge
abstraction of a sign is its sanitation
sanitized: assigning one meaning to the sign
2. who has interpreted if to interpret
is not to incorporate texts made under
the totalitarian inscription,
the “frozen inscription”
decoding
3. (not resemble) what was “reflectance
theory” or is the work that logic does
the ‘not making strange’ (is there
thought without logic and number)
4. the calling of an afterthought a thought
and calling that language and is this
where history has brought language to
(symptom) (trauma) (shock) the work
of interpreting as the ‘turning it out’
what is the turning of something
in on itself if not the assigned or
ascribed meaning, “frozen inscription”
coda
trust the grin that isn’t thrown in your direction
can you trust the one that saw the grin that caught
the grin that kept the grin that thought it through
nothing is ever thought through, that’s the purpose
to writing off of or at and around or are you simply
reacting to (interpretation is never reaction) AND
grammar is disturbed and the absence of grammar
is also disturbed (the problem here is languaging)
thought and afterthought and impulse and reaction
3.
“Nothing runs unless it runs in and out of a world.”
How to ‘turn out’ the return of the shape/specter
(“the instability of the imaginary, the uncanny,
ghosts always appearing on the periphery”)
Is the virtual-real (‘seamless virtual interface and reality’)
trans-planting/placing (plating) the Imaginary, Symbolic and Real?
simulated exposures
the migration of consciousness
away from a collapsing social being
(voice from face; environment from institution, etc.)
(‘the denial by a society’s members
of the social construction of reality’)
private code compressions, frame for a thinking that ‘reads’ that way,
the convolution of address, disappearance of ‘directness’ – whatever that is,
if every utterance collapses under its intentionality and history and context
and a disabling analytics (anything that comes out of your mouth is not what
you’re really saying)
reflex:
in front of a face,
wait for it to tell you what to do, where to
go / what say
what can be said and what can’t
that this is also ‘etiquette’
(respecting parameters) or
appearing to ‘be’ there and not being there
constant:
‘not here’
‘this is not here’
‘it is not here’
(what is not here)
the monitored ‘you are’
where fate is found
“the free-floating noisiness of the physical”
intensity of the hearing range
absorption
the forecast, electrical storms
humans and machines in the magnetic fields
what happened to elasticity / what’s that
shape following shape (bendingness)
have you followed too many voices
(detach the sounds from the voices)
do these lines comprise a grid
or a background against which to compile
a message to be stopped by the printing of it
does the printed word represent a dependency
the getting used to a way words happen and signify
the circularity in spokenness / brokenness
the criminalizing of the working class
and I have studied this, have listened a long time
have read out loud the transcripts
coating and code
laminate and placard
enamel, don’t the words move fast enough for you
make them move more, putting to motion, in motion
(fascination with subtitles)
division of voice from image
space among what’s heard and seen
the interface as not face and not voice
and the freeing that might be there
the ‘non response’ to face and voice
power, authority, command forms
what’s around
what surrounds
whatever is going on here is not really going on?
matrix/chora
interstitial
interstice
(suture) (itch)
mathematied
mathematizing
mathematamachine
But others brought in
others brought in from the margins
“(It is only language, typing, that sticks in your throat?”
r e p e t e n s e / R O T E
(“frozen inscription”) w R O T E
“Where does the reading
experience end or even begin?”
ruse / refusing / fuse / defuge
au lieu (skein and skin of the social)
“It is not that I desire blind-html, imageless, text-hysteric; it’s that there is an additional dialog, with email, that reconstructs the possible.”
“(para
meterized)
window
of the Witness”
at that
at it
at
what to say at what’s seen or say you saw and seeing isn’t reading
what is reading and writing and looking too and looking through
look at it at what look at you looking at it stopping to look it up
look what up like look up a word looking or licking at the words
lick it up / the body as sponge / porousness / a text that seeps
(weeps)
abject
always or often enough too often the wanting that state
wanting to luxuriate in it / roll around in it / the sty
the wetness in the eyes
sweeps or range / half the time thinking you’re in a pentameter
Blake or Milton or whatever those names are starting not to matter
can’t read anymore Sun 2:39 PM
yesterday about this time from the street
it didn’t have to get put down, it didn’t have to
it could’ve got let go / ignored / passed by
puncturing the silence writing in the reading room
a room like that’s a membrane
what comes into it from outside
what do you let in from it from outside
some guy, some voice yelling something or other
yelling at another / there’s other voices
the effect of the voice on the writing
the effect of a man in the street
random man / neighborhood / street
not all streets / not all not at all not
[extended pause] [breathing] [space]
not at or out of and around not around
space into next space dot and log
the logs the log ins the signal posts the light
post signals / what comes through
what comes through is what the text would ask you
what is a rhythm what swells what are waves
read in silence / words on a wave
what’s an ocean what shore what
what is it [silence] read it in silence
what are you reading are you reading
repeat: what is reading
say “I know” say “I see” say “I know”
not the books not the titles not the authors
not the reading – writing / not the culture
“autocentrism” that you know that and can’t say it
can’t say it like that / you say it through voices
like that voice yesterday / it’s what comes in
it comes in and takes over and you go there
and it’s on your page and you’re in that / from that
not “from” and overcoming origin the “root”
the simple tree
there’s people around and how do they sound
or down / bringing the languageing down
langue or longue / tang / tongue
something you hear / and what gets heard
the what’s reading can’t be answered here
the what are you reading and reading list and post
ongoingness
like a mangled sentence
the good work goes undocumented
unread / unheard (scream that scream
this morning that you’ve heard
and it goes unheard
heard is not enough / not even
the knock on the door downstairs
the coming apart of cultures
words / it’s not just words
you will see actions in the shape of words
you will see words being used
even if you’re used to words being used
“images kill” yes and politics
and you don’t know
what it does, what the politics
does / what it does to words
welcome to the court of world opinion
without a clue / without (almost)
here is a proposition (a thought)
about projection (introjection?)
the psychoanalytic flows in cyberspace
what the book knows (what it undergoes)
no, masters, writes beside or along or
it knows / it knows / it knows
attached to the sign, no, attack signs
what projection does is put on another
what’s coming from the flows
callous is also protector
sensor: what’s going on around here
censor: what’s going on around here
you don’t know don’t you
no, “I don’t know”
don’t you know or don’t want to
what don’t you want to know
what the book knows
how did it get past the lists
why no discussion about this
the lists are light and speed
involution / anonymity
APPEARANCE of the APPEARANCE
it doesn’t affect what appears
around me / what’s going on around
what’s going on around here
and it’s nothing that hasn’t happened before
and why should that answer what
what should you do if you did get up
closure / foreclosure
stop it / don’t stop what
“translucencies”
sluice
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