“‘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).
Excerpt from Kevin Magee / to write as speech
other islands in this text-fed stream
