“‘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
Channel surfing in the cacaphony of colour, sound, sex and violence that is
American TV in the Deep South. I paused to watch a compelling presentation
on a religious theme. There was singing, rapture, sharing and selling
all at once. A large woman wearing a purple robe was sobbing woefully
into a microphone “You WILL be healed” and on that cue, the non-existent tape
that has been trying to eject, with no success, is suddenly spit out, and the motor,
which has come dangerously close to burning itself out,
is at rest, finally at peace.
Nancy Paterson, VCR Story, TCR 2-50
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”
Excerpt from: Kevin Magee / to write as speech
other islands in this text-fed stream
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Word of the Day:
spillway: (noun) A channel for an overflow of water, as from a reservoir.
Synonyms: wasteweir, spill
Usage: The workers cleared the debris from the spillway so the excess water could flow through the channel.