Tributaries & Text-Fed Streams

From the relative beginnings of the typewriter, the same major elements appear in any typewriting assemblage. There is a dictator – the source of the words that are being typed. There is a typewriter – that is, an actual writing machine of some sort. And there is an amanuensis. As the Oxford English Dictionary notes, […]

Since the industrial revolution we have struggled to reconcile the now twined notions of progress and obsolescence. Consider Rilke’s 18th Sonnet to Orpheus, written in 1922:
Do you hear the New, Master,
droning and throbbing?
Its prophesying promoters
are advancing.
No hearing’s truly keen
in all this noise;
still, now each machine
part wills its praise.
See, the Machine:
how it spins and […]

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 […]

interstitial
interstice
(suture) (itch)
mathematied
mathematizing
mathematamachine
David Jhave Johnston’s Interstitial deals with the fundamentals of existence: life and death. It does not attempt to sentimentalize nor deconstruct these issues. Death is death; life is life. He defines Interstitial art as any work of art whose basic nature falls between, rather than within, the familiar boundaries of accepted genres or […]

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How to ‘turn out’ the return of the shape/specter
(“the instability of the imaginary, the uncanny,
ghosts always appearing on the periphery”)

Are you trying to make me believe I am unreal standing here absurdly on the green pavement?
Kafka
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 […]

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 […]

“‘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 […]

“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
“Writing may be made between the ear […]

(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 […]

“‘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, […]