February 2012
6 posts
#nodads #nomasters
“In pedagogical logic, the ignoramus is not simply one who does not as yet know what she does not know or how to know it. For his part, the schoolmaster is not only the one who possesses the knowledge unknown by the ignoramus. He is also the one who knows how to make it an object of knowledge, at what point and in accordance with what protocol. For, in truth, there is no ignoramus who does...
“It was the dirtiest fucking I ever gave you, darling. My prick was stuck in you...”
– James Joyce, Dublin. 8 December 1909
Watch All The Time, Everything, Whatever Single-channel video, 6 minutes 10 seconds 2012
January 2012
16 posts
The touring pop-up High Street
[and other nightmares of #capitalistsurrealism]
A pop-up Top Shop shop. An inflatable mobile phone kiosk. A tented mini-Waitrose. A Cancer Research charity shop in a shipping container. Individual fish pedicure barrels. A flat-pack IKEA Micro. A bamboo and canvas artisan patisserie. A laminated cardboard off licence. An adobe Waterstones. An exciting new take on the traditional café,...
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“I want a dyke for president. I want a person with aids for president and I want...”
– Zoe Leonard of Fierce Pussy, 1992.
Where Me & My Friends Hang Out
“Identity” is the new junk food for the dispossessed, globalization’s fodder for the disenfranchised. If space-junk is the human debris that litters the universe, Junk-Space is the residue mankind leaves on the planet. The built product of modernization is not modern architecture but Junkspace. Junkspace is what remains after modernization has run its course, or, more precisely,...
Theory, as I know and practice it, always teeters on the edge of legitimacy. This does not scare me. It is theory that always picks up death threats, even though philosophy deserves to be put up against the wall, having in many ways exhausted meaning and depleted its astonishing resources, disturbed so many viable dreams of vitality. Being of mixed origin and in its own way homeless, hybridized,...
Old-schoolers & grammar binarists, here's some... →
“Being a good collage/assemblage artist requires being a good scavenger. As you walk down the filthy streets outside your hovel you are probably feeling depressed because for one you live in a hovel, or you are affecting an air of the disaffected, or you are experiencing a fallout from some drug you’ve been binging on… Use your downward gaze as an opportunity to see the beautiful...
“Look here, Vita - throw over your man, and we´ll go to Hampton Court and dine on...”
– Virginia Woolf, in a letter to Vita Sackville-West (1927).
December 2011
22 posts
On Eros & Revolution
“Going back to this question of eros and revolution - yes, there is power in pleasure, in intimacy, in erotic energy, in spaces that are radiant and psychically charged. Perhaps I might also want to decouple eros and sex(uality), as well as sexuality and freedom - it’s fine not to want to fuck. I am thinking of the erotic as articulated along the lines of Audre Lorde’s “Uses of the Erotic,...
[You've seen the film. Now read the poem.] Snow The room was suddenly rich and the great bay-window was Spawning snow and pink roses against it Soundlessly collateral and incompatible: World is suddener than we fancy it. World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion A tangerine and spit the pips and feel The drunkenness of things being various. And the...
WatchA very JD Christmas [card], ft. Justin Bieber & Simon Cowell. There’s even a little bit of snow [courtesy of Louis MacNeice]. Happy whatever & a brave new year.
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New Aspirational Manifesto
Work like you don’t need the money the world’s gonna end in 2012 Love like you’ve never been hurt the world’s gonna end in 2012 Dance like nobody’s watching the world’s gonna end in 2012 Live like there’s heaven on earth the world’s gonna end in 2012
#nihilistdeterminism
[I identify with this, like, way too much.]
The worker-poets of Rancière’s Proletarian Nights are said to have “made themselves ‘other’ in a double hopeless rejection, refusing both to live like workers and to talk like the bourgeoisie”. As workers they were denied access to the ‘sensible of poetry’, separated from it in a structure of work and militant politics. Being neither workers nor bourgeois puts them in the in-between of a ...
Dinner in New York
If you could, you would just pump life into yourself at the nearest filling station and be off. On the other hand, who can deny the pleasure of reading a room, and that it only improves with years of similar dinners? You learn to see irrelevance as it starts to yellow a painter’s complexion like the early stages of a cancer. You can hear the money laughing in its ripped jeans, all the way...
The good life [is] an already sacrificial model. →
“What if people were to take the opportunity to reimagine state/society relations such that the flourishing of reciprocity were differently constructed and assessed, and in which consumer forms of collectivity were not the main way people secure or fantasize securing everyday happiness? This, I would argue, would involve a considerable restructuring of the place of work and expenditure...
Critique of Abysmal Reasoning
As finite creatures we are vulnerable: we may suffer physical and emotional injury, we may make significant mistakes, even the concepts with which we understand ourselves and the world may collapse - and yet as erotic creatures we reach out to the world and try to embrace it. For all the risks involved, we make an effort to live with others; on occasion we aspire to intimacy; we try to understand...
Prend Donc Courage Cleoma Falcon
cour·age...
The Rise of Capitalism
The first thing I did was make a mistake. I thought I had understood capitalism, but what I had done was assume an attitude — melancholy sadness — toward it. This attitude is not correct. Fortunately your letter came, at that instant. “Dear Rupert, I love you every day. You are the world, which is life. I love you I adore you I am crazy about you. Love, Marta.” Reading...
“When the Abu Ghraib photographs first came to light a strange interpretive...”
– Theatricality and terror: talk about a pornography of signifiers. On The Borders of Politics and Art (Notes), 16 September 2011.
Youroboros
[File under: ghostmodern, entropy, Derridada]
“remember you are a corpse” is a corpse becoming in speaking summoning specters of wisdom “homo-” alone sends echos of sapiens into crude animation, the tongue’s intestine a flame dissolved into spark; Look this poem looks back “remember you are a corpse” a shadow cast against form these words are all corpses their rot utters fumes pulled through...
The Goals of Chaos Marxism
Marxist revolutionary politics seek the coming to consciousness of the vast majority of people in the world – the goal of magick, the tools of politics.
In this sense, the Leninist cadre party is – ideally - a magical order of adepts.
The central goal of Chaos Marxism is to integrate chaos magick and dialectical materialism.
You may have a wrong idea of what being a...
November 2011
8 posts
“The longest, most significant tradition in art is conformism, not resistance....”
– Universalizing the exception: A conversation between Artur Żmijewski and Joanna Warsza [plus a few good reasons why you probably shouldn’t move to Berlin].
“A common criticism of OWS is its lack of focus around a clear objective. But it...”
– http://www.montevidayo.com/?p=2209
For anybody who occupies or feels drawn to occupy... →
If we’re going to think about the occupation we’re also going to have to think about what happens in the other room of the occupation. I’ve been thinking about “the other room” a lot lately.
As this body writes it will occasionally go into the other room to masturbate. To think about sexy or strange things. To feel intense, then dull. To take a break from being a writing body. To grow a smell.
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