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€ toxic morphemes that make me sick (having your baloney & eating it too)

This isn't just an issue of religion, this is the risk you take in aligning yourself with any group or subsect of people, especially ones that think they are superior. Members of group X that write literature all about what it's like to be in group X will gain more followers within that group, but risk alienating those not in group X, especially if they have the attitude of «it's an X-thing, you wouldn't [ ... ]

€ Re-reviews of Ander Monson's Other Electricities & Daniel Borzutzky's Arbitrary Tales

Unseen by many perhaps, but not by Monson, who is in tune to the bandwidth of these forces, and whose acute sense of observation picks up the subtle signals and silent pleas and is able to channel and unscramble this analog static—a static analogous to the meaningless gossip that grips many remote northern communities bounded and bonded by isolation and the elements [ ... ]

€ RE: making mud beneath the lighthouse of unsaid island

These sayings are like mantras, word strings that get wrapped up into a giant ball of yarn that keeps picking up momentum with each iteration, rolling rhythmically like music, like a rolling stone, gathering no moss, like a canonical fugue, like one of those carbon-copy spinning drums. Each time the muddy juggernaut spins in your head you might see the same words wrapped to [ ... ]

€ RE: reading The Fixed Stars on an unspecified island (a recognitive reconnaissance)

In a book i was reading yesterday it said «a landscape doesn't have an inside.» When i run & ride on trains i feel like i'm perpetually on the brink of getting inside the landscape. I'll never make it inside, but it's more about the effort of trying. These activities unstick you, if only for an instant, from the everyday vanity of your immediate world, as does reading. I didn't bring that book [ ... ]

€ Launching the Ark with incision, Tevere style

And it's near the namesake Tevere, which played a big part in the making of Ark Codex, so it only seemed all to fitting to launch the ark on it. Alessandro & Frank & crew set me up to make an etching for the show & let me have at it, like a kid in a candy store, encouraging me to experiment with all the various different techniques (acquaforte (acid-etching), acquatinta (also acid, but [ ... ]

€ Q1/2012 Quarterly Quotidian: The noise in «explosion» backwards, an x-ray of an igloo

if you read it backwards (SI NON SEDES IS) it says «if you don't sit you go» ... saw some shit on a pedestal in a museum, made me want to take one ... woke up & was sleeping in public. There was no flood yet ... as you unwind you need remind yourself with each word what the word before means ... this dead mounted head will give you the idea of how this animal lived. [ ... ]

€ Roman Roundup of Italian art/lit pubs I: Ericailcane & Svjetlan Junaković (Logos Edizioni)

... another bestiary book of animals in anthropomorphic situations (seems to be the Logos shtick)—these animals striking more regal, Victorian/Renaissance age poses, some actual famous painted portraits redone with animals (i.e., the girl with the pearl earring redone as «the sheep with a blue turban»). A harem of geese playing cards, a greyhound lounging on a loveseat, frog doctors [ ... ]

€ ± inventory of artifacts accumulated/shed in Gotham (post Ark Codex launch)

• 2 army duffel bags to carry acquired possessions • 1 Chinese army satchel with red star • 3 baggage tags • a «Notice of Baggage Inspection» note slipped into our bag by the Dept of Homeland Security • 12 cans of Goya black beans • 12 cans of Hatch green chiles • 1 pair of Adidas Marathon 10 • 1 pair of red Nike Free 2.0 • 68 copies of Ark Codex ±0 • 28 copies of Sister Stop Breathing by [ ... ]

€ Do it clean: Rome running routes & Italo Calvino's bearable lightness of being

... while you are running, nothing can be committed to paper, any linearity of thought, induced by the rhythm of running, becomes lost, scrambled, ungraspable, sucked into the juggernautical BwO. And this is what is so liberating. For writing, or doing art, it is a therapeutic way to work through ideas without vainly grabbing them before they are finished... This is your mind on running. [ ... ]

€ The interest rate of economic nonsense (floating the Ark down the Roman Amazon): Economia di Parole, anno 8

With all this mind, i'm please to release the next Calamari title: Ark Codex ±0. There'll be 3 tiers to the Ark—the original images, the book object & the dbook copy. i. For the dbook version of Ark Codex ±0 i'm following the eat-first-pay-what-you-want model—you can download the PDF first & then pay what you think it's worth after. Sure, the digital file is in a sense valueless (aside from the [ ... ]

€ Decoding the Decodex: demystifying Luigi Serafini's Codex Seraphinianus

... you might at least be able to come up with a map of serafinian characters to syllables spelled by the roman alphabet. Thing is, i'm actually not that interested in «decoding» Serafini's Codex—i think it's probably more interesting not knowing. Regardless, i'm curious enough to know what this Decodex has to say about it. So without further ado, here's my translation of the Introduzione by [ ... ]

€ Confessions of an everyday wino: On vertigo, cruise ships, control, self-organization, heroes, blood chemistry & the ark as a bed to lie in

Some things you can't control (especially if you're stupid enough to book passage on a cruise ship)—have the serenity to accept that shit, or however the fuck that saying goes. And look to yourself, not some god, for the courage & wisdom bit. [ ... ]

€ Baby on Brain: notes on reading Percival Everett, Urs Allemann & Amos Tutuola

We are treated to the cerebral what-ifs of a baby reading & digesting Derrida & Wittgenstein & all the musings & implications that come with it. A baby with the mental capacity but not the physical capacity, but self-aware of his helpless condition, reliant on adults, to be fed or bathed, to not be stuffed in a weighted sack & dropped in a lake. «The idea of my own drowning made me more interest[ ... ]

€ Q4-11 Quarterly Quotidian Peregrinations for the Suicidal Sake of Self-Organizing Dicebats

potential dicebat bins accumulate above the astroturf-pitched carrier in swooping vectors of light whose audible shrill is all in our minds | the constituent pixels become charged—illuminating a colony of beings whose individual essences flash for 1 second before disappearing in 1 fell swoop beneath the ice (to be later revisited as phosphorescence) | the detected time-lapsed trajectory is [ ... ]

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