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€ 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 [ ... ]

€ Field Notes: Book Objects Read on Location < 2012 Cumulative Recap

All the memorable books i've read where location in time was significant to the reading—with links to the post where i talk about said book in the context of the place.l [ ... ]

€ Hüzün in the ruins of defeat: Istanbul Reading Orhan Pamuk

... whereas Italians mask their failures & sorrow, the Turks tackle sorrow head on: «Imbued still with the honor accorded it in Sufi literature, hüzün gives their resignation an air of dignity, but it also explains their choice to embrace failure, indecision, defeat and poverty so philosophically and with such pride, suggesting that hüzün is not the outcome of life's worries and great losses but [ ... ]

€ Synchronous images from Chiara Barzini's Sister Stop Breathing

... more in common with my upbringing than mafioso Italian culture—like me, she is a banana slug (a graduate from UC Santa Cruz), with hippy leanings, that then put in her time in Gotham. & as i would discover, she writes—& not in the conventional sense of the word, but whose 'voice' defies words. So when i found out she had an unpublished book of short fictions, it only seemed natural [ ... ]

€ Starlingo ii [grounded expositions w/10° of pitch]: 43 more murmurating starmaps under the auspices of a babeling language & in-flight communication manual

It is precisely this 'spirit of propagation' which i find so compelling. Not just propagation in a biological sense, but there's an underlying message they seem hell-bent on communicating, whether it be in their babbling vocalizations, their murmurations or their scat [ ... ]

€ Starlingo i: [Untitled] by Sturnus Vulgaris [ungrounded experimental data culled & posted without comment]

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€ Exposing the detachment ID, in formation: an Ark Codex 0, folio 0 excerpt

(After a summation of error) the noise forever takes the shape of a tongue. Yet there is no ear to hear the tongue nor tuna for to feed. There is no cavity to tongue the ear—to call out «dear» to all the animal nearby. No address nor anchor holes (weighted with possibility) to turn the sea into a grid of formation—a tonnage of tuna. The 1^st chord acts as in (a) vested dorsal fin, honing [ ... ]

€ There is No Blake Butler: a copy brother's response (or a vestigial vermiformed appendix)

Although in a holographic sense every word encapsulated every sentence & every sentence contained every paragraph & every paragraph contained every page & every page contained the book self-contained within it, more than any other, this sentence, the mother's mind designed itself, seemed to encapsulate the book as a whole—spontaneously self-organizing & self-replicating [ ... ]

€ the art & gothic psychogeography of Venice II: much to do about boredom, canals, sardonic oversaturation, Lee Rourke, Christian Marclay & Sorrentino's must-be place

... the reaction the artist is expecting (what other reaction could there be?)—it's this absurdity, this contradiction, this simultaneous self-nullification/ celebritization through ironic waste, which has become the meaning. And perhaps this is the only meaning left [ ... ]

€ the art & gothic psychogeography of Venice I: being earnest about Ernest, the meaning of being mean & putting a brick in your mouth to exorcise vampires

nowhere else does gothic architecture seem so fitting—the facades of repetitive vaulted arches lining the waterfront. The bridges over the canals, the essence of gothic embodied right down to the boats, squeezing through the canals & under the arched bridges [ ... ]

€ a Madrid codex for an unknown/alien readership: a mad experience with language digging Heidegger, Fuentes & Quixote in the light of our own self-annihilation

I occupied myself as I often do considering things in the anthropological light of our own self-annihilation If some aliens came to our planet after we'd wiped ourselves out, what would they think? They'd come to the Prado & probably recognize that it housed [ ... ]

€ catch & release thoughts on thinking, photography, family, dicebat & nothing—induced (& subsequently extinguished) by reading Beckett & Bernhard in Dublin

The only time it means anything to speak of nothing is when that is your intent. People that try to say something but say nothing are just taking up space on this planet. [...] They keep talking without thinking about what they are saying & they think that will keep [ ... ]

€ Pinocchio uncensored: you can't wish upon a star motherless with pubic hair stuck in your teeth

... in the end Pinocchio & Geppetto see the lifeless puppet slumped in the corner, which significantly changes the nature of his transformation as one that is purely (knowingly) metaphorical, as if childhood is some sort of larval phase in which you shed your skin (go through puberty) when transforming into a self-aware man (the fish eating the donkey down to the skeleton goes well with [ ... ]

€ Quarterly Accumulation iii: Canicola days (i am Sirius) doppler-shifting themselves to fall

... bed wet me: some sort of entombed water slide contraption where we all got separated from eachother & [ ...]|| ¢ INK = DRY [per (i, j) signifY^ing ∳ [ALTri 2 RiVoluzioni qui [at MiN^imo]] | ⁱn ALTri ᑎfficial^e [BBC] ROMan QUOTidianⁱ: 1556 year^s d^op_o la prim^a inVasion^e ℜeal^e VANDAL^s rëtUrn^o a Roma & GENEᖈal strike || ¢ first rain in Rome since Cy Twombly died two months ago [ ... ]

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