Tit for (she-wolf) tat, mathematics & the rigors of rejecting & drawing conclusions

.. not enough rejecting is going on .. hardly anyone's playing tough D. Not enough referees are calling foul. The arts world for the most part is a safe-haven for those fearing rejection .. all patting each other on the backs rather than putting a hand in the face. It's not good for the game. New agers too .. all this talk about positive forces .. what about negative forces? And in religion [ .... ]

The Dark Knight meets The Italian Job II: time-lapsed open-access purging of the italo-sized art book queue

.. but this general all-for-all mindset is core to our own philosphy (regarding book publishing & art in general) .. authorship & copyright are evil forces that need to be eradicated for art & information (& subsequently our egos) to be free .... And we blog here for the same reasons as Swartz .. this blog is our I/O filter. We pass information through our brains & parse out bits that are [ .... ]

De-rivering a monolithic corpus from Burial & Solip .. in light of late-80s corpses

.. washed ashore .. leaving no clues as to its history. It's dead, it can't speak .. we mean, it speaks .. but it speaks only for itself, which is to reveal its corpse, its corpus. It's a self-describing kernel, a pinecone, an artichoke, an onion that by reading you peel off layer by layer .... until you get to the middle & find there's nothing there except another tiny replica of the very kernel [ .... ]

Dada-punk sushi select: Bataille on Breton, mosh pit swarming, Nazi punks & automatic schooling to self-cannibalize encore

The problem is, humans are not social insects .. humans think. We sit on our high chairs thinking we are the only animals that appreciate beauty when in fact we are ruining it for everyone else. In applying the rules of swarming to people, there is always going to be too much ego in the equation. And we are also self-conscious creatures. Herd-mentality exists, sure, but only  with [ .... ]

Sarraute, devotion to inanimate objects, dictating in tongues & balancing the i/o feed

.. this object is a secret totem .. an object charged with animalistic urges but that these men only allow themselves to 'experience' (if they actually do) strictly as observers .. like pornography .. as if the guys own home was a museum he was trapped in but not allowed to live in .... & the children a nagging reminder, ever coming up from behind .. distracting him from having this 'moment' [ .... ]

The Becoming of Be(com)ing & Nothingness & how come in becoming it becomes us

.. if we consider X as a state of becoming, then it exists, always. If we stop trying to get there or call it something, we realize we are here already, always were, in this state of X .. this state of becoming enlightened or whatever word you want to attribute to X. Becoming implies a coming into being .. & a perpetual coming at that. Either it already exists or it becomes, but nothing ever is  [ .... ]

Unzipping Berg packets to Transfer Fat-cum-Swedish fish to digest C to Si

Which is not to say these are 100% organic & "natural" .. Berg's milk is laced with a healthy dose of the grotesque & analyzed through a quantum telescope in a cold-fusion clinical experimental laboratory. And there are also hints of Silicon-based lifeforms & superstrings & the zippered double-helix that graces the cover. And while at times her words can be impenetrably cold & [ .... ]

Transitiv misforståelse i The Field of glaseret wienerbrød på en aften på The Believer

.... ikke svært at sætte lighedstegn mellem hans navn med "The Field" af transitive love logik (med A = «Martin Glaz Serup», B = "forfatteren" & C = "The Field".) I glaseret wienerbrød, du Internettet i i form af en Babel Fish, fortælle os felt betyder F + E + L + T + E + T. Men den oprindelige titel på bogen i Danmark: "M + A + RK + E + N". Vi er nødt til at skrive t + h + e + s + e   [ .... ]

Gummi ender, norsk Tre og journal mate av forløperen til Raft Manifest, oversatt til å poste

... gjort det til Oregon State Spelling Bee finalen 3 år på rad. Og hver gang vi fikk 3. premie. Problemet var (hvorfor vi ikke får første) er atat vi hadde slike sceneskrekk .. som andre barn ble slått ut, og det kom til å være mindre og mindre folk på scenen, fikk vi mer og mer nervøs og da ville vi bevisst feilstaver noe bare for å ikke å stå opp på det stadiet. Sann historie, det. Historien av livet [ .... ]

Re-kolonizing da King dom Kongo's ghost tongs & vastbinden losse dradens en engagement créatif: vous êtes si vain, yous probably think ce blog é sobre você

& somehow we ended up with his phone so when we tried to call our dead brother the phone rang in our own pocket & we weren't sure how to answer it.  And now the phone was smeared & fingerprinted with blood on account of being shot in the kneecap by [ .... ]

AWP Report iii: the big bad wolf in the dog-eat-dog economy of words

The primary unit of currency at Calamari Press is words & more important than buying/selling is reading/writing .. so if more people are reading books because they were passed around freely then so be it. What's the point of all these paranoid tactics .. treating potential readers like potential criminals? [ .... ]

AWP Report ii: Whalen on our pecs in the bureaucratic academy .. en vivo

... Like most conventions in big hotels, we suspect there is more than just the swapping of ideas going on .. certainly there's a lot of swapping of spit & other liquids going on too. After all the mutual backrubbing the hands slip further down [ .... ]

AWP i: Ray Carver-ing the U. Eco-logy of books in Back Bay

.... ground down to a vortex of free-floating fragments, are put together again and then deconstructed once more in a whirlwind of new lexical monstrosities, which coagulate for a second only to dissolve once more, as in a cosmic dance of atoms, in which writing is shattered down to its etyms—and it is no accident that it was the phonic analogy between etym and atom [ .... ]

New Orleans back to New York ever searching to certify the act of searching

... a wistful wanderlust wherein he goes nowhere. «The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. This morning for example, I felt as if I had come to myself on a strange island. And what [ .... ]

From the Big Apple to the Big Easy reading Michael Zell & writing our own Errata

Like us, the cabbie-writer in Errata is a compulsive documenter, yet (also like us) at the same time painfully ever-aware of the vanity of it .. of ever chasing down ideas to try to tag them with words. «Life is not a document. Life cannot be documented. [ .... ]

The derivative of Traveling with Derrida within the colonization of our own language

... Malabou (still ever under the spell of Derrida) digs further into the variations, the derivatives .. ever filtered & deconstructed through post-modern bi-focals that get purged/consumed in self-reference, digesting the meaning of meaning, the derivative of derivative .. as if digesting your own digestive tract, which in turn becomes (inside-out) Ouroboros .. a snake eating its own tail [ ... ]

Feral expressionism & primal beings in our own Becoming & in Basquiat

When you look at the etymology of «primitive» though, it actually derives from the latin primitivus, or 'first of its kind,' or from primus .. 'first'. So the word primitive is more about being original, not being derivative. Which seems like the ultimate complement to us. But we are not Basquiat. Basquiat puts his being, his biology, in front of his art. He thinks of the question not as it relates to [ ... ]

The art of Carlos M. Luis (1932—2013)

Carlos was & continues to be a big inspiration/influence on my own art .. in particular the way he incorporates asemic writing with collage & concrete/visual poetry .. often using chance operations inspired in turn by the likes of Cage, Beckett & Joyce. Not only did his work span disciplines & genres but he had a unique way of finding connections between ideas & mapping them [ ... ]

Calling Kim Ki-Duk: incidental endorsements, synchronicity, self-indulgence & the continued virtues of hermits

Ki-Duk often looks straight into the camera, which really makes people uncomfortable .. in my opinion this is more unsettling than what Gallo did. But why is this so unsettling? Is it because we realize that the camera is stealing something from the soul of the actor .. & that we are just as responsible as Ki-Duk for demanding such films .. for demanding that artists forget themselves & pour [ ... ]

Noreaster Nemo, immortal HeLa monsters & the copyright of flesh & blood: On the likes of Henrietta Lacks, Sally Hemings & Sixto Rodriguez

It's interesting, this idea of copyrighting DNA, or profiteering from genes, or whether you (or your surviving family members) have the rights to the genetic sequence you were born with. Sure we're each unique, but blood & cells & DNA are a dime a dozen [ ... ]

Index this, my homebody with archive fever, under 'inclement weather' .... de-filed in an infinitesimally nested death spiral, for Deep Time

«He who writes for fools will always find a large audience. Said Schopenhauer.» If you gaze carefully into the hypertext, into the deep links, you'll start to see patterns formulating in all the chaos. You'll see the spider-web threads weaving through window after [ ... ]

Post no. (0, 0) from the fuck-off view on Riverside, whilst reaching for the Nietzsche

Maybe it's baked in our genes, as someone once said, but j & i seem to gravitate towards rivers. So when we pulled up to one of these very buildings i was already feeling a strange sort of déjà vu. I've felt this feeling a few times before in my life when you see a house for the first time & you get a premonition that you'll spend a good chunk of your life in it. We walked into [ ... ]

Just another Gilligan reflecting (underwater) on the island of Gili Air .. on sea turtle salvation, The Price of Civilization & 'belum' America .. halfway home into 2013

... the gist of it being that America is currently fucked & the only thing that can save us is to pay higher taxes .... & to take more social responsibility .. & give our money to the poor .. & watch less TV .. & consume less .. [ ... ]

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