script as cut up , readings from texts read in the week-
Uncle Lubin- The Rain Shower
Uncle Lubin- The Rain Shower
The non identical, the qualitatively different; these are social tokens of use value, more respectfully treated as collage, a principle at odds with any total infiltrating formalist construction. Montage embraces a freedom to rove over maximally various stocks of material. And the pull or magnetizing of closure ceases to operate at the overall level; it resists the obviousness of both Image and Identity.
Bruce Andrews, Praxis, p 78, Close Listening
As for young people, although they are crushed by the dominant economic relations which make their position increasingly precarious, and although they are mentally manipulated through the production of a collective, mass-medias subjectivity, they are nonetheless developing their own methods of distancing themselves from normalized subjectivity through singularization. In this respect, the transnational nature of rock-music is extremely significant; it plays the role of a sort of initiatory cult, which confers a cultural pseudo-identity on a considerable mass of young people and allows them to obtain for themselves a bare minimum of existential Territories.
Felix Guattari (1989, France) The Three Ecologies, [English translation,2000, trans Ian Pindar and Paul Sutton] p 23, Continuum, Cornwall
Cugel put his hand to his abdomen to quiet the fretful stirrings of Firx. ‘In the space of so much time, the sun may well have waned. Look!’ He pointed as a black flicker crossed the face of the sun and seemed to leave a momentary crust. ‘Even now it ebbs!’
‘You are over apprehensive,’ stated the elder. ‘To us who are lords of Smolod, the sun puts forth a radiance of exquisite colours.,’
‘This may well be true at the moment,’ said Cugel, 'but when the sun goes dark, what then? will you take a equal delight in the gloom and the chill?’
But the elder no longer attended him. Radkuth Vomin had fallen sideways into the mud, and appeared to be dead.
Jack Vance (1972) ,Eyes of the Over World, p 22. Granada Books, Great Britain
And no more words were needed.There was a rush, a clatter upon the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp running of footfalls from the street.
“After all, Watson,” said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his clay pipe, “I am not retained by the police to supply their deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must collapse. I suppose that I am committing a felony, but it is just possible that I am saving a soul.This fellow will not go wrong again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to jail now,and you make him a jail bird for life. Besides, it is the season of forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1930) The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, p257, The Complete Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes, Penguin classics, 1981, Great Britain
Now, even as we perceive the object with our senses, it appears to us in a certain way that in fact has been fabricated by our own conceptualization. But we unquestioningly assent to the veracity of our sense experiences and proceed to build up a structured relationship with the world of our experience that is in fact founded upon erroneous assumptions.
Steven Bachelor (1983), Alone With Others, Grove Press, New York
‘Just on ciggarette’.Remember: it doesn’t exist. Stop seeing that isolated occasion and start looking at it from the point of view of the smoker. You may be envying him, but he doesn’t approve of himself. He envies you. Start observing other smokers. They can be the most powerful boost of all to help you off it. Notice how quickly the cigarette burns, how quickly the smoker has to light up another. Notice particularly that not only is he not aware that he is smoking the cigarette but even the lighting up appears to be automatic. Remember, he is not enjoying it; its just that he cannot enjoy himself without it.
Allen Carr (1989)Allen Carr’s Easy Way To Give Up Smoking p138, Penguin, 2009, 4th Edition
Rationalizations are compensatory in nature. they function as justifications, intended to align psychic structures with social structures , so that what will be allowed to happen is commensurate with one’s desires. -
Lyn Hejinian (2007)The Sad Note in a Poetics of Consciousness, Poetry and Public Language,p 118, Shearsman Books, Exeter
taking council in detail bares fruit.
Accordingly I follow.
Finding nourishment in each catching up.
To start as one keeps count.
Not to expect, nor to conjure up
not the right one just to sing. Seeking guidance is a release
applies method to heart.
Breaking the skin of that spell.
counting sticks and modelling figs
shaping thought in action-
Caroline Bergvall,[2005] Fig5, Fig, Salt Publishing , Cambridge
We only just glimpsed a pattern and its changing before our eyes. Whats most characteristically contemporary at any moment is the least recognisable, least visible, least audible, least intelligible of all that matters. Unitelligabilities of past and present tend to blur into the reassuring and ominous white noise of dailiness. Increasingly ominous, to the degree that they’re persistently ignored.
Four on Cage, Geometries of Attention p176
The Wizard Of OZ
Celebrating expenditure in their song, the poets of protest shake up Conservative narcissism, and break the yokes and ties. They tear the subject from its enslavement, cleave the proper, take the puppet to pieces, cut its strings, disturb and blur the mirrors.
Bruce Andrews, Praxis, p 78, Close Listening
As for young people, although they are crushed by the dominant economic relations which make their position increasingly precarious, and although they are mentally manipulated through the production of a collective, mass-medias subjectivity, they are nonetheless developing their own methods of distancing themselves from normalized subjectivity through singularization. In this respect, the transnational nature of rock-music is extremely significant; it plays the role of a sort of initiatory cult, which confers a cultural pseudo-identity on a considerable mass of young people and allows them to obtain for themselves a bare minimum of existential Territories.
Felix Guattari (1989, France) The Three Ecologies, [English translation,2000, trans Ian Pindar and Paul Sutton] p 23, Continuum, Cornwall
Cugel put his hand to his abdomen to quiet the fretful stirrings of Firx. ‘In the space of so much time, the sun may well have waned. Look!’ He pointed as a black flicker crossed the face of the sun and seemed to leave a momentary crust. ‘Even now it ebbs!’
‘You are over apprehensive,’ stated the elder. ‘To us who are lords of Smolod, the sun puts forth a radiance of exquisite colours.,’
‘This may well be true at the moment,’ said Cugel, 'but when the sun goes dark, what then? will you take a equal delight in the gloom and the chill?’
But the elder no longer attended him. Radkuth Vomin had fallen sideways into the mud, and appeared to be dead.
Jack Vance (1972) ,Eyes of the Over World, p 22. Granada Books, Great Britain
And no more words were needed.There was a rush, a clatter upon the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp running of footfalls from the street.
“After all, Watson,” said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his clay pipe, “I am not retained by the police to supply their deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must collapse. I suppose that I am committing a felony, but it is just possible that I am saving a soul.This fellow will not go wrong again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to jail now,and you make him a jail bird for life. Besides, it is the season of forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1930) The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, p257, The Complete Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes, Penguin classics, 1981, Great Britain
Now, even as we perceive the object with our senses, it appears to us in a certain way that in fact has been fabricated by our own conceptualization. But we unquestioningly assent to the veracity of our sense experiences and proceed to build up a structured relationship with the world of our experience that is in fact founded upon erroneous assumptions.
Steven Bachelor (1983), Alone With Others, Grove Press, New York
‘Just on ciggarette’.Remember: it doesn’t exist. Stop seeing that isolated occasion and start looking at it from the point of view of the smoker. You may be envying him, but he doesn’t approve of himself. He envies you. Start observing other smokers. They can be the most powerful boost of all to help you off it. Notice how quickly the cigarette burns, how quickly the smoker has to light up another. Notice particularly that not only is he not aware that he is smoking the cigarette but even the lighting up appears to be automatic. Remember, he is not enjoying it; its just that he cannot enjoy himself without it.
Allen Carr (1989)Allen Carr’s Easy Way To Give Up Smoking p138, Penguin, 2009, 4th Edition
Rationalizations are compensatory in nature. they function as justifications, intended to align psychic structures with social structures , so that what will be allowed to happen is commensurate with one’s desires. -
Lyn Hejinian (2007)The Sad Note in a Poetics of Consciousness, Poetry and Public Language,p 118, Shearsman Books, Exeter
taking council in detail bares fruit.
Accordingly I follow.
Finding nourishment in each catching up.
To start as one keeps count.
Not to expect, nor to conjure up
not the right one just to sing. Seeking guidance is a release
applies method to heart.
Breaking the skin of that spell.
counting sticks and modelling figs
shaping thought in action-
Caroline Bergvall,[2005] Fig5, Fig, Salt Publishing , Cambridge
We only just glimpsed a pattern and its changing before our eyes. Whats most characteristically contemporary at any moment is the least recognisable, least visible, least audible, least intelligible of all that matters. Unitelligabilities of past and present tend to blur into the reassuring and ominous white noise of dailiness. Increasingly ominous, to the degree that they’re persistently ignored.
Four on Cage, Geometries of Attention p176
The Wizard Of OZ
Celebrating expenditure in their song, the poets of protest shake up Conservative narcissism, and break the yokes and ties. They tear the subject from its enslavement, cleave the proper, take the puppet to pieces, cut its strings, disturb and blur the mirrors.
and
These great destroyers are also great givers of strength, and of forms;through this shaking of the literary ground,those who crack it open pull off amazing effects, glimpses of ways out. How can we hold on to them?It is by moving onwards, beyond the known, that No one and you, dear reader, will hear the textual voice, which still remains to be heard, and which gives to each of us, after all, No one’s name.
Helene Cixous,(1996) First Names of No One,The Helene Cixous Reader, Routledge
the Major role of chance, and change, in our world is precisely why intuition and imagination are so important to a reasoned agency. This is a synergy, not a dictonom. to act at all we have to pick up on so many cues that are not part of what we’re specifically taught to notice.the kind of agency that has a chance of mattering in today’s world can thrive only in a culture of acknowledged complexity, only in contexts of long-range collaborative projects that bring together multiple modes of engagement- intuition, imagination, cognition... The more complex things are, the less certain the outcome but also the more room for play of the mind, for inventing ourselves out of this mess.
Joan Retallack, (2003) the Poetical wager, p23, University of California Press
cusps
Jack Vance, (1972) ,Eyes of the Over World, p 22. Granada Books, Great Britain
in other words, you provide
an instance
you are purely animal
sometimes purely plant
but mostly you’re just a
classification, I mean it’s conceivable
but so many documents
would have to be gone through
and dimensions of such variety
taken into account to realize what
you are. that
even if we confined ourselves
to the societies for which
the data are sufficiently full,
accurate, and comparable
among themselves
it could not be “done”
without the aid of machines.
Gunslinger, Edward Dorn, Highbrow Press (1975)
So where ever we turn, there is the same nagging paradox: on the one hand, the continuous development of new techno-scientific means to potentially resolve the dominant ecological issues and reinstate socially useful activities on the surface of the planet, and. on the other hand,the inability of organized social forces and constituted subjective formulations to take hold of these resources in order to make them work-
Felix Guattari, (1989, France) The Three Ecologies, [English translation,2000, trans Ian Pindar and Paul Sutton] p 23, Continuum, Cornwall
I am here... I am doing this... [W]e are now here... I go on talking... this is a composed talk.... for I am making it... just as I make... a piece of music...How could I.... better tell...what structure... is... than simply to... tell... about this,... this talk... which is... contained...within... a space of time... It makes very little... difference... what I say... or even how I say it...You have just... experienced.... the structure... of this talk
John Cage, Lecture on Nothing
Objects aught not to touch, since they are not alive. You use them,you put them back in place you live among them:they are useful, nothing more. But they touch me,it’s unbearable. I was afraid of entering into contact with them, just as if they were living animals.
Jean Paul Sartre,(1938) Nausea, p 22, Penguin [1963 print], Great Britain
but we fail to recognise certain aspects of the ‘reality’ that appear to us are nothing but figments of our own imagination.In this confusement, a conflict ensues between the world as it is and the world as we believe it to be. And the more that we insist on our own infallibility, the more frustrated we we become as the actual world again and again stubbornly refuses to live up to our expectations. Once we assent to a distorted conception of ourselves, the world, or others,we immediately create a disharmonious situation in which two totally incompatable worlds are unquestionably assumed to be identical.
Stephen Bachelor, Alone With Others, Grove Press,1983, N.Y.
Get it clear in your mind
Allen Carr (1989)Allen Carr’s Easy Way To Give Up Smoking p138, Penguin, 2009, 4th Edition
What is needed instead are more sensuous anti-mechanical dissolutions, homeopathically penetrating the material to its core. The individual units are not imaginative enough. Beyond a deployment of alienated and disinterested sounds, this calls for a increase in chances for them to intermingle,merge, dissociate (Yet even density of texture by itself can become cloying, n echo chamber effect not unlike”white noise”- as we sometimes hear in crowdedly multi voice performance or on tape. sometimes a more spread out sonic fabric will be more disruptive. The concrete: the sum of determinations.
Bruce Andrews,(1998) Praxis, Close Listening , ed Charles Bernstein,
Its gnawing away at her, I’m sure of that, but slowly, patiently: she gets on top of it, incapable either of consoling herself or of abandoning herself to her unhappiness. she thinks about it a little bit, now and then; she cadges a scrap of it. Especially when she is with people, because they console her and also because it comforts her a little to talk about it in a clam voice, as if she were giving advice. When she is alone in the rooms, I hear her humming to prevent herself form thinking. but she is morose all day long suddenly weary and sullen.
Paul Sartre,Nausea,
This a is red hen, Ladybird Classics (1968)
Linguistically, the author is nothing more than the instance writing, just as I is nothing other than the instance saying I: language knows a ‘subject’, not a ‘person’, and this subject, empty outside of the very enunciation which defines it, suffices to make language’hold together’, suffices, that is to say, exhausts it.
Roland Barthes,(1977) The Death of The Author, p 144.Image-music-text, Fontana Press
Yes that is he,
Jack Vance (1972) ,Eyes of the Over World, p 22. Granada Books, Great Britain
Oral performances- based on the absorbitiveness of image, story, or personality- are often prone to undercut this remarkable temporal freedom.
Bruce Andrews Praxis, Close Listening
