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Simon Taylor

Simon Taylor

https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6687-4647

艾未未 – detained activist, provocateur, artist, celebrity, m[yth]eme, repository for ‘Western’ false conscience/bad faith, lavatory for neurotic denial, lavabo for “dirty hands,” “probably the most-documented Chinese public figure alive,” the missing son

– according to Ji Ruan – who reserves some rights over this photograph, if not the graffito – all over Hong Kong: Who’s afraid of Ai Weiwei / 谁在害怕艾未未 Calin Dan writes [Spectre, 16/04/11]: “why on earth do we need a celebrity to have problems in order to begin looking in

questions of risk, repair, sacrifice, including the uniquely beautiful, simple, broken poetry of Leigh Davis, and mice, man, motorway

– Leigh Davis, Stunning debut of the repairing of a life, Otago University Press, Dunedin, 2010 – Ibid., 27:I – Ibid., 36:I – Ibid., 37:I – Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle

better kitsch through social media

wild jasmine

– Ai Weiwei, Dropping, 2010 – Ai Weiwei, White House, 1999 Like Ai Weiwei, his 2010 work, Missing, a rollcall of the dead in the Sichuan earthquake lasting three and a half hours, seems to be missing.

there’s only whore text – doesn’t do anything though, sits there staring, now we are all writers, criticises from the Arrogant series AKA the Lives of the Saints

the new theory of the avant-garde

a festive mash-up, featuring William Gaddis IN HIS INIMITABLE PREPOSTEROUS STYLE, a book I doubt I’ll be reading much more of, Nick Land “making it with death,” like, inverted, whom I will, despite myself, be reading more of, to find out where it all tend

Birds ran on the empty lawns of the parsonage pecking at fallen irregular shapes of unripe crab apples. Swallows cut silent erratic courses above the carriage barn. – William Gaddis, The Recognitions , (first publd. 1955) Atlantic Books, London, 2003, p. 48 consciousness, it seemed, was a succession of separate particles, being