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Simon Taylor

Simon Taylor

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

a note on Stephen Barber’s endorsement of Clayton Eshleman’s translation of Artaud

Unlike poets in China, Iran, and Nigeria, I can still say anything I want to say (for a while at least). This is not only suspect freedom – it renders my situation absurd. I am like a maniac allowed to wander about screaming ‘fire’ in a theater of the deaf. – Clayton

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upsettin’ N-set: towards a genealogy of exile, N-exile

It’s completely random and a WASTE of time. And that’s what makes it so fashionable . – from here – “A Letter to Queen Victoria: The Sundance Kid is Beautiful” by Robert Wilson and Christopher Knowles Why butoh in New Zealand? because it was getting… it was getting upsetting… it was

contre temps: entente

– Duane Michals, Balthus and Setsuko , 2000 Balthus could manage to get everyone else in trouble while keeping only himself above the fray, and he delighted in doing so. – Nicholas Fox Weber, Balthus: A Biography , Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1999, p. 5 Balthus’s paintings had made it clear that

Uno et Deleuze

It was Uno who pointed out that the ground for the Japanese reception of Deleuze was laid by the Bergson scholar Hideo Kobayashi. – Gary Genosko ed., Deleuze and Guattari: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers , Routledge, London, 2001, p. 9 – Tatsumi Hijikata, Gibasan , 1972 3. “Lettre à Uno sur le langage”

Tablet, writings of St. Rutland of Rutland St.

stop screaming: ideas are the voids of the body … penetrating connexions – self-serving excerpts from Stephen Barber’s The Screaming Body

– Artaud, Portrait de Paule Thévenin, dit ‘ Paule aux ferrets ,’ 24 May, 1947 Paule Thévenin [Artaud’s friend and literary executor]described to me the process of being drawn by Artaud as that of “being skinned alive.” … Artaud … standing up before a table … would scream, hum and invent new vocabularies … The