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Simon Taylor

Simon Taylor

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

rule of engagement, three: Borat

When is Borat like Jackass? When is Borat not like Jackass? Playing psychological chicken. Red lights mounted on the front of the Valiant. The actor pushes to the limit identification with a character. What limit? Extreme acting. It makes me tired. To what avail? The redneck will no more see

rule of engagement, two: Max Black by Heiner Goebbels and Andre Wilms, the Maidment Theatre, Auckland, 23 March, 2007

An image is an action. That would immediately be enough to clarify an image in poetry – an action of language on language – and how poetry overcomes the limits of language by ingestion, by eating (see the page corpocracy and plaguology). But in Heiner Goebbels’s Max Black with Andre Wilms

rule of engagement, one

the goal of the “great organisation” isn’t to obtain power or money or to impose some idea – the three forms of which history offers examples in such abundance. The goal is to arrest the innocent and then to punish them. The goal is punishment for its own sake, a

Jean Baudrillard, 1929-2007

A silence is observed To hide its fact. Jean Baudrillard & Captain America Dead In the same week. (see page: Grosser Appell; see post below: corpocracy and plaguology: some thoughts on “Digital Maoism”)

a man can be ready to blow his own brains out but anxious to avoid a disfiguring wound

Captain Robinson felt himself, while under the influence of the drug, to be possessed of almost divine wisdom. He was aware that he not only knew the secret of the Universe, but had reduced it to a single sentence, which he was unfortunately never able to recall when he woke

& what if you heard from its lips nothing but a stream of obscenity and cliche?

In his advice to young composers, Richard Wagner wrote that, after elaborating the contours of the musical piece one wants to compose one should erase everything and just focus one’s mind on a lone head floating freely in a dark void and wait for the moment when this white

corpocracy and plaguology: some thoughts on “Digital Maoism”

A voice should be sensed as a whole. You have to have a chance to sense personality in order for language to have its full meaning. Personal Web pages do that, as do journals and books. Even Britannica has an editorial voice, which some people have criticized as being vaguely