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Simon Taylor

Simon Taylor

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

a short series up to christmas

a small colourful bundle arrived yesterday We must trade offline first inclination to propose it, in this form Must be kind “the mystery you would be I would unfold, pausing at the mystery Be careful “of unfolding, trembling fingers following soft bifurcations... We must move moments laid bare, a trail

“That the Holocaust…” —Jacqueline Rose: on getting stuck inside your mind by experience, as a traumatic diktat

…could have become a premise–that is, a proposition which produces its own logical conclusions–is striking, or rather strikingly different from seeing it, for example, as unrepresentable atrocity, as unassimilable, or barely admissable trauma in the way Judith Butler, citing Primo Levi, has so powerfully described… — Jacqueline Rose, The

sixty-third part, called “on movement LXIII,” of a series of ‘letters’ written to you, the reader, towards a book called, theatre | writing

on movement The complete entity is complete in time. It has come to pass that it is; it has come to time: it comes to pass. It doesn’t pass but it remains a fact of the present, so that having passed away, its passing away is also complete. If

sixty-second part, called “on movement LXII,” of a series of ‘letters’ written to you, the reader, towards a book called, theatre | writing

on movement We are dealing with two different notions of movement. The one we have described both as mobility which we are subject to, and as comedy; the other we see to be static, a suppressed tragedy: that is, the human comedy subjects us, as its subjects, no others, to

R. I. P. Sylvère Lotringer

LOVE AFTER LOVEby Derek Walcott

The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your

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