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Simon Taylor

Simon Taylor

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

these words leapt from the throat of the novel

I was seated in a clean, high-tech restaurant very different from Saigon, the Vietnamese restaurant two floors beneath my loft on Grand Street. … Bare white walls instead of painted palm fronds, pink linen tablecloths with laundry creases. The waiter handed me a long stiff folded white menu printed with the

a kind of record is xx

XX.do you see the bird cross the path the rainbow on the cup the chainsaw behind the curtain the thin boy the screw perilous bridge the leaping heart the choice of many the flare of absolute conviction the style of noone but yourself the slouching police the distracted mother

Nick Tosches’s Jesus’ story, Under Tiberius, 2015, is the greatest story ever told ever–fulminative culmination, exundant

Old gods do die, and new gods do appear. — Under Tiberius, Nick Tosches, 2015, p. 34 I delivered my words with poetic grace and force, a single line in the dactylic hexameter of Homer, ending with an ancipital foot … It was … the rhythm and not the meaning of these simple

#19 for a kind of record (to read in series)

XIX.Karen says Old History NowI only care about the present well three thingsat this timein this lightwe can sayin Deleuze on Foucault places things in reverse orderfriends dowe can say one can say it is said at this time to say on the limitof the sayableand in light of

another joint in the phalanx of a kind of record follows (the rest on the right hand, if you like; if you do, contact using the contact top right)

XVIII.the tongue coils across the beach you can see its patterncan you 17 thousand bucks just to put the two pipes togetherlicks insiderim of the bay and at another juncture the tongue curls around can you do it like thisyou can scream if you want tobut you cannot change

#XVII for akindofrecord …

XVII.What about the days we choose to liveLima’s words The idea of destiny is a phrase that saysthey are coming to get usit is completed by anothergo out to meet themin Gamboa shadows lighting fires in cavesor is it Bolaño againlost imagespoems anda lump smellsrecoil we do know

production of the fold is critical not only for resistance but for new possibilities from the event of bio-, neo- or neuroliberalism

…Deleuze picked up the notion of the fold from the Baroque and Leibniz, but it is Foucault who helped him develop a politically enabling understanding of the concept. In his book on Foucault, Deleuze discusses the way Foucault’s understanding of the fold developed after the first volume of the