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entirely excellent, Deleuzian even, if not altogether satisfying, forget Danielevski after you’ve read House of Leaves & pick up a Jasper Fforde footnoterphone [op.cit., p.332, n.4], passing quickly over the cartoons

The Long View has been eroded. We can’t see beyond six months if that, and short-termism will spell our end. But the thing is, it needn’t be that way there’s a reason for it. The time engines don’t just need vast quantities of power – they need

2 K. statues and a shot of eggs

– photographs by James Van Dellen, www.futuregringo.com – Francis Bacon, c. 1952

if it’s moving at sufficient speed, a sheet of paper can cut down a mighty oak tree, which explanation, Marvel, I think it was, offered for the Flash’s ability to use his hands as blades to cut through solid objects (Paul Virilio would approve)

[How] even to touch the greatest task … if you cannot collect yourself in such a way that, when the decisive moment comes, you hold the totality of yourself collected in your hand like a stone to be thrown, a knife for the kill? – Franz Kafka quoted by Nicholas Murray in

meanwhile, and conversely, to appropriate the actual theatre to a virtual industry is not the answer

Recovery [of the real] proceeds through the dissolution of the psychoanalytic theatre of interpretation (the theatre in which desire is staged or ‘represented’ … at a distance from itself) … Recovery [of the real] involves dismantling the theatrical representation of desire in terms of restricted family roles and metaphors and the restoration

Merry Christmas

– painting by Attila Richard Lukacs found at www.dianefarrisgallery.com see page “FOUND materials” opposite for the document the path with heart by Alejandro Iglesias Rossi, a Christmas present.

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a second post’s look at a previous erratum

more a “procedure” – as painstaking, literally, as any surgical procedure – to produce a Body without Organs – comprising habits, traits, potentials hidden in the actual body, i.e. a virtual body – and manufacture desire continuously. Less the “exorcising” of anguish to indulge one’s taste for masochistic pleasures. I have it