At the same time that an author is designated, thought is subjected to an image and writing is made an activity different from life, having its end in itself … in order to serve ends against life. – Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet, Dialogues II, trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam, Continuum,

Death by Asphyxiation, photograph by Andres Serrano, found at: www.neuegalerie.at/96/radikale/serrano_e.html I would like to cut into the idea of this association between death and representation, this ideal association (see preceding post). In doing so, you see, I’ve already invoked a further association,

For as long as I can remember I’ve associated representation with death. Between the picture and the word, and at their divergence in the image and the symbol, it’s always seemed to me that the word, the symbol, is a special case. As if the blackening of the

day 18: Anja solo, Jeff reading. We invest the precepts. We cannot approach dance at all like we do acting. In fact, the dance changes everything. Or everything we have hitherto found changes on its way through this other discipline, rigorously, anexactly. day 19, a quorum, for the first time

we may say that “percepts” are related to the passive selves involved in the synthesis of living presents at all scales of reality, in the organic and inorganic world. Even though these presents are constituted by “contemplations” or “contractions of past and future instants,” they do not refer to a

– Charles Mingus, April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979