this is Matthew Barney. Notice how Matthew has two Ts. Notice how Barney is spelt as in Rubble. As in purple dinosaur costume. I love you. Give the man a bone. Yabba dabba. A mistake dogs my entries on RJF @ sf: Barnie spells his name thus, Barnie. Going forward.

day 16 came and went without the numbers we needed to have the rehearsal. day 16 was deferred to day 16. In the event, day 16 was very odd. Paul sat at the piano, Erika on a barstool: If there were a style we’re making a pastiche of, what

In learning by doing, or by interacting with and adjusting to materials, machines and models, experimentalists progressively discern what is relevant and what is not in a given experiment. In other words, the distribution of the important and the unimportant defining an experimental problem (what degrees of freedom matter, what

Inevitably, that gesture of definition IS the argument. – Uri Khein, comment on preceding post, all further quotations are in italics. The gesture of definition anticipates an argument. Here I am happily bastardising my little understanding of Gilles Deleuze on the order of a risk (material) and a challenge (anti(philo)

To preface these notes with an additional note from Gilles Deleuze – the painting arriving whole and gradually… “And then I made these things, I gradually made them. So that I don’t think the bird suggested the umbrella; it suddenly suggested this whole image.” This text seems obscure, since Bacon

Generality is not the problem. Generality itself is the plane of immanence, of unspecified, all-pervasive significance out of which the actor never reverses. –  Uri Khein, “Consciousness is the Stage,” part 1, (c) 2007 If generality is not the problem, how does it constitute the immanent field of significance out