outside light (Page 287)

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excerpts from a slim volume which ends with Beckett rather than with Brecht and points to a practice that in the silence can’t go on but does

At its most fundamental, authentic belief does not concern facts, but gives expression to an unconditional ethical commitment. – Slavoj Zizek, How to Read Lacan, p. 117 the paradox of surplus-enjoyment at its purest: the more the object is veiled, the more intensely disturbing is the minimal trace of its

some days at the Soap Factory there are no interventions that so offer the possibility of summing the whole thing up

Mexican soap operas are shot at so frantic a pace (every single day a 25-minute episode) that the actors do not even get the script so as to learn their lines in advance; they wear tiny receivers in their ears that tell them what to do, and they learn

day 2 & 3 at the soap face: rjf project

they insisted on knowing the story of the voices. They wanted her to name, embody and describe them in ways they could understand, with recognisable … imagery and emotions, in a conventional narrative that would be susceptible to conventional disproof. … It seems that for her the voices had no story. And

notes on day one of The Soap Factory, pt. 2

That was the sense we had in the work on the Enemy, as we did later in the Burrow, where the Enemy seemed to split asunder and reproduce, invading from all sides – the body so besieged, it seemed to be divested of any power to resist. … So, fear of surprise,

standard form: notes on day one of The Soap Factory, pt. 1

The life of a group is, by the nature of the thing, in a nervously transient state. … In the sociology of institutions, it is held that groups do not move irreversibly deathward as individuals do. But continuity is also a function of number, that is, the size of an institution

Robinson’s paradox, permanent revolution, Deleuze’s politics, the empty square: excerpted from The Logic of Sense

It is obvious that Robinson, on his desert island, could reconstruct an analogue of society only by giving himself, all at once, all the rules and laws which are reciprocally implicated, even when they still have no objects. The conquest of nature is, on the contrary, progressive, partial, and advances

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– photograph by Jo Larkin, rm. 3104, 2007