journal
aesthesis in supersump
– still from Fantastic Planet, dir. René Laloux, 1974
… there will be privately constructed borders created by everyone everywhere, enforced by pocket nukes capable of eliminating entire cities or regions. Arbitrary moral systems will back up private aesthetic borders, making it imperative for everyone to receive the correct medication. Unmedicated people
the edge in the middle – encaustic residues
– Nash Hyon, Element #64 (Gadolinium), here
diverge to infinity
After supper I took up my physics again, but at last I gave up. Ill-starred work indeed! … Recently I have felt very sad without any reason, so I went to a film. … Returning home I read a book on physics. I don’t understand it very well. … Why isn’t
Golden Pool, 28 from the Lives of the Saints series
Oedipus returns “to hide in death a while;” or, recurrent displacement: The Character of a Dark Precursor for a Theatre of Philosophy
Near the beginning of “Theatrum Philosophicum,” Michel Foucault’s essay reviewing Gilles Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition and The Logic of Sense (this is where and when – the esssay appeared in 1970 – Foucault famously remarked that one day the century will be known as Deleuzian), there is a committal: Plato
lapidary belatedness & Thoth imago
Would I had phrases that are not known,
utterances that are strange,
in new language that has not been used,
free from repetition,
not an utterance which has grown stale,
which men of old have spoken.
An Egyptian scribe fixed those words in stone at the very dawn of recorded