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CUT MY TAIL

I believe that even the greatest works of literature have a little tail of human frailty which, if one is on the lookout for it, begins to wag slightly and disturbs the sublime, godlike quality of the whole… – Franz Kafka in a letter to Felice Bauer, quoted by Nicholas Murray

study of a passion

Study of a passion would necessitate a study of masochism. …the masochist assemblage: the organisation of humiliations and suffering in it appear less as a means of exorcising anguish and so attaining a supposedly forbidden pleasure, than as a procedure, a particularly convoluted one, to constitute a body without organs

no idea

– Francis Bacon, Study from the Human Body, 1949. What is it that the K. character says about curtains in RJF project? It’s about the children, replacements for him, miniatures, his mother has inside her: I’m sure they would imagine themselves exactly as I am… day in, day out,

to what do I owe the pleasure?

When we hear of a thing as stupid as the supposed death drive, it is like seeing a shadow theatre, Eros and Thanatos. We have to ask: could there be an assemblage so warped, so hideous, that the utterance ‘Long live death’ would be an actual part of it and

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Imagine the frame physically squashed and collapsed into a line. It’s barely visible, like the leading edge of a mirror, except that at its end only a point is visible. The frame was never a limit or constraint. It was, in a way, an incitement. It asked: What do

the gifted professor walks up and down the room, like a goldfish in its bowl, trying to find the word and, unable to find it, he says, It’s not good enough!

Do you not think people would rather choose the law than their own demons? that the choice would be a real one and that it would necessarily be followed by a period not of indecision but of circling the question, a period of inability to deal with having finally made

make no connections

The whole destiny of irony is linked to representation, irony ensures the individuation of the represented or the subjectivation of the representer. Classical irony, in fact, consists in showing that what is most universal in representation is the same as the extreme individuality of the represented which serves as its