a footnote to something else

an excerpt from an argument I'm having w/ my second reader:

look what I am saying with lability is basically simple and basically stupid:

that the subject is not just always going booooooo qualia I AM SO ALOOOOOOOOOONE because of the Kantian etc problem of qualia and the subject's inability to really know whether "red" is the same "red" for others because it is so TRAPPED IN ITS LONELY SELF THANK GOD THERE IS A GOD a logos to gather up the fragments of the world and transcend my little selfhood and provide the unity of perception that will make it all make sense

what I am saying is that that ^^^^^ might be alienation

and one could even think of this alienation as applying to things that are somehow static--a rose is a rose is a rose
RED RED RED RED RED RED RED
a fucking square that's a fucking square and you can kick it

but what I'm calling lability is about
booo qualia I FEEL LIKE I CAN'T KNOW THOSE THINGS those people anything but my own perspective
OH SHIT IT CHANGED
OH SHIT the rose died
OH SHIT I'M DRINKING ROSEHIP TEA
oh shit I kicked a square
and it broke
and now part of it looks like a circle
and my foot hurts
but I still don't know anything about what could happen
or how to talk about it
or what it could mean for you
or what that rose really is

ode to a minor threat

"Price becomes part of the 'expression' in abstract-expressionist work; there is 'action-pricing'; price is a part of the total 'image' which the painter discovers on the canvas; it is inherent in the Gestalt. Just as Paul Klee's titles became part of the whole painting and were, in fact, inscribed by him on the paper, so action-pricing is as spontaneous an act and as free from rational review as the brushstrokes themselves. David Smith's $50,000 is 'neo-dada'; Kline's $12,780 is 'tachist.' It has been said that a factor in the action-painting explosion of the last fifteen years has been the search for his identity of the sensitive and tragic personality in a more and more homogenized and impersonal world. Action-painting and action-pricing establish identity and with it, inevitably, precedence. Artists are no less competitive than other humans. To have out-priced may mean to have out-painted. Price is part of the pecking order. Criticism may be considered irrelevant and sales a sign of venality. An indifference to both may be asserted by an astronomical price, like Browning's 'By God 'tis good, and if you like it you may.' Price is a part of conspicuous production. It is a big moment in an artist's life when he goes from a four to a five figure price."

—GORDON WASHBURN Director, Department of Fine Arts Carnegie Institute

Art Journal, Vol. 21, No. 4 (Summer, 1962), pp. 256-257

Depeche Mode "Hole To Feed" from Eric Wareheim on Vimeo.

du, du liegst mir am herzen

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but I'm still mulling you



over

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waren das einfach Übersetzungsfehler? or does this question raise necessary ones?

placeholder for tendrils of thoughts somewhat unfamiliar

APOCALYPSE



or from the OED:

[ad. L. apocalypsis, a. Gr. , n. of action f. to uncover, disclose, f. off + to cover.]

. . .

2. By extension: Any revelation or disclosure.

1621 BURTON Anat. Mel. 677 (L.) Interpret apocalypses, and those hidden mysteries to private persons.
1831 CARLYLE Sart. Res. II. v, The new apocalypse of Nature unrolled to him.

. . .

DRAFT ADDITIONS JUNE 2008

b. More generally: a disaster resulting in drastic, irreversible damage to human society or the environment, esp. on a global scale; a cataclysm. Also in weakened use.

. . .

1994 Time 24 Oct. 33 While the poor are bewitched by dreams of peace and plenty, the rich are preparing for an apocalypse.

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the last, of course, being a moment of hmm, what?
so, to sate the curiosity: it's the table of contents tagline for an article on Aristide & Haiti.

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shana tova, I guess I'm glad my religion isn't about apocalyptic visions and therefore some aspects of these thought patterns are not inherent to me?

happy new year.

oh oh oh a word

Equivocall seeds and Hermaphroditicall principles, which contain the radicality and power of different formes.
Numerous and strong testimonies like these prove the question.
There is a radicality in this method of dealing with the electrical conditions of the human body which to the logical mind commends itself.
I . . . prefix the Root of such Power to the note of Becoming . . .
one of the evil legion of toryism, after all his radicality.
The apparent radicality of its thesis has proved to be purely verbal.
She was treated as an artist with many styles and no coherent profile, which made it hard for people to understand what she had done.
We shall play one section of you against the other this day, and both sections against the radicality the next.
No influence of the operation can be invoked.
The concept in gynecologic cancer surgery.
Surgical techniques have developed during the 20th century with a tendency toward increasing radicality in order to deal with those cancers with a propensity for locoregional spread.

nine years before escher

--Théo van Doesburg, La cité de circulation, 1929

(more here)

china through the stereoscope 1900; and this now always now

dying in the dying-field
where discouraged poor are allowed to come to die
working "as if nothing had happened. . . .
we are here in a vacant space near the river--
it is the last ditch
watched over by the camera of the outsider
horror and clicking capturing
death and death and death kept and saved
preserved image swimming up again
not dying and not being
paper


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to c m, in march

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The eyes are
- a cat may have no visible white
face may be missing, such that the eye and proboscis (if present)
have been using the skin renew
the cool feeling upon application is nice, there is no visible improvement to my look. A shorthaired cat of a breed developed in the Far East, having blue eyes and a pale fawn or gray coat with darker ears, face, tail, becomes active life in colder parts there washes away every stain from her face at a crystal waterfall. To remove the bloodstains from her face and head Catskin washes herself When Cats Drool · Your Cat's Eyes
A healthy cat will be alert and friendly, with clear shining eyes.

Die Augen sind
- Eine Katze hat keinen sichtbaren weißen
Gesicht, so dass die Augen und Rüssel (falls vorhanden)
mit der Haut erneuert wurden
die kühle Gefühl auf Antrag ist schön, doch gibt es keine sichtbare Verbesserung zu meinem Aussehen. Eine Kurzhaarkatze aus dem fernen Osten, mit blauen Augen und ein helles, graues Mantel mit dunkler Ohren, Gesicht & Schwanz——Aktiv ist das Leben in kälteren Teile wäscht sie jeden Fleck weg von ihrem Gesicht mit einer Kristall-Wasserfall. So entfernt sie die Blutflecken aus ihrem Gesicht und Kopf——Catskin wäscht sich mit Katzen Drool ihre Cat's Eyes.
Eine gesunde Katze wirkt aufmerksam und freundlich, mit klaren leuchtenden Augen.

Rather Sunday.
- Do you see furtive white as long as . . .
Між them now.
- Do you see furtive white as long as . . .
Child eyes Child ніс (if abrogated topics).
Skin oblivion skin.
vie with might, hollowed new, shed sky table and serge ash application, see to be, you look & see it, war who sang ill, give flowers flowers face, the darkness usa's tie is mere nothing. Far East narcotized cosy eyes were significant but the death sought a look, an itsy esthetic, no-go credit list. -- Unizen is the right of the total to very timely institutions. But this stele copied a suet Fruitlet institution --polders and Catskin cat eyes, as long as obtained and used to give Samuel Squarrosa 3 treatments of "Ji Shu hygiene Zhaoxi" the right eye is still concerned about the optimizing brothers
postavok is not minh minh Medium.

for shawn, a little late

When I was twenty-seven and about to spend a summer in New Hampshire, I took lessons from Mike, a young and rather obnoxious Italian American. In 1948, when I was twenty-seven years old, I married Esther Louis and we had five children: Carol, Sarah, Ralph, Glen and Barry. When I was twenty-seven years old, I married a photographer in Vietnam. I had a car accident when I was twenty-seven in which I was nearly killed. I was married when I was very young, but my husband died when I was twenty-seven. I started writing stories when I was twenty-seven, and that made everything better because then I had less time to write in my diary. Then, when I was twenty-seven, ten years after the Boston accident, I had my first experience with "gross painless hematuria"; that is, much blood in the urine with neither pain nor infection. My first book was written when I was twenty-seven, and, as it turned out was successful: but as this of course was not to be foreseen with certainty, ... I foolishly went nowhere when I was twenty-seven. I was chairman of a bank when I was twenty-seven. I decided to be an artist when I was twenty-seven. I received my discharge from the army March 8, 1946 when I was twenty-seven years old and returned home to stay on March 12. When I was twenty-seven, my mother died expressing her regret for not seeing her daughter get married before her death. The thought that continues to guide me today, at the age of sixty-seven, is the same one that guided me when I was twenty-seven. I used to do this when I was twenty-seven. Yes, when I was twenty-seven.

Desire Line

Desire Line
Originally uploaded by ben patio


--Berlinde de Bruyckere (Belgian, born 1964)