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So many kinds of panic…only one kind of panic…
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William S. Burroughs. Origin and Theory of the Tape Cut-Ups (3:43)
From a lecture given by WSB at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa Institute, April 20, 1976.
Today, Feb. 5, would have been his 98th brithday.
Great archive of recordings on Ubuweb.
Magic… Gertrude Stein reads If I Had Told Him a Completed Portrait of Picasso
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Les Monténégrins creusent, dans le sol pierreux de la colline enfin conquise, des fosses pour leurs morts.
Mike Kelley, visual artist and noise musician – gone Jan. 31, 2012, aged 57, an apparent suicide…
Above: Book Bunny, 1990
“In this series of sculptures, found handmade and machine fabricated afghans and blankets are flanked with stuffed animals and displayed on the floor. Each sculpture, all of varying sizes, contains one specific motif and focuses on the assembly of stuffed animals in an “arena” for anthropomorphic observation. In the Arena #7, for example, four sides of a machine made blanket are surrounded with teddy bears and monkeys. One can imagine them holding a meeting or even attending a picnic.” — Skarstedt Gallery, New York
Via: agooddaytodie
Finding what we want
“To find satisfaction, composure, and results – we don’t need anything extra, fancy, or special. We don’t need to do or add more; we need to do less. We just need to let go of some of our assumptions, particularly our thinking that our freedom and happiness lie someplace else, or during some other time, or with some other mind.”
– Marc Lesser in his book, Less
(via Discardia)
The genius of the age is that of journalism. Journalism throngs every rift and cranny of our consciousness. It does so because the press and the media are far more than a technical instrument and commercial enterprise. The root-phenomenology of the journalistic is, in a sense, metaphysical. It articulates an epistemology and ethics of spurious temporality. Journalist presentation generates a temporality of equivalent instantaneity. All things are more or less of equal import; all are only daily. Correspondingly, the content, the possible significance of the material which journalism communicates, is ‘remaindered’ the day after. The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform. Political enormity and the circus, the leaps of science and those of the athlete, apocalypse and indigestion, are given the same edge. Paradoxically, this monotone of graphic urgency anaesthetizes. The utmost beauty and terror are shredded at close of day. We are made whole again, and expectant, in time for the morning edition.
And to think how this remaindering operates in a world where the daily has transformed into the momentary, incessant news cycle.
George Steiner, Real Presences