twack gook! that's spooky...
On 8/26/05, Lanny Quarles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > O great beast tell us your philosophy! > Your dirt nap cometh.. (Yawn).. > > blow it out your ass you twack gook.. > nobody asked you. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alex Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <WRYTING-L@listserv.utoronto.ca> > Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 5:55 AM > Subject: MASTURBATION > > > > What do 'you people' do here. Write. Pontificate. > > Create a community in which to feel SPECIAL. Or, I > > wonder, is this simply a place where perverts come, > > and those who like to watch, listen. And for that > > gimp, that inevitably will say that art is whatever! > > FO! > > > > AJ > > > > --- Lanny Quarles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> oops you're talking about Clark Coolidge's Crystal > >> Text > >> that line about the crystal being the opposite of > >> history > >> through me for a loop i guess.. but any comments > >> still apprec. > >> > >> duh > >> lq > >> > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Lanny Quarles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> To: <WRYTING-L@listserv.utoronto.ca> > >> Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 10:57 PM > >> Subject: Studio as History > >> > >> > >> > Hey Ryan, > >> > I'm reading _Studio as History_ by Ryan White > >> > this is you right? > >> > > >> > the introduction is interesting, especially this: > >> > > >> > Here the crystal - the very opposite of the > >> historical > >> > -as the poet's refractory tool, appears as the > >> index of > >> > a certain aesthetic occurence; an occurence of an > >> aesthetic. > >> > The crystal's making-strange of the 'everyday' is > >> nothing > >> > other than the action of a naturalism understood > >> as ahistorical: > >> > it is refractory an hard, simply a part of the > >> ground, one of those > >> > things which happens before judgement, language, > >> economy. > >> > > >> > Why is the crystal the very opposite of the > >> historical. (or is it history in the sense of > >> ideological historicism as > >> > "history") > >> > It seems to me that in its oddly constrained > >> morphology via language materiality, > >> > 'the mechanical', and the process of feedback, > >> with all kinds of attendant > >> > distortions, the crystal or in Wolframist terms > >> 'computationalism' > >> > seems as good a way of describing culture as an > >> autonomous meta-biological > >> > entity (shades of ?White) as any.. The Ahistorical > >> naturalism.. is this the infinity > >> > of unrecordable minutiae that performs the > >> 'content' of history? and is this minutiae > >> > the substance of an aesthetic 'occurence', a > >> 'refractory' tool? or perhaps some kind of > >> deanthropomorphisation > >> > of the subject read as a universal instantiation > >> of arbitrariness re: carbon, etc. > >> > There's some post-structuralism haunting this.. at > >> any rate straighten me out here, > >> > i think i'm already flummoxed!! with this thing. > >> > > >> > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > >
