Mostly of the second half of the year once I started my (no-longer) new job, notes on things to read or look up, listen to, watch, notes towards projects, writing, etc:
- Jalal Toufic re: Last Year at Marienbad
- Look for record of Singapore Sling screening at a YBCA series?
- Cutris Hasselbring, “Tux is Traitor” (album: “Number Stations”)
- Book on history of (performative) magic?
- Notes toward audio piece: talk freely of erotic fantasies (in seriousness), cut into reading of more formal poem
- interject dialog [into poem] via Bernard Noel
- BEGIN WITH A PROMISE, THEN DESTROY THIS PROMISE
- MAKE THE TEXT BECOME A PLACE OF RUINATION & MADNESS
- [Claude] Royet-Journoud’s–“Shall we escape analogy” in Le Renversement
- watch more JEAN PAINLEVE
- make a bound copy of [Paul Auster’s translation of] duBouchet’s The Uninhibited
- a film/play/performance about the death of a horse – c.f. Bokanowski / Greenaway / Schroeter
- literalize the idea of “hunting the void”
- printing transparencies on laser printer?
- Roubaud’s ∈ in English?
- doors are as important as hallways/tunnels/corridors/tubes
- trilogy: STONE CARRIER / [SERPENT SERIES] / [GARDEN CHAP]
- READ THE DESERT MYSTICS
- corps/texte » “cortex” » body/text [cf. Brossard]
- XXX XXXX XX XXXXXXXXXX XXXXX as manuscript title [I’m actually going to use this so it’s hidden for now]
- “secrecy is dislocation, severed place, topological severing” (Masciandro, 82)
- “objects for spiritual use” by allesandro mendini
- read bruno munari’s books
- Gaetano Pesce, “Project for an Underground City in the Age of Great Contaminations” (Klaus Zaugg, 1972)
- a fascination with erotic machines
- “I believe in eroticism a lot,” said Duchamp
- “a murder in a park is different to a murder in a cathedral”
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- “the flow of the cosmos merges allegorically in order to be released in bodily desecration” (on Nitsch’s Oedipus Rex)
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- in absence, eroticism lingers
- maze as execution chamber
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- “He is not a person, but rather an impersonal seductive power” –Roger LaPorte on Don Juan
- “the Church of the Death of God” c.f. Klossowski
- the desire to encounter one’s own corpse
- ‘atheological verticalism’ like Dante
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- “For instance, Bataille chooses to focus his attention on the baboon’s anus long after the initial encounter in London; in this way the ‘solar anus’ continues to serve as a catalyst for ‘the dislocation of thought’ leading to self-loss.” York, pg 12 fn50 (& last few paragraphs of essay are worth noting)
- “of violence & elevation”
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- “EXCAVATE VOIDS: Investigate the hollow spaces of the text, the gaps between the lines, the silences between the words. Seek not exquisite corpses but disquieting cuts. ” (Allen S Weiss)
- “the paradoxical attempt to represent an ineffable aspect of existence”
- “the subject who speaks has just vanished”
- “to expose himself to the absence of her gaze”
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- fiction w/ anonymous characters (whispers)
- secret game in the garden
- misread a greeting card that says “you are so special” as “you are so spectral”
- read Hemingway’s FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS [as parallel text to STORY OF THE EYE]
- ask Norma about CURTAINS magazine
- Derrida – “La doublé séance” in DISSEMINATION, on Sollers’ NOMBRES and Mallarmé’s LE LIVRE
- Poe – Gordon Pym
- Duras – Abahn, Sabana, David
- “ritualistic re-enactment of plot events”
- DENIS ROCHE, Dans le maison du Sphinx
- “fictions” that pursue the search for the “unknown”
- “white chamber” » chambre blanche
- “THE DEATH OF STORY” (vs “THE STORY OF DEATH”)
- “dad’s secret harddrive” » erotic narrative device :: there must be a secret which is complex
- eros » erosion
- the power of erotism to “present nervous tension, de-figuration”
- re-read Bataille’s THE JESUVE
- Ian Hamilton Finlay, “Strong Path/Little Sparta” in Scotland (garden)
- Jean-Claude Montel
- Pasolini, The Divine Mimesis
- Mary Ann Caws, “THE INNER THEATER OF RECENT FRENCH POETRY”
- minimalist poetry article [re: poetry vs philosophy] w/r/t Laruelle’s experimental texts
- Robert Smithson, The Eliminator
- Jean-Marie Gleize
- re-read Hermann Nitsch’s “the lamb”
- Eugene Savitzkaya
- [Denis] Hollier, “La nuit américaine”
- Foucault, “Preface to Transgression”
- Denis Hollier’s intro to GUILTY, “A Tale of Unsatisfied Desire”
- JSTOR search Bataille articles published since 2010
I imagine there is shit misspelled throughout, that’s what happens when you (I) scribble stuff down.