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Trade Routes: cherchez la femme

Elizabeth A. Wilson. Neural Geographies: Feminism and the Microstructure of Cognition. points to Vicki Kirby. “Corpus delicti: the body at the scene of writing” in Cartographies: Poststructuralism and the Mapping of Bodies and Spaces. Eds. Rosalyn Diprose and Robyn Ferrell. … Continue reading

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Muscle Messages

This is a speculation set up by Alphonso Linguis (“Orchids and Muscle” in Exceedingly Nietzsche) through the thought of Leroi-Gourhan. See how it all pivots on the placement of the expressive function. In the human primate, a distinctive reflexive circuit … Continue reading

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Roulette: Icon Index Symbol

Terrence W. Deacon summarizing Pierce in The Symbolic Species No particular objects are intrinsically icons, indices, or symbols. They are interpreted to be so, depending on what is produced in response. In simple terms, the differences between iconic, indexical, and … Continue reading

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Valuing Attributes and Attributions

Arturo Schwarz (The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp) provides a bibliographic reference to a piece by John Cage “26 Statements Re Duchamp” and attributes the following statement to Duchamp Tools that are not good require more skill. The piece is … Continue reading

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Cage and Duchamp: A Toronto Chess Game

It’s got a good index. Good if you are mindful of names. Look up Cage and you find the reference to the section you had browsed and made you buy the book and lug it home (it’s a big tome). … Continue reading

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Defecation Fame

Banksy. Wall and Piece (2006). Last bit of “Advice painting with stencils” The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Fame … Continue reading

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The Herb

The dope on lesbians on dope. Monique Wittig and Sande Zeig. Lesbian Peoples: Material for a Dictionary. Among the different varieties of known herbs[,] the lazy herb is much appreciated by the lesbian peoples who practice an intensive idleness. “It … Continue reading

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Anglosexuality

A quick reminder from Foucault’s History of Sexuality and a bit of emphasis : “Homosexuality appears as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy onto a kind of interior androgyny, a hermaphroditism … Continue reading

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Brackets (more basket cases)

Basket I Chrystos signed the lines in “Ceremony For Completing A Poetry Reading” gathered in Not Vanishing, lines that point to an undoing, lines that point to the not being able to go home until the everything has been taken, … Continue reading

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Two Basket Cases

This from a long 2006 missive to my friend Willard: The horn basket [cornucopia] is emptied and usually in its emptying it does not suffer damage. The container subject to dehiscence loses its capacity to act as a container in … Continue reading

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