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Thursday, August 23, 2012

YES, JESS





MAKESPACETOTHINK
can't just shut body down, although judith butler might make a sexily convincing argument for such a thing on a PERFECT STAGE. of course. so much is possible in the art museum, freudian couch, the walk alone with headphones. all that is possible for the mind, not requiring action but rather a perfectly closed system, when the thought, the mere enjoyment of the thought is sufficient to satisfy. now, try watching two beautiful fish- paired black & white, swim together for this stretch of maybe five feet & then parting in the water. they swim through a tank of salted water but their bodies either don't know or don't remember the difference between artificiality and authentic ocean. they swim and move as beauty and as, yes, electricity and hunger. point is, they are all action. they remain unremoved from them selves but through a didactic transferral enacted externally. what is internal, to a fish? hormones, fish blood, electricity, protein, oxygen, fish dreams fish dreams fish dreams... but remember when kurt cobain sang about fish and they have so many feelings remember?
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the internet says "uurr strongr thn yu thnk"
I THINK DON'T TOUCH ME BUT YOU ARE NOT REALLY HELPING
I EXPECT OCEAN AND WATER AND POUNDED AIR
WHY LANGUAGE WHEN THERE ACTUALLY EXISTS PURE WATER

O DEAR
O IF
O NLY
WHAT
RIGHT
I KNOW
WAS

??                                 ??


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KAFKA: "he is a man in hopeless feathers"

Judith Butler can't fold love into language.
To enter analysis is to enter a scene of love.
IMMOBILIZE THE BODY BEFORE ONE SPEAKS
RESTRAIN THE BODY RADICALLY TO EXPERIENCE A RELATIONSHIP
OF PURE POTENTIAL
how can critique be fashioned as a creative de idealization
or LEARN HOW TO LOVE FROM BEHIND THE GLASS

*parts of "Today is not a Dress Rehearsal" Judith Butler 2010 via Charles Atlas @ SFMOMA

"IN____________, I'LL HOLD MYBREATH TILL IM BLUE TILL THE NEXT TIME I SEE YOU" -why?

but you are/i found/everywhere

JESS: "IS LOVE ENOUGH?"

&

"YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED."

NARKISSOS BY JESS




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