Paris takes well to sunlight. I first arrived on a day similar to this one in the summer of 2005. It was the end of the baccalauréat exams and that night, students filled the streets. We kissed strangers, ate pie with our fingers, and watching dawn slip away above [more]
METANOIA INTRODUCTION………………………………………………….. 3 I POETICS Principles of lingual poiesis……………………. 11 The poetic function of language (Jakobson)…………….. 11 The potentializing function of language (Guillaume)….. 13 Poietic linguistics………………………………………………….. 20 The myth of the arbitrariness of the sign………………….. 24 Experimental Poetics…………………………………………….. 27 II ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE The lingual creation of [more]
He said he is hungry, he needs money. Remember her? Léa Seydoux, the actress with the RUN DMC t-shirt in Telluride.
Museum of Loneliness believes in call waiting. Museum of Loneliness believes in junk mail. Museum of Loneliness believes daytime TV is the final frontier (more of which later). MoL hasn’t had one of these for a while, received this morning under title Awful Trip!!! Good morning, I hope [more]
forgot to ask ann and monika yesterday. but discussing metanoia with them i had some new thoughts which anke and me can still include before we hand the manuscript in). i read some parts of the intro: “I now see things in a new light.” We have all at some point [more]
I was walking around making pics with my phone in a town called bredasdorp this lady looked at me and smiled from the back of a bakkie on her way to work, I smiled back and now we forever linked by that moment
off to düsseldorf for an event with ann and monika. gotta ask them about how they imagine ein gutes Buch blockiert also den Literaturbetrieb. reminds me of my fetishistic idea of seizing philosophy via literary theory. or writing something that might affect others in the way two or [more]
Holger said: “Why is there no entry in German?” Well, Holger, my hero of yesterday, the guy without whom all of this would not happen: “Because.” This is how it is at the moment. I feel that writing in English, even in this English that maybe sometimes only [more]
Four years to write a book that will probably end up about the same length as The Great Gatsby (short). No commission. No publisher. Complete madness. An exercise in deep topography: digging up what is probably best left buried. The first version heroically unreadable. The next version too [more]
Good things come to those who wait so says the saying@cape town trainstation
I have to sleep. The bus takes us tomorrow morning to Montrose. Did I write that before? More from New York. But one image now. The woman on the left is an airforce pilot. She trained the squad which killed Bin Laden. I saw photos on her iphone [more]
This today from one of the MoL’s curators: I don’t know if you remember this 1970s vogue – started by Walter (later Wendy) Carlos, for souped-up versions of the Classics? Other week I found an as-new copy of “Symphonies For The Seventies” by Waldo de Los Rios. Vaguely familiar. What I didn’t know [more]
Actually I have to go. It is the last day of the film festival. 8:30, I have a breakfast meeting in the Sheradon on Colorado Ave. The internet here in the Ice House is very slow. Later there is a picnic in Town Park. Tomorrow at 6:00am a [more]
This is too good. The new week starts like a new week should start: You see the enemies and you know them. Go, move, vanquish. What happened yesterday in German politics was an excercise in boredom – which translates as contempt for democracy because it is the duty [more]
so many texts about to be written with friends. for example the manifesto with stefan on how we need to think (and write, and do art, and politics) in times of big data. stefan thinks wir sind alle freunde. we’re all friends because even our enemies are friends [more]