Us, We, Mäx (and the Name-Game) #1

People!
To tell you the truth: 60pages is not about us and has nothing to do with you or gin or tonic. It’s not about content or style or subject or ideas or therapy.
This is about names. The name-game.
When Carson Chan didn’t want to write in week 3, ––too busy with his own blog––Mäx wrote: “Get Hilton Als instead!” And Mäx sets the rules, no, the algorithm created by Mäx sets the rules. And it has nothing to do with anything you guess.
I personally was under the impression this would be a 60-day chronic. A diary, an e-daybook. A web of memories on this or that very day, birthdays, elections, accidents, nothingness. Look up one day and you find all these quotes, lists, reconstructions, thoughts, from all over. Reality, the present.
Mäx had just one word for me: “Wrong.” It’s not about archives. It was Mäx who decided that after 60 days the picks are disappearing. He wrote: “Those memories whose only function had been to leave behind nothing but memories.” Which clearly is a Chris Marker quote (Sunless is Mäx’s favourite film), but also celebrates forgetting, rewriting memory as much as rewriting history. Mäx wrote: “Archives make people think that they know, but who wants to know, who wants to remember? Every information is as important as any other information. And as we all know, forgetting is not the opposite of remembering but rather its stipulation.” As Armen quotes Quentin Meillassoux: “le passé est imprevisible”, the past is not predictable.