FCF 106 fragment

Now
an awkwardness
always signifies something …

as
do chickens
rendered inebriated by

chunks
of bread
soaked in whiskey,

a
walker walking
along a moving

stairway,
in a
truck with see-

through
sides. I
do not have

a
perspective on
my own body

the
way I
perceive other bodies.

In
a world
of all noise,

it’ll
be tonight.
Another three rounds

of
rope, higher
up, do not

merely
frame her
breasts, but cut

deep.
And these
bookmark-sized pages

say
things like
“here comes a

pop-
up / yellow
silt” or “I

flow
in two
directions / radiation up,”

a dropper full of marrow                                       a dropper full of sea

                                  from a planet of mostly seas.

“I
am like
you in most

ways,”
she tells
us. “My introductory

paragraph
comes at
the beginning and

I
have muscle
fat and a

skeleton
that keeps
me from collapsing

into
suet. But
my real skeleton

is
made of
scars; a web

that
traverses me
in (        ) dimensions.

I
am most
myself in the

gaps.”
We have
twenty minutes to

wait
at the
site where Barbie™

signs
autographs. HOWEVER,
AS YOU MAY

HAVE
INTUITED, I
HAVE YET TO

TURN
INTO AN
INVISIBLE TELEKINETIC CHAMPION

OF
JUSTICE. Artemis
interrupts this celebratory

dance.
In Codex
Artaud III there

is
a figure
holding a banner

with
a head
on it … In

The
Acrobat (1990)
the figures are

dispersed
across seven
vertical panels to

create
a centrifugal
movement composed of

two
alternating images –
a female gymnast

performing
a backward
flip taken from

the
pose of an
Egyptian acrobat on

the
temple at
Carnak, and a

pre-
Columbian carving
of a crouching

skeleton.
I wish
I had my

Lorenzo
Chiesa with
me. Now “imagine a city colonized by its own economy
where power is diffuse but highly centralized

wrapped as smooth as a vinyl texture map

The class structure and day-to-day business are highly ergonomic

They rely on easy listening surveillance
nothing more threatening –
(        ) (        ) (        ) –
than a beep from a remote

The weather and the architecture offer no immediate threat
no sense of rifle sights aimed by lunatics at innocents

In fact
(        ) (        ) (        )
there is nothing more than the risk of a bad sunburn or an occasional mudslide

We can drive or navigate its “streets” without getting crushed by biker assassins from a Japanese animé

You do not jack up sour memories like shooting with dirty needles here

Everyone loves to talk digital and sleep near the warmth or their monitors

Snap
to Grid.”
Choose your illusion[s].

Bleed
to “[d][e][a][p][t][h].”

[Note: Sources: Jacques Derrida, as quoted in Declan McGonagle, “The Classical Trace”, in Jon Bird, Leon Golub: Echoes of the Real; Nicolas Bourriaud, Relational Aesthetics (trs. Simon Pleasance & Fronza Woods with the participation of Mathieu Copeland); Jon Bird, “Survey: Dancing to a Different Tune”, in Jon Bird, Jo Anna Isaak, Sylvère Lotringer, Nancy Spero; JBR, comment appended to Ernesto Priego, “The Age of Simplicity”, at Never Neutral, 19 Oct 09; quote from a poem that’s been incorporated into Nancy Spero, The Ballad of Marie Sanders / Voices: Jewish Women in Time, 1993, as seen in Bird/Isaak/ Lotringer; Sylvère Lotringer, “Focus: Explicit material”, in Bird/Isaak/ Lotringer; Anne Boyer, quoting Lynn Behrendt (while reviewing her Luminous Flux and Ann Lauterbach’s Or to begin again), in “'13. Tiny distinctions appear among luminosities’ or ‘perform parthopoeia on what used to be your gallows’”, and “14. ‘oh mute promise of bunnies overpopulating the sod’”, at Books of Poetry, 18 Oct 09; Shelley Jackson, Patchwork Girl, as quoted by George Landow (sample includes a little Landow-bit), “Hypertext as Collage Writing”, in The Digital Dialectic (ed. Peter Lunenfeld); Brenda Laurel, “Musings on Amusement in America”, in Lunenfeld; Peter Lunenfeld, USER: Infotechnodemo; Nancy Spero, interview with JoAnna Isaak, and Isaak herself, in Bird/Isaak/Lotringer; Norman M Klein, preface to Peter Lunenfeld, Snap to Grid: A User’s Guide to Digital Arts, Media, and Cultures; Guns’n Roses. i.m. Nancy Spero]

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[John Bloomberg-Rissman]

I try to post 1-2 times/week but I'm in Italy now so will be posting less frequently for the next few weeks.

[Ernesto Priego]

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