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At Rob & Lee's house.
1248 Treat, after stapling Try!
at Cyber Copy, at 16th, then
taking the BART to 24th,
taking 14 books out from the
library & walking down.

Ro Taylor, Rob, Eleni, Lee,
Jocelyn, John Sakkis, Jen Hofer,
A (Chris?), Amber, (a
woman to whom I was introduced but
whose name I forget), (Chris =
a man who the same), Chris
(actually Chris), Stephen Vincent,
Rob (not Halpern but with another
last name I forget), Amy Balkin,
Thom Donovan, Robin Tremblay-
McGaw, me.
All these
sitting in a circle in the
living room, with the sounds of

kids in the pool outside coming through
the the window. Light & light
wind on the trees outside.
(Simonides, before
the palace collapse, whether this is
in Quintilian or Ad Herennium,
I dont know, I forget.)

Poetics of disability.
Amber & Eleni. Health &
fitness.
Pasta, beans, salad,
a piece of cheese on bread,
glasses of wine, a cookie
Amy Balkin called 'solid'.
(And it was.)

Patrick Durgin chiming in on
an internet conversation.
(apropos of Hannah Weiner
read through the filter of
disability studies -- not limited to
body)

"how to not cause further harm"
--Kocik

"epiphenomena of the unmade" --Kocik
(look at notes on Nonsite site)

disability & fitness.
reorient myself to
heed Thom.

"forms can serve scial struggle or
ethical / political dilemmas"

potential bodies.

"the body as a proof that I
was there" *
"parse the body" *

voice & autoaffection.

• Vito Acconci

* (cf. Spinoza :
the body proving to itself that it
exists)

"the performance of the body
mediated by the immediate
threat of harm"
--Martha Rosler

"violence was being conveyed"

BRING THE WAR HOME
(Rosler's photos -- cf.
Tyrone Williams' Aggression talk)

"I'll lock it to itself"
--Rob [name] re: his bike *

[Oliveros, Conrad, Sherrits,
Living Theatre (Dionysus '68)] *

• autoaffection

5.25

appearance fatigue.

antienter
(antient-er.

the durable --
that which survives beyond its intention,
as a residue.

"if the passions are the limbs of dishonor"
--Hamann, Cloverleaf...

At Canessa Park.
Tyrone Williams, Laura Moriarty &
Brenda.

Diverse dangers of local pits to fall into.

(here it's MEN, Spicer,
DE Oppen.)

The general intellect.
Fragment on Machines
(Notebook VII)

The blood clots enough to
shave a knot from it.
We're native speakers.+ +Native informants.

An openness in our libidinal life was all
that was required to breed out of
us technicity & all that follows.

Signals. Tethers. Hoards.
Anticipation, grief.

"We're mammals"

All right, to think it
politically, which means to think
politics down to its elements.

Ethics wont let me sleep at night,
unless I drink to excess.

The solid sphere of thinginess
which permits us at last to
forget everything human.

"Reification is also a kind of
forgetting" --Adorno

This comment seems very generative to me.

Knowing what money & the
commodity-form might actually be.

The politics of insufficiency -- of
vigilance -- diagnosis & awaitment --

I dont want to perish under the
burden of that name --

the name.

delimits, designates, separates.

"particular language wages" --Brenda

lifts & separates.

Also stultification.

I had got used to
losing you in advance of the loss, so that when I lost you it was
truly the case that I felt nothing.

True Convenience Delivered.
--Wells Fargo ATM
(reminds me of the title of 17th cent.
British religious tracts)

They take what ever
available ontology, they
dont know how to check the math.

Ourselves a site of some variety of
registration.

"We seek everywhere for the unconditioned
and find only conditioned things"
-Novalis

"I am not fit / to carry your name"
-Will Oldham

The ictus.
The major point is not
the question of appearance from a Read more

an informal talk on joseph cornell
(notes by david brazil)

at the home of taylor brady & tanya hollis

in attendance --

taylor, tanya, rob halpern, lee azus, brandon
brown, alli warren, david brazil, jason
escalante

following -- a transcription of the notes
i wrote that evening -- supplemental memories
in brackets -- direct quotes indicate speech

my point of departure for conversation
was the coincidence that both brian whitener
and i, who went to see the show together,
independently found ourselves thinking of
the work of walter benjamin & specifically
of the arcades project

which led me to pose the question:
is there a theory of history in the work
of joseph cornell?

(cf. this quotation from 'the arcades project':
"method of this project: literary montage.
i needn't *say* anything. merely show.
i shall purloin no valuables, appropriate
no ingenuous formulations. but the rags,
the refuse -- these i will not inventory
but allow, in the only way possible, to come
into their own: by making use of them.")

[tanya talked about her early encounter with
cornell & its formative character -- as well
as wendy kramer's simultaneous discovery
of jess --]

[tanya also spoke of the emotional quality she
saw in cornell's work -- the boxes as a way
of communicating --]

[the conversation turned to chance]

"chance as objective hazard" [TB]

Cornell as furtive

"a set of foregone conclusions" [TH]

destroying surface

"a set of procedures that undo that
at every stage" [TH]

decollage

Duchamp v. Cage (aleatory v. stochastic)

[everyone asked TB to define 'stochastic']

[BB spoke of Rrose Selavy, the perfume bottle,
etc. as well as the curational savvy of the
Philadelphia Duchamp room as against the
facile thematization of the SFMOMA show]

[DB mentioned the 'Portrait of Ondine' as
displayed in the show, as a riff on Duchamp's
Green Valise]

"domesticated chance" [TB] Read more

Imagine a primer, grammar or glossary that documents this evolving vocabulary, written collectively and kept in progress over time.

It seems as though there are certain key terms that are apt to arise again and again in our collective discussions.

What these terms probably all have in common is that they are
contested.

A wiki seems like a good site for the dialectical refinement of the definition of certain words that we are probably going to be saying a lot together. Read more