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Two conceptual schemas for making sense of media: Through which: transit from A to B via C (media). Distancing, separation, delay, encoding, decoding. Supported by: sustaining environment, not so much a line as an enabling space, substance, framework, habitat – … Continue reading →

Such a long time since I last wrote here. 6 months. There is more, but it is not public. So many things cannot be publicly written. Almost everything.

She asked the stranger why she was taking photographs. It was obvious to me. There was a large moon beside the lighthouse. There was a photogenic scene. The stranger’s reply confirmed my view. Afterwards we couldn’t help making the commonplace … Continue reading →

So we have the binary oppositions, present/represented, direct/mediated. From a Deconstructive persepective, we would then have to demonstrate that the second, apparently secondary, supplementary term is actually primary – presence emerges as an effect of representation and direct experience as … Continue reading →

On the typographic shrubbery constituted by the poem along a path that leads neither away from things nor toward the mind, a kind of fruit is formed from an agglomeration of spheres, each filled with a drop of ink.1 Hardly … Continue reading →

Begin with a concern with something. But this something can only be appreciated with more things. The things come as the something seems to obtain coherence. And in this coming to coherence the something slips away in its simplicity. It … Continue reading →

It seems I have not written anything for close to 6 months. What is it to slip in to silence? Or to recline into silence? Or to find oneself all at once silent? It is to find myself here – … Continue reading →

Vaguely thought of attempting the first stage of the event early this morning (3-4am) but lacked sufficient resolve. Spent far too much of the day doing nothing. Another way of saying that I spent far too much of the day … Continue reading →

I have not abandoned the event. I am still in the event, even when unaware. In referring to ‘the event’ I am not referencing relevant currents of philosophy – Badiou, Derrida or Heidegger, etc. – or not referencing them strongly. … Continue reading →

My original aim was to complete 13 sets of the 13 exercises that make up the 7 Minute Workout. This neatly square result appealed to me. I imagined a grid with ticks in all 169 boxes (I was determined to … Continue reading →

How is the event characterised? Difficult but easy: an ordeal (typically physical), but straightforward Necessary and unnecessary: engaging with the real (discovering experience), but imaginary (artificial) Structured, but never obtaining adequate form (elusive) Commitment and withdrawal Hope and hopelessness Manifestation … Continue reading →

The last week has been very humid. There have been late storms every day. There is some slight cooling when it rains. On Tuesday night I attended a lecture/seminar by Erin Manning and Brian Massumi. Have heard their names mentioned … Continue reading →

I am right handed. My left hand is untrained, crude and imprecise. Only very occasionally does it act on its own. Its ordinary role is to follow. Just now, however, and for the next few weeks, I have a cast … Continue reading →

Ramble: As you know, I’m currently interested in ‘the event’, which is less a reference to Deleuze and Badiou than a nod to Parkrun and all kinds of local sporting festivals that are focused less on competition than on framing … Continue reading →

My understanding – although I must read him properly – is that Hobbes broadly distinguishes between the state of nature and the social contract. The state of nature is radically asocial. Individuals appear as Cartesian material bodies, confronting each other … Continue reading →

Strands of an argument: There is no horizon to the social. The social does not have its basis in individual experience. There is never any sense of a contract being signed. If there are effects of individuation and rational agreement … Continue reading →