French Horn with Mouse

August 1, 2012November 18, 2014startind

“Can you ever forgive me for posting this delightfully corny image?” I had almost forgotten how I got here and then realised it had been produced by a search for images of Rebecca Horn. Hence a combination of surrealist chance and google images produced French Horn with Mouse [or Mouse with French Horn].

John Cale of the Velvet Underground is playing in the background [Fragments of a Rainy Season] and I am reading about writing, techné and female sexuality and this image provided a little light-hearted relief. Could it be that somewhere deep in Dissertation Land there is a mouse playing a french horn?.

Image reproduced from http://rakstagemom.wordpress.com/tag/the-nutcracker/ [there is very little here about the genesis of this image.]

Paul Celan

July 29, 2012November 18, 2014startind

To stand in the Shadow
of the Wound’s-Mark in the Air.

For no-one and nothing to Stand.
Unknown,
for you
alone.

With all, that within finds Room,
even without
Speech.

To Stand in the Shadow by Paul Celan, text reproduced from http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/German/Celan.htm, image reproduced from http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vcpb7 For a pdf of Celan’s poems from poemhunter.com click here

A Lovers Discourse

July 25, 2012September 23, 2014startind

Excerpt from A Lovers Discourse

A Lovers Discourse by Roland Barthes consists of a peripatetic fragmentary writing which explores the ‘extreme solititude’ that is a lovers discourse evicted by authoritative discourses, placed outside as it were, yet perhaps spoken by ‘thousands of subjects’. It is as Barthes explains a structural portrait of ‘someone speaking within himself, amorously, confronting the other [the loved object], who does not speak. Barthes takes us on a discursive journey, a performative utterance and structure of address to the other through absence, affirmation, waiting, circumscribing, contingencies, bodies, declaration, embrace, image, the unknowable, langour and silence. Continue reading →

Poetry, Language, Thought

July 22, 2012September 23, 2014startind

‘In Heidegger’s thinking, poetry is not a mere amusement or form of culture but a force that opens up the realm of truth and brings man to the measure of his being and his world.’

Quote from back cover, Extract from Poetry, Language, Thought, The Thinker as Poet, Harper and Row, NY 1971: pp11

Deleuze

July 18, 2012September 23, 2014startind

First Drafts_DS 2012

“Writing has nothing to do with signifying. It has to do with surveying, mapping, even realms that are yet to come.”
Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus

Text reproduced from POSTCOLONIAL ‘TEXTUAL SPACE’: TOWARDS AN APPROACH
by Alexander Moore . For the full article click here.