PROSOPOPOEIA

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2011-12-17T21:18:00.003-05:00

return the ghost organ, disgust

heart leans forward to sit atop the new one

face burning red

2011-11-18T01:11:00.000-05:00

2011-11-14T22:40:00.000-05:00

iris butter, labdanum, tuberose, rose

2011-10-30T18:11:00.000-04:00

wrists of kindness

2011-10-10T18:51:00.000-04:00

attitude, concept, course, crack, fling, go, idea, lick, manner, means, method, mode, modus operandi, new wrinkle, offer, procedure , program, shot, stab, style, technique, way, whack, wrinkle

2011-07-06T02:52:00.002-04:00

2011-06-27T01:32:00.004-04:00

the white spaces, the vowels, of the poem, the words are all consonants, overlap, between the silence of the outside and the silence of the vowels, overlap, between the hardness of every word and that of the true consonants, on a certain level, what seems to be a vowel is a consonant, really

2011-05-13T16:25:00.003-04:00

"The "self" is the body that has the other in it..."

-- Bruce Wilshire, Role Playing and Identity

answers and resolutions

2011-05-05T03:09:00.004-04:00

An answer is made up of symbols. An answer draws on conventional wisdom, common sense. An answer is pat and without irony.

A resolution may include symbols, but it also incorporates gestures, actions or interactions, tone of voice and other vocalized sounds, facial expressions, varying rhythms or interactions of all of these, and figures of speech.

An answer is language with no body-of-language. Language without its material aspect.

An answer maybe be mistaken for a resolution. Answers often impede resolutions.

rhymes with

2011-04-18T20:27:00.003-04:00

airworthy

celery

century

cleverly

elderly

emery

energy

expertly

feathery

leathery

lethargy

memory

plenary

rectory

referee

reverie

sensory

tenderly

treachery

weatherly

westerly

2011-03-06T18:49:00.001-05:00

axiom is where the voice falls it is the voice as it is sinking down to the

theorem is where the voice rises the voice as rising and then pressing on

a system is a world a world is a system

2011-01-29T21:34:00.008-05:00

chalk, liver-lily, kentan, milk, paper, rose, snow, anemone

2010-05-09T17:27:00.004-04:00

"Despite cogent attempts at definition, the concept of performance continues to be plagued by ambiguities. Most pressing seems to be the paradox between performance as the consequence of following a script ... and performance as a fluid activity with ample room for improvisation."

-- Wikipedia

2010-04-27T00:46:00.001-04:00

Felicity conditions for declarations

Felicity conditions for requests

Felicity conditions for warnings

leftover last lines

2010-02-18T01:15:00.007-05:00

r are opera rations simulations and is restating any response

fronds are to fondle

but this black jack it is at last I ask you have you a plan a place a golden man

my masking unmasking

wall of mind behind the sun I see her winking for a wall is falling

at her sunk down her hunk mind at

a tick along a thick in time bore second

mathematically attacks lack

as march thou were in gungreen bolt seen

slap don't you disease

2010-01-24T03:19:00.001-05:00

NOT IF BUT WHEN

2009-12-10T02:36:00.000-05:00

2009-11-21T18:57:00.005-05:00

You looking at the painting. The figures in the painting looking out at you. The figures in the painting looking at one another. The figures in the painting looking at objects or staring off into space or with their eyes closed.

The museum guard, who may be looking at the back of your head. The other people in the gallery, who may be looking at you or at the painting.

The artist, who looked at the painting. The models for the figures in the painting, who later looked at the painting.

All the other people who have seen the painting : buyers, museum officials. People who have never seen the painting but who know it from reproductions.

--adapted from James Elkin's The Object Stares Back

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2008-12-07T01:57:00.002-05:00

-- E. H. Shepard, Very Small Beetle Exercising 'round a Gorse Bush

2008-12-05T22:18:00.001-05:00

continuity
visibility
place

2008-11-30T00:31:00.001-05:00

2008-11-07T15:33:00.005-05:00

Variant of ground. Ground definition. Ground (ground).

Noun. Obsolete. The lowest part, base, or bottom of anything. The bottom of a body of water. The surface of the earth, specifically the solid surface. The soil of the earth; earth; land
any particular piece of land; esp., one set aside for a specified purpose a hunting ground land surrounding or attached to a house or other building; especially the lawns, garden, etc of an estate.
Any particular area of reference, discussion, work, etc; topic; subject arguments covering the same ground
basis; foundation.
The logical basis of a conclusion, action, etc; valid reason, motive, or cause: often used in plural.
The background or surface over which other parts are spread or laid, as the main surface of a painting. The particles that settle to the bottom of a liquid; dregs; sediment coffee grounds.
Election.
A conducting body (as the earth, or an object connected with the earth) whose potential is taken as zero and to which an electric circuit can be connected.
The connection of an electrical conductor with a ground.
A device, as a stake, iron pipe, etc, that makes such a connection.

Adjective. Of, on, or near the ground.
Growing or living in or on the ground.
Football. Designating the part of the offensive game plan using running plays.

Transitive verb.
To set on, or cause to touch, the ground.
To cause (a ship, etc) to run aground.
To found on a firm basis; establish.
To base (a claim, argument, etc) on something specified.
To instruct (a person) in the elements or first principles of.
To provide with a background.
To keep (an aircraft or pilot) from flying.

go theatre

2008-09-21T14:37:00.007-04:00

".. I want to make a claim which I cannot hope to prove or substantiate but which nevertheless I believe to be true: viz, that theatre and theatricality are at war today, not simply with modernist painting (or modernist painting and sculpture), but with art as such -- and to the extent that the different arts can be described as modernist, with modernist sensibility as such ... The success, even the survival of the arts has come increasingly to depend on their ability to defeat theater."

-- Michael Fried in Rosalind Krauss' Passages in Modern Sculpture

GO THEATRE!!

2008-09-05T20:39:00.001-04:00

is is ideology

2008-08-03T21:27:00.013-04:00

I
Love
Bad
Grammar

2008-07-02T16:23:00.002-04:00

Agrave !
Aacute !
Acirc !
Atilde !
Auml !
Aring !
AElig !
Ccedil !
Egrave !
Eacute !
Ecirc !
Euml !
Igrave !
Iacute !
Icirc !
Iuml !
Ntilde !
Ograve !
Oacute !
Ocirc !
Otilde !
Ouml !
Oslash !
Ugrave !
Uacute !
Ucirc !
Uuml !
Yacute !

2008-06-24T19:14:00.002-04:00

1. Âkâsha, sonoriferous ether, sound
2. Vâyü, tangiferous ether, touch
3. Tejas, luminiferous ether, colour
4. Apas, gustiferous ether, taste
5. Prithivi, odoriferous ether, smell

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2008-04-10T01:14:00.003-04:00

OVER

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2008-03-22T00:12:00.001-04:00

there's an irrational explanation for everything

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2008-01-11T22:16:00.000-05:00

Richard Schechner's Seven Magnitudes

2008-01-01T23:29:00.000-05:00

1. brain event
2. microbit
3. bit
4. sign
5. scene
6. drama
7. macrodrama

as laid out in his book, Performance Theory

2007-12-23T23:49:00.001-05:00

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The Five Stages of Knowing

2007-12-21T21:16:00.000-05:00

silence
total dependence on whims of external authority
received knowledge
reception and reproduction of knowledge
subjective knowledge
truth and knowledge conceived of as personal, private, and intuited
procedural knowledge
reliance on objective procedures for obtaining and communicating knowledge
constructed knowledge
view of all knowledge as contextual and valuing of subjective and objective strategies

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How to Empathize

2007-10-08T00:05:00.000-04:00

1. Temporarily disconnect your face from the parts of your body where you feel emotion (chest, gut, etc)
2. Look into the other person's eyes, & align your face with theirs
3. Carefully mimic their facial expression
4. Hold that expression, reconnect with your own face and allow feedback from your face into your chest, gut, etc
5. Take note of the emotion you feel. In all likelihood this is what the other person is feeling.

2007-09-26T23:52:00.000-04:00

STRANGE/CHARMED

2007-09-08T01:09:00.000-04:00

Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire. Ecrire.

2007-08-30T21:35:00.000-04:00

minor happiness is only able to raise the hairs on the body
momentary happiness is like flashes of lightening at different moments
showering happiness breaks over the body again and again like waves on the seashore
uplifting happiness is powerful enough to levitate the body and make it spring up in the air
in pervading happiness the body is completely pervaded, like a filled bladder, like a rock cavern invaded by a huge innundation

2007-08-13T23:04:00.000-04:00

s i l
e n t t e n d e r e m b o d i e
d g e n u i n e w o n
d e r i n g d i s c e r n i n g d e l i g
h t e d

2007-08-13T19:58:00.000-04:00

jiggle the browser sidebar to bring the centipedes to life!

2007-08-10T21:19:00.001-04:00

2007-08-09T00:07:00.000-04:00

sparklines

2007-08-08T23:56:00.000-04:00

flash flood watch flood advisory flood statement flood warning flood watch gale warning hazardous weather outlook high surf advisory lake wind advisory marine weather statement minor flood advisory

they appear to be in a separate box
they don't fit on the same screen as the map

2007-08-08T23:51:00.001-04:00

current temperature
ambient light
visibility in miles
wind chill
wind speed
wind direction
humidity

I change the snow icon to look less like the rain icon
I highlight today with a bordering rectangle
I add weekday markers below the temperature bars
I make all days past and future the same color

stability, instability, volatility

if the icon signals a blizzard, I open my door to find blue sky

2007-08-02T22:44:00.000-04:00

some popular searches at Visualcomplexity.com (altered a bit)

2007-07-26T18:39:00.000-04:00

1. music
2. flash
3. flicker
4. tree
5. time
6. network
7. timeline
8. brain
9. delicious
10. map

2007-07-14T19:39:00.000-04:00

2007-07-12T16:49:00.000-04:00

[[Relax calm your tension become body breathing relaxed. Other than to admit into. Stand walk don’t run yell and undone. Let gone into became.]]

2007-07-12T16:45:00.000-04:00

[[you ran so fast you lose your mind. the body trips or does it? the tv lies dead. fantasies all fold up. now they melt into. ~~what a crack.~~

rain of same words. ~~a heart bust.~~]]

2007-07-03T23:37:00.000-04:00

Slownessishness

2007-06-18T23:50:00.000-04:00

yellow candles folding a hand hemp seeds scornfully
~~zigzag jagged lollipops purport to entrain an inside~~
arm man can he seep and be made whether he does
~~bat battery sold to be placed in a mouth as the moose~~
camel can he hold to the edge as the sea tips a ready
~~dart to and fearlessly a place where rain will wait her~~
earth is real and we wonder to come near nor through
~~feather a large breath and become measuring tacks~~
great tinkering with claustrophobic agoraphobia
~~hindered by wishes though these open the newest~~
island a place so full bursting busting becoming wind
~~jewelry that twinkling in the something foreclosed~~

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2007-05-23T17:17:00.001-04:00

PAUSE

2007-03-18T21:26:00.001-04:00

INTERMISSION

Reading is an Aspect of Writing: C. Colebrook

2007-02-27T23:16:00.000-05:00

"We sense time as that power of difference from which movement, as change rather than just shift of space, is propelled. We tend to impose relations on movements, seeing something as moving from one point to another, but before this relational and ordered whole there are singular movements or variations. A leaf falls and dies, withering and losing colour; this is part of the life and duration of the plant, its own specific rhythm. Elsewhere a bird crosses the sky, migrating in order to breed, and the movement of the bird crosses the movement of the clouds that are about to condense to produce rain. Each movement is not just a change of place within a whole but but a becoming in which the movement is a transformation of the body which moves, a body being nothing other than its movements."

-- Claire Colebrook in Gilles Deleuze

Websites of Delight

2007-02-22T23:24:00.000-05:00

Alternative globes at World Processor .
The earth in air at Breathing Earth.
A map of the colours of words at Colour Code.

Website of the Week

2007-02-21T20:24:00.000-05:00

Visit the beautiful Visual Complexity site. Now!

2007-02-20T22:55:00.000-05:00

SAW YOU SMASH YOUR IDOL STORY

2007-02-15T20:44:00.000-05:00

Notebook Excerpt # 23

2007-02-14T14:39:00.000-05:00

There is so much snow. It's relentless now, I don't enjoy it. February. Enough already.

I'm so sad, the light is so surreal. I don't know.
I thought.

Life is so weird. This is the strangest day I've had. The light is so strange.

There's so much snow. Like sheets or curtains of it.

The light is so weird today.

Work, writing, is endless. Endless.

2007-02-13T01:16:00.000-05:00

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Reading is an Aspect of Writing: M. M. Waldrop

2007-02-11T20:31:00.001-05:00

""Life is based to an incredible degree on its ability to process information ... It stores information. It maps sensory information. And it makes some complex transformations on that information to produce action. [The English biologist Richard] Dawkins has this really nice example. If you take a rock and toss it into the air, it traces out a nice parabola. It's at the mercy of the laws of physics. It can only make a simple response to the forces that are acting on it from outside. But now if you take a bird and throw it into the air, its behaviour is nothing like that. It flies off into the trees somewhere. The same forces are certainly acting on this bird. But there's an awful lot of information processing going on that's responsible for its behaviour. "

--from Complexity, the Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos, by M. Mitchell Waldrop

2007-02-08T23:23:00.002-05:00

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prosopopoeia /pro·so·po·pe·ia / 1. a figure of speech in which an absent or imaginary person is represented as speaking or acting. 2. a figure of speech in which an inanimate or abstract thing is personified or given human characteristics

Reading is an Aspect of Writing: C. Colebrook

2007-02-02T19:49:00.000-05:00

"Opinion, for Deleuze, is the very inertia or failure of thinking. Opinion is a laziness directly opposed to the expansiveness of the philosophical concept. Deleuze and Guattari cite the example of a man who moves from his dislike for a certain kind of cheese to a general claim that the cheese just is offensive. ... It is this tendency of opinion to reduce the difference of the world to being 'just like me' that both weakens the active character of thought and reinforces the modern capitalist prejudice that we are 'all the same' and capable of interacting in one global market [.]"

-- in Gilles Deleuze, by Claire Colebrook

Reading is an Aspect of Writing: M. M. Waldrop

2007-01-31T22:58:00.000-05:00

"[E]very topic of interest had at its heart a system composed of many, many "agents". These agents might be molecules or neurons or species or consumers or even corporations. But whatever their nature, the agents [are] constantly organizing and reorganizing themselves into larger structures through the clash of mutual accomodation and mutual rivalry. Thus, molecules ... form cells, neurons ...form brains, species ...form ecosystems, consumers and corporations ... form economies, and so on. At each level, new emergent structures ... form and engage in new emergent behaviours. Complexity, in other words, [is] ... a science of emergence."

--from Complexity, the Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos, by M. Mitchell Waldrop

2007-01-29T22:02:00.001-05:00

2007-01-21T20:28:00.000-05:00

schools
flocks
swarms

fire spread
starfish outbreaks
invasions of exotic plants

flows through porous media
flows that create their own channels through a medium

collapsing sand hills
nuclear chain reactions

if then the epidemic dies out naturally
if then the epidemic spreads indefinitely

seed dispersal
animal migration

flake

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flake

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...roughness...

2007-01-06T01:21:00.000-05:00

head twisted to look to the wall feet in water and hand feels fur the loopy kind tacky floors and a musty smell a stack of bills lopsided the long white wire of the camera like the one she’d drawn on her skin this one connects does not repel to think of cutting it and floating there in the water a while longer rather than rushing to the street to see who might be passing slow tick of a new appliance when had she last written this way upright mechanical (but the need to see who might be behind glass)

Word of the Week: Eidola

2006-12-29T17:36:00.000-05:00

A theory of vision must explain how information crosses the space between the perceiver and the object she is perceiving. Early theories of sight offered three major opinions. One opinion held that the eye sends out rays to objects, and that these rays give the viewer information. Among the proponents of this view were the Pythagoreans. A second opinion held that sight depended upon an interaction between images that were ejected from the eye and the perceiver's own spirit. Socrates and Plato supported this theory. Finally, another opinion held that when people see, they actually make contact with the objects they see, or, rather, with replicas of those objects.

In the fifth century B.C., the Greek philospher Democritos maintained that every object contained numerous replicas of itself. These replicas were called eidola (singular, eidolon). It was believed that every object continuously emits eidola. That if a person looks at an object, its replicas fly toward the viewer and enter her eyes. According to this scheme, one is able to see some object only because one of the object's eidola has winged its way into her eye. Several observations were taken as support of the eidolon theory. For instance, the fact that a person could see her reflection in water or in a mirror proved that the viewer was emitting eidola.

copied w/out permission from here.

2006-12-24T17:39:00.000-05:00

the cause of every bodily disorder is vanishing

From the Files 10

2006-12-21T20:06:00.000-05:00

I am healing.
Hot and cold air melt, mixing.

Sounds like pitbulls barking.
Two years to the month.

Habituated, yet fearful of other things.
~~Sound of a bee~~.

...

Noticing the attraction between sentences.
Everything fell into its place.

Became necessary to break it.
No logic to this.

Un-lovely sounds.
A new bra, a new girl.

Invisible across the wall
Pictures of

From the Files 9

2006-11-28T22:00:00.000-05:00

mint is to chocolate as snow is to birdsong

From the Files 8

2006-11-28T20:05:00.000-05:00

coins are cells or cells are coins

From the Files 7

2006-11-28T19:50:00.000-05:00

Nothing projected. Upper thighs sanded & pale. Elastic a perfect circle though not perfectly.

Where the dogs were trained, I coughed. Puddle of pink. But back to the circle.

So many have been

a) girls dressed in brown
b) earthworks
c) white gold

These are stains it bears repeating. No one is in those cars.

The crying too was a circle. Hack, hack. Upstairs they're looking for the remote or moving to another room. There are four, they might run out.