> -----Original Message-----
> From: WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alex Jorgensen
> Sent: viernes, 26 de agosto de 2005 13:56
> To: WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA
> Subject: MASTURBATION
>
>
> What do 'you people' do here. Write. Pontificate.
> Create a community in which to feel SPECIAL. Or, I
> wonder, is this simply a place where perverts come,
> and those who like to watch, listen. And for that
> gimp, that inevitably will say that art is whatever!
> FO!
>
> AJ
>
> --- Lanny Quarles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > oops you're talking about Clark Coolidge's Crystal
> > Text
> > that line about the crystal being the opposite of
> > history
> > through me for a loop i guess.. but any comments
> > still apprec.
> >
> > duh
> > lq
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Lanny Quarles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <WRYTING-L@listserv.utoronto.ca>
> > Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 10:57 PM
> > Subject: Studio as History
> >
> >
> > > Hey Ryan,
> > > I'm reading _Studio as History_ by Ryan White
> > > this is you right?
> > >
> > > the introduction is interesting, especially this:
> > >
> > > Here the crystal - the very opposite of the
> > historical
> > > -as the poet's refractory tool, appears as the
> > index of
> > > a certain aesthetic occurence; an occurence of an
> > aesthetic.
> > > The crystal's making-strange of the 'everyday' is
> > nothing
> > > other than the action of a naturalism understood
> > as ahistorical:
> > > it is refractory an hard, simply a part of the
> > ground, one of those
> > > things which happens before judgement, language,
> > economy.
> > >
> > > Why is the crystal the very opposite of the
> > historical. (or is it history in the sense of
> > ideological historicism as
> > > "history")
> > > It seems to me that in its oddly constrained
> > morphology via language materiality,
> > > 'the mechanical', and the process of feedback,
> > with all kinds of attendant
> > > distortions, the crystal or in Wolframist terms
> > 'computationalism'
> > > seems as good a way of describing culture as an
> > autonomous meta-biological
> > > entity (shades of ?White) as any.. The Ahistorical
> > naturalism.. is this the infinity
> > > of unrecordable minutiae that performs the
> > 'content' of history? and is this minutiae
> > > the substance of an aesthetic 'occurence', a
> > 'refractory' tool? or perhaps some kind of
> > deanthropomorphisation
> > > of the subject read as a universal instantiation
> > of arbitrariness re: carbon, etc.
> > > There's some post-structuralism haunting this.. at
> > any rate straighten me out here,
> > > i think i'm already flummoxed!! with this thing.
> > >
> >
>
>
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