Hah! FLARF sounds like a lispy dog: FLARF FLARF! great word - john Dr. John M. Bennett Curator, Avant Writing Collection Rare Books & Manuscripts Library The Ohio State University Libraries 1858 Neil Av Mall Columbus, OH 43210 USA
(614) 292-3029 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.johnmbennett.net ----- Original Message ----- From: Lanny Quarles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, February 2, 2006 11:47 pm Subject: Re: essay critical of google/poetry > image-language is omniconfigureable. > > "flarf" is label of a macro-assemblaged exploitative structure. > recall structure of endosymbiosis: > > organism a produces a waste stream. > organism b finds waste-stream nutritional. > > > > organism b attaches to organism a to exploit resource. > > organism b is assimilated into the genetic structure > of organism a as an "organelle." > > organelle = "flarf" > > [macro-assemblage eat web-poop, filter through historical > organelle "poetry"] > > This process is still extant. > Prominent historical representatives of this process. > Mitocondria. > > image-language is omniconfigureable > > fur is a > saucer is b > > furred saucer is new macro-assemblage > apply to historical time frame > > flarf is a vulgar cabal of local-time skin-bots, a social assemblage, > the immanence it projects is a variablic structure. > > opinion: people should study the productive phenomenology > of juxtapostional configureability, "the mutation of series" > instead of > the human macro-assemblies who blindly grope in the darkness of > narrow human historicity. > > "Flarf" is part of the continuum of the externalization > of instrumental memory (meme-ory) systems. > > Its temporality and politicisation are echoes of the present > human psychology defect catalogue. > > Defects can be transcendent. Can enact positive growth and change. > > All opinions are variablic stuctures. Style = Structure =Opinion = > FlarfFlarf= word, word=image, image=life, determination = structure > production = production, control.desire. > > artifiex energon field > > All events in the pleroma of image have the potential > to ignite new chains of becoming +/-.. > > The Great Work is a maelstrom with no foreseeable single outcome. > > People of Earth must flow in the understanding > of the great configureability, of the great tranformative > potential between the subject/object, image/langue > > the great and eternal dyads whose sacred fecundity transcends > our understanding, our reason, our individual being. > > flarf is mid-oughties yackety-yak. >
