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Recalling somewhat WCW’s lines in Spring & All (1923), how poetry’s got to do with “the perfection of new forms as additions to nature.” Michaux ends with this: “Calligraphy around which—quite simply—one might abide as next to a tree, or a rock, or a source.” What any work of art, or poetry, is for.
December 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Recalling somewhat WCW’s lines in Spring & All (1923), how poetry’s got to do with “the perfection of new forms as additions to nature.” Michaux ends with this: “Calligraphy around which—quite simply—one might abide as next to a tree, or a rock, or a source.” What any work of art, or poetry, is for.
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A singular page out of Henri Michaux’s _Ideograms in China_, translated by Gustaf Sobin. “No longer to imitate, but signify nature. By strokes, darts, dashes.”
And: “The sign in Chinese . . . no longer in any way mimetic, has [in a hauntingly canny phrase] the grace of its own impatience.”
And: “The sign in Chinese . . . no longer in any way mimetic, has [in a hauntingly canny phrase] the grace of its own impatience.”
December 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
A singular page out of Henri Michaux’s _Ideograms in China_, translated by Gustaf Sobin. “No longer to imitate, but signify nature. By strokes, darts, dashes.”
And: “The sign in Chinese . . . no longer in any way mimetic, has [in a hauntingly canny phrase] the grace of its own impatience.”
And: “The sign in Chinese . . . no longer in any way mimetic, has [in a hauntingly canny phrase] the grace of its own impatience.”
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Untitled by Kazimir Malevich, 1911
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137865
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137865
November 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Untitled by Kazimir Malevich, 1911
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137865
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137865
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Peter Watkins (1935-2025)
November 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Peter Watkins (1935-2025)
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October 27, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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“If human beings would learn to stop insisting on their distinction from animals, perhaps they would no longer need to humble themselves so before the angels.” —Adorno (1944)
October 26, 2025 at 3:46 AM
“If human beings would learn to stop insisting on their distinction from animals, perhaps they would no longer need to humble themselves so before the angels.” —Adorno (1944)
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This, indeed, is lovely and full of interesting thoughts I couldn't have expected even if given a lot of time to think about it, here, p.ex.:
"What happens when you take a “scribble” from a toddler and try to replicate it exactly? Same colors. Pressure. Texture. Composition. Everything. That’s a...
"What happens when you take a “scribble” from a toddler and try to replicate it exactly? Same colors. Pressure. Texture. Composition. Everything. That’s a...
October 24, 2025 at 11:34 AM
This, indeed, is lovely and full of interesting thoughts I couldn't have expected even if given a lot of time to think about it, here, p.ex.:
"What happens when you take a “scribble” from a toddler and try to replicate it exactly? Same colors. Pressure. Texture. Composition. Everything. That’s a...
"What happens when you take a “scribble” from a toddler and try to replicate it exactly? Same colors. Pressure. Texture. Composition. Everything. That’s a...
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RIP Gianfranco Sanguinetti
one of the last standing members of the Situationist International has left the building…
one of the last standing members of the Situationist International has left the building…
October 6, 2025 at 1:48 PM
RIP Gianfranco Sanguinetti
one of the last standing members of the Situationist International has left the building…
one of the last standing members of the Situationist International has left the building…
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A video on the stunning and unique 'Words on the Wave' exhibition at the National Museum of Ireland which features precious manuscripts from the Abbey of St Gall, Switzerland — some returning to Ireland for the first time in 1000 years!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BikJ... #medievalsky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BikJ... #medievalsky
September 4, 2025 at 8:22 AM
A video on the stunning and unique 'Words on the Wave' exhibition at the National Museum of Ireland which features precious manuscripts from the Abbey of St Gall, Switzerland — some returning to Ireland for the first time in 1000 years!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BikJ... #medievalsky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BikJ... #medievalsky
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I wrote about Eugen Gomringer, Europe's first concrete poet, who died last week aged 100 someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/pinks-35-e...
Pinks #35: Eugen Gomringer (1925-2025)
The life and work of Europe's first concrete poet
someflowerssoon.substack.com
August 31, 2025 at 8:03 AM
I wrote about Eugen Gomringer, Europe's first concrete poet, who died last week aged 100 someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/pinks-35-e...
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"Sometimes I feel that I am not a real person, but some bird or other animal in a failed human form; inwardly I feel much more at home in such a small shred of garden as here, or in a field amongst bumblebees and grass than at a party conference."
- Rosa Luxemburg
- Rosa Luxemburg
August 29, 2025 at 6:47 PM
"Sometimes I feel that I am not a real person, but some bird or other animal in a failed human form; inwardly I feel much more at home in such a small shred of garden as here, or in a field amongst bumblebees and grass than at a party conference."
- Rosa Luxemburg
- Rosa Luxemburg
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#Onthisday in 1883, the culmination of the #Krakatoa eruption: one of the deadliest volcanic events in recorded history. Read Gerard Manley Hopkins' letters describing the odd optical effects made by the ash cloud that were seen as far away as UK: publicdomainreview.org/essay/t... #otd
August 27, 2025 at 11:46 AM
#Onthisday in 1883, the culmination of the #Krakatoa eruption: one of the deadliest volcanic events in recorded history. Read Gerard Manley Hopkins' letters describing the odd optical effects made by the ash cloud that were seen as far away as UK: publicdomainreview.org/essay/t... #otd
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Postcards by Pedro de Rojas reimagining the adventures of Don Quixote for the 20th century. We see the Knight of the Melancholy Countenance ballooning into windmills and fighting with a park ranger (identified in the caption as the Knight of the Forest): https://buff.ly/2JZAFHp
August 20, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Postcards by Pedro de Rojas reimagining the adventures of Don Quixote for the 20th century. We see the Knight of the Melancholy Countenance ballooning into windmills and fighting with a park ranger (identified in the caption as the Knight of the Forest): https://buff.ly/2JZAFHp
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Rough Waves, Edo period (1615–1868), ca. 1704–9, Ogata Korin (Japanese, 1658–1716). Two-panel screen; ink, color, and gold on gilded paper; Fletcher Fund, 1926 (26.117). Photo: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
August 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Rough Waves, Edo period (1615–1868), ca. 1704–9, Ogata Korin (Japanese, 1658–1716). Two-panel screen; ink, color, and gold on gilded paper; Fletcher Fund, 1926 (26.117). Photo: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Famously, between the first and the second act of Waiting for Godot, the only difference in the stage set is that a previously bare tree ‘has four or five leaves’. So what’s the main note to self I found in this copy which seems to have belonged to a stage manager called Nigel...?
August 13, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Famously, between the first and the second act of Waiting for Godot, the only difference in the stage set is that a previously bare tree ‘has four or five leaves’. So what’s the main note to self I found in this copy which seems to have belonged to a stage manager called Nigel...?
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Phil A. Neel launched a substack:
“Geopolitics has, quite literally, become a bread-and-butter issue across much of the globe, [...] Whether ecological, economic, or political, it appears that the “planetary” is now, in every sense, immediate.”
philneel.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
“Geopolitics has, quite literally, become a bread-and-butter issue across much of the globe, [...] Whether ecological, economic, or political, it appears that the “planetary” is now, in every sense, immediate.”
philneel.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
August 12, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Phil A. Neel launched a substack:
“Geopolitics has, quite literally, become a bread-and-butter issue across much of the globe, [...] Whether ecological, economic, or political, it appears that the “planetary” is now, in every sense, immediate.”
philneel.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
“Geopolitics has, quite literally, become a bread-and-butter issue across much of the globe, [...] Whether ecological, economic, or political, it appears that the “planetary” is now, in every sense, immediate.”
philneel.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
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80 years since Hiroshima—time to reread Anders’ Theses for the Atomic Age, Hiroshima ist Überall, and Die atomare Drohubg
www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK...
www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK...
August 6, 2025 at 2:57 PM
80 years since Hiroshima—time to reread Anders’ Theses for the Atomic Age, Hiroshima ist Überall, and Die atomare Drohubg
www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK...
www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK...
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"don’t fear fear, have the courage to be frightened, and to frighten others, too. Frighten thy neighbor as thyself"
Günther Anders
Günther Anders
August 4, 2025 at 10:01 PM
"don’t fear fear, have the courage to be frightened, and to frighten others, too. Frighten thy neighbor as thyself"
Günther Anders
Günther Anders
Ana Hatherly . mapas da imaginação e da memória
August 5, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Ana Hatherly . mapas da imaginação e da memória
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Marcel Duchamp, Network of Stoppages, Paris, 1914 #artbots #moma
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135376
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135376
July 26, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Marcel Duchamp, Network of Stoppages, Paris, 1914 #artbots #moma
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135376
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135376