January 2010
28 posts
“What he is is a weird hybrid blend of classical Expressionist and contemporary...”
– David Lynch keeps his head; David Foster Wallace.
“Players themselves can’t be valid targets. Players aren’t inside the...”
– on Eschaton; or, Confusing the Representation and the Actual.
Spurs Nietzsche's Styles; Jacques Derrida.
What is the opening step of that Dis-tanz?
Its rhythm already is mimed in Nietzsche’s
writing. The hyphen, a stylistic effect inserted
between the Latin citation (actio in distans)
which parodies the philosopher’s language
and the exclamation point, suspends the
word Distanz. The play of silhouettes which
is created here by the hyphen’s pirouette
serves as a sort of...
“Planes intersect: on one level, the tragedies of Cape Kennedy and Vietnam...”
– J.G. Ballard; ‘Notes Toward A Mental Breakdown’.
“I have always been a voracious reader of what I call invisible literatures —...”
– J.G. Ballard; ‘The Pleasures of Reading’.
“‘Curiously enough, far from being meaningless, the science news stories somehow...”
– J.G. Ballard on ‘filler’ text.
“Chemistry & Industry … was a good place to work because, of course, the...”
– J.G. Ballard; ‘Shanghai Jim’.
J.G. Ballard, ‘Project for a New Novel’
“(These are) a series of four facing-page spreads that were specimen pages I put together in the late 50s… sample pages of a new kind of novel, entirely consisting of magazine-style headlines and layouts, with a deliberately meaningless text, the idea being that the imaginative content could be carried by the headlines and overall design, so making obsolete the need for a traditional text except...
“Myths are made for the imagination to breathe life into them.”
– The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus.
“As if this great outburst of anger had purged all my ills, killed all my hopes,...”
– The Stranger, Albert Camus.
“Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don’t know. I had a telegram from the...”
– The Stranger, Albert Camus.
“I ended up not being bored at all as soon as I learnt how to remember things....”
– The Stranger, Albert Camus.
I imagine Mercutio; on Slippage.
Mercutio stands in contrast to all of the other characters in Romeo and Juliet because he is able to see through the blindness caused by wholehearted acceptance of the ideals sanctioned by society…Mercutio is the master ‘punner’ in this play. A pun represents slippage, or twist, in the meaning of a word. That word, which previously meant one thing, now suddenly is revealed to have...
