Archive for July, 2012

Sampurna Chattarji: ‘The oracle is not a machine’

Wednesday, July 4th, 2012

Spoons the oracles of eating, objects that intuit hunger from the taste
of the tongue against their steel mouths. Hung from the ceiling
of a specific appetite for impossibles they are the green reflection
of a deserted bistro where only the machines hum their lonely song:
come back, hands, sweat, human agency, open us, close us, set us
in your service, desert us, count on us to keep singing to the green
melon on the counter, warming it with our intelligent voices
while we wait for the long afternoon to ripen.

Sampurna Chattarji: Longing without logic

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012

Misreading computability as compatibility i.e. mistaking
computability for compatibility is reading compatibility
into computability with an eye that sees desire everywhere,
so that the statement compatible processes of physical law
explains how some limbs lock so well together
arms hair hollows made to receive protrusions synch like sound
and your smiling is recondite only to the stranger who does not see
real numbers are not compatible so that whole sensations
negative rational or irrational are merely fractions of recurrence
of longing without logic pressing against the limitation of compatibility
with every inch of the body that refuses separateness.

Sampurna Chattarji: How a horse grows into anxiety

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012

How a horse cell grows into a horse
is perhaps easier answered than how a horse-
laugh grows into an avalanche of assault. Or how being horse-
whipped only makes a child grow into a mule.
There is a science of laughing, which perhaps answers acutely
all questions of anxiety: did I laugh too loud, did she find my teeth horsy,
and perhaps tracks the growth of laugh-lines on the fertile ground
of your face. When skin loosens from bone like loose-jacketed oranges,
there is no reason to laugh. The smell of orange-peel encases the room
with well-being, inside are the doubts which we will spit out like seeds.

Turing I

Turing II

Sampurna Chattarji

Headfarm

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012

IIIIIIIIIIIIIII
Ervinhas

(Erín Moure)

I I I I I I I I I I
I Gras/Gräschen/ervinha/grass
1 I I 2 R Gräser/Gräschen/ervinhas/grass

I [Die Möglichkeit, ein Gedicht zu schreiben, scheint kurz auf.]
1 – I 1R
Das ergibt:
Die Möglichkeit, ein Gedicht zu schreiben, scheint kurz auf.
Die Möglichkeit, ein Gedicht zu schreiben, scheint kurz auf.
Die Möglichkeit, ein Gedicht zu schreiben, scheint kurz auf.
Die Möglichkeit, ein Gedicht zu schreiben, scheint kurz auf.
Die Möglichkeit, ein Gedicht zu schreiben, scheint kurz auf.
Die Möglichkeit, ein Gedicht zu schreiben, scheint kurz auf.

e-poetry

Headfarm

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012

Linien stabilisieren Unterscheidungen; Farben schaffen Internsitäten, die stabilisieren oder destabilisieren. Die Linie wäre damit apollinisch (wissenschaftlich-begrifflich-berechenbar), die Farbe dionysisch (berauschend-berauscht). Doch steht nicht fest, was dem Leben gemässer ist, denn wir wissen nicht, was das Leben, was leben ist, auch wenn wir leben.

Monday, July 2nd, 2012