Friday, June 17th, 2011
Archive for the 'Attraction' Category
Gilbert: Direction is not produced by attraction
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
* [ZB Magnet 2] William Gilbert, De Magnete (London: Petrus Short, 1600), Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Alte Drucke und Rara, XVI.28, p.162.
Sampurna Chattarji: Agreement/Disagreement
Friday, May 6th, 2011The agreement of shapes like a parliament of clowns.
Cats’ whiskers, tumbrils, tendrils.
Plants are agreeable, they point towards the sun,
sunning themselves like cats.
In the back room, the weak spot spreads like a rumour.
The floor is made of earth, didn’t you know?
If you wait, and ask nicely, I can show you the way to dig
yourself out, or in, depending on climate and skin condition.
The red-eye flight of the calibrarian.
Postulate, pustule, preposterous.
Brimming with the unequal power of water,
the lake refuses to lie.
Stones disagree. They grow heavy, cold, relapse
into stony silences. They brood insects.
Hating the hand with a vengeance they shut out the sun,
seal the mouths of caves, arrive at the shape of the burial mound.
The agreement of the magnetic form is seen in the sphapes of plants
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
[ZB Magnet 2] William Gilbert, De Magnete (London: Petrus Short, 1600), Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Alte Drucke und Rara, XVI.28, p. 130f.
Sampurna Chattarji: Bodies Tend To Come Together (In Dreams)
Monday, April 18th, 2011Your mouth is full of teeth, sharp points on my mouth.
Your mouth is too small, I whisper, giggling, into your mouth.
Your mouth is sucking all the air out of my mouth.
Your mouth is a shark.
By the Dry Rod F the Water is Depressed (Coition)
Tuesday, April 5th, 2011
Rods in a water basin attract or repulse water. When the rod has a wet end, it attracts water, when the rod is dry, it repulses water. Here rod F is dry and depresses the water nearby. [ZB Magnet 2] William Gilbert, De Magnete (London: Petrus Short, 1600), Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Alte Drucke und Rara, XVI.28, p. 58.