A Journal for Art, Sex and Mathematics is appealing because:
It trains our perception of differences and oppositions (gender, polarity, property, capacity, opportunities) and it also expresses hope. Hope, that thinking itself (mathematical construction, zero/nothing) might be able to continue to think. (Realometer)
The compass of pirate captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” trilogy points to a new evaluation of the relationship between Man and his world by means of instruments. More
Ein Kompass, der dahin zeigt, was man am meisten wünscht, bestimmt die Handlung in den Filmen „Piraten der Karibik” (2003, 2006, 2007). Eine Replik des Geräts in den Händen des Piratenkapitäns Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) zeigt die Ausstellung Magnetische Erfahrungen, die noch bis zum 16. Juni 2010 in der Zentralbibliothek Zürich zu sehen ist.
“Above all the fights … nobody ever had the smallest chance to fight with Marcel” (Arman).
Jabès: Substitute Marcel with the word “zero”.
Realometer: I have expected you to say: Substitute Marcel with “god”.
Magnes: This would have contradicted the subtlety of both.
D: Of both?
Jabès: Thank you for the question, but I have to reject it, too much honor for me.
Magnes: Zero contains male and female, plus and minus in infinitesimal combinations.
Realometer: And a head? Indiana’ s head is a product of all the heads that had been seen in the movies. Indiana’s had is marked by the Eliot effect, which is an effect produced by history, and therefore by linear writing. The head in the Indiana cartoon is a combination of heads which have been sketched in other cartoons. Indiana’s head is the ultimate head of a certain time. Different times have different forms of ultimate heads.
Jabès: Different places have different heads, zeros and knifes. Butcher knifes, pen knifes (Schreibmesser),
D.: Nature is a chance to produce non-retinal works of art. Contrasts in this works are lines of force.
J: Without contrast mankind cannot create images of god and of itself.
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“Sie steigen auf, die Schmetterlinge des Planeten…” (Inger Christensen in: Schreibheft 74. S. 41)
Darya von Berner: Serie Flusser-Frascos de champú: lista de espera, photographic paper Ilford Flex, silicon-coated plexiglass over aluminium, 0,84 x 1,24, Madrid 2001
Realometer: Dancing creates a community. Blogging not.
Jabès: Order and disorder? This cannot be. Joining is a form of creating order. Therefore it is destinct from that which is ordered.
Magnes: Separating the force which forms from the object, is already the problem.
Dance floor: Where opposites meet and join in harmonia.
Meeting in harmonia is equivalent to “make Aphrodite” (Kittler).
A blog is…
A blog was …
A blog: a form of becoming
A blog may become
A blog – I would like to conceive as …
A blog: A dance floor
We can turn it. A frame is a form of closure, but also a form of opening. It allows concentration. We may argue that reality is a Grenzidee (an idea of limit (limes)). We may approach reality only by setting up limits, in between which we may perceive.
Instruments for measurement set limits.
A measurement measures measuring means, John Cage thinks (Quote found in: Youngblood, Gene: Expanded Cinema, New York: Dutton, 1970, p. 136).
But what are measuring means? Mankind is conceivable as a means of measuring. It measures the universe as well as mankind itself. In order to function appropriately mankind has to become a measuring means for its own ends. These ends can be achieved by emptying human subjects. How this emptying happens in an aethetic process Marguerite Duras works show (see: Marcus Steinweg and Rosemarie Trockel: Duras. Berlin: Merve, 2008).
* J. adds: Metaphysics are a battlefield. A battefield which Kant conceives as female. He calls metaphysics a battlefield in one phrase. In the following phrase he compares metaphysics with a matron that is left alone.
** Is a hole a form that opens, or a form that closes? It excludes from integrity, or it opens towards an integrity which is open to the other. But a hole cannot be thought as a totally open. Without the framework the hole could not exist.