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Archimedes lost his head to a corporal’s sword.
What sort of madness would one need to fall for numbers and stay intact?
Trying to understand love via tensor algebra, a sheet of obscure signs appears across the bed.
Don’t use the word infinity unless you mean it.

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Alencé, Joachim d’: Magnetologia curiosa: Das ist Gründtliche Abhandlung des Magneths [Magnets], in zwey Abtheilungen enthalten; der erste Theil begreifft die Erfahrnuß oder versuchungen, der zweyte aber die Ursachen welche davon kennen gegeben werden. – Mainz: Küchler, 1690. – [4 Bl.], 50 S., 33 Bl.: ill. Taf., Source

Duchamp: Look at the photos of Thomas Struth shown in the Kunsthaus Zürich. Look at “Tokamak Asdex Upgrade Periphery [or] Interior 2, Max Planck Institute in Garching” [Images] or “Stellarator Wendelstein 7-x (detail) at the Max Planck Institute Greifswald” [Image] . Struth took pictures of the Tokamak and of the Stellarator Wendelstein. What did he see? What did he experience? How could he see something without any background information? Are we able to see this information in his photos?

Realometer: He affirms an aphorism of Brecht. Brecht said it doesn’t make sense to take a picture of the entry to a building of Krupp if your aim is to display the power of Krupp.

Jabès: We see the entanglement in which we are immersed.

Thomas Struth, Tokamak Asdex Upgrade Periphery, Max Planck IPP, Garching, 2009, C-Print, 109,3 x 85,8 cm, Atelier Thomas Struth, © Thomas Struth, Source

Thomas Struth, Tokamak Asdex Upgrade Interior 2, Max-Planck IPP, Garching, 2009, C-Print, 141,6 x 176 cm Atelier Thomas Struth, © Thomas Struth,  Source

Thomas Struth, Stellarator Wendelstein 7-X Detail Max Planck IPP, Greifswald, 2009, Source

The polka is a dot, a dance, a spot of ink on a sheet of skin, on a thing, a ring of purple.
The spud is a letter away from the sud, a singular bubble of foam.
The shoot is a leaf, is a hunt, is a game of light in a frame of film, is a root in a bed of purple.
The finger is a digit, a gesture, a tease, a fidget away from a glove.
The skirt is a ruse, a bruise, evasion, suggestion, short fuse, darker than a deepness of purple. 

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I’m skeptical. Contemporary artistic practice is a self referential system. It’s a game of recombinations. Its relation to the art market obstructs the chance of any critical approach to the regulation of today’s society.

Duchamp: You’re jealous. Because as a writer you don’t have the chance to sell your works.

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Draw blood: draw blood.
Red. Red. Red.
 
Three bodies. A problem.
The 3-body problem.

Sun. Moon. Earth.
Potato. Finger. Sprout.

You. Me. Him.
Wrinkle. Nail. Skin.

Eye. I. Aye.
Mutual gravitational attraction.

Mathematics
is the art of giving

the same name
to different things.

Finger. Finger. Finger.
Him. Him. Him.

 
 
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