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That's basically what he was trying to say.
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That's basically what he was trying to say.
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"Here’s the trick: do not bother trying to comprehend or understand the text. A desire for that level of control will only hinder your ability to experience it, use it, think it, and become it. To apply an analogy, I do not need to understand or comprehend my car in order for me to experience driving, to use the car to get to the grocery store, to think about the fact that I am sitting motionless while simultaneously moving rapidly through time and space, to become an extension of the car or vice versa."
http://htmlgiant.com/random/the-beginners-guide-to-deleuze/
The above's quite nice and encouraging when it comes to this stuff, but there's also a part of me which sees it as letting yourself off the hook a bit and ducking putting the effort in to actually understand it. I often find it difficult to read something and just breeze through it without that nagging at me.
http://htmlgiant.com/random/the-beginners-guide-to-deleuze/
The above's quite nice and encouraging when it comes to this stuff, but there's also a part of me which sees it as letting yourself off the hook a bit and ducking putting the effort in to actually understand it. I often find it difficult to read something and just breeze through it without that nagging at me.
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Prynne is really difficult. I got lost just reading some of what he was saying in that Paris Review interview.
yyaldrin
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i'm half as smart as you guys are but prynne's collected work "poems' is probably the best book i've every bought. i pick it up almost every month. i read the relatively more accessible poems that are included and sometimes i just randomly open a page to have m y self surprised.
ROYAL FERN
1.
By the beads you sleep, laden with scrip.
How can you love me in dream,
always walking from field to field.
You sleep on, seed by snowy drift.
2.
In strings it bales from the crest.
And singing with it I run, half
fearingly, out of the hot shade.
Love holds me to the mallet path.
3.
In his youth he walked much.
Tears streamed down his unlined face,
damping his shirt. Sleep glows
in its beads, staring the wing blind.
4.
Still the snow hums, fetching my life:
the pain to come, still the key
takes cover in the chamois case.
The key is the edge of our day.
5.
So the fiat parks by the kerb.
We hear him switch off, he is
dreaming of the void. In time,
soup for the father in open green.
6.
Now the family is rejoined. In a
gold circlet they weep of old fears.
It is warm here, the sycamore
pales at last. His to keep. Amass.
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A Theory-Fiction Reading List
Poetic Theory (Theory which foregrounds its artifice)
Søren Kierkegaard — Fear and Trembling (1843)
Georges Bataille — Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939 (1985)
Theodor Adorno — Minima Moralia (1951)
Paul Virilio — Speed and Politics (1977)
Maurice Blanchot — The Writing of the Disaster (1980)
Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari — A Thousand Plateaus (1980)
Jacques Derrida — The Post Card (1980)
Simone Weil — An Anthology (1986)
Jean Baudrillard — The Ecstasy of Communication (1987)
Lawrence Rainey, et al. — Futurism: An Anthology (2009)
Thomas Ligotti — The Conspiracy Against the Human Race (2010)
Villem Flusser & Louis Bec — Vampyroteuthis Infernalis (2012)
Claudia Rankine — Citizen: An American Lyric (2014)
Dawn Ades, et al. — The Surrealism Reader (2015)
Donna Haraway — Manifestly Haraway (2016)
Narrative Theory (Theory told through narrative form)
Lucretius — On The Nature of the Universe (55 BC)
Kamo no Chōmei — An Account of My Hut (1212)
Moses de León — The Zohar (1305)
Friedrich Nietzsche — Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1891)
Pierre Klossowski — Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle (1969)
Walter Benjamin — One-Way Street and Other Writings (1970)
Hélène Cixous — The Third Body (1970)
Klaus Theweleit — Male Fantasies (1977)
Luce Irigaray — Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche (1980)
Manuel De Landa — A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History (1997)
Catherine Keller — The Face of the Deep (2003)
Michel Serres — Biogea (2012)
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing — The Mushroom at the End of the World (2015)
Cybernetic Theory-Fiction (Theory-fiction as cultural hype)
J D Bernal — The World, The Flesh, and The Devil (1929)
Stanisław Lem — Summa Technologiae (1964)
Nick Land —Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007 (2011)
Arthur Kroker — SPASM (1993)
Orphan Drift — Cyberpositive (1995)
CCRU — Writings 1997-2003 (2015)
Kodwo Eshun — More Brilliant Than The Sun (1998)
Sadie Plant — Zeros + Ones (1998)
Mark Fisher — Flatline Constructs (1999)
Reza Negarestani — Cyclonopedia (2008)
Edward Keller, et al. — Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium (2012)
Robin Mackay & Armen Avanessian — #ACCELERATE (2014)
Baylee Brits, et al. — Aesthetics After Finitude (2016)
Benjamin H Bratton — Dispute Plan to Prevent Future Luxury Constitution (2016)
Cergat — Earthmare (2017)
Nicola Masciandaro — Sacer (2017)
Elizabeth Sandifer — Neoreaction: A Basilisk (2017)
Sci-Phi (Low fiction, high theory)
Ueda Akinari — Tales of Moonlight and Rain (1776)
William Burroughs — The Soft Machine (1961)
Arkady & Boris Strugatsky — Hard to Be a God (1964)
Ursula K Le Guin — The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)
Monique Wittig — Les Guérillères (1969)
J G Ballard — The Atrocity Exhibition (1970)
Angela Carter — The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972)
Thomas Pynchon — Gravity’s Rainbow (1973)
Samuel R Delany — Triton (1976)
Giorgio De Maria — The Twenty Days of Turin (1977)
Philip K Dick — VALIS (1981)
William Gibson — Neuromancer (1984)
Kathy Acker — Empire of the Senseless (1988)
Umberto Eco — Foucault’s Pendulum (1988)
Octavia Butler — Xenogenesis (1989)
Christine Brooke-Rose — Amalgamemnon (1994)
Alexis Pauline Gumbs — M-Archive: After the End of the World (2018)
Theoretical Fiction (1: Fiction as theory)
Margaret Cavendish — The Blazing World (1666)
Laurence Sterne — The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1767)
Denis Diderot — Jacques the Fatalist (1796)
Thomas Carlyle — Sartor Resartus (1836)
Samuel Butler — Erewhon (1872)
Alfred Jarry — Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician (1911)
Franz Kafka —The Great Wall of China (1931)
Virginia Woolf — The Waves (1931)
James Joyce — Finnegan’s Wake (1939)
Robert Musil — The Man Without Qualities (1943)
Samuel Beckett — The Unnamable (1953)
Jorge Luis Borges — Labyrinths (1962)
Italo Calvino — Invisible Cities (1972)
Eva Figes — Light (1983)
William Gaddis — Agapē Agape (2002)
Olga Tokarczuk — Flights (2007)
Eimear McBride — A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing (2013)
Laurent Binet — The 7th Function of Language (2015)
Anne Garreta — Sphinx (2015)
Joanna Walsh — Worlds from the Word’s End (2017)
Theoretical Fiction (2: Self-writing as theory)
Augustine — Confessions (400)
Michel de Montaigne — Essays (1580)
Clarice Lispector — Agua Viva (1973)
Georges Perec — W, or the Memory of Childhood (1975)
Roland Barthes — A Lover’s Discourse (1977)
Fernando Pessoa — Book of Disquiet (1982)
W G Sebald — The Rings of Saturn (1995)
Svetlana Alexievich — Voices from Chernobyl (1997)
Chris Kraus — I Love Dick (1997)
Sara Ahmed — Queer Phenomenology (2006)
Virginie Despentes — King Kong Theory (2006)
Paul B Preciado — Testo Junkie (2008)
Laura Oldfield Ford — Savage Messiah (2011)
Maggie Nelson — The Argonauts (2015)
Simon Sellars — Applied Ballardianism (2018)
Theoretical Fiction (3: Poetry & plays as theory)
William Blake — The Book of Urizen (1794)
Sarah Kane — Complete Plays (2001)
Jena Osman — The Network (2010)
Keston Sutherland — The Odes to TL61P (2013)
Poetic Theory (Theory which foregrounds its artifice)
Søren Kierkegaard — Fear and Trembling (1843)
Georges Bataille — Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939 (1985)
Theodor Adorno — Minima Moralia (1951)
Paul Virilio — Speed and Politics (1977)
Maurice Blanchot — The Writing of the Disaster (1980)
Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari — A Thousand Plateaus (1980)
Jacques Derrida — The Post Card (1980)
Simone Weil — An Anthology (1986)
Jean Baudrillard — The Ecstasy of Communication (1987)
Lawrence Rainey, et al. — Futurism: An Anthology (2009)
Thomas Ligotti — The Conspiracy Against the Human Race (2010)
Villem Flusser & Louis Bec — Vampyroteuthis Infernalis (2012)
Claudia Rankine — Citizen: An American Lyric (2014)
Dawn Ades, et al. — The Surrealism Reader (2015)
Donna Haraway — Manifestly Haraway (2016)
Narrative Theory (Theory told through narrative form)
Lucretius — On The Nature of the Universe (55 BC)
Kamo no Chōmei — An Account of My Hut (1212)
Moses de León — The Zohar (1305)
Friedrich Nietzsche — Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1891)
Pierre Klossowski — Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle (1969)
Walter Benjamin — One-Way Street and Other Writings (1970)
Hélène Cixous — The Third Body (1970)
Klaus Theweleit — Male Fantasies (1977)
Luce Irigaray — Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche (1980)
Manuel De Landa — A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History (1997)
Catherine Keller — The Face of the Deep (2003)
Michel Serres — Biogea (2012)
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing — The Mushroom at the End of the World (2015)
Cybernetic Theory-Fiction (Theory-fiction as cultural hype)
J D Bernal — The World, The Flesh, and The Devil (1929)
Stanisław Lem — Summa Technologiae (1964)
Nick Land —Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007 (2011)
Arthur Kroker — SPASM (1993)
Orphan Drift — Cyberpositive (1995)
CCRU — Writings 1997-2003 (2015)
Kodwo Eshun — More Brilliant Than The Sun (1998)
Sadie Plant — Zeros + Ones (1998)
Mark Fisher — Flatline Constructs (1999)
Reza Negarestani — Cyclonopedia (2008)
Edward Keller, et al. — Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium (2012)
Robin Mackay & Armen Avanessian — #ACCELERATE (2014)
Baylee Brits, et al. — Aesthetics After Finitude (2016)
Benjamin H Bratton — Dispute Plan to Prevent Future Luxury Constitution (2016)
Cergat — Earthmare (2017)
Nicola Masciandaro — Sacer (2017)
Elizabeth Sandifer — Neoreaction: A Basilisk (2017)
Sci-Phi (Low fiction, high theory)
Ueda Akinari — Tales of Moonlight and Rain (1776)
William Burroughs — The Soft Machine (1961)
Arkady & Boris Strugatsky — Hard to Be a God (1964)
Ursula K Le Guin — The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)
Monique Wittig — Les Guérillères (1969)
J G Ballard — The Atrocity Exhibition (1970)
Angela Carter — The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972)
Thomas Pynchon — Gravity’s Rainbow (1973)
Samuel R Delany — Triton (1976)
Giorgio De Maria — The Twenty Days of Turin (1977)
Philip K Dick — VALIS (1981)
William Gibson — Neuromancer (1984)
Kathy Acker — Empire of the Senseless (1988)
Umberto Eco — Foucault’s Pendulum (1988)
Octavia Butler — Xenogenesis (1989)
Christine Brooke-Rose — Amalgamemnon (1994)
Alexis Pauline Gumbs — M-Archive: After the End of the World (2018)
Theoretical Fiction (1: Fiction as theory)
Margaret Cavendish — The Blazing World (1666)
Laurence Sterne — The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1767)
Denis Diderot — Jacques the Fatalist (1796)
Thomas Carlyle — Sartor Resartus (1836)
Samuel Butler — Erewhon (1872)
Alfred Jarry — Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician (1911)
Franz Kafka —The Great Wall of China (1931)
Virginia Woolf — The Waves (1931)
James Joyce — Finnegan’s Wake (1939)
Robert Musil — The Man Without Qualities (1943)
Samuel Beckett — The Unnamable (1953)
Jorge Luis Borges — Labyrinths (1962)
Italo Calvino — Invisible Cities (1972)
Eva Figes — Light (1983)
William Gaddis — Agapē Agape (2002)
Olga Tokarczuk — Flights (2007)
Eimear McBride — A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing (2013)
Laurent Binet — The 7th Function of Language (2015)
Anne Garreta — Sphinx (2015)
Joanna Walsh — Worlds from the Word’s End (2017)
Theoretical Fiction (2: Self-writing as theory)
Augustine — Confessions (400)
Michel de Montaigne — Essays (1580)
Clarice Lispector — Agua Viva (1973)
Georges Perec — W, or the Memory of Childhood (1975)
Roland Barthes — A Lover’s Discourse (1977)
Fernando Pessoa — Book of Disquiet (1982)
W G Sebald — The Rings of Saturn (1995)
Svetlana Alexievich — Voices from Chernobyl (1997)
Chris Kraus — I Love Dick (1997)
Sara Ahmed — Queer Phenomenology (2006)
Virginie Despentes — King Kong Theory (2006)
Paul B Preciado — Testo Junkie (2008)
Laura Oldfield Ford — Savage Messiah (2011)
Maggie Nelson — The Argonauts (2015)
Simon Sellars — Applied Ballardianism (2018)
Theoretical Fiction (3: Poetry & plays as theory)
William Blake — The Book of Urizen (1794)
Sarah Kane — Complete Plays (2001)
Jena Osman — The Network (2010)
Keston Sutherland — The Odes to TL61P (2013)
luka
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The letter you just posted that was supposed to be from deleuze. That would be a good way of reading Prynne.
