"the poet must not close his eyes"

mixed_biscuits

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Everyone keeping "up to date" in such a way that they can immediately understand each other just results in conformity; with the now pressing in on all sides at all times one has to fight hard to cultivate a healthy otherworldliness - John Cena
 
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You don't have to keep up to date on everything, just have some awareness of your surroundings so you're not completely out of touch. There's too much out there to be up on it all anyway. Just seems a good idea to have an eye on at least a couple of things which are currently happening, something alive.
 
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versh said:
Do you watch any television?​
I do, I watch the news from different sources. Sometimes I see things that are completely against my cultural nature. I was raised with Latin and Ancient Greek and poetry from Greek antiquity, but sometimes, just to see the world I live in, I watch “WrestleMania.”​
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An unexpected choice.​
You have to know what a good amount of the population is watching. Do not underestimate the Kardashians. As vulgar as they may be, it doesn’t matter that much, but you have to find some sort of orientation. As I always say, the poet must not close his eyes, must not avert them.​
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So you’ve been watching “Keeping Up With the Kardashians?”​
I’m starting to discover it. I’m curious; that’s my guiding principle.​

@sus with the Henry Miller pull - artist as antenna - and @Corpsey and his 2024 thing's brought this Herzog interview to the fore once again.

Is he right? How closely in tune with your time and place are you? Are you averting your eyes?
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kid charlemagne said:
oh god no...... i will read the avatar substack but i cant memorize the whole thing im sure i could memorize and recite the herzog quote or the sydow monologue
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I'm just teasing no one is going to read it, sometimes I put prizes at the bottom of my pieces, "if youve gotten this far heres $100 to target" no ones ever claimed one
 
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mixed_biscuits said:
Everyone keeping "up to date" in such a way that they can immediately understand each other just results in conformity; with the now pressing in on all sides at all times one has to fight hard to cultivate a healthy otherworldliness - John Cena
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Typical biscuits thinker unable to acknowledge the existence of the symptom.
 
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as for the question, it's fairly irrelevant.

Something I wrote last night:

an ambiguously unethical and immoral book, but precisely for that reason, all the more necessary. Not in the sense of redressing the balances of autobiography and biography (here Janet Malcolm was right) but necessary for the conceptualisation of the experience of blindness and disability more generally as artificial and mechanised process of acquisition, incessantly and obstinately indexing the symptom that can only ever serve as the traumatic corporeal real (I.E: the persistent void) of the able-bodied. Or as we would say on the street: nothing alien is fake to me.

Once one is able to grasp this, a panorama of seemingly fruitless (and at risk of incurring the wrath of feminists) hysterical) speculations gradually transmute into the authors discovery of the hard rational kernel undergirding the often deleteriously reprehensible mythologies surrounding the condition of blindness. In a way, if this work was not traversing such novel ground, if the territory wasn't so unfamiliar, I would be inclined to subject it to a cholerically remorseless demolition job in order to illuminate the synthesised ethical content that arises once one expels the excrement — really now, professor Kleege, get over her already, most of us blind folk don't give a shit! As things stand, however, this book would be pushing above its weight if it focused on the fact that disability problematises the notion of individual appropriation and ownership, even and especially of one's carcass. Thus, to paraphrase Biggie Smalls: such property as able bodies will be eliminated from the higher organisation of society! Eliminated, that is to say, by ensuring the human species is reconciled to what they must disavow of themselves in the externalisation and alienation of disability in order to uphold their unconscious fantasies of a harmonious and organic society.
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Blind Rage: Letters to Helen Keller

As a young blind girl, Georgina Kleege repeatedly heard…
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The thread isn't about literally not closing your eyes. Obviously a lack of sight is a hindrance to experiencing some aspects of the present, but it doesn't take you out of it.
 
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versh said:
The thread isn't about literally not closing your eyes. Obviously a lack of sight is a hindrance to experiencing some aspects of the present, but it doesn't take you out of it.
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that's not what I said though, I'm referring to Lacan.
 
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if you can't gesture at the symptom, the real, the lack, that is to say the nothing that undergirds all trauma as abstraction, then does it matter if your eyes are closed or open? see my poem about mr and mrs al fresco shitting worldwide.
 
DLaurent

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Herzog's easy to deconstruct once you've studied him for ages, then it just becomes comedy, like travelling on foot.
 
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