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In the beginning was the language, and the language was gravity. Before the beginning was infinite violence. When violence met language, there was conflict; at once collision and collusion. Conflict became a reproductive space of exchange, and atomisation became the original sin. We learnt what evil was, and it was the One.
Gravity meanwhile was inscribed into (celestial) bodies, becoming the first legal contract between them. So it is that particles collide to produce fragmented planets and people, in an exchange of violent energy. Humans similarly collide to exchange pleasantries, and sometimes bodily fluids. On the level of language, morphemes collide to exchange ejaculations of speed and to reproduce meaning. In the eighteenth century, these forms might have been approached through money, character and root.
Yet this beginning is simply the beginning of the rational, instinctual Man-form, and its subsequent trajectory through time and space. Following Nietzsche, the universe itself is a monster of energy without beginning, without end, not expanding but constantly transforming, in an infinite play of forces, and waves of forces which work like concepts to create embodied affects. Violence is this monstrous energy.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: anthropology, art, bataille, colgate, consumerism, crest, erik boker, product dissections, toothpaste
Aquafresh Extreme Clean
A minty-fresh comment on consumerism from New York based artist Erik Boker in this Product Dissections series. These dissected toothpaste tubes are incredible, each its own box held down with steely pins. I was interested to learn that Boker is somewhat informed by anthropolgy – there’s a lovely sense of Bataillan formlessness to these. At the same time, some of them are structured almost like rib cages, filled with fleshy blacklung, or maybe enthopied blood oranges. Although I like these the best, I unsurprisingly find the cooler-hued blue, green and white ones the most comforting. I think the naming of the product adds a lot too, if only as a reminder of the ridiculous brand diversifications.
Aquafresh Extra Fresh
Filed under: anthro, fashion | Tags: fashion, karama, anthropology, appropriation, m.i.a., bataille
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why so insanely fab? somehow not unlike the mad street shops down in karama, hugely overpriced of course. I’m also so reminded of those Balenciaga gold plate armour leggings – wonder what could be done with a bit of work and some pyramid studs/ metallic spraypaint/ gold foil to old shinguards? or perhaps even some blinged-out kneepads..
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I don’t know how I feel about her hyper-appropriation in her music, but aesthetically, ooh. I’m somewhat reminded of Deleuze and control societies/revolutionary becoming, and Bataille’s call for irrationality/headlessness. At that, I’d love to look at this and urban guerrilla theory re: fashion.. perhaps a possible thesis topic?
Bataille, from the Sacred Conspiracy: “It is time to abandon the world of the civilized and its light. It is to late to want to be reasonable and learned, which has led to a life without attractions. Secretly or not, it is necessary to become other, or else cease to be.
Human life is defeated because it serves as the head and reason of the universe. Insofar as it becomes that head and reason it accepts slavery. If it isn’t free, existence becomes empty or neuter, and if it is free, it is a game. The earth, as long as it only engendered cataclysms, trees, and birds was a free universe; the fascination with liberty became dulled when the earth produced a being who demanded necessity as a law over the universe. Man nevertheless remained free to no longer respond to any necessity. He is free to resemble all that is not he in the universe. He can cast aside the idea that it is he or God who prevents everything else from being absurd. “
