How Parrhesia Works through Art: The Elusive Role of the Imagination in Truth-Telling
Foucault Studies, 2019
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. ..Krishnamurti
Creation takes place in choked passages" (G. Deleuze) which means for me there's no passage which is unchoked - hence, any creation for which "passage" is taken for granted (especially the one from 'noise to voice' (The Logic of Sense) cannot be creative at all.
I would say prison is a “choked passage.”
Laboratory of Nano-Fascism: Although this relationship to death was once thought to belong originally to punk, expressed specifically in the funeral sculptures of Joy Division covers such as Closer and Love Will Tear Us Apart, and PIL’s Death Disco, it has been repurposed by Neanderthal capital in order to zombify the world.
Non Conceptual Negativity Zafer Aracagök
Can we come back to Krishnamurti on this please. " It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." My personal feeling is that if you are not depressed, melancholy or bi polar or schizophrenic you are not paying attention.
This is interesting: “Owen Andree Um, no. The hysterics' *desire* is to continually and question/harangue the Master/authority's position.”
To see the Invisible Man may be to instantly recoil in fear, disgust, horror, side step, turn away from an image covered face to toes with dark prison tattoos. Not a human one wishes to link with.
A live human image that has disintegrated the boundaries, the limits of class, sex, age and race.
AND NON DECORATIVE
An image that is irreplaceable, non-reproducible, non-commodified, non exchangeable or accumulated. You cannot buy it, sell it, hoard it, own it, keep it, display it. A living image that can be destroyed physically, but alive forever in the imaginations of subjects who have allowed themselves to experience the Invisible Man. A digital image existing in Simulated Reality will be as useless as J. Hillis Miller tells you the reading of Heart of Darkness will be if you do not already know it from experience, and if you do you will not need to read it. The image recorded is not to experience the REAL. Only the experience of the real Invisible Man will challenge you with parrhesia, the truth of parrhesia that confronts you in your experience of him. Did it?
Without experiencing the confrontation of parrhesia inherent in his image your imagination cannot transform the work of art that he is, which precludes any change in your mode of being, your lived life, by your experience of him. An image of the human body aligned and defined in great classical beauty resonating with classical Greek sculpture inscribed, desecrated with ugly prison tattoos - some ironically funny and some cliches, but never aesthetic. And so the different levels of episteme through time from ancient Greece to the post modern NOW hit you between the eyes.
Richard Hambleton- Jumping Shadow Fight Club?
Foucault’s genealogical method reveals The Invisible Man’s fusion with other works of art signaling parrhesia and challenging us with confrontation and a demand for change, for transformation of ourselves to a different way of seeing, perceiving and being. Only OTHERNESS can accomplish this. Not different. OTHERNESS.
Velasquez: Las Meninas
Manet: Le Dejeuner sur l’herbe / Luncheon on the Grass
Picasso:Les Demoiselles d'Avignon; Guernica
Warhol:Campbell Soup Cans
Jasper Johns:Flags and Destruction of Abstract Expressionism
Kathy Acker: everything
Herman Melville:Moby Dick:Ishmael and Queequeg
Leslie Fiedler:essays (football et al)
Leo Steinberg: art history and essays
Shakespeare: everything
Kathy Acker: everything
Herman Melville:Moby Dick:Ishmael and Queequeg
Leslie Fiedler:essays (football et al)
Leo Steinberg: art history and essays
Shakespeare: everything
Banksy: Performance Piece Dismaland;wall murals of political parrhesia
Ai WeiWei: Sculptures
Mark Tansey: everything
Mark Tansey: everything
Marina Abramovic: Performance Art; The Artist Is Present
Luce Irigaray: Speculum of the Other Woman
Roberto Bolano: 2666
Eugene:The Invisible Man
Herman Melville: Moby Dick: Ishmael and Queequeg (p. 535)
With a wild whimsiness, he now used his coffin for a seachest: and emptying into his canvas bag of clothes, set them in order there. Many spare hours he spent, in carving the lid with all manner of grotesque figures and drawings; and it seemed that hereby he was striving, in his rude way, to copy parts of the twisted tattooing on his body. And this tattooing, had been the work of a departed prophet and seer of his island, who, by those hieroglyphic marks, had written out on his body a complete theory of the heavens and the earth, and a mystical treatise on the art of attaining truth; so that Queequeg in his own proper person was a riddle to unfold; a wondrous work in one volume; but whose mysteries not even himself could read though his own live heart beat against them;and these mysteries were therefore destined in the end to moulder away with the living parchment whereon they were inscribed, and so be unsolved to the last. And this thought it must have been which suggested to Ahab that wild exclamation of his, when one morning turning away from surveying poor Queequeg - "Oh, devilish tantalization of the gods!"
IF YOU CANT BE A WORK OF ART, WEAR A WORK OF ART. - OSCAR WILDE
Beautiful Face.
In Robert Wilson's Opera
The Life and Times
Of Sigmund Freud,
I watched you run
Before you were born.
A Mercury of Time,
Now a running Apollo
Scribbled all over
By drunken Dionysians
With intentions of Parrhesia
You know nothing about.
Seeing you now confuses
The past which was
The future and this present
Mirroring the past.
Is there a tense somewhere
That they call
Future past or past future
Like the Intentional of the Hopi?
Because her car was laden
With Destiny that came
Crashing across my lifeline
Forcing me to live
In Alterity; waving at her
Drifting farther away,
Until I almost can't hear her sigh.
It is not the present which influences the future, thou fool, but the future which forms the present. You have it all backward. Since the future is set, an unfolding of events which will assure that future is fixed and inevitable. CHILDREN OF DUNE Leto II p. 278 *
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Herman Melville: Moby Dick: Ishmael and Queequeg (p. 535)
With a wild whimsiness, he now used his coffin for a seachest: and emptying into his canvas bag of clothes, set them in order there. Many spare hours he spent, in carving the lid with all manner of grotesque figures and drawings; and it seemed that hereby he was striving, in his rude way, to copy parts of the twisted tattooing on his body. And this tattooing, had been the work of a departed prophet and seer of his island, who, by those hieroglyphic marks, had written out on his body a complete theory of the heavens and the earth, and a mystical treatise on the art of attaining truth; so that Queequeg in his own proper person was a riddle to unfold; a wondrous work in one volume; but whose mysteries not even himself could read though his own live heart beat against them;and these mysteries were therefore destined in the end to moulder away with the living parchment whereon they were inscribed, and so be unsolved to the last. And this thought it must have been which suggested to Ahab that wild exclamation of his, when one morning turning away from surveying poor Queequeg - "Oh, devilish tantalization of the gods!"
IF YOU CANT BE A WORK OF ART, WEAR A WORK OF ART. - OSCAR WILDE
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| Genealogy of Body Tattoos - Tamati Waka Nene by Gottfried Lindauer (1839-1926), 1890, oil on canvas, 40”x33”, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand. |
“The past is never dead. It's not even past.” - William Faulkner
In Robert Wilson's Opera
The Life and Times
Of Sigmund Freud,
I watched you run
Before you were born.
A Mercury of Time,
Now a running Apollo
Scribbled all over
By drunken Dionysians
With intentions of Parrhesia
You know nothing about.
Seeing you now confuses
The past which was
The future and this present
Mirroring the past.
Is there a tense somewhere
That they call
Future past or past future
Like the Intentional of the Hopi?
Because her car was laden
With Destiny that came
Crashing across my lifeline
Forcing me to live
In Alterity; waving at her
Drifting farther away,
Until I almost can't hear her sigh.
It is not the present which influences the future, thou fool, but the future which forms the present. You have it all backward. Since the future is set, an unfolding of events which will assure that future is fixed and inevitable. CHILDREN OF DUNE Leto II p. 278 *
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They aren’t all prison tattoos
She screamed at me
On Facebook!
On Facebook!
This one and this one
Were done on the outside.
My brother did the cross
He tattooed over!
There are more prisons
In this world, Horatio
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy
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The Aral Sea is the future. Since it exists in the present we fail to recognize that it is only
wearing the mask of the present. It is a Debordian spectacle concealing the REAL forming
the present from the future.A radical piece of the future detached and both visible and invisible.
opens with Lake Michigan mirroring the Aral Sea and surrounding areas, the future in the
fantasy movie image of a present Chicago
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The Aral Sea is the future. Since it exists in the present we fail to recognize that it is only
wearing the mask of the present. It is a Debordian spectacle concealing the REAL forming
the present from the future.A radical piece of the future detached and both visible and invisible.
opens with Lake Michigan mirroring the Aral Sea and surrounding areas, the future in the
fantasy movie image of a present Chicago
