Journal of the First Outernational
∞ "untitled" - Ekaterina Selenkina and Alexey Kurbatov, 2018 "untitled" intends to reshape the experience of looking at plants, stones and desert landscapes. The filmmakers vary the number of frames per second at which the camera rolls. In some cases it runs at 24 frames per second, which is close to … Continue reading untitled
∞ "I Want Something Other Than Time" (pdf) - Lewis Freedman, 2018 A Letter on the Writing of "I Want Something Other Than Time" Dear Alienocene Reader, The poems in "I Want Something Other Than Time," a few of which accompany this note, imagine their own arcing lines as a form for writing our … Continue reading I Want Something Other Than Time
∞ L'Etoile Absinthe - Michèle Bokanowski, 2002 First excerpt: “...to try to break the willed articulation of the image, so that the image will grow, as it were, spontaneously and within its own structure and not my structure. Afterwards, your sense of what you want comes into play, so that you begin to work on … Continue reading The Absinthe Star
Photograms from Nostalgia for the Light (Patricio Guzmán, 2010): Dry as a Bone Mars on Earth Rocky Memory Anti-Memory The Roots of Heaven Delayed Outside Mineral Ghost Calcium Everywhere (Stars and Bones) "It's Not Even Past." White Hole Frédéric Neyrat - Philosopher, professor … Continue reading Stars and Bones
∞ "The Oracle" (pdf) - Franco Berardi, 2018 "Hi Frederic (...). I just spent two weeks in Greece, with a group of students of the Rietveld Academy of Amsterdam. During the trip, we went to Delphi, visiting the temple of Apollon and of Athena, and the holy sites of the Pizia. At the Academy of Delphi, … Continue reading The Oracle
--- --- Hope is not memory held fast but the return of what has been forgotten. - T.W. Adorno, "On the Final Scene of Faust" THEORY/FICTION: Steven Shaviro, "Unpredicting the Future" Nathalie Blanc, "Sidereal" Andrew Culp, "Dark Deleuze" Drew S. Burk, "X-1" Barbara Glowczewski, "The Men-Trees of the Stars Dreaming" Jean-Luc Nancy, … Continue reading STRATUM 1
(the music file takes about 30 seconds to load) "Planktos is an acousmatic work that should be completed by the end of 2018. "Laments" is an excerpt from it. My musical work is written with regard to Régis Poulet 's great poem of the same name - Planktos - which will be published soon by Isolato … Continue reading Laments (Planktos)
The I lies between the words and the worlds. Between the words lies the world. Between the worlds lies the word. The I between the words and the worlds lies. As anything placed in between, its character is ambiguous. The uppercase of i overlaps the lowercase of L, creating an imprecise zone of contact … Continue reading Foreign Language for Beginners
Having a lifelong passion for galls has led me on strange journey. The other name for galls - cecidia is derived from Greek kekidion - a diminutive of kekis- kekid, for everything that is gushing out, bulging, erupting on the outside. How should we approach cecidia becomings? Galls are outgrowths of abortive, … Continue reading TERATOGENESIS AS WORLD BUILDING
∞ Anna Vitale, A Want Around Rob Halpern’s [_____] Placeholder (2018) Anna Vitale is the author of Detroit Detroit and Different Worlds, and the chapbooks Unknown Pleasures, Anna Vitale's Pop Poems, and Breaststa. She wrote a dissertation on how to read suicidal fantasy as a means of imagining survival. Her work has also appeared in Jacket2, Harriet, The Brooklyn Rail, Entropy, and Gauss PDF. An essay on David Wojnarowicz's Rimbaud Series is forthcoming … Continue reading A Want Around Rob Halpern’s [_____] Placeholder
