A open source communication - live transmission - the interstellar textual echo of two self styled pioneers of inner space. Sources , horses and courses in body work and electroacoustic art. All are welcome.

Saturday, 15 November 2008

Text made flesh


 Just read a derrida obsessed article on christian spirituality - "there is nothing outside the text" : he maintains in an act of Moses like deconstruction.  He recomends we become  "the text made flesh" - concepts and experience intermingled all the way down alice's cultural rabbit hole. 

 Quite scary really - I made a wordle to exorcise myself of any lingering textual demons - words like the bugs in burroughs books. I know there is a simplicity in Rousseau's "words as a pointer to the infinite and real" - but there is also a hell of a pragmatic convenience - literally. Anyway in addition to choosing you own vestibule in hell ,  You might like to try  : http://wordle.net/

 



 

Thursday, 13 November 2008

special


 Ive spent the week at a special school for kids with learning difficulties.....

 One kid has a fanatical hyperchondrism which propels his mood and outbursts - he once suffered an injury to his foot and is convinced it is about to happen all over again. Once he has heard your voice - he has you - hes sucked you in - and unless your will is string - you have to look at his foot. Its "red" - "Ill get me sock off" - "Rob says it was red". He is blind - and can only anticipate what red might be.  In a sensory mist he circulates in his own sub-world with second hand images and fears of a repeating past. Is there anything special about him ?

 Other children are called "sensory seekers" there body motion fixes into repeating harmonic motions - rocking - humming - calling. With their sensation of their own bodies restricted and blocked by their sensory deparavations - they struggle within their range of motion to fill their own body space back up with a epiphenomenon of experience. It is only the intervention of another - a strong physical gesture into their movements that smoothes these waves of sensation into perception of the wider world. Is there anything special about them ?