I recently found myself watching movies that I have already seen before. Not movies of any personal significance to me, rather ordinary movies with plots that were already predictable to begin with: Having seen them before takes any surprise out of the stories foreseeable turns and upheavals, that – most of the time – led to happy ending of which I already knew before. I take comfort out of this. The love won, the murder solved, the world saved – knowing the exact details in advance removes the sharade of us pretending not to know where all our stories end.

How then, is this different from looking at images we already know. A picture in an advertisement that is sold on romance, although we are coerced into buying a perfume or a car. This suspension of belief: Us pretending not to know. While were enjoying this pretendig while all the time we already know. There is nothing new in the world.

nothing is yours
nothing is yours
nothing is yours
nothing is yours
nothing is yours

Ravenal asked Johns about the clock and the bed, and the artist, famously reticent to reveal any psychological insight into his work, said he was interested in painting objects positioned between other objects.

— Jasper Johns on what he paints

Soxixe Kiwle Pecypiv Jutugi Gogywo Xonerewi Quswi Texxi Dyzci Sizenu
Zyde Teheli Jodewi Dofesu Kedzo Vuphe Vinho Foletogu Poho Xicco Rexi
Nikokuxu Xiponeb Rewydyfi Xusohip Nepu Boge Poloqu Lutepinu Xeqzi
Votosi Qytuvuw Zoxfi Rerehut Zozhe Tigre Turo Virybok Logeti Totecoso
Vyzyci Sonfo Tuqobo Vebizu Jiceqy Buno Lipolici Gufru Dyzdi Soju Qiti
Horge Rucipel Bequxyxe Gurivox Koripin Jongy Xeculuf Nulce Xucowydo
Tukocoh

— from Spam

An Autonomous chemical weapon belonging to earth as both a sentient entity and an event. Petroleum poisons Capital with absolute madness, a planetary plague bleeding into economies mobilized by the technological singularities of advanced civilizations. In the wake of oil as an autonomous terrestrial conspirator, capitalism is not a human symptom but rather a planetary inevitability. In other words, Capitalism was here even before human existence, waiting for a host. 

— Reza Negarestani, Cyclonopedia

Alles Handeln macht aus dem Menschen ein fragmentarisches Wesen. Ich kann meinen vollständigen Charakter nur aufrecht erhalten, wenn ich mich weigere zu handeln, wenn ich zumindest die eminente Bedeutung der fürs Handeln reservierten Zeit leugne.

G. Bataille

An Autonomous chemical weapon belonging to earth as both a sentient entity and an event. Petroleum poisons Capital with absolute madness, a planetary plague bleeding into economies mobilized by the technological singularities of advanced civilizations. In the wake of oil as an autonomous terrestrial conspirator, capitalism is not a human symptom but rather a planetary inevitability. In other words, Capitalism was here even before human existence, waiting for a host. 

— Reza Negarestani

“Sie werden hier nichts hören, was Sie nicht schon gehört haben. Sie werden hier nichts sehen, was Sie nicht schon gesehen haben.”

— Peter Handke, Publikumsbeschimpfung

REFUSE TO NARRATE
BORED BY PLOT
INFORMED BY ABSENCES
WHAT IS LEFT OUT, SCRATCHED OUT
PROGRESS BY: REPETITION REVISION ERASURE

— Janet Malcolm on the Work of David Salle

– I’d like a can of paint.
– Which color?
– Blue.

–Michelangelo Antonioni, L’Avventura