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Poems are the most beautiful and least egotistical at the exact moment they are forgotten.
Novels were the earliest forms of photography known to the human retina.
What is the difference between something hallucinated and something actually seen? An idea of decentralization. Desiring is a form of hallucinating information.
Like a skateboard connoisseurs who regard all abandoned and disused sites as feedback loops, in terms of their skateability and transformation into thrash pipes or funboxes, Judd understood that information should never be allowed to accumulate for too long like desires, and become a static form
An emotion that is waiting to happen is already dead.
Not watching a movie is generally superior to watching one.
My wife said “Emotions are the only way we have of making the world repeat itself.”
Here the text proposes that “the most powerful texts function like logos,” because “words and reading are synthesized into looking and staring.” Tan Lin is attracted to texts and images that appear “styleless,” “functionless,” and inexpressive, partly precisely because for him those are the remaining conditions of expression
the book’s use of photographs is consonant with changes in photo sharing sites etc., and thus the contours of memory. Some of the photos look accidental, dated, possibly corrupted. There are tons of nearly identical or generic digital photos on Flickr, a site whose photo archives are marked by nominal editing or pruning of large photo collections, minimal metadata, reduced resolution, and, in general, personal text/image archives that are not looked at very often or are not perceived to have life expectancies greater than the person who generated them etc. This is also true of people’s photo albums, but now access to other peoples’ albums has increased exponentially. We inhabit the era of the short archive, and this suits me as a specific kind of reader: a reader with a bad memory.