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against the advisement of my mental health professionals, not to mention my better judgement, I’ve been listening to Death Is Just Around the Corner a lot lately, for the first time in years. why is this a bad idea? aside from Mikey’s contagious pessimism, astute as it may be (though he seems better since kicking junk, and my parasocial well wishes to him for it), it means I’m thinking, as though I don’t already, too much about Pynchon, too much about Gravity’s Rainbow, too much about how maybe there’s nothing left for me to say.

because I only ever need the slightest nudge in that direction, now I’m thinking maybe I’ll reread Gravity’s Rainbow. to be sure, I will eventually. but I probably ought not right now. again, peace be upon MSJ, no shade, one love, all that, but I really don’t want to be a guy who filters basically everything through his understanding of Gravity’s Rainbow. it’s a little much to have every episode of your podcast make reference to, or quote at length, one novel, exhaustive as that novel might seem.

of course, MSJ has a broad and deep understanding of a lot literature, so I don’t mean to suggest otherwise. in fact, I’m envious of how much he seems to know, how thorough and dedicated his thinking is, the conviction and self-assurance he has connecting a variety of disparate ideas. why can’t I seem to maintain that steely-eyed focus? probably because it would make me a spoil-sport, a wet blanket, a crank, an impolite dinner guest. and unfortunately, somewhere along the way, I learned, subconsciously, that it’s a lot easier to be a go along to get along kind of guy. why, I know all too well why. it’s embarrassing how much psychoanalysis still holds true.

with the help of my actual, not metaphorical, mental health professional, who isn’t a psychoanalyst per se, I’m coming to realize a whole host of shit I spent the better part of my life deliberately not realizing. not like, repressed memories or whatever, I don’t even really believe in repressed memories. but working through shit, that’s what making art is for, but also but my internal resistance to fully submerging into what all that shit is is, well, there’s a lot of tricks my ego plays to dissuade me from getting there. one of the most obvious, to me anyway, is thinking about Gravity’s Rainbow, rather than touching upon whatever it is in me that’s fucked.

complicating my own personal internal defense mechanisms is that I have to spend 40 hours a week turning off my ability to feel and think deeply so that I can do customer service. and more than anything, what I envy Pynchon for is having been granted the time and money to lose his fucking mind enough to create a book that seems to encapsulate the whole world. but to do that, he had to really touch upon whatever it is in him that’s fucked, and also whatever it is in the world that’s fucked, and boy howdy is that a lot of pain to feel.

the staccato geometry of the overlapping window panes recalls modernist techniques either passé or endlessly replicated by hacks far removed from whatever pressures moved artists in the decades following the birth of the 20th century. little did those artists know where all that sound and fury might lead to, but we know, a century later, that whatever pressures bear down on us now aren’t moving us in the same ways, if at all.

snippets of a language we might understand if we listened a little closer, and studied a little harder.

everyone looks tired, and if they don’t, well, we’re not sure they live in the same world.

we listened to stravinsky on spotify. we watched the angles of telephone lines shift with our perspective.

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“The tips of the five loops at the center of the figure have the same geometric relationship to one another as the five vertices, or points, of a pentagram, and each group of five intersections equidistant from the figure’s center have the same geometric relationship.” (source)

“The motif of a heavenly being striving for the highest seat of heaven only to be cast down to the underworld has its origins in the motions of the planet Venus, known as the morning star. The Sumerian goddess Inanna (Babylonian Ishtar) is associated with the planet Venus, and Inanna’s actions in several of her myths, including Inanna and Shukaletuda and Inanna’s Descent into the Underworld appear to parallel the motion of Venus as it progresses through its synodic cycle. (source)

“In the Book of Isaiah, chapter 14, the king of Babylon is condemned in a prophetic vision by the prophet Isaiah and is called הֵילֵל בֶּן-שָׁחַר (Helel ben Shachar, Hebrew for “shining one, son of the morning”), who is addressed as הילל בן שחר (Hêlêl ben Šāḥar). The title “Hêlêl ben Šāḥar” refers to the planet Venus as the morning star, and that is how the Hebrew word is usually interpreted. The Hebrew word transliterated as Hêlêl or Heylel, occurs only once in the Hebrew Bible. The Septuagint renders הֵילֵל in Greek as Ἑωσφόρος (heōsphoros), “bringer of dawn”, the Ancient Greek name for the morning star. Similarly the Vulgate renders הֵילֵל in Latin as Lucifer, the name in that language for the morning star. According to the King James Bible-based Strong’s Concordance, the original Hebrew word means “shining one, light-bearer”, and the English translation given in the King James text is the Latin name for the planet Venus, “Lucifer”, as it was already in the Wycliffe Bible.” (source)

“Why does Chomsky pretend to not understand this?”

Deleuze & Guattari

well well well, shout out to the Pay-Walled Street Journal for serving me up a nice helping of vindication in the form of some choice quotes from the limp left’s favorite American “dissident” Known Chumpsky, who apparently kept the company of everyone’s favorite prison “suicide” victim Jeffrey Epstein. when asked whether he knew the, ahem, disgraced financier, Chomsky said, “First response is that it is none of your business. Or anyone’s. Second is that I knew him and we met occasionally.”

really now! suddenly Mr. Government Transparency thinks he can invoke his right to privacy when asked about compromising activities! and “occasionally”? I “occasionally” have two cups of coffee in a day, which is to say, not infrequently. what sort of “occasion” is it to meet with sex traffickers connected to intelligence agencies, hmmmm? of course, Noam might be using words loosely. you know, the way a philosopher of language might.

at least Bill Gates has the sense to feign regret. what is anyone supposed to read this as other than mealy mouthed defensiveness?

Chomksy goes on to say that “[Epstein] had been convicted of a crime and had served his sentence. According to U.S. laws and norms, that yields a clean slate.” bro. dawg. homie. this is a joke, right? the “anarcho-syndicalist” who made his name outside linguistics on (barely) criticizing the laws and norms of the Amerikkkan Empire says “the justice system works” when it’s about a pedophile rapist receiving a slap on the wrist because he was friends with Bill Clinton? to say nothing of how U.S. norms generally cast sex offenders as social pariahs in perpetuity. just a totally nihilistic hand wave. I’m not even going to address him weaseling out of the question of whether he met Woody Allen with Epstein by saying “I’m unaware of the principle that requires that I inform you about an evening spent with a great artist.” Woody Allen fucking sucks dude, shut the fuck up.

oh, and if people worse than Epstein donated to MIT, THEN WHY THE FUCK DID YOU WORK THERE YOU if I use the epithet I wanted to use people will think I’m being anti-Semitic.

“Non-Sequitur” Coda

The entire technique of the “secret” societies is to conduct their controversies as if the terms of reference were historical. Historical scholarship and criticism (in the arts) is as much their field of present battle as the news, poem, play, novel, painting or musical composition.

Marshall McLuhan, in a letter to Eric Voegelin

what’re you trying to say that it’s only possible to achieve greatness if you cast off the inhibitions imposed by sanity who cares if Freud was a cocaine addicted cigar puffing basket case what does saying Jung was psychotic mean for the ways he shifted the world Joyce may or may not have been manic depressive but there’s no disputing his broad knowledge of language history politics literature art science you’re just trying to box me in what if I want to be insane what if I want to pursue every last ambition with the doggedness of a heat seeking missile what do you mean heat seeking missiles explode what do you mean que es la significa amiga maybe sanity is a prison and the only way to get out of this situation is to lose it a little huh huh how about that don’t tell me to calm down who’s paying who here huh watch me brandish my piercing intellect like a disgruntled postal worker driven the end of his lonely patience and forced into drastic measures to see the effect of his existence on the world I will swallow the world like a serpent with unhinged jaw (get it? unhinged??) I can do it all I can do it all and you’re one of those agents sent to check me when my ambitions get too high they don’t want me to win [dj khaled voice:] DJ KHALED! because if I win they lose and they can’t lose they always win what am I going to do what am I going to do the guards are closing in lashing whips like Inquisitors burning witches like Puritans killing heretics like Templars blackmailing radicals like the FBI but I’m not a witch heretic radical I’m just a boring nobody whining in his therapist’s office

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détournement is an artistic practice, first developed by the Letterist International and adopted by the Situationists, that utilizes preexisting cultural artifacts and repurposes them into something intended to draw attention to the contradictions of the original production’s milieu. it is a form of artistic propaganda that turns the language of bourgeois society against itself. to even contemplate détournement as a viable artistic project in 2023 is a little quaint: a common example mentioned as counterargument is how graphic designers at AdBusters often wound up working for the very advertising agencies they lampooned.

I’m not someone who wants to give up the game so easily. the oscillation between subversion and reification is just that: an oscillation. anyone who thinks that avenues of refusal, rebellion, and resistance have been permanently sealed by the coronation of neoliberal capitalism is only spinning Francis Fukuyama’s End of History into a scolding leftist critique.

that being said, I’m also not someone who believes art ought to be propaganda. this is the position held by Debord and Wolman in their essay “A User’s Guide to Détournement”. as I often like to say to myself, I’m not an activist, I’m an artist: think what you will of that. nonetheless, I reserve more disdain for nihilist aesthetes than I do for anyone who views art as a vehicle for ideology, so I’m interested in methods for artistic production that are engaged in some kind of political or moral struggle. but I reserve the right to leave you guessing what exactly I believe. my sympathies should be obvious enough.

anyway, revisiting the Debord/Wolman essay, I got some ideas for my own projects, but more interestingly, I was reminded of one of the few “content creators” I truly admire: jinx.

he repurposes clips from films, news footage, pop songs, wikipedia articles, and internet ephemera–the cultural material of networked capitalism–into provocative political education of an alternate history, with the intention of estranging the viewer from preconceived notions. he’s also very funny, if sometimes offensive.

my original thought was to talk more about this, but I’m not that interested in doing, idk, critical theory or art analysis or whatever. then I wanted to post the Tim Russert edit but trying to find specific jinx edits is nearly impossible.

Détournement is less effective the more it approaches a rational reply

Guy Debord & Gil J Wolman