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November 15, 2016

Entry 30: The New Blast IV

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The New Blast (final 25)

Blast the Incarnation of Greed!

Blast the Body without Organs!

Blast the Monetization of Pain!

Blast the Nation off its Borders!

Blast the Tyranny of Dichotomy!

Blast Disappearance of the Other!

Blast final Monotony of the Same!

Blast Psychic Fantasy of Destruction!

Blast the Triumph of Anamorphosis!

Blast whomever is Not Listening!

Blast whomever Does Not Get It!

Blast Core Values of Individuation!

Blast the Blindness of Self-Interest!

Blast Regression Analysis of Fact!

Blast the Obscuration of Predictors!

Blast our Total Amnesia of the Past!

Blast our Presentism of Hate Speech!

Blast our Incomprehensible Futurity!

Blast Past, Present, and Future then!

Blast Action and Nonaction from Fear!

Blast Fear making Good People Quiet!

Blast Fear undoing Logical Inference!

Blast Fear perverting Common Sense!

Blast Fear returning us to Barbarism!

Blast Fear the Seducer of the People!

[after Wyndham Lewis; return to part I]

June 29, 2012

Entry 16: Anecdoted History of Chance

Geschichte des Zufalls no. 15

On 17 June 2012, I visited the Mauerpark flea market with friend and poet D— S—. The market was bursting at the seams with the detritus of pop culture; archives of tape and vinyl; retro furniture and avant-garde t-shirts; remnants of the former socialist state and occasional contraband from darker times; out-of-date art books and mass market magazines bleaching in the sun. A carnival of objects to anchor social ground within the shadow of the former Wall.

At the end of a long alley of stands, objects, and crowds—or at the end of a confusing story that was just about to arrive at its point—appeared a stall selling what look like small cardboard boxes, each with a stenciled number cut out on the top that let optical green paper show through, under the banner “Geschichten des Zufalls.” In the center of the table stood a gumball machine, containing wooden balls with the same optical green numbers. We were invited to purchase one of the boxes as a “chance object,” and to participate in a conceptual project in which we would inform the sellers/organizers of any coincidences that had occurred after its purchase. We could pay whatever price we felt appropriate for an opportunity to encounter chance in this way.

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June 24, 2012

Document 17: DE/Exhibitions and Events

[for Carla Harryman]

The following chronology documents two weeks of intensive travels in the zone of the aesthetic, under the aspect of the political, in Germany. I accompanied Carla Harryman, who had been invited to present a lecture in the closing week of documenta and was a credentialed participant for the preview, for the first week, and then continued on alone through Munich, Nuremberg, Jena, Leipzig, to Berlin. Annotations will be added to the entries, as time permits.

Monday, June 4

JFK > FRA.

Tuesday, June 5

“Auf dem Goetheweg zum Brocken.” Nationalpark Harz, Torfhaus, Lower Saxony.

Grenzmuseum, Sorge, Lower Saxony.

Wednesday, June 6

Weltkulturerbe Rammelsberg, Museum und Besucherbergwerk, Goslar.

“Der Andere Blick: Alltagswelten von Martin Parr, Tim Wood, Antanas Sutkus.” Mönchehaus Museum, Goslar.

documenta 13, Kassel. Preview.

Thursday, June 7

documenta 13, Kassel. Fridericianum.

“On the Kabul-Bamiyan Seminars and Exhibition.” Conversation with Christine Christov-Bakargiev, Chus Martinez, and artists. Ständehaus.

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