L'Écriture & La Contrefaçon

It was easy to forget, when one was an Autograph Man, that names on paper are the very least of what is traded and shifted round the world. Autographs are a small blip in the desire network, historical flotsam. -Zadie Smith

[lecontrefacteur-blog]

Here we are in a place of creation, art, and invention. Invention is an event; the words themselves indicate as much. It’s a matter of finding, of bringing out, of making what is not yet here come to be. Inventing, if it is possible, is not inventing. What does this mean? You see that I am approaching this question of the possible, which is the question that brings us together here today. If I can invent what I invent, if I have the ability to invent what I invent, that means that the invention follows a potentiality, an ability that is in me, and thus it brings nothing new. It does not constitute an event. I have the ability to make this happen and consequently the event, what happens at that point, disrupts nothing; it’s not an absolute surprise. Similarly, if I give what I can give, if I give what I have and what I can give, I’m not giving. A rich person, who gives what he or she has, is not giving. As Plotinus, Heidegger, and Lacan have said, you have to give what you don’t have. If you give what you have, you’re not giving. In the same way, if I invent what I can invent, what is possible for me to invent, I’m not inventing.

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It merely develops and unfolds a possibility, a potentiality that is already present and therefore it is not an event. For there to be an invention event, the invention must appear impossible.

450 Jacques Derrida / A Certain Impossible Possibility of Saying the Event

[clavierissimo]

Claude Debussy Autograph Note Signed, “C.D,”, on his printed visiting card: “Here, my dear Abel! / and all my friendship." 

[lecontrefacteur-blog]

“Here, my dear Abel! / and all my friendship."  C. Debussy

[acknowledgetheabsurd]

“For you, María, above all time. Albert.” (Albert Camus to María Casares)

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[lecontrefacteur-blog]

[peterfromtexas-deactivated20250]

A visual history of Richard Nixon getting lazier

[nervanaofficiai]

nixonbots through the ages

Richard Nixon (or “prime” Nixon)

Richael Nif

Pinh hif

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[lecontrefacteur-blog]

Arte grabado en monedas

La transformación de las caras de las monedas en obras de arte escultórico, es una práctica que data del siglo dieciocho, el niquel vagabundo (nombre con el que se le conoce a ésta actividad) nos h…

[sositap]

‘Tell me where it hurts, she’d say. Stop howling. Just calm down and show me where’. But some people can’t tell where it hurts. They can’t calm down. They can’t ever stop howling.

Atwood, M., The blind assassin.  (via sositap)

[pawntakesqueen]

10 Frames Friday: from the feature film directorial debut of Alonso Ruizpalacios, Güeros (Kino Lorber)

[sidewalkspace]

“We need to think about what is happening around us, within us, each and everyday. We live on familiar terms with people in our own family, our own milieu, our own class. This constant impression of familiarity makes us think that we know them, that their outlines are defined for us, and that they see themselves as having those same outlines. We define them. and we judge them. We can identify with them or exclude them from our world. But the familiar is not the necessarily known. “ Henri Lefebvre, 14-15

[anitanh]

Found in the Internet Archive by AnitaNH

[anitanh]

Found in the Internet Archive by AnitaNH

[anitanh]

Found in the Internet Archive by AnitaNH

[anitanh]

Internationales Archiv fur Ethnographie (Vol. 1 - 1888). Found in the Internet Archive by AnitaNH

[muddypolitics]

Emiliano Zapata Typed Circular Signed. One page, 8.5" x 13.25". Headquarters at Tlaltizapán; February 9, 1916. An order issued “to all civilian leaders, official, and soldiers of all ranks in the army of liberation to impede all persons from crossing from the Revolutionary zone to the enemy zone or vice versa, regardless of their stated reason for travel.” The order goes on to state that it is their responsibility to fulfill the command “to the letter”. The document closes, “Reform, Liberty, Justice, and Order… Commanding General [signed] Emiliano Zapata.” This circular was issued in Tlaltizapán, a city in the Mexican state of Morelos. Zapata was a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution, and had helped oust Porfirio Diaz in 1911; but when Francisco Madero came to power, he broke ties with Zapata. Madero’s forces chased Zapata to Morelos, burning everything in their path in hopes of discouraging the peasants from supporting Zapata. By 1916 there would be two more coups in Mexico: Victoriano Huerta would oust Madero in 1913; and with Zapata’s help, Venustiano Carranza would oust Huerta in 1914. But Carranza would also turn on Zapata, and Carranza, like Madero, sent his troops to Morelos to help oust the Zapatistas. Issued in 1916, this circular was intended to tightly monitor and control what little territory they had captured. Zapata would regain control of the entire state of Morelos the following year, only to be killed in an ambush in 1919.

[postcardtimemachine]

Tijuana, Mexico

[poetryconcrete]

Shabolovka radio tower, by Vladimir Shukhov, 1896, in Moscow, Russia.

more in shukhov

[othmeralia]

[demotulibrorum]

Dragon from Edward Topsell’s Historie of foure-footed beastes, 1658.