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This is the hardest thing I’ve ever written.

(towards dys-praxis; writing, drawing and teaching through ‘failure’ with Paul Klee)

A Dys-Praxic Sketchbook

http://www.thelearnedpig.org/dyspraxia-a-dys-praxic-sketchbook/3642

“I don’t want to exceptionalise my dys-praxis; I want to destroy our definition of mastery.”

an illustrated essay

#dyspraxia #dys-praxis #drawing #writing #teaching #learning difficulties #failure #against mastery #hestia peppe #The Learned Pig

if you want you can buy this beautiful book http://slimvolume.org/paul-buck-disappearing-curtains/ it is full of treasure.

#disappearing curtains #paul buck #history #disappearing #becoming invisible #susan hiller #chris kraus #holly pester #hestia peppe

anguishlanguage

This Saturday

mothdid

🙊🙉🙈

anguishlanguage

Bad Language Party

Saturday 9 July 7pm-Late

Launching three new books: Black Box: A Record of the Catastrophe, Bad Feelings, Anguish Language: Writing and Crisis

Readings by Anne Boyer, Danny Hayward, Sacha Kahir, Hestia Peppe, Eirik Steinhoff, Keston Sutherland and Wail Qasim

DJs: DJ Nightdress + DJs Laim & Grob

No Money Zines and Books stall

T-Chances

399 High Rd

London N17 6QN

Tickets: £3 in advance. Unwaged donations Advance tickets: http://tinyurl.com/zhwbqk7

FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/1204461059585116/

mothdid

I'm so so excited to be reading at this. Please come.

#reading #bad language #crisis #london #bad feelings #black box #books #mute magazine #arts against cuts #hestia peppe

theparisreview

“I write in spurts. I write when I have to because the pressure builds up and I feel enough confidence that something has matured in my head and I can write it down. But once something is really under way, I don’t want to do anything else. I don’t go out, much of the time I forget to eat, I sleep very little. It’s a very undisciplined way of working and makes me not very prolific. But I’m too interested in many other things.

Susan Sontag (via theparisreview)

sontag for life

hannah-gregory

Against Exhaustion

Chris Marker, 2084, via @cavvia

I keep typing ‘exhaustion’ into my document, instead of the other three-syllabled word ending in -tion that I mean to write. Some words of others, while I write privately…

Juliet Jacques on writing as productive self-cannibalism, from my interview, ‘Trans Historical Narratives’, in The New Inquiry:

“You have said that you’ve exhausted yourself in the process of writing Trans. In the interview with Sheila Heti that forms the book’s epilogue, you even speak of having ‘cannibalised’ yourself – it’s a violent idea.

Exhausted is exactly the word. You can’t feed mostly upon yourself and sustain enough energy to live, that’s always going to be counter-productive. The process of writing about oneself is draining, and comes with a whole set of anxieties.”

Claudia Rankine, on placing exhaustion in society’s structures, rather than the subject:

“What if we switch the focus on tiredness to the hearing of the thing? So that the sense of exhaustion with hearing the racist moment elicits a kind of tiredness too. I’m tired of hearing this so I need to say something, because I would like a space that does not hold this. This notion that exhaustion only comes in terms of response – it should come in the hearing of it. The [racist utterance] is the burden, in and of itself, not my responding to it.”

Stephanie DeGooyer on a peculiar or positive end-point of exhaustion in Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts:

“Exhaustion is a transitive state, a state of rest and repose between fighting and fucking, or failing to fuck and fight. It defines the shift from the insatiability of sexual desire to post-partum collapse. It is not the moment of giving up, though. Exhaustion, as Nelson figures it, involves acknowledging a dependence on the care of others. […] ‘From my station of fatigue,’ says Nelson, ‘exchanging horniness for exhaustion grows in allure. Unable to fight my station, at least for the time being, I try to learn from it; another self, stripped.’”

I’m interested in the (anti-)productive outcome of zero energy, and how this works against capitalist labour, to allow access to an unmarketable self. Preciado speaks to this born-again kind of state, here:

“I wish for you to no longer have the force to repeat the norm, to no longer have the energy to fabricate identity, to lose faith in what your papers say about you. And once you have lost all courage, drained with joy, I wish for you that you invent another mode of use for your bodies. It is because I love you that I desire you weak and despicable. Because it is through fragility that the revolution operates.”

And Agnes Martin (on whom I have an essay in Eros Journal’s The Interior):

“When relationships are exhausted and thinking is exhausted, then is the time for inspiration.”

Chris Marker, 2084

how to read

#chris kraus #i love dick #reading

Joyous Samhain 🎃✨🔥✨🎃

#halloween

dorothyhoward

Documentation is a feminist principle

I wrote an essay for Expansion Foam: Tracings edited by Devin Kenny and Temporary Agency. For information about purchasing a copy of the text contact Temporary Agency at [email protected].

(fingerprints my own ¯\_(ツ’’)_/¯ )

Excerpt:

There are blatant forms of the assumption of knowledge – “You didn’t know that?” – “how could you not know that?” – questions carrying mobilized condescension, ‘splaining, and white knighting, exclusionary practices based on the expectation of knowledge. Then there is another form, characterized by a sheathing of the discoverability of information through lack of action, or documentation or the offering provisions of learning for a multiplicity of accessibility needs. The expectation of knowledge or familiarity with cannons only viable to the holder of a certain type of knowledge interface leads to an insular media environment. The web exists as a failed promise of the democratization of information when inequalities in accessibility have persisted in the emergent architectures of the internet and digital telecommunications.

The purpose of this paper is to describe the ways in which web accessibility provisions are related to the idea of documentation as a feminist principle, and to offer some techniques for building accessibility online and checking websites for accessibility.

Feminist discourse is a dialect to unpack systematic inequalities and practices of exclusion, and can be applied to the conversation about accessibility on the web. Information communities are enmeshed in labor within access, and information production, invisibility of representation, leading to a lack of historical canonization, and continued institutional neglect. Virginia Wolf’s A Room of One’s Own identifies the bedroom as a technology developed among women, enabling them to have more free time to think and to build an interiority when no interiority was given time to flourish.

That a famous library has been cursed by a woman is a matter of complete indifference to a famous library. Venerable and calm, with all its treasures safe locked within its breast, it sleeps complacently and will, so far as I am concerned, so sleep for ever..

Such material difficulties were formidable; but much worse were the immaterial. The indifference of the world which Keats and Flaubert and other men of genius have found so hard to bear was in her case not indifference but hostility. The world did not say to her as it said to them, Write if you choose; it makes no difference to me. The world said with a guffaw, Write? What’s the good of your writing?

The place of invisibility has become a place of interiority, of building new libraries of Alexandria. Feminism at its origin is engaged in building new bibliographies. Martine Syms’s project The Queen’s English demonstrates the radical potential of the reading room within black feminist communities of the 1970s of building a library, a space for research. Yet despite extensive organizing to construct parallel histories to the white hetero-patriarchal, dominant history, the claim of “structurelessness” has been used again and again as an excuse to exclude populations from participating in contemporary knowledge economies and from accommodating difference as a priority. Documentation becomes a feminist principle when we acknowledge the gendered aspects of knowledge discovery within platforms in which we learn…

Other folks in the book:

Emi Kuriyama

Aria Dean

Panther Jones

Giovanna Olmos

Analisa Teachworth

Christine Haroutounian

Morgan Green

Ana Maria Bezanilla

Alex Velozo

Maayan Zik

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The classic 2011 wedding meat horror short returns for Halloween 2015, digitally remastered and with a brand new soundtrack. You are cordially invited: 28/10/15

mothdid

My creepy gross friends are beautiful

“The horizon is the name given to the limit of what can be seen: the visual context relating to a specific moment in time and space. It is the distance from the viewer at which points on a theoretical horizontal plane theoretically converge.”

New series of ficto-crit-poesy for Full Stop magazine on horizons, landscape and perspective. First one is up today.

(image, my own)

#Full Stop magazine #horizon #perspective #landscape writing #hestia peppe

catapultbooks

A major part of the feeling of risk in writing that names names, that tells you about other people, has to do with time, the moment of being told a secret. Secrets are inherently time-bound: They exist very much in the present, containing the suspense of when they may be revealed. And in the case of someone being written about, you may be finding out before they do.

Tell It Slant: Dodie Bellamy and Eileen Myles delight in reinventing form, other writers, and themselves (via catapultstory)

Great profile of two exceptional writers …who also happen to be Emily Books authors! We published Eileen Myles’ Inferno in 2011 and Dodie Bellamy’s the buddhist in 2012.

(via emilybooks)

This piece by Lidijaaaaa! 🌹

#lidija haas #eileen myles #dodie bellamy #new narrative #poetry

“Sometimes, facing down each day’s totalizing rendering of reality, we don’t actually know where our faculties are. Sometimes we need to let go of any commitment to personal coherence.”

Helen Stuhr Rommereim has written this trip of a piece on the work of artist Ed Fornieles. (featuring poetry by Frank O Hara and Holly White and Holly Childs, references to Space Jam, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, queer theory and interviews with myself, James Hedges and other cool folks)

http://www.full-stop.net/2015/08/19/features/helen-stuhr-rommereim/i-dont-actually-know-where-my-faculties-are/

Illustration by Goda Trakumaite

#ed fornieles #Full Stop magazine #helen stuhr-rommereim #persona #broken selves