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all art is characterized by a certain mode of organization around this emptiness ..'that excluded interior which is thus excluded in the interior'. The other name for this void or emptiness is das Ding, the Thing.

Alenka Zupancic. Ethics-of-the-Real - on extimacy or the otherness in oneself or the intimacy in myself that is not in me but in the other, in short, his otherness

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Muscles can feel happy when exhausted. Life countinuously seeks exhaustion.

ANDRE VANTINO on how the death drive is not about death but about life, about positive exhaustion, and the seeking of pleasures in eternal recurrence..

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There is a compelling fantasy of being shattered, rent, a fantasy of integration in which we can cross the frontier between inside and outside. It is a psychic world of being simply matter without the burden of judgment.

CatherineStreet.net

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I was ..going over the same topics again and again, as if speaking off the cuff; the exercise became about how the ideas were ingrained or solidified through repetition. ..How do you get out of yourself? I am trying to get to the end of my own material, to exhaust myself as a material.

a-n.co.uk/news/a-qa-with-catherine-street-artist-2 -  CATHERINE_STREET