Nonfiction Novel
Yes, SELF is the book to read before you read POV. What? I will come back to explain the postmodern terms later!
next book: Tech
Theory of Spectatorship aDiary + Film-North Album (new)
"Dispassion, distance and integrity in coverage are vital."
--good journalism
confusion: disorientation and synthesis
The term "confusion" denotes a loss of direction, orientation, or sense; yet also a weaving, or fusing together, of differences. Confusion operates in a site of contradiction, scrambling accepted perceptions while unifying disjointed experience. To be disoriented is to have lost one^s way, one's senses; yet it is also to be oriented otherwise, toward different horizons or histories. To synthesize is to reinvent material against nature, to re-conceive the artificial, working in excess of natural possibilities.
"Confusion" seeks to explore confusion, through disorientation and synthesis, demonstrating that loss of sense can serve as a new ground for understanding.
^ disorientation ^
- dulling, nulling, or extension of the senses (drugs, Bacchanalia) / confusion of the senses (synesthesia) / "nonsense" (Dada, experimental literature and poetics)
- to be lost (labyrinths, rhizomes) / loss (mourning, trauma, death)
- medical "disorientation" (anesthesia, amnesia, schizophrenia, transgenders) and discourses of bodily normativity (cross-cultural medical practice / "health")
- urban planning and the city (zoning law, urban history; Situationism, Archigram, Constant; the flanur) / mapping (Johns, Vermeer, Debord) / architecture (Eisenman, Libeskind, Piranesi)
- loss of origin / living the postcolonial (native literatures, indigenous art, poetics of the diaspora) / "Orientalism", contested histories, cultural hegemony
- "other calendrics" / the time of the other
- typography and visual media (Marshall McLuhan, David Carson, MTV)
- confusion of the audience and performance art
- psychoanalysis / surrealism / film (Hitchcock, Buuel, Cronenberg)
^ synthesis ^
- medicine and pharmacy, in culture, philosophy, and art (Prozac/Ecstasy, the pharmakon, Damien Hirst)
- new materials in industry, science, or art (nature as invention) / representing and theorizing the material (Aristotle, Marx, Heidegger, de Man) / virtual reality, digital effects, technology
- sampling: techno, hip-hop, literature, painting (William Burroughs, Walter Benjamin, Ninja Tune, Rauschenberg) and chance composition (Cage, Duchamp)
- sculpture "in the expanded field" (Serra, earthworks, Matta-Clark)
- landscape architecture, gardens, grottoes (rationality and the wild)
- collage, assemblage, montage (Schwitters, Hch, Eisenstein)
- monuments, archives, libraries, cultural memory
[ from POMO Glossary ]
Summary
I do not know where is the page, where I wrote about the difference between Lucifer, Devil Mefisto and the rest of them.Questions
Who is responsible for movies, Holywood? You, Mefisto?Notes
Anatoly, thanks for graphics, but I don't need it. Love, Lucifer.
new: 2003-2007
