#jon graham

‘Éperdu’ is an adjective that describes the emotional state of one desperately in love, or who is experiencing an emotion so intense he is temporarily beside himself. […] Hans Bellmer is one of those – like Sade, Fourier, Lautréamont, Jarry, Roussel – whose perspective is that of the heart beating against the void. These are the rare individuals who make the alarming sound of that heartbeat, the compass that guides their lifelong investigations, whereas the vast majority appears to prefer finding a constant level of noise that will drown out any disturbing presence.

i can’t believe microsoft wanted to sue jon graham for making the arby n the chief web show. i heard that just now today, but bungie at the time told microsoft to let him continue the show.

Meant to Disappoint

For Ivšić and others who claim the insolent health of surrealist thought, the only space that can give individuals the strength they need to refuse the world such as it is — dedicated to reinforcing all that is unacceptable in the human condition — is the material presence of our imaginal space. When we recognize that words live in us as we live in them, we can gain access to what Ivšić calls a “strange freedom and gravity.” He follows this by saying: Poetry is no longer the province of specialists or aesthetes: it is life tested by thought, it is thought tested by life; it is the body interrogating the imagination, it is the imagination interrogating the body.