Studio as History

[Lanny Quarles]

Hey Ryan,
I'm reading _Studio as History_ by Ryan White
this is you right?

the introduction is interesting, especially this:

Here the crystal - the very opposite of the historical
-as the poet's refractory tool, appears as the index of
a certain aesthetic occurence; an occurence of an aesthetic.
The crystal's making-strange of the 'everyday' is nothing
other than the action of a naturalism understood as ahistorical:
it is refractory an hard, simply a part of the ground, one of those
things which happens before judgement, language, economy.

Why is the crystal the very opposite of the historical. (or is it history in the sense of ideological historicism as
"history")
It seems to me that in its oddly constrained morphology via language materiality,
'the mechanical', and the process of feedback, with all kinds of attendant
distortions, the crystal or in Wolframist terms 'computationalism'
seems as good a way of describing culture as an autonomous meta-biological
entity (shades of ?White) as any.. The Ahistorical naturalism.. is this the infinity
of unrecordable minutiae that performs the 'content' of history? and is this minutiae
the substance of an aesthetic 'occurence', a 'refractory' tool? or perhaps some kind of deanthropomorphisation
of the subject read as a universal instantiation of arbitrariness re: carbon, etc.
There's some post-structuralism haunting this.. at any rate straighten me out here,
i think i'm already flummoxed!! with this thing.

[Lanny Quarles]

oops you're talking about Clark Coolidge's Crystal Text
that line about the crystal being the opposite of history
through me for a loop i guess.. but any comments still apprec.

duh
lq

[Alex Jorgensen]

What do 'you people' do here. Write. Pontificate.
Create a community in which to feel SPECIAL. Or, I
wonder, is this simply a place where perverts come,
and those who like to watch, listen. And for that
gimp, that inevitably will say that art is whatever!
FO!

AJ

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[Lanny Quarles]

O great beast tell us your philosophy!
Your dirt nap cometh.. (Yawn)..

blow it out your ass you twack gook..
nobody asked you.

[justin...@gmail.com]

twack gook!

that's spooky...

[Lanny Quarles]

yeah, you can give 'em the straight 'twack' as in 'you twack'
or you can throw 'gook' on the end for a twist, it has a dodgy provenance
which makes it even better.

People get so touchy when i show them
the horrible deformity of my ignorance..

as a trajectory of a word tossed like a
screeching phonograph record

[Bjørn Magnhildøen]

the time is 18:26 friday afternoon
all is well

[Ryan Whyte]

Thanks for this, Lanny. Yup, it's the Coolidge as 'entree en matiere' (in
more than one sense, I suppose). But I wouldn't write like this any more;
my writing in that piece is pretty opaque, hence your confusion! Excesses
of youth and all that. Too much writing about history without doing
history, not enough sympathy for the latter. Having since tackled
archives, I've rescued artworks from oblivion simply by writing about them
or doing the documentary work that no one else has done or even considered
doing. History is loss, overwrite, unimaginable vanishings. Perhaps this
is an art historian's bias which tends toward rescuing and reconstituting
objects. But the objects often come into being in the context of a
documentary framework already at the origin of the historian's discipline,
which means already writing the history of the history of. Anyway, culture
is saved by such continuities, even as it sets about destroying them. It's
all entwined: critical and 'straight' history, text and object, culture
and nature, but 'at the end of the day' history is what historians write.

The chapbook was an attempt to marry critical history and aesthetics, but
the latter now scares me off--I think it is the most impossible, most
impoverished branch of philosophy. However, while my focus has changed, I
do stand by that little, clumsy chapbook, if as nothing other than a
Mcluhanesque 'probe'. Thanks greatly for the interest, Lanny. I'm
flattered!

-- Ryan

[Ana Buigues]

[Lanny Quarles]

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http://cas.bellarmine.edu/tietjen/HumanBioogy/Finished%
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http://hugsandhope.org/tabitham.jpg

http://www.consultsos.com/pandora/images/i0508.jpg

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Whip the Rabbit!
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H(e)'s not a *real* letter...

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