Anodyne
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
 

Thesis, Counterthesis & Synthesis re: the (Untitleds)

Marcel Proust, Swann's Way:

"Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves and not anything else, by the immobility of our conception of them."

Gabriel Josipovici, "Introduction," Franz Kafka, Collected Stories:

"This is the world of Kafka's febrile line drawings, which show ludicrously tall or squat people stretching, twisting, leaning towards or away from one another, in what would be grotesque if it was an attempt at realism but which instead conveys perfectly how we sometimes feel, both constrained in our bodies and lunging free, both playing a game and close to desperation. The early diaries are full of detailed descriptions of gesturing, which seems to be a sign of frustration when it is he himself who is doing the gesturing, but is clearly also as much a part of his extreme sensitivity to others as his response to words. These gestures are in fact the visual and physical equivalent of those words which suddenly take on a life of their own and burst free of the sentence in which normal, well-behaved words should quietly lie."

Taine, via Mel Bochner's Misunderstandings (A Theory of Photography), 1970:

"I want to reproduce the objects as they are or as they would be even if I did not exist."

(today's soundtrack: Blondie, natch!)
- posted by cjb @ 2:38 PM


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