- Is a day, sending two messages, going for a swim, making a soup & doing the crossword, enough?
- The human rights watch articulates clearly on tv
- Debating, not without minimal despair, the applications
- Something feels unwell, or wasted (time-sick)
- I do not wish to think about cutting into bodies, of bodies being cut into
- I still wish to explore patterns
- What does the metrical mean?
- The brain / mind wishes to garner momentum
- Thinking of Anne Carson’s Decreation
- What was out of the blue today?
- Where am I when I’m …
- There is the science and the jut of parataxis
- I still have no alternative phrase for “kill two birds with one stone”
- I am wanting an alternative phrase for the violence of the expression is just a bit too much for me
- Imagine throwing a rock at a bird, killing it, and having the rock ricochet off the dead bird and striking and killing another bird
- To achieve two things at once
- In one fell swoop
- Fuck.
- …
- At Avalon Airport aboard the Skybus to Geelong
- About to turn onto the highway I see a magpie whose wing is caught between barbed wire
- It’s in obvious distress, flapping its wings futilely, how long has it been
there - I consider calling the airport to alert them so they can assess the situation and rescue the bird
- But I do not make the call
- I am thinking feeling bad is irresponsible if it is not acted on
- I am irresponsible
- I am not even close to conceiving of an alternative phrase
- Though it is daydreamed of
- Today on the bus, chin on arms leaning on the seat in front of me, I am listening to Is this desire? While driving through the Adelaide Hills (I have
never been to the Adelaide Hills) - Meandering still feels lost on me
- Happiest when contemplating the crossword grid, the ‘performative encounter’ which allows for new positions, unexpected collisions, potentialialites
- The benefit of multidisciplinary (often spoken of) but is it taken on
- Of metaphor (according to Ricoeur) of placing two different things side by side to create new and meaningful relations
- I didn’t realize people are so scared of metaphor
- The people who are scared of metaphor are throwing stones and killing their chances
- Reading about the fragment and blank space
- Ancients texts are made fragments by history. Modern texts by design.
- This is not fragmentary
- I am more interested in how to be the opposite of atomised
- How to be the opposite of neo-liberal
- It’s better not to be teleological
- It’s harder
- How to unatomise the fragment
- How to not kill birds
- 115: SPACE
with A Sometimes
114: NO THEME 13
with J Toledo & C Tse
113: INVISIBLE WALLS
with A Walker & D Disney
112: TREAT
with T Dearborn
111: BABY
with S Deo & L Ferney
110: POP!
with Z Frost & B Jessen
109: NO THEME 12
with C Maling & N Rhook
108: DEDICATION
with L Patterson & L Garcia-Dolnik
107: LIMINAL
with B Li
106: OPEN
with C Lowe & J Langdon
105: NO THEME 11
with E Grills & E Stewart
104: KIN
with E Shiosaki
103: AMBLE
with E Gomez and S Gory
102: GAME
with R Green and J Maxwell
101: NO THEME 10
with J Kinsella and J Leanne
100: BROWNFACE
with W S Dunn
99: SINGAPORE
with J Ip and A Pang
97 & 98: PROPAGANDA
with M Breeze and S Groth
96: NO THEME IX
with M Gill and J Thayil
95: EARTH
with M Takolander
94: BAYT
with Z Hashem Beck
93: PEACH
with L Van, G Mouratidis, L Toong
92: NO THEME VIII
with C Gaskin
91: MONSTER
with N Curnow
90: AFRICAN DIASPORA
with S Umar
89: DOMESTIC
with N Harkin
88: TRANSQUEER
with S Barnes and Q Eades
87: DIFFICULT
with O Schwartz & H Isemonger
86: NO THEME VII
with L Gorton
85: PHILIPPINES
with Mookie L and S Lua
84: SUBURBIA
with L Brown and N O'Reilly
83: MATHEMATICS
with F Hile
82: LAND
with J Stuart and J Gibian
81: NEW CARIBBEAN
with V Lucien
80: NO THEME VI
with J Beveridge
57.1: EKPHRASTIC
with C Atherton and P Hetherington
57: CONFESSION
with K Glastonbury
56: EXPLODE
with D Disney
55.1: DALIT / INDIGENOUS
with M Chakraborty and K MacCarter
55: FUTURE MACHINES
with Bella Li
54: NO THEME V
with F Wright and O Sakr
53.0: THE END
with P Brown
52.0: TOIL
with C Jenkins
51.1: UMAMI
with L Davies and Lifted Brow
51.0: TRANSTASMAN
with B Cassidy
50.0: NO THEME IV
with J Tranter
49.1: A BRITISH / IRISH
with M Hall and S Seita
49.0: OBSOLETE
with T Ryan
48.1: CANADA
with K MacCarter and S Rhodes
48.0: CONSTRAINT
with C Wakeling
47.0: COLLABORATION
with L Armand and H Lambert
46.1: MELBOURNE
with M Farrell
46.0: NO THEME III
with F Plunkett
45.0: SILENCE
with J Owen
44.0: GONDWANALAND
with D Motion
43.1: PUMPKIN
with K MacCarter
43.0: MASQUE
with A Vickery
42.0: NO THEME II
with G Ryan
41.1: RATBAGGERY
with D Hose
41.0: TRANSPACIFIC
with J Rowe and M Nardone
40.1: INDONESIA
with K MacCarter
40.0: INTERLOCUTOR
with L Hart
39.1: GIBBERBIRD
with S Gory
39.0: JACKPOT!
with S Wagan Watson
38.0: SYDNEY
with A Lorange
37.1: NEBRASKA
with S Whalen
37.0: NO THEME!
with A Wearne
36.0: ELECTRONICA
with J Jones