Sunday, 17 November 2013

BION

"It appears that our rudimentary equipment for "thinking" thoughts is adequate when the problems are associated with the inanimate, but not when the object for investigation is the phenomenon of life itself"


Jan Verwoert

Experience indicates that it takes interpersonal alchemy to cultivate environments in which artistic practices, reflective thinking and human relations flourish. Working such environmental magic is quite an undertaking, both materially and spiritually. But its not a question of metaphysics - perhaps just a matter of looking around to see if you've got company. In the toilets or elsewhere. You usually do.

Thursday, 14 November 2013

"For as Simone de Beauvoir said: 'The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.'"

Friday, 1 November 2013

one winter afternoon


without any doubt he was
whatever(first and last)

mostpeople fear most:
a mystery for which i’ve
no word except alive

—that is,completely alert
and miraculously whole;

with not merely a mind and a heart

but unquestionably a soul-