precision
word as square, in a manner of speaking
identity politics
age of convenience
mail art & america’s banking crisis
A dictionary becomes into being when it no longer gives the meaning of words, but their task.
Structureless is not only an adjective, but also a term that serves to imply the denotation of things in the world, generally requiring that each thing have a structure.
For academics to be pleased, the universe must take a shape. All of philosophy, research, attempt at formulation has no other goal, it is a matter of giving a bodice jacket, a mathematical, logistical bodice jacket to the world. As Bataille said, “Everyone is aware that life is parodic and that it lacks an interpretation.“
En revanche, affirming that the universe resembles nothing and is only structureless is the refusal of a bodice jacket. To be naked and exposed to circumstance.
Can one adorn a bodice jacket while simultaneously contradicting the technical death of Time in a post-Fordist society with a lived time?
Here is my attempt at doing so, my own translation of une oeuvre de vie, a vital work.