poppy

maquette for peasants monument

Deleuze / assemblage // man-horse-weapon

gestalt

Mike Kelley quotes Dorothea Tanning

There in the red world of jagged souvenirs signed by the great glacier, pioneers named their scenic views to bring them down to size. Cathedral Rock was a ruddy mass imitating for those childlike settlers a cathedral. Courthouse Rock, noble giant reduced in name to a reminder of fiefs and files. Just west of Sedona was Cleopatra’s Nipple. It isn’t known of course who named it so, or why anyone as remote as Cleopatra should occupy the imagination of the American cowboy – for it must have been a cowboy – but it was often thus pointed out to us, just as naturally as the other poverty stricken titles. Coming back years later and encountering an entirely different population; retirees hoping to live ten minutes longer than they would elsewhere, failed doctors with cloudy pasts, wistful but determined unpublished writers, painters with camera eyes and a penchant for scenery, old adepts at new religions or, in general, people who didn’t get along with their relatives back home; coming back then, we found Cleopatra’s Nipple no longer existed; its name had been cleaned up by less fevered imaginations, that it was now known as Chimney Rock and had never, in anyone’s memory, been called anything else.

Foul Perfection

http://www.dorotheatanning.org/index.php

those curious but mangled figures of some of our princes, which were carried at their interments*

In a chamber or gallery over Islip's Chapel, not ordinarily accessible to the public, is an exhibition of, perhaps, equal interest to the monuments interspersed throughout the sacred edifice, or rivalling in interest the famous exhibition of a somewhat similar character in Baker Street—that of Madame Tussaud. The collection has received the name of the "Ragged Regiment," and also "the Play of the Dead Volks." For many centuries preceding the present a curious custom prevailed at State funerals—namely, having exposed to view in the funeral car, or carried in the procession, a waxen effigy of the individual whose remains were about to be consigned to the tomb. The head of the defunct monarch, statesman, or warrior was modelled in wax, an effigy was built up, and clad in the actual garments worn by the deceased in his lifetime, but embellished with false gems. When the coffin had been deposited in the vault, the waxen effigy was either placed over the tomb as a sort of temporary substitute for a stone monument, or in some other convenient spot. Several of these effigies are preserved in glass cases like zoological specimens in the narrow chamber above referred to.

"View of the CHantry Chapel in Westmisnter Abbey, over the Tomb of Henry V, where the Curious Figures, commonly called the Ragged Regiment, now lie (in 1786) neglected, and mouldering into dust"












The Ragged Regiment - Max Beerbohm visits the effigies

*Walpole / Anecdotes of Painting in England

swing

Friedrich A. Kittler (born 1943 in Rochlitz, Saxony - October 18, 2011 in Berlin)

http://excerpter.wordpress.com/2006/10/02/friedrich-kittler-the-city-is-a-medium/

roundabout

Embodied

Memory of species = genome

Individual memory = nervous system

Discrete

External memory systems and supports, trace, object, mark, writing , - apparatus for access & re-activation

Part of ourselves is outside ourselves – cognitive technologies – our memory is in the apparatus: grammatised.

Externalised, memory is subject to [socio-, bio-] political control, feeding back to re-tool the organization of thought.

Continuum

Benjamin’s sparks and flashes accelerate down optical cable, streaming speed of light, the event no longer precedes its seizure.

wall

wesley's heart is warmed, brion and william dream together, augustine dreams of jerome

markers

cross road

making books

red cross hackney

WHERE WOLFE DIED

Monument to Wolfe the British General and Montcalm the French General. Who both fell mortally wounded on Sep 13th 1759 on the Plains of Abraham within a few yards of each other.
The latin inscription on the monument is thus translated “ Valor gave them a common death, history a common fame and posterity a common monument.”

blow up / consort road

feed the guns

1. Trafalgar Square became a mock battlefield during the 'feed the guns' campaign of september and october 1918

How to Construct a Time Machine
Alfred Jarry

5. Time as seen from the Machine has two Pasts: the past anterior to our own present, what we might call the real past; and the past created by the Machine when it returns to our Present and which in effect is the reversibility of the Future.
Likewise, since the Machine can reach the real Past only after having passed through the Future, it must go through a point symmetrical to our Present, a dead centre between future and past, and which can be designated precisely as the Imaginary Present.
Thus the Explorer in his Machine beholds Time as a curve, or better as a closed curved surface analogous to Aristotle's Ether. For much the same reasons in another text [Exploits and Opinions of Doctor Faustroll, Book VIII] we make use of the term Ethernity. Without the Machine an observer sees less than half of the true extent of Time, such as men used to regard the Earth as flat.
From the operation of the Machine there can easily be deduced a definition of Duration. Since it consists in the reduction of t to o and of o to -t, we shall say:

Duration is the transformation of
a succession into a reversion.

In other words:

THE BECOMING OF A MEMORY

strike softly away from body

aggregate / aggregator

Site of Baynards castle from St Andrew le Wardrobe
British Telecommunications concrete

aggregate - coarse, particulate material, a component of a composite material

aggregator - a collector of messages from multiple sources

herald - A person who carries or proclaims important news; a messenger. One that gives a sign or indication of something to come; a harbinger. An official charged with making royal proclamations and bearing messages of state between sovereigns.

augur - One of a group of ancient Roman religious officials who foretold events by observing and interpreting signs and omens. A seer or prophet; a soothsayer.