supply lines

CAB /24/ 139

Report on Revolutionary organizations in the UK / Special Branch / Oct 5^th 1922

Communists were also instructed that in the event of war they were on no account to take up a hostile attitude or one of pacifism, but to carry propaganda in the Army and if necessary, fire in the air.

There has been some propaganda in favour of obstructing the transport of troops and of war material, but the result has, so far, been negligible.

On September 26^th the Poplar Unemployed passed a resolution to picket all ships in the east India dock which were being used for transport of ammunition to the Near East

Cordon sanitaire

Zones of Offensive Opacity

…Slips away from the apparatus, saturates it, blows it away. Is not limited to the possibilities authorized by the apparatus…

counting

Prayer Wheel.- Only images in the mind vitalize the will. The mere word, by contrast, at most inflames it, to leave it smouldering, blasted. There is no intact will without exact pictorial imagination. No imagination without innervation. Now breathing is the latter's most delicate regulator. The sound of formulas is a canon of such breathing. Hence the practice of yoga meditation, which breathes in accord with the holy syllables. Hence its omnipotence.

Benjamin / One Way Street

halo

the space of ease

the space between an object and itself

auratic























… it is not necessary to destroy everything or begin a completely new world. It is sufficient to displace this cup or this bush or this stone just a little, and thus everything…

Everything will be as it is now, just a little different.

Benjamin / Scholem / Bloch

This tiny displacement does not refer to the state of things, but to their sense and their limits. It does not take place in things, but at their periphery, in the space of ease between a thing and itself

The theory developed by St Thomas in his short treatise on halos is instructive in this regard. The beatitude of the chosen, he argues, includes all goods that are necessary for the perfect workings of human nature, and therefore nothing essential can be added. There is however, something that can be added in surplus [superaddi], an 'accidental reward that is added to the essential'', that is not necessary for beatitude and does not alter it substantially, but that simply makes it more brilliant [clarior].
The halo is the supplement added to perfection - something like the vibration of that which is perfect, the glow at the edges…
One can think of the halo. in this sense, as a zone in which possibility and reality, potentiality and actuality, become indistinguishable……

Agamben / The Coming Community / XIII

asylon / horoi

scylla

anne carson on le mepris/ homer / gift economies

… the female as a content without form whose boundaries are inadequate … she leaks, she swells… the monsters of greek myth are females with deranged boundaries ; scylla, sphinx, harpies

are you an inately unbounded thing, the movie asks?

she wraps herself in boundlessness and exits

the thing and the shrink

a drive is a boundless loop it closes cyclically on itself it does not enclose anything it does enclose nothing it is a symptom of a hole topology provides obstructions to decay, dissemination and dispersion holes, knots, links, torsions physics provides a bestiary of topological phenomena that prevent decay into the vacuum state Gabriel Catren Dark Materialism Symposium podcast here

cross road

PLAINS OF ABRAHAM

PERAS

My Dear Friend
Where the cross is etsia [seutaria] the photo is being taken from Pera, European side. I am going to Seutaria on Sunday or Saturday, that side is where the Sultan is living. Yours





PERAS

	πέρας

extremity, bound, end

1. of a portion of space
   1. boundary
   2. frontier
   3. the ends of the earth
   4. the remotest lands
2. of a thing extending through a period of time (termination)

up and down

photocopy

Ramsgate cemetery / undead apartheid / zombie hopscotch

mooring

Terminus: boundary stone

The new work was hardly begun, when, we are told, heaven itself was moved to give a sign of the future greatness of Rome's dominion: for when the auguries were taken, the birds allowed the secularization of all the places of worship except the shrine of Terminus. the fact that of all gods Terminus alone was not moved from his place or called to leave the ground which was consecrated to his worship, was taken to portend the stability and permanence of everything Roman. Hard upon this happy augury came another strange event, which seemed to foretell the grandeur of our empire: a man's head with the features intact was discovered by workmen who were digging the foundations of the temple. This meant without a doubt that on this spot would stand the imperial citadel of the capital city of the world. Nothing could be plainer.

Livy 1.55 (Tarquinus Superbus)

squares and triangles

A garth is an enclosed quadrangle or yard, especially one surrounded by a cloister (ME.; ON, garthr; akin to AS. geard)

waiting suspended

territories

gangs in london

gates

(in ancient Rome the double barbican gate in the Forum - dedicated to Janus, supreme janitor - was closed during times of peace, open only in war… Paul Metcalf, Genoa, 1965 p166