[-empyre-] forward from Simon Taylor

[Timothy Murray]

To smile at a Crocodile:

A love is a brick. Is a concept. (Massumi) A concept is the love of the
love. As in: In love with love. Absolutely (no reification being thereby
implied).

The style of being of a love. (Levy Bryant) Where style is an individual
form of originality. (Baudelaire) The love is the concept as it loves,
as in to love. A pure infinitive event, beyond 'anthropological
predicates' and before any actual 'love.' (Deleuze) The concept being an
ontological before it is an epistemological category. (Also Bryant)

The being of being in love being set in motion. So differing internally,
qualitative and stylistically. Moving infinitely. (Deleuze) As we
gathered. (Badiou) For however long it last. Rather, endure. Feeble and
strong. (Kristeva)

And having found it what do we do with it? but repeat it in the terms in
which it is actualised, bio-logic-mechanic-ally. Or take a cutting. A
shortcut. And a silhouette. Hard graft. And topology.

And in that second thought sort of repeat who flips all the bits of love
to chance? throws up each little die? of every little death? (Nietzsche.
Or Mallarme. Some symbolist, at least?)

What then if love is a brick and we make the wall suggested
geographically (albeit it would be clearer as a dry-stone construction.
Better whetted. Sharper on the cut.)? In what is love then contained?
and by what entrained? but its negative.

And how long must the mere (representational) repetition stay up
(/durer/), surely not eternally! Internally?

"Be Hence Ghost of Internal Redcurrants!"

Love is alone in excluding everything but the empirical delusion of
anthropological predicates. And in that transcendental bind, it may find
itself immured. That is, doubled. In a pincer movement. (Deleuze & Guattari)

The essential, however, before love is just loved, is that it move. And
in moving not be not love.

Love,

Simon Taylor

www.squarewhiteworld.com


-- 
Timothy Murray
Director, Society for the Humanities
http://www.arts.cornell.edu/sochum/
Curator, The Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, Cornell Library
http://goldsen.library.cornell.edu
Professor of Comparative Literature and English
A. D. White House
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853