[-empyre-] ml-vs-tl-rb-rs: relational aesthetics, catholic style, then agnostic ...

[Robert Summers]

every question is an inquisition (or interrogation) -rb (attributed)

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ink stains: (s)tain(t)ed

tainted ...

... love

(desire): (     )

"wayward landscape" -- md

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the baroness!

(                                     !)

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every caress a blow
every love a hate
every tainting a cleansing

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the internal edges of the passe-partout framing the artwork (however
construed) are often beveled (jd) ...

... "sip my ocean" ... (i never said i didn't)

the act of interpretation -- and the body and desire of s/he who
interprets are bound up in the process of framing, the frame ...

beveled

leak-ing

tainted ... stained

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blood, feces, semen, vaginal secretions ... all ... none

"bed" -rr

wasit!

([not] reading desire in the exclamation point)  !

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so, then is art (history, criticism, viewing, etc.) always already
relational ("")

over-determined

some god will speak

i though they were all dead ... especially him

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is philosophy relational or ...

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relational aesthetics is not just about art (traditionally understood)

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so, is art queer then?

(reading the desire [the love] in the question mark)   ?

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i hear echos: is anybody there!

(reading desire in the "anybody")

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and in the end must we prove how smart we really aren't?


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there you go again ... not answering the question!

i love you

Robert Summers, PhD/ABD
Lecturer
Art History and Visual Culture
Otis College of Art and Design
e: rsummers at otis.edu
w: http://ospace.otis.edu/robtsum/Welcome