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

[Marc Leger]

a futurist-deconstructionist poem from robert!and there i was thinking that
i am first of all the subject of a lack




2009/7/9 Robert Summers <robtsum at gmail.com>

> every question is an inquisition (or interrogation) -rb (attributed)
>
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> ink stains: (s)tain(t)ed
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> tainted ...
>
> ... love
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> (desire): (     )
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> "wayward landscape" -- md
>
> ---
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> the baroness!
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> (                                     !)
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> ---
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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)
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> 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
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> leak-ing
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> tainted ... stained
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> ---
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> blood, feces, semen, vaginal secretions ... all ... none
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> "bed" -rr
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> wasit!
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> ([not] reading desire in the exclamation point)  !
>
> ---
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> so, then is art (history, criticism, viewing, etc.) always already
> relational ("")
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> over-determined
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> some god will speak
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> 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?
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> (reading the desire [the love] in the question mark)   ?
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> i hear echos: is anybody there!
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> (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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>
> ---
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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
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