Read some Daniel Sluman poems on the way to Norfolk.
Can I understand his techniques and use them in theory-emotion? The hot cognitions, the states of mind. Where are my memories? The time-image. Is the nadir recoverable with the briefest zenith, always double edged? What are those unmentioned colours I see?. The machine being dragged behind me. Roland Barthes, Daniel Sluman, Nick Land, three distinct projects starting at once. I admire the consistency of Javier Marias and the writing of Roland Barthes but my own prose is often organised into fragments.
I can sense the end of this writing. The end of theorising without properly naming anything. To work without theory, is it possible
Bought Daniel Sluman's poetry book today I might of been able to write like him ten years ago but I've perhaps lost that I'm interested in writing again about mental illness. From personal experience to observations of individuals and asylums, the theory of psychiatry and different schools of psychoanalysis, dreams, wishfulfilments and fantasies, catatonic, psychosis, schizophrenia, depersonalisation, the gardens where I was referred for two years. To refer to Sunshine and Melissa Lee-Houghton, Petits Mama Amazonica. Sylvia Plath More present will be the notes without theory |
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July 2018
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