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“…concepts that ruthlessly denature and de-essentialise: they are called deconstruction.” (1)

// What would be the punctuated pronouncement over the power corporate terrorism – like those outside contractors pounding in a door to occupy oops… It is never quite there and guns are guns that are sometimes reduced to hammers, like every tool. //

// Charles Bernstein is a man who works in an English department. I just read about Charles I just read about my Charles Bernstein in my own department, my paper, my apron worn out electric book. Keep chanting my name and give Charles my due, it is only 20 dollars in my department – he needs it! SINCE he is in E-N-G-L-I-S-H my English //

“Semiotic interrelation cannot be a bounded structure. The text context distinction is only an interpretive convenience. It is not that texts refer to other texts or coexist with them rather, texts are other texts texting is the differential process by which and as which texts exist as such, as strangers to themselves.” (2)

“Text dismantles distinctions between a ‘within and a ‘without’. Or, we find that the distinction is weirdly fractured and repeated at many levels, like looking at a fractal, say the coastline of Norway. (2)

“The boundary is not nonexistent but not thin—it is thick, permeable, folded into itself, fragile, teeming with parasites. Like our skin.” (2)

“Darwin and Derrida have such a close affinity: it is remarkable that Derrida performs nothing like a seriously detailed reading of Darwin, referring to him only tangentially, though the references are scattered through out his work.” (3)

textuality as genotext, which like genotype (from which it derives) is the genome of the text, the factors that produce it like an algorithm or recipe produces a set of results. (3)

“yet the matter-sign distinction breaks down at a certain point, because one of these environments is the environment.” (3)

The trouble with fractals, the trouble that hippie kitsch obscures, is that they elegantly show how nature is not natural, not outside artifice. (4)

Our prejudice about vegetables is that they’re beings that only do one thing - grow.The trouble with vegetable growth is that it consists of sets of algorithms - iterated functions, often producing fractal shapes. (4)

When we zoom into life forms we discover textuality. This recursion is far more disturbing than a Yin-Yang model that presupposes some metaphysical harmony between opposites. There is no metaphysical harmony between text and ecology: no neutral seeming background against a Yin and a Yang appears as wedded together, since text and environment include all phenomena in their respective fields. This absence of a background has striking epistemological and ethical-political effects, as anyone should know who has wrestled with someone hostile to “theory.” (5)

Life forms consist of all kinds of structures that are not very organic, just as there are strange textual forms that do not fit the Procrustean bed of organics. Humans keep trying to distinguish rigorously between living and mechanic. Countless sci-fi and horror narratives explore the anxiety that this distinction is untenable. Darwin and genomics are very bad news for this anxiety, since they show that not only is the distinction untenable, but life as such is a mechanic, algorithmic functioning, and that what we call life and consciousness are emergent effects of more fundamental machine processes. (7)

The extended phenotype view de-aestheticises life forms, who according to environmental ideology are bounded things nestled within their bounded niches, a word derived from sculpture. (8)

Darwinism frees the mind for an ethics and politics based not on soulless authoritarianism, but on intimacy… (9)

“Is it a poem or not? this poem intentionally left blank” (10)

I’ve captured language poetry in action not reference but the strange thing Darwin did with texts – I constantly put marks in my poetry books, even on those that I can’t erase (AND I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT USING PENS~!)

Whether they are pro-AI or anti, science and philosophy claim that consciousness is intentional. What if intentionality were an effect of performance? What if it was over there, in language itself, not ‘in here’, inside me, my most precious possession? If this poem is self aware, why couldn’t worms be? (11)

What I am talking about is depth, submersion, and getting into a spinning desk at the good job that lets me play with Mandelbrot sets.

“pink elephant.” (12)

“Obscured by the Germanic pine needles and the snow globe coziness of Heidegger’s exemplary Trakl poem, this peal is the phatic ping, yet only in retrospect.” (14)

I have run out of room to read, the reading is not done but it has started to list notes and I don’t care for notes too much, expect my own, or my test taking buddy’s notes that I glance at during test for S-T-S training – but again he only reads footnotes 1-5 and I need a cheating partner that at least goes to 10, guess I’ll change seats tomorrow.

Strange weather patterns and carbon emissions acted on scientists to start monitoring things that at first only appeared locally significant. That’s the old school definition of climate: there’s the climate in Peru, the climate on Long Island, but climate in general, climate as the totality of derivatives of weather events—in much the same way as inertia is a derivative of velocity—climate as such is a beast newly recognized via the collaboration of weather, scientists, satellites, government agencies and so on. (paragraph __)