S(H)ELF; {Neither;
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—| Index away— Write me off—
—| The exhausted object: Grants me, now!,
—| this contemplation pure of a language of the dawn. Rise, now!
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^Previously in nonsense #2^ Started with the acceptance of a close encounter(...)ended in an encounter of self—a lack(-nessless) of self, but selves. (uh, oh)
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Here comes nonsense #3. > Genette: “...Paradoxically, paratexts without texts do exist…” (Hmm…)
What is it to have a Borgesian way of navigating the originless shelves of Os in a UFO archive…all that are left are paratexts…where to next? how does the self move on? should one go on? The bookshelves have collapsed and the flying saucers will never land: We are living off from the (im)balance of pleasure and jouissance— Can this be a loss of a self among selves? Are selves scattered in the instant of ekstasis (1)?
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Genette, again: (in an imaginary interview) “...the text interests me (only) in its textual transcendence— namely, everything that brings it into relation (manifest or hidden) with other texts. I call that transtextuality…”
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trans(t)exuality…?
S( H )ELF; Nor}
1. (from Ancient Greek ἔκστασις) to stand outside of or transcend [oneself].
Mysticism > Existentialism …. displacement…sourceless….
… (?self-annihilation?)
olivier (b. British-Hong Kong) is a research-based artist+writer and archives worker whose practice is rooted in the ephemerality and the anarchival in queer and trans theory, and ufology. They live in a time-machine, toy with poetics and semiotics, caressing languaging and linguistics.