27 Nov
Emblem

 

“We should not be sat­is­fied with either biog­ra­phy or bib­li­og­ra­phy;
we must reach a secret point where the anec­dote of life and the apho­rism of thought
amount to one and the same thing” (The Logic of Sense 128).

— Deleuze (via Ulmer; cit­ing Nietzsche’s method for invention).

 
Stu­dents’ inde­pen­dent reflec­tive work this week­end intended to spark notic­ing “attune­ment” and dis­cov­er­ing an “inter­face” like Pynchon’s in Lot 49. To these ends, pro­vided them two strate­gies (from Heuret­ics and Telethe­ory) — and my exam­ples — of Emblem (wideIm­age) and Sig­na­ture The­ory.
First time I’ve artic­u­lated each; worth not­ing here given how res­o­nant and salient the “find­ings” are — cat­alytic in “fine tun­ing” the Stim­mung of my thought.

 
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