OVER ALL POSSIBLE BODIES~ Tim Van Dyke So the work of art loses itself— the unique quality of its aesthetic form no longer destined for seduction and in its new destiny it takes on a political form with only nostalgia to restore it— the lion’s face turns on its nocturnal endocrine system the lion’s face becomes “the cordial of an instant of an invented Dawn” the lion’s face projects a body devoured to oblivion the apex of its jaw inverted, hissing serpents the lion’s face becomes an embryonic prosthesis of its entire body For the code is not natural— a lion’s face is abstracted the body is rendered autonomous as a cell alters the whole by substituting itself for the whole— the lion’s face is an artifact, an artificial matrix, a simulation from which will proceed by pure and simple repetition identical bodies assigned to the same commands: This is what happens when one is conceived over all possible bodies— a generation of identical beings without a return to an original— the lion’s face ascends and waves a farewell that no one hears the lion’s face ascends breaking the hearts of phoenixes the lion’s face ascends into the closest hell the lion’s face dreams of skeleton hands holding phosphorescent infants— and when simulation reaches the point of no return when the prosthesis infiltrates the bodys anonymity when it forces itself on the body as its matrix and burns out all succeeding circuits then the body will be only an immutable factory of clones then the body and its history will come to an end then the body becomes no more than a cancer an aggravated redundancy of the same cells and the same signals the body, at the nuclear level the command cell the directive level of the entire code around which a phantasmagoria orbits.
Posted on: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 05:50:47 +0000
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