#the arachnean and other texts

[rjeldridge]

Fernand Deligny, from “The Arachnean”. In The Arachnean and Other Texts, translated by Drew S. Burk and Catherine Porter, Univocal Publishing, 2015.

#doc #lit #study

[irwonder]

If there is some abuse of power coming from leaders described as being somewhat ‘absolute,’ it is because there is indeed something of the absolute in the heads of those being led, otherwise it is impossible to see where the leaders could stock up to it. Yet the absolute is not good. It is ‘that which exists independently of any condition or relation with something else.’ The need for the perfect being comes from way back in history. Leaders inherit it before they even profit from it and make unfortunate uses of it with which we are all familiar.

Fernand Deligny, The Arachnean and Other Texts

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[mybarricades]

& Gilles Deleuze/Félix Guattari | Three Novellas, or “What Happened”

[brudnopis]

I have always had the utmost respect for spiders; today, I can tell myself that this was a matter of intuition. There must be some mistake in the signs of the Zodiac: mine is supposed to be Scorpio, but I am convinced that I was born under the sign of the spider.    I was predestined for my work; from my earliest years I have always had some network to weave.    But can we say that the spider’s project is to weave its web? I don’t think so. We might as well say that the web’s project is to be woven.

Fernand Deligny The Arachnean and Other Texts, Translated by Drew S. Burk and Catherine Porter

#Fernand Deligny

[emmapearsonjournal]

ideas so far i

So far, my itinerary and project have been quite full-on recently. I've taken on the role of one of the group leaders in the upcoming arts festival, and involved myself with two exhibits in Street View I exhibition. So I think now is a good time to reacquaint myself with the ideas that I'm exploring.

Continuing from my last project, I work in a 'process-led' way of thinking. I can respond to materials and form in situ and create freely.

I have noticed that my recent experiments, i.e. my sketches, monoprints, (and my one attempt at a soldering iron sculpture) have demonstrated 'the creaturely'. Their abstracted humanoid forms bring an uncanniness into the surreal; there is a lively and animated element which remains somewhat unsettling.

Also, there is the recurring imagery of the 'tooth arachnid'. I can't seem to escape drawing and visualising spindly legs and marks in every piece that I make. I think it's interesting to note that Ferdinand Deligny said that "Besides spiders, nothing else is Arachnean", perhaps this is why I find it so difficult to move on from the enticing and pincing legs of the spider... (REF)

I find myself moving further away from my proposal. I initially wanted to continue my exploration into dermoid cysts, however this has been completely overshadowed by 'the spider'. I am currently unsure as to why, but this form is simply so much more appealing to me at the moment. Perhaps if I delve further with experiments, I might come to some sort of conclusion?

//

My current ideas revolve around the mundane abject; it's something I'm truly interested in. Before, I looked at the whole body as a source of the mundane because it was inherently part of someone. Now, the abject for me seems to be so much more mundane - we don't seem to notice it. From dead skin cells on old clothes, to peeling off the 'second skin' of tights, to someone finding your hair on their clothing, throwing it off in disgust, to keeping your baby teeth and noticing the plaque build-up.

I wouldn't say that these are 'bodily expulsions' and they're not visceral by any means, yet we still see them as grotesque through a subversive manner, a subconscious bias which makes us repulse deeply from the inner. Therefore expressing inner expulsion at the outer...

Notes -

- these are rough ideas...

References -

BURK, Drew S. and PORTER, Catherine. 2015. The Arachnean and Other Texts. University of Minnesota Press.

#proposal

[wagner-univocal]

The Arachnean and Other Texts by Fernand Deligny

The network as a mode of being 

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[irwonder]

What a shame that humans didn’t place heaven at the center of the earth when they elaborated their mythologies. As newcomers, they could have made themselves discreet, timid, respectful, seeing predecessors everywhere, in all vegetation, in all animals; actually, they did think that way, but almost furtively, swept up in the vogue of the thought-out project whose utility seemed undeniable.

Fernand Deligny, The Arachnean and Other Texts

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[irwonder]

It is obvious that...if a clause of the [charter of human rights] concerned us, it would speak about the right to every human to language. But why is it that every right entails the necessity of separating the human from the species, it being understood that the word species is common to everything that lives; the word species evokes  a kind of common good.

Fernand Deligny, The Arachnean and Other Texts

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[irwonder]

Art is found everywhere in nature, and what is surprising is that man still respects something that is no more useful than a spider web in the corner of a room. Which still leaves a little hope as far as the persistence of primordial communism is  concerned. One must believe it is just as tenacious as turtles before all the floods, or, to put it another way, as tenacious as the lines on the palms of our hands.

Fernand Deligny, The Arachnean and Other Texts

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[irwonder]

Networks abound, and it does seem as though their proliferation reaches its peak in moments when historical events...are intolerable, and it must be said that historical events are endowed with a propensity for being intolerable.

Fernand Deligny, The Arachnean and Other Texts

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[irwonder]

When the constraints of history become unbearable, networks arise that quickly prove terribly effective at the pinnacle of history, spearheads in the stalemates of confrontations.

Fernand Deligny, The Arachnean and Other Texts

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[irwonder]

The network is not about doing or making; it is devoid of anything that would serve the purpose, and any excess of purpose leaves it in tatters at the very moment when the excess of the project is deposited in it.

Fernand Deligny, The Arachnean and Other Texts

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[brudnopis]