Amy Ireland—Noise An Ontology of the Avant-Garde

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• 00:00:01

  I guess I want to say thanks for having me, and it's really great to be involved in one of the few events on speculative aesthetics that seem to have been held up to this day. It's a really impossible area of theory. It's like the impossible task, I think, for realism, is thinking something that traditionally has been…

• 00:04:18

  So this is a slide from Lovecraft's notes for the At the Mountains of Madness that includes, right at the very top, above his sketch of an old one, a diagram of this particular image. At the very top, it says layer of cloud, and you can see the mountains, and then the sketch of the alien city just behind…

• 00:08:01

  Human subjectivities, of course, may vary wildly but the objectivity of their experience, as pointed up by Land, is assured by virtue of a universally attributed a priori purification of all that is inputted into co-vision. For Kant specifically, this signal from the outside is cleaned up by the pure forms…

• 00:11:48

  Each meal is a message transmitted to a receiver, an act of consumption, digestion, and signification. However, more often than not, the receiver is deprived of the message by means of an uninvited guest, a parasite who parasites, or eats next to, the host, effectively interrupting the transmission, only…

• 00:15:07

  In, at the mountains of madness, as it is elsewhere, the perpetual Lovecraftian lesson is, of course, that the conditions upon which our enlightenment subjectivity, figured in the hapless man of science or the academic or the legislator, is founded and by which it is maintained, constitute a fundamental repression…

• 00:19:30

  This, concludes Land, is the logic of the rat. Now Sayre differentiates the parasite producer of the message, the one who is, quote, always attentive to the game of the things themselves, from the parasite reproducer, who, quote, plays the position or the location. Which is to say that the one who positions…

• 00:23:53

  South Station Unbound. Under. Washington. Under. Park Street. Under. Kendall. Central. Harvard. An analogy that's not lost on Dyer. The legislative power of the a priori is waning, and this something else, the Lovecraftian alternative to the professorial regime of sense, swerves abruptly into human experience. It…

• 00:29:46

  That which would legislate artistic production will be shown a thing or two. Depart des trans-suicides. The suicide train is leaving the station.