Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Commonplace Highlights: Mary Ann Caws, Apollinaire

 

 

 

Caws, Mary Ann. Metapoetics of the Passage: Architextures in Surrealism and After. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982.

Commonplace Highlights: Jean Luc Nancy

 


Steve Stelling, Commonplace Highlights (Nancy’s Monstrous Openings)

 

A few years ago I put together a commonplace book.  The quotations and excerpts I collected are unified around my interests in critical theory (so-called!) and perception. So there’s that. I’ve also got a surplus of orphaned drawings that haven’t been adopted by any of my own words. Pages like theseare the results of grafting these things together with an eye toward their associative potential.  In a way, I suppose these are my “process” drawings; this is my thought process. If I were to make an aesthetics textbook, this is how I'd want it to look.