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I am leaving Whole Foods and coming home...

You're alright.

Thankz dude! U r rock

Veel dank! Beterschap!

I h e a r y o u .

Tarpaulin Sky/Trickhouse

Grocery Outlet!

A Mouth in California

EARLY WORD: FORTHCOMING FROM FLOOD EDITIONS GRAHAM FOUST'S a mouth in california, DETAILS TK.

AND GRAHAM AND JOSHUA BECKMAN TO READ AT MRS. DALLOWAY'S IN BERKELEY OCTOBER 22.

LIGHT BOXES by SHANE JONES

Just put the oven on--all by myself.

Very fine idea. ;-)

No. Let's relax.

ts sang Pink Floyd.

Added a flarf verse to Cole Porter. L. rejected the Mighty Boosh with decision. Left J. this morning watching Die blaue Engel. Did not shave. Boomtown Ra

Are Sloan for real?

Scene	Obscene
spectacle	ceremony
seduction	fascination
passion	ecstasy
sexuality	pornography
secrecy	hypervisibility
seductio	subductio
drama of alienation	ecstasy of communication
expression ('mimicking')	alea (games of chance)
agon (competition)	ilinx (giddiness/vertigo)
Hot	Cold
Hysteria/paranoia	Schizophrenia
violence	terror
knowledge	information
transcendence	immanence
banal vision of the fatal	fatal vision of the banal
explosion	implosion
speed (Virilio)	immobility (thru absolute mobility)
self/other	self/self
subject	object
finitude	metastasis

fashion — more beautiful than beautiful simulation — more true than the true pornography — more sex than sex seduction — more false than the false obscenity — more visible than the visible terrorism — more violent than the violent obesity — more fat than the fat catastrophe — more eventful than the event hypertelia — more final than the final hyperreality — more real than the real

The Wholly Trinity of Revolutions

Counterfeit	Production	Simulation
Rennaissance	Industrial Revolution	Bauhaus
natural laws	forces/tensions	binary oppositions
metaphysics of being	metaphysics of energy/determination	metaphysics of indeterminacy/the code
tradition	avant-garde	mass culture
Shakespeare	Brecht/Jarry	Warhol
meaning is fixed	logic of equivalence	logic of ambivalence/reversibility
magic/sacrilege	revolution	catastrophe
caste	class	mass
sign = referent	sign exchanged for referent	sign exchanged for sign
religion	labor power	code
God/nature	ideology	simulacra

Denotation	Connotation
functional	parasitical
objective	ideological
truth	metaphysics/morality
beautiful	ugly
signified	signifier
nucleus of meaning	"residue, superfluity, excrescence"

Baudrillard's Four Logics of Objects

Use-Value	Exchange Value	Symbolic Exchange	Sign-Value
functional	economic/commercial	gift (Mauss)	consumption
practical operations	equivalence	ambivalence	difference
world	market	subject	other objects
instrument	commodity	symbol	sign
what the object does	what its worth	relation to subject	relation to other signs
fridge stores food	2 butter = 1 gun	wedding ring	fashion

TONIGHT

this

or

Sometimes I'm naked and dressed in so many occluders, I just buzz.