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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #69

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Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Psyches and Psychoses – the work of Guy de Maupassant

• Buzz Off – The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks (1984)

• Drink Ink – The Way to Dusty Death, Alistair MacLean (1973)

• Littlerature – In Miniature: How Small Things Illuminate the World, Simon Garfield (Canongate 2018)

• Le Paon dans les Pyrénées – The Man in the Red Coat, Julian Barnes (Penguin 2019)

• Bon and Off – Two Sides to Every Glory: AC/DC: The Complete Biography, Paul Stenning (Chrome Dreams 2005)

• The Fuel in the Skull – The Jewel in the Skull, Michael Moorcock (1969)

• Suspicious Substance – Substance: Inside New Order, Peter Hook (Simon & Schuster, 2016)

Or Read a Review at Random: RaRaR

Terminal Transgressivity

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“If this work is about hell,” he says, “it’s not only about hell in terms of content. It’s also about hell in terms of its hellishness in terms of production.” — maximally maverick artist Jake Chapman describes how he and his brother Dinos made the transgressive sculpture Hell (2000), as quoted in Simon Garfield’s In Miniature: How Small Things Illuminate the World (2018)

Elsewhere Other-Accessible

• Ex-term-in-nate! — incendiarily interrogating issues around “in terms of”…
• All O.o.t.Ü.-F. posts interrogating issues around “in terms of”…

Peri-Performative Post-Scriptum…

Yes, this was an über-ideal quote for posting on the 23rd in terms of the month… But I was so taken with it that I couldn’t delay any longer. And anyway: it is the 23rd of the months in base 11. (I.e., 2111 = 2 * 11 + 1 = 22 + 1 = 23.)