IT'S THE WORK THAT MATTERS


JK

THE WORK IS JUST A JERRY RIGGED CANNON

FROM WHICH WE LAUNCHED OURSELVES

PEOPLE KEEP LOOKING AT THE CANNON

WE BUILT IT TO GET AWAY FROM THAT PLACE

59 comments:

Donald Judd Winick said...

Green Lanterns climb a cosmic stairstep

D.O. Daed said...

don't icarus it up

Jason Overby said...

Work is movement away from "the work." give it up & play chess - there is no worth in the thing, just the action.

Tim said...

BLAISE DOES THAT CANNON WORK

DOES IT SHOOT U WHERE U WANT

OR DO U SHATTER MOST PAINFULLY

INSIDE ENEMY TERRITORY

Anonymous said...

Do you even try anymore?

blaise said...

@tim it works in the sense that i'm not there anymore

Anonymous said...

boring

Anonymous said...

david, that is ;)

Anonymous said...

re: cannon-fire, boredom

i'd rather blaise talk directly about enemy territory than puss around the bushes

unless that's what this is.....dude must have cartoonist's block

blaise said...

@anonymous what is enemy territory? capitalism? do you remember the end of mission impossible (1996)? 'Ethan presses [explosive chewing gum] into the front window of the helicopter before jumping off. Phelps makes a futile attempt to remove it, and ends up being on the underside of the foot. The gum explodes, killing Krieger, and the blast fortunately propels Hunt onto the back of the train, instead of killing him with shrapnel.'

i don't think it's possible to get out of such a situation without extensive reconstructive back surgery but what options do we have?

Anonymous said...

@blaise
maybe you could choose to inhabit a different narrative altogether? mission impossible makes it's limits clear from the get-go.

i'd rather take part in:

the dark crystal (1982)

or

the wild blue yonder (2005)

but that's just me. i like tom cruise anyway.

that's what she said...

"rimshot"

Anonymous said...

i'm glad comments comments has turned into a surefire "gag-factory"

2008 said...

sell

tom cruise said...

dark crystal is the mission
wild blue yonder is impossible

VOMITS VOMITS said...

bllllaise

am i right in understanding....

that you reckon a cannon was built so we could get away from doing work....

...and instead just form distant stances where we can discuss things as critics?

this has to be a mis-understanding on my part because that sounds like total bullshit, the resulting criticism being 'work' as well.

dim benson said...

the wild blue yonder is possible
werner rocked that shit well and good
don't doubt, don't pout

dark crystal was a true mission, yah
just ask my boy froudy b.
the joy is in nevr totally accomplishin it
just inspiring commenters frevr

just ask wendy pini
this message is from beyond the grave
happy halloweenz ya'll

Manufacture Comment Controversy said...

jesus christ this is TERRIBLE

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

i'm into casting harsh judgements

are you guys cool with that

SONNETS SONNETS said...

sure Anon, jus save the mold

blaise said...

@jesse are you listening to this drama across the street lol

@vomits vomits i think there is a misunderstanding

i'm not bringing up criticism

i'm drawing a line between work as a verb and work as a noun

don't focus on the finger, focus on the territory into which the finger is pointing

Daffy Duplicitous said...

This blog shoots my boner right into the ground

poet lariat said...

86 400 panes of glass
one bullet

A ___ IN TEH LIFE


'pull tha trigga Charlie, please pull tha trigga, oh god oh god'

BAM!

Anonymous said...

this sucks, but i'm reactionary or w/e? don't care

Anonymous said...

you're trying to preempt criticism with these paranoid outward-directed rhetorical strategies. you're trying to outguess the reader, anticipate any critical response they might have so that you can voice it first and leave them speechless. you're determined to shoot first, even if you're shooting your own foot. i wish you would allow the work to have some rhetorical closure. i could psychoanalyze. the naïve subject is uncomfortable existing alongside anything not itself, and tries to make everything into itself by consuming it. you're eating all the food. soon there will be no food left and everyone will be dead.

blaise said...

@c.bren what do you mean by 'pre-empt'? i want to direct criticism - away from the fixed point and toward the arrow.

i engage with the object grammatically. the object 'denotes somebody or something involved in the subject's "performance" of the verb.' it is the author - absent or present - who intrigues me or who i care about as a result of their actions.

but the author is not what i'm emphasizing in this post - it's the verb and its effect on the author and object.

'anticipate any critical response they might have so that you can voice it first and leave them speechless'

i'm familiar with this tactic as it's commonly deployed on hipsterrunoff but i don't see how i'm doing it.

i feel the opposite of this post's sentiments is this

blaise said...

um ... this

Rodney Ganzfeld said...

New Criticism, moar like Olde Criticism

a.vois said...

@blaise
i dont think new criticism is that different than what you're talking about...i dont believe they saw a work as a closed piece but as layers of difficulty for the 'critic' to sift thru...somewhat like the empty tomb that you say you've left us...a shell without a core except what we (want to) put there...lotsa layers, no center...ok: universe

Blaise Larmee said...

@a.vois 'New Critics treat a work of literature as if it were self-contained.'

'text' vs 'work':

'The word "text" arose within structuralism as a replacement for the older idea in literary criticism of the "work," which is always complete and deliberately authored.[1] A text must necessarily be thought of as incomplete, indeed as missing something crucial that provides the mechanics of understanding. The text is always partially hidden[...]'

TREY SONGZ said...

Shorty just text me, says she want to sex me / LOL smiley face, LOL smiley face / Shorty sent a twitpic saying come and get this

Anonymous said...

christ

shout outs said...

i like women
like they are amazing

Christ said...

Anonymous

uh-huh said...

i smirked

Anonymous said...

i cannot think of a better metaphor than a jack-o-lantern. period.


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3341 Profile Views said...

@blaise larmee

hey! ok. yes a work is before a text. i am already reaching for a microwave burrito btw. new criticism is what was used to be confused by mobius dix. ear-elevant.

the idea of an expanded work (i.e. text) has been [napoleon] blownapart consistently since 196-who cares. like, your analogy of a cannon is great...but references to textuality make me remember wut red pepper salad tastes like slamming against my eye teef as it hits a toilet. u know


so...even moar

so much moar


hope this was all ghostwritten

moar

blaise said...

@3341 Profile Views 1960s seem sweet

dan graham, dan flavin, jeff wall, gordon matta-clarke, yoko ono

good theory ya

Lawrence Weiner said...

ya ya
—1. The artist may construct the piece.
—2. The piece may be fabricated.
—3. The piece need not be built.
—Each being equal and consistent with the intent of the artist the decision as to condition rests with the receiver upon the occasion of receivership.

Jesse McManus said...

@ blaise

i missed the bizness across the street, i was busy signing leases and catching pumpkin grins, na mean??

@ everyone

this discussion is kinda cool like, glad you theory nerds are dorking out, not just sporking out

force feed me, prompt, fickle fops.....

...my word verify is "fisect" which i do enjoy, truly.

suck it said...

@blaise

richard tuttle > bruce nauman > dan flavin

@the 1960s said...

@suck it

karl wirsum > everyone

Anonymous said...

autodidacticism in action. this post is like the anti-HU. none of you guys know what you're talking about, but it sounds cool. love it.

fat gay internet surfer said...

Karl Wirsum's grandfather > Karl Wirsum

3347 Profile Views said...

@blaise i do agree re: 60s

yayoi kusama, harry smith, salvador dali, dick van dyke, walt disney

clouds 'n' sails


p.s. from Wikipedia:

"[Jeff] Wall has been a key figure in Vancouver's art scene since the early-1970s." but yeah

uN-Hu said...

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said uhhhh hey hey hey an a ho ho ho an a 1 an a 2 an away we go

YES UH-HUH IM DOING WELL THINGS ARE GOING VERY SWIMMING IVE GOT ALL MY DUCKS IN A ROW AND NO IT HASNT BEEN THAT DIFFICULT IM ENJOYING MYSELF AND EASING INTO THE VARIOUS PRESSURES WUIELK

even a child could think what you're thinking right now. fuck. give the kid some credit, cut him some slack, let him go an do his own thing, loosen the reigns, empty the nest in your head, say your goodbyes, give it a rest, take a chillpill, take it easy, take it slow, take a step back and see it from his perspective DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD

It's true, the boomers fucked us boyz. Have you read about issues related to social security and the future of finance. Grim stuff, motherfucker.

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blaise said...

@3347 Profile Views damn you're right

i group jeff wall, dan flavin, and dan graham together based on things i read in, among other things, the dan graham manga

i like the idea of 3 bros in different fields busting out hardcore pieces and theories that sort of relate or influence each other

3348 Profile Views said...

@ blaise sure sure

like tao lin, brad troemel, blaise larmee? ;) ;)

all totally hardcore.

or like, for instance

charlie rose, sherlock holmes, lise meitner

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Loveless

darn it said...

i'm 47 and i masterbat

zeroreference said...

@Tim:

UR A GENUS
POETRY GOD
NO HOMO
GOD

Tim said...

@zerospellingskillz
thanks, butt:

GENUS OF TIM

WHAT COME FROM HIM

MANY SPECIES YOU BET

BOTH PLANT AND ANIMAL

SPIRIT AND MINERAL

BUT MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL

A VERSE WITH SUCH FLOW

IT'LL LET A BITCH KNOW

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zeroreference said...

@Tim

butt no homo butt

Tim said...

@zero maturity
oh. very sophisticated M. Molière ;)