Transductions

“The next day I lunched in a carrel. I read how Caligula annexed parts of Rome for his palace. City blocks became hallways, tenements became suites. In one suite he opened a brothel. Men could go and sleep with the boys and married women who worked there.” — Derek McCormack, Dark Rides, 1996.

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1. Joseph Cornell: Setting for a Fairy Tale (1942)

2. Stalin in his Kremlin office: propaganda poster

3. Standard Internet Image of a Black Hole

4. Novelty Lung Ashtray

5. Anal interior, captured via camera probe: a still from a gay bareback porn film

6. Chest-burster from Ridley Scott’s Alien: official promotional still

7. Marco Dente: Ornamental Engraving (1525)

8. The Fuji Zeppelin Colouring-In Page

9. Amfora: a computer-generated model of a proposed underground parking network for the city of Amsterdam

10. The Braille Alphabet in English

11. Marcel Duchamp: Objet-Dard (1951)

12. Autopsy photo of the guillotined criminal, Canute Vromant (1909)

13. A fossilized wasp, not to scale

14. Jim Shaw: Dream Object (I Dreamt I was putting together this piece of abstract drawings) (2002)

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“Nothing leads nowhere,
The centuries also live underground, says the Master of Ho.”
– Henri Michaux, ‘Labyrinth’, Épreueves, Exorcismes, 1944.

§ 2 Responses to “Inner Life”

• Nicholas Cook says:

  February 1, 2010 at 2:03 am

  Mmm… Gravitational lensing.

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• Jesse Hudson says:

  February 1, 2010 at 2:17 am

  Wow, it’s nice to see you running a blog/website, David! And the contributors page made it all the more exciting. I ams o looking forward to this!
  More people should use the internet to learn new things and/or new perspectives on things they thought they already knew. That’s what I’m going to use it for. And this website is one of the places I will start.
  Thanks!
  Jesse

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