FOR SAT 04.08:

Please post a rapid-fire essay response to some aspect of the text read so far.

This can be in written or visual form. It can be a first draft. These responses will be discussed in the next session, using Straw Dogs text as reference/counterpoint.

FOR SAT 04.08.2012:

FOR TUES 24.07.2012:

Please read the following pages in Straw Dogs
pp. 56 - 83 (The Deception, Ch. 8: Plato and the Alphabet to Ch. 15: The Experiment)

Optional reading:
pp. 37 - 55 (The Deception, Ch. 1: At the Masked Ball to Ch. 7: Animal Faith)

OUBLIISM

The signatories of Oubliism have, under the glare of a nuclear starburst

Committed
to Shed tears

OUBLII!

Our tidal encounters conceive new physical realities from which we will harvest fresh perspective.

OUBLIISM symbolises the most fundamental relationship with the surrounding reality; with Oubliism new worlds and systems are perpetually borne from the ashes of a withering civilisation.

we disown this life
With its simultaneous confusion

Of
Chaos noise disorder

Of
light separated in a rainbow

We are gathered here to proclaim the birth of an Oubliist physical reality where extragalactic rhythms are captured

At a star formation rate

by the sensational shouts and fever of its temerarious continuum psyche
and in ALL its destructive interference within reality.
Here lies is the cross faded apogalactic line between Oubliism and all other physical realistic trends.

To herald the genesis of cosmic time, Oubliism refuses the atomist attitude towards existence. It tears to fractions
all those grand words like ethics, culture, humanism, good, evil, beginning, end, which are only covers for

All-too-rational people

those who drown in matter-of-fact swamps


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turns words into spirited forces. The letters of the word "planet" smashed and reshaped into globular clusters.

Oubliist inverts current norms
Invents fragile forms
Aligning itself not to the symmetry of reason but to

POSSIBILITIES that forms of expression live in all physical realities.

Modernist architecture reconfigured into dance on stage,

Botany explored for its sonic possibilities

it spreads cacophony, dissonance, atonality and indeterminacy

over all the continents

The word Oublii shows the intergalactic nature of a movement which is bound by no golden ratio, or physical laws. Oublii is the inconceivably vast expression of our cosmic time, the great rebellion of revolutionary movements, the physical realistic reflexion of all those many frictions, human struggles and clashes that surround us.

Oublii demands the use of

NEW MATERIALS IN THE READING OF THE WORLD

OUblii is an organisation which has been founded in London which you can join without turbulence. Oublii is not some pretext to bolster up the pride of

a few neo thinkers (as our enemies would have the world believe).

Oublii is a state,

you are an oubliist or your aren't. Out of Uncertainties.

To be an Oubliist means

being thrown with angular momentum by events,
being against matter that settles to the bottom of the abyss; but
it also means putting your life in a vacuum... One says yes
to an existence that seeks to grow by negation.

Down with atomist-aesthetic-ethical tendencies!
Down with failed innovations!
Down with the literary hollow-heads and their theories for improving the material universe!










Text by Chooc Ly Tan
Contributors: Shabaka Hutchings, Peter Lewis, Dadaiste and new Astrophysics

Every dog has his day.

This is what my grandfather told me. Every dog has his day. I never understood what it was he meant by this until I looked into the eyes of my nemesis as he begged me for help, to clear his name as he was being fired from work. I thought to myself, Victor - you fucking asshole, every dog has his day. Look at you now. Shit, I basked in his pathetic glory - there was something almost orgasmic about his demise, better than sex, better than alcohol, better than money, better than life itself was the pure feeling of revenge, the punch of his desperation was the most alive I have ever felt. The wimp, the failure. I am staring truth in the face like the mantis, I hear he is now staring a wine bottle in the face, the ruined coward can't even find something else.

Little did he know, little did he know it was me, I was the instigator of the firing. It was me - the snake in the grass, like an animal I went about my business. It is the animals philosophy that helps him get what he wants. The attack, the relentless chaos and finality of the animal kingdom that allows survival. I once watched this documentary on television about the praying mantis. They camouflage themselves and remain entirely still, waiting. Once it has it's prey it will eat the head first. Can you imagine? I think this is what my grandfather was saying - I get it, this noble creature, annihilating it's prey. As I have done. That's my kind of justice and you know, when a man digs a hole - he risks falling into it.

Someone once said you me that I was born under an unlucky star, well I say fuck you. I was born against my will – how was I to survive?

I STAND ALONE

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