DION MCGREGOR AND HIS AMAZING SLEEP TALKINGS! GRACE JONES ... COUM! COUM! COUM! COUM! COUM! + THE HOPE FOR COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS... Internal calculation, PRAXIS MAXIS, La Chute, FERREIRA GULLAR, Godard, Truffaut etc... Peter Whitehead, Tim Leary, Nam June Paik - THE MIGHTY NOTTINGHAM FOREST!!!! - Vito Acconci - Tarkovsky, Stuart Home, Genesis P. Orridge, Alfred Jarry, Tim Henman, Kubrick, the Vasulka's - hardcore contemporaneity - POESY SWEET POESY, Libraries, RAY MEARS - HEEEEEE'S THE BEST! NHS glasses, Musty books, Andre Agassi, long lectures, radio four, Breakfast tea with runny honey, long, long gallery tours, charity shops, RIDING MY FUCKING BIKE - IT'S GREAT, FUCKING GREAT! Formica clad Cafe's (The New Picadilly, of course), THUNDERSTORMS, The Renoir cinema, my room, sunday morning sunshine, cold air and middle class strolls, watching fights, Hackney & the gentrification issue...The Rio cinema on Sunday's - double bill a go-go... CANE TOADS Breton, Bas Jan Ader, Jean Genet, Michaux, Blanchot, Foucault, Lyotard, Lars Iyer, Slavoj Zizek, ANYONE AND ANYTHING BLACK MOUNTAIN, Blake, Debord, BURROUGHS (who now haunts my own being through syncronising moments. GINSBERG, GINSBERG, GINSBERG, Ezra Pound, Alexander Trocchi, The London Psychogeographical Society, Masson, Gide, Lawrence (When poetic) modernist painting (Constructivism/Suprematism (Malevich the master) still drinking Greenberg tea, Dada over Surrealism, Lygia Clark, Moholy-Nagy, Keith Coventry (In estate mode), Mattisse, International style and its development into good old 1960's British Brutalism, J, Barnett Newman, Ellsworth Kelly, Judd, Morris and the minimal explosion, Conceptualism HANS HAACKE / KOSUTH /BALDESSARI / JOHN LATHAM ... BERND AND HILLA BECHNER (those towers!) Gursky and The Dusseldorf school, fluxus, Beuys, ART THEORY OVER HISTORY, The October school and their relentness socio-politicising, identity! identity!(WRITING THIS THEN REALISING HALFWAY IT'S ANOTHER POINTLESS POEM)Deleuze and Guattari - What is Philosophy?, Habermas, Foucault, Lyotard, GEORGES BATAILLE! GEORGES BATAILLE! GEORGES BATAILLE! Spinoza as something to aim for, Heidegger (as the huge mountain ever facing me), NIETZSCHE! NIETZSCHE! NIETZSCHE! Hegel and the end of History, Kojeve, Derrida, Stuart Home, Neoism (whatever that may be...), Artstrike, Cut-up, Isodore Isou, Situationist International...
1977 FROTTAGE WITH CLAIRE PARNAT.
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