For the happy man! - Collected writings DEPRESSION: Ed Atkins
For the happy man! - Collected writings DEPRESSION: Ed Atkins For the happy man! - Collected writings DEPRESSION: Ed Atkins
Lyonnaise prologue 2013 Concerning ‘depression’ in its various nounal and verbal forms, I am inventing you as you are. How to describe a way to go beyond, beneath the flat. To the flat beneath. Which is another one-bed, pre-furnished place occupied by a couple who both work nights and sleep during the day. And their especially opaque blinds and at least a foot of cool mattress between them. The coincidence of depressed mental states and analogous, downward-motioning physical processes.
The proper work of a thumb lies in depressing in order to dramatise and repeal flatness. Against thumbs up. Being a gesture of evolutionary SOLIDARITY, asshole. Affirmation. Predominantly of smug, unreconstructed supremacy – of proto-sapien distinction strung with terminal, Classical verdict: a blooded and cocked vertical, wreathed in laurels and muscle-memories of childish grips. Proud thumbs as pubescent pricks! Eleven- or twelve-year-old pricks, haunted by softened poltergeists. These ghosts of antique military gestures, nautical knots, exorbitant, abstract fashion – of holds, grips, pyjama’d martial arts. Forms of conTROL. ‘Control’ as a licking of the physical by the mental, brother. Some sort of Tantric tedium. The fact that the very idea of the immaterial is always-already had from a position of privilege. So this mind-over-matter crap is welcomely overruled by those same vacant boys charging back and forth between pillows, up against tight alleyways. And they’re making rough rubbings of the brickwork with their dashing bodies, staining tracksuits. Thoughtless, heedless. –Things die in their company and are buried in thumbed
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Lyonnaise prologue<br />
2013<br />
Concerning ‘depression’ in its various nounal and<br />
verbal forms, I am inventing you as you are.<br />
How to describe a way to go beyond, beneath<br />
<strong>the</strong> flat. To <strong>the</strong> flat beneath.<br />
Which is ano<strong>the</strong>r one-bed, pre-furnished place<br />
occupied by a couple who both work nights and<br />
sleep during <strong>the</strong> day.<br />
And <strong>the</strong>ir especially opaque blinds and at least a<br />
foot of cool mattress between <strong>the</strong>m.<br />
The coincidence of depressed mental states<br />
and analogous, downward-motioning physical<br />
processes.
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