For the happy man! - Collected writings DEPRESSION: Ed Atkins

Or, I should remind: maintained only by ARCHAIC
RITUALS. A once proud pragmatism, boiled down to a decorative
tic! Like the sediment-gathering lip on certain amphora.
Like fucking amphora, FULL-STOP!
Or ‘expedient meaning’...what might that be? It sure
sounds lazy, dangerous, to me.
– Well, it might be qualified somewhat as a kind of
‘First Meaning’ – a meaning that’s simply sufficient to progress
but is pretty much acknowledged by all as intuitive. I remember
Luce Irigaray answering a complex question from the floor
like that: a long pause, then saying, ‘This is my first answer,’ etc.
I remember that much at least. Something about provisionality,
plurality, etc.
Though I neither remember the question itself nor the
event...Also, I think of Badiou or someone very, very similar to
Badiou saying something like: ‘This answer will be an improvisation
and not a mediation’, which is similarly SWELL, I think.
Again, I can’t remember the question.
Or that, in an attempt to remember more, I had this
pixellated quill and inkwell tattooed on to the back of my hand.
A pretty complex image, I thought. A few good ideas in there.
A history of indices being one.
Or this tattoo here of an elephant (African) and this
one of a piece of knotted string.
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