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

tongue.
32 BCEsoteric Erotica! As in, most of these things
could easily be described as more or less
marvellous dildos.
75,000,000 ADArtifice to strip artifice of artifice. As in, a
pretty much brilliant description of the work
of irony.
1032An alternative movement posed as counter
to the familiar description of the smooth
slippage of capital along warm, tilted glass
– the windows of a supplicant skyscraper in
the sun – or picture a scoop of slowly melting
vanilla ice cream skating down the facia of
your [...] –> and the concurrent atomisation
of an ENTIRE BED (a bed that is still indented
[...]) into numerical abstraction that apparently
describes the chaotic trajectories of
those drifting scintillas of nothing that riddle
every lungful of fetid air at ever single point
in the breathable universe.
1555Your movements discerned, finally, as a
sleight of hand – a gesture that dissimulates,
misdirects – a means of smuggling an apparition
past your shrewd but, and let’s face it,
chronically dulled senses.
1975(Watch this
(while this happens))
Fifty billion years A process beginning with an absence de-