Weird Studies/Naked Lunch

14 Apr 2022 03:22 - 16 Dec 2022 12:22
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    • More about the film than the Burroughs novel.
    • Opening discussion of fox/hedgehog mapped onto Beatles and themselves. Interesting. I guess I am a hedgehog of sorts, I basically have one idea, couldn't quite tell you what it is but "agency" is trying to point there.
    • One of the epigraphs, from Burroughs, paraphrasing from memory: "Hustlers of the world, you will finally realize there is one mark you cannot beat, the mark inside."
      • Hm, I think this is a typical algebraic Burroughs construction, that points to a certain kind of negative self-awareness. It instantly paints a picture of Maya, the mind constantly feeding illusions to itself (and others) but ultimately failing.
    • Nostalgia for things you never experienced.
    • Fluidity of world-crossing, yep.
    • Oddly they didn't know Burroughs has the IP on "zones", they got it from Tarkovsky.
    • It's kind of like fan fiction...or a remix of Burroughs material.
    • JFM is a big Burroughs fan.
    • "Wall-to-wall mindfuckery" (heh)
    • Burroughs, junk gives you crystalline clarity into the working of the mind (as says de Quncey), lucidity. Suppresses affect and lets you see the machinery. Heh take that MM.
    • The resonances of different drugs at different times.
    • JF hasn't done acid, how can that be
    • de Qunicey, art and crime. All art is subversive, its ontologically part of the process. Is that really true? (subject of JFM book, which I ought to read). "Works of art are machines for destroying ideology".
    • Art is not group-ish, it's about the response to an individuals absolute aloneness...works of art are also always singular.
    • You can't play the same piece of music twice the same way, because you and the situation are never the same.