Duchamp After Unbekannt
Stephen Lauf




2024.04.02

The laser print on magazine page is from around 1995 (I think).


2004.04.02
Re: Is TALK BACK [formerly at artforum.com] historically important?
it's refreshing how cool water does cool things
important or impotent?
hysterical:
meta- or met-
pref.
Later in time: metestrus.
At a later stage of development: metanephros.
Situated behind: metacarpus.
Change; transformation: metachromatism.
Alternation: metagenesis.
Beyond; transcending; more comprehensive: metalinguistics.
At a higher state of development: metazoan.
Having undergone metamorphosis: metasomatic.
Derivative or related chemical substance: metaprotein.
Of or relating to one of three possible isomers of a benzene ring with two attached chemical groups, in which the carbon atoms with attached groups are separated by one unsubstituted carbon atom: meta-dibromobenzene.
"You look familiar. Have we ever meta before?"


2004.04.02
Re: Is TALK BACK [formerly at artforum.com] historically important?
today's lessons:
1. the who and why of Jacksonville Pollock
2. salt[z] is a natural form of electricity; that's why it melts ice
3. Michelangelo's ignudi are really wearing Freudian slips; a kind of masking of homosexuality
4. Freud hated his mother because she wasn't still a virgin after he was born. If she remained a virgin, then he could claim himself the Messiah
tomorrow's lessons include:
1. psychology as symptom of mastermind suffering from failed Messiah complex




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