“They saw their injured country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield.”
―Philip Freneau
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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?
Archilochus
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Divide et Impera!
"dividual"—a physically embodied human subject that is endlessly divisible and reducible to data representations via the modern technologies of control, like computer-based systems.
Her comments were really quite ane, Though her morals were known to maculate. She was sipid and sidious and sane But mune to the comments quite draculate
Which trilled that her conduct was peccable. She thought her behavior quite ferior But flagrante delicto is wreckable E'en to those who believe they are superior.
For a time this domitable daughter Insisted on staying cognito Her hibitions flowed freely as water From Montauk to Sausoleto.
The results of this all were too effable Her friends forgot she was ane They thought she was merely laughable Which caused her considerable pain.
"Enough of this!" she said one night THe future still is evitable I haven't yet begun to fight To prove I'm not a vegetable
So petuously did this dam-ned dame Set out in search of iquity To make her imical once again For righteous ubiquity
Now that she's become dolent, they're dignant. She's just a dividual now, But free from the scarlet pigment That once stained her ferior brow.
I'm not a fan. I chose his work to illustrate this piece because it best illustrates the nature of the animated partial object... of man reduced to mere parts and a life reflective of that division.... and not of a sum greater than all of its' parts as may have been the case in ages past.
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Her comments were really quite ane,
Though her morals were known to maculate.
She was sipid and sidious and sane
But mune to the comments quite draculate
Which trilled that her conduct was peccable.
She thought her behavior quite ferior
But flagrante delicto is wreckable
E'en to those who believe they are superior.
For a time this domitable daughter
Insisted on staying cognito
Her hibitions flowed freely as water
From Montauk to Sausoleto.
The results of this all were too effable
Her friends forgot she was ane
They thought she was merely laughable
Which caused her considerable pain.
"Enough of this!" she said one night
THe future still is evitable
I haven't yet begun to fight
To prove I'm not a vegetable
So petuously did this dam-ned dame
Set out in search of iquity
To make her imical once again
For righteous ubiquity
Now that she's become dolent, they're dignant.
She's just a dividual now,
But free from the scarlet pigment
That once stained her ferior brow.
~ FreeThinke (1963)
Mr. Lidner, the artist, is very clever, but he certainly owes an awful lot to Picasso, doesn't he?
I'm not a fan. I chose his work to illustrate this piece because it best illustrates the nature of the animated partial object... of man reduced to mere parts and a life reflective of that division.... and not of a sum greater than all of its' parts as may have been the case in ages past.
ps - I love what you did to the neutered prefixes, above. :)
erratum - "Neutering" above
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