It will have been noted that I am keen to ask people, students, lecturers, to add a remark or two perhaps on what they feel with regard to Language and the work of art: after all a strand has been opened on this topic in both of the last two deposits I made on the site. I can see that I may be able to "teach" as it were from this portal and not only with special attention to Joyce and Duchamp though this is my own area of research. Anyone care to add a feeling or a thought concerning the above title?

Reading (in) Duchamp, Reading (in) Joyce and Reading Hays I have the consistent experience of being enticed, enthralled but not finding the code that helps me to say “Oh Yes” and then put things away in my memory. My experience of Ian’s website recalls a character in a Tom Robbins’ novel. He belongs to a group that is reading Finnegans Wake, named “CRAFT”, an acronym for “Can’t Remember A F—ing Thing”—the usual condition of this reader of Finnegans Wake after our group meetings.

Reading says Barthes, speaking to me through Jonathan Culler, is something we do with the body. It is not just a mind/intellectual process. Reading often brings pleasure—pleasure goes with reading what is coded and accessible. Jouissance is the experience of what is engaging but not under(or inner)standable. The reading has the quality of play and of a disruption. Thus Ian keeps it subtle, keeps it complex and I am jouissanced by my engagement with the whole of him and what comes from him. What he creates, sometimes in writing, augments what I have read and it leads me elsewhere and it disrupts what I have read and it leads me to read more. I do not always grasp what he is saying or doing, but I always come away with three or four new ideas of my own.

Dreams are tacky devices for presenting ideas—but I had a dream I will use here. I was with a man, a man younger than me (I thought he was one of my sons) who opened a door to a large room which was packed with words, images, parts of speech, sentence fragments, an under-organized but full storage area. A woman at a small desk amongst the chaos said we could use what we wanted in any way we wanted.

In the dream room as in Ian’s work, words and images are not clearly distinguished and something emerges from the tension between them as from the (fourth dimensional?) space between mind and body in which I reach for my whole self—not self. I am in the contextual collage that has unlimited (no) bounds.

So we entered Ian’s

I would just like to take some time too Thank everyone for doing what you do and make this community great im a long time reader and first time poster so i just wanted to say thanks.

Let me simply thank, at last, Professor David Keith for his remarks and also of course Tobsmoony: it would be wonderful to keep a discourse going but I know that like me people are busy with their own worlds.

At present more work cannot be uploaded onto the Images since I am working right now on 8 images for Shem the Penman - pp. 169 through 176 and this is proving to be a huge undertaking - but the learning and reading through Joyce, Duchamp and Quantum Theory (it`s predecessors and subsequent revitalizations) is simply awesome and difficult to bring to visual realization. Essays are underway but all are in different stages of creation. I look forward to publishing these on our site after June 2010 - that is to say after the Joyce Conference in Prague.

I`m a mate of your of urs. cool man
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Whats up? New around here and figured that I should post and say hi.