Artaud Notes

Madness and Modernism: SCHIZOPHRENIC THOUGHT

01.07.2003 Antonin Artaud
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1 of 9 in Artaud NotesCHAPTER 1 SCHIZOPHRENIC THOUGHT Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought Schizophrenic thinking: Von Dormarus called schizophrenic reasoning paralogical because patients would call stags and Indians braves the same thing because they were fast. Arieti called this mode of thinking “paleological” because it, in [...]

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Madness and Modernism: Disturbances in Distance

01.17.2003 Antonin Artaud
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2 of 9 in Artaud NotesCHAPTER 3 DISTURBANCES IN DISTANCE Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought Patient: Yes, we all have perspectives, everyone does, and then you have to ask the perspective spirit to help you find a home you can live in, if you don’t have one, [...]

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Madness and Modernism: LANGUAGE OF INWARDNESS

01.07.2003 Antonin Artaud
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3 of 9 in Artaud NotesCHAPTER 4 LANGUAGE OF INWARDNESS Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought Marian: I’m responsible for my own motives. I keep my mouth closed and my nose open. Nurse: Can you say things a bit more clearly to let us know what’s going on? [...]

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Artaud #1: Words become power objects

01.22.2003 Antonin Artaud
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4 of 9 in Artaud NotesANTONIN ARTAUD This is the world in the shape of a butterfly putting the world together. (more poems) Artaud is, in fact, the most published/translated French poet in the 20th century… glos·so·la·li·a n 1. See speaking in tongues 2. nonsensical or invented speech, especially resulting from a trance or schizophrenia Daniel [...]

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Artaud #2: The reversabiliy of time as the moment of the invention of time

01.29.2003 Antonin Artaud
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5 of 9 in Artaud NotesMore B. quotes about synethesia… Three models of time linear (beginning-and-end theology), circular (seasonal), spiral (more eastern kind of enlightenment crap). Nietzsche: Twilight of the Idols… the indispensablility of the frenzy (above all the frenzy of sexual excitement), strong cravings (feasts), contest, all extreme movement, frenzy of cruelty, destruction, frenzy of [...]

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Artaud #3: The void, maybe, is the space between the judge and the judge

02.05.2003 Antonin Artaud
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6 of 9 in Artaud NotesHow do you base a poetics on the valorization of a total extinction? Artaud doesn’t think ‘time’ exactly. He thinks of extinction in terms of force and non-force. The void, maybe, is the space between the judge and the judged. (Artaud seems to hold both places at the same time). [...]

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Artaud #4: the valorization of psychotic symptoms-as-aesthetic

02.26.2003 Antonin Artaud
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7 of 9 in Artaud NotesRestructuring the body according to desire… So much of the inner conflict of Surrealism had to do with the specifics is how the libidinal body is labels… (Artaud, Bastille, and Dali were all asked to leave)… In each of these instances, the representations of the body surpassed Breton (and other’s) [...]

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Artaud #5: cruelty-as-necessity is a metaphysical kind of cruelty

03.12.2003 Antonin Artaud
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8 of 9 in Artaud NotesWhat does Artaud mean when he talks about theater as plague that can only be resolved by death… Becoming, fatality, chaos… These are Artaud’s main things in the theater of cruelty… The cruelty-as-necessity is a metaphysical kind of cruelty… it’s not cruelty on the body… it’s the way object exist [...]

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Artaud #6: something about microphony that forces you to listen inside the sounds

04.02.2003 Antonin Artaud
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9 of 9 in Artaud NotesArtaud was constantly trying to separate the voice from the body… finding a way for the voice to speak outside of the body… What is so radical about crooning: it’s romantic and relies upon microphone… you can here more of the breath… a microphone allows you to hear the insides of [...]

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