Der Defätist / The Defeatist

courts and yards, umgh

June 14, 2017

hello brooklyln friend, don’t worry, i’m working on the courtyards of berlin …billy’s pics are polar opposites (counterpoint), though not for too much longer, i fear. instead, we will see ordoliberal IT courtyards ( [...]

beyond courtyards (100 years)

May 24, 2017

once we imagined we weren’t looking at screens to be moved, while meeting a center point, to make our moves in the world. we were, blithely, following the star shed glitter of hope, opportunity, soaked with excitement: a squeaky liberty. flung [...]

a lambent dream

April 30, 2017

gold must be pure, o, doré gold be the cover while under the aegis of fear, rage & spleen we reel to uncover the precipitous continent. the act of unraveling & what it could mean when we are looking at gold & looking for it [...]

The Man with the Broken Nose

April 6, 2017

Rodin,La Petite Tête de l’Homme au nez cassé dears, travelers, as well as click- lead-sale crowd, merchants & affiliates, all able to take it. ID as form of power & sabotage i like to not talk to you about biometric sensors [...]

When an eye has a dream

March 14, 2017

when an eye has a dream it steps over land, body & six sights to say i am water. i am not what john reed saw, i am beyond troops, i am water, still, graving shaved females, since water can drip down into lenin’s choice, war cripple, being [...]

bon jour distress

February 21, 2017

Frederic James, Kansas City house If independence is the ideology of slave-holders, emancipation requires the programmatic destruction of independence. Within a cross-coded history, the realization of freedom is indistinguishable from its [...]

Red and Green

January 7, 2017

progression, what does it mean? to step forward ….? forewearde: “toward the front, in front; toward the future; at the beginning” let us sing the word scout to disclose the outpost – the modern girl (1932) , painted in red [...]

About Purple, Kant States…

December 1, 2016

About Purple, kant states in the critque of judgement (§7) – i do give you a frank translation -: what a color, for some salty, for some sweet … well, he spoke – as hodler painted – not looking towards the shore, but [...]

Oh, dear Red, what do you do?

October 15, 2016

Are you the oddity of public space? Can i remember you as the nameless, as the bold, as the red chock, as the key to a merely white door? Can i understand you as oddities of public space too – or can i remember you as this: When the legend [...]

tronie

September 20, 2016

the house of windsor owns the codex atlanticus – … at least all the medical drawings … they display the rough ways of collecting… ruwe manier by which rembrandt’s hand is seemingly caught and wanton van gogh ‘s [...]