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Eric's plans of Activity
This is Eric Schrijver's plan of activity:
writing while dancers are dancing
writing the thinking body
while dancers are dancing
the thinking body
writing (the thinking body)
while dancers are dancing
(the thinking body)
the thinking body
in unclear words:
(an obvious loop)
the grammar of cognition, cognition in the creative act, the act of dancing, the momentary act, the now, the present, the present loops, back feed loops, feed back loops, making cognition
one task:
make clear words
like:
I made this, I have forgotten
And remember.
The rigging weak and the canvas rotten
Between one June and another September.
Made this unknowing, half conscious, unknown, my own
The garboard strake leaks, the seams need caulking.
This form, this face, this life
t.s. eliot
or:
This is how I imagine Camus when I read his diary, and this seems like a good model for living: you go to a swimming pool in Algiers, swim, dry in the sun, look at the beautiful boys and girls, think really hard, look at the beautiful boys and girls, think really hard, write a sentence, rewrite the sentence, swim, dry in the sun, rewrite the sentence, think really hard, rewrite the sentence, look at the beautiful boys and girls, rewrite the sentence.
And this is Eric's song:
but my mind, cognition and bo-o-o-dy
a smart guy called hegel
studied his mind
th'end of history is what he did find
well sure history ended it also lives on
cause the times, they are re-changing
the wall it did fall
it keeps falling again
i can replay the movement on my own screens
the screen of my computer and the eye of my mind
now the other walls will have to fall in our minds
and the other walls will have to fall between minds
it is time, and its time
and let time,
keep them rechanging
me i am will and forest mixed up
and may be rain man but i never saw that
but without these others our identity is void
it’s the times, that keep rechanging
i am another, and another is me
please let go of your au-then-ti-ci-ty
now for some science
i will keep it concise
meaning is propelled forward, in-de-fi-ni-te-ley
please embrace the poststructural flux
because the times, will keep rechanging
‘anything’ goes, is anything ‘goes’
as the times, they are rechanging
i am another, and another is me
please let go of your authenticity
(but my mind, cognition and bo-o-o-dy)
Eric's video Cognition is Semantic Synaesthesia



