On Desire

The Mother

"The Mother arrests the body in being encoded within the Oedipal fantasm of…

John Donne's The Ecstasy

"John Donne's The Ecstasy raises the question of intersubjectivity by positing…

the ballad of the black…

"A wind blows through the body of woman. It seeks its way through her ear, diffuses,…

mirror (4)

"See desire and abjection over twisted body, as rhythms of fire yet unknown…

time of signs

"Time of signs signs of time weave a veil over skin over body over facial lines…

i see you

"I see you. I see you in your beauty, in your perfection. I know you see mine,…

lust

"I tremble in my desire. You penetrate my inner room. I gasp as your head touches…

the metaphor of the conjugal…

"Is the marriage of binary opposites such as heaven and hell, male and female…

angela carter's allegory…

"Excerpt from my book Eroticism, Ethics and Reading (1996).
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In the beginning there was desire, and desire there was. There was desire that cannot stop, and there was desire that could not stop. There was desire that could not stop from not writing itself, and there was desire that turned itself into existence. There were people desiring and people who didn’t know they were desiring. There were people desiring but did not know what desire desired. There were people run by the desire desired they didn’t know they desired.
Artist’s statement

The text is my territory. Though not only words, letters, syllables written or spoken, but the text in a broad sense: the cultural text that constitutes us, and thus the myths we live; the text of our circular memory, the infinite intertext of our being in the world; the text of the universe, the always already, the text(ure) of being, the rhythm that is intrinsic to a text’s composition; and - we have heard it before, but it needs saying again - in a digital world everything from design to downloading is literally text. Consequently, the web comes natural as the medium for writing creating composing.

There is a logic here but a logic without logical connectives - the ones you need to write in a linear fashion but which you here have to unlearn - whose complexity goes beyond my control. Still, digital technology enables me to follow the creative process from its conception through every stage to the text’s final editing - which never seems to be final. And, in the process I have to unlearn to rely on the word. There is more. Image music text technology. The interface where I tip in to the Other. Which is why I write create compose for the web.

Recurrent themes in my work are language, desire and love by means of which we create our subjectivity. Themes that continue my scholarly work in reader-response theory. In producing for the web I combine my intellectual work with the visual, the imaginative and the performative - it’s all a kind of an essay.