On the Proper Grooming of States

The State has pressed into service everything you can say and everything you can do. There isn't a single thought that doesn't bear its mark.
- Pierre Bouxx in Maurice Blanchot's The Most High (1948)

SHONE HORTUS

 The State is in effect indifferent

must show, must display

—musth dis*play—

its busy, industrious

indifference.

Boychile.

Chet Boychile, 1959

Purely formal exercise

or

pure exercise of form,

of foam…

Pharmakon, 2019

The State is in effect indifferent.

Whether in politics

or in chemistry.

die Dauerfrage

Tara Nuevo

Deleuze's concept of the 'any-space-whatever'

means, foremost:

the narrative cinema prioritizes

primarily for its own efficiency

from an almost strictly production standpoint

the kinds of incidental urban spaces

easily staged or swapped-out

passably recognizable inherently

to any inhabitant

of the urban part

of the surface of the earth.

Esmerelda really ain't

no kind of living saint

at least aside from the taint

of the smell of wet paint—