National Philistine 2006-2007 - My own private Alexandria V.1

master list in no
particular order

sort by date

sort by length

works both
utopian and dsytopian

works related
to aesthetics

authors who
are still living

works that
mention animals

works that
mention the erotic

works that most resemble stories

works
haunted by God

works activists
should listen to

works
haunted by Freud

works written
by artists

most
melancholic works

works
containing recipes

works
written in the
midst of war

WORKS WRITTEN BY ARTISTS

Notes on composing in film by Hollis Frampton (1976)
00:25:26 mp3 / Mispronounced French, English / October 1976
KEYWORDS: Art, film, language as structuration, T.S. Eliot, Samuel Beckett, music as ethic of film composing, syntax outside meaning.

Obsolescence by Martha Rosler (2002)
00:16:38 mp3 / Mispronounced English / ISBN 0262752506
KEYWORDS: Art, technology, Karl Marx, mannequins, garage sales, the unbearable burden of the perpetually new, buyer’s remorse.

A truce for the creatures by Colette (1904)
00:04:16 mp3 / No problems / ISBN 0374131023
KEYWORDS: Art, story, life of animals during and after war, ducks, animals and their hope in us, flowers, the pecking order is wrong, tit, rabbits, almonds, petals, the bombs have stopped and life can go on.

A recommended instrument… by Henri Michaux (1949)
00:01:21 mp3 / Pretty good reading, a little stunted / ISBN 0520212290
KEYWORDS: Art, thunder, noise against kids, hating kids, hating school, the awful effects of memory.

From slices of knowledge by Henri Michaux (1954)
00:06:08 mp3 / One cough / ISBN:0520212290
KEYWORDS: Sharks, truth as impediment, hating kids, Clarity through hallucination.

The rest is silent by Chris Marker (1995)
00:14:14 mp3 / Mispronounced Russian, French, Brazilian, German, Japanese, Italian, probably English too / ISBN 1881390101
KEYWORDS: History of silent film, no such thing as silent film, shoot the piano player, fixing emotions, Benshi, love of Clara Bow, large faces, color as sex.

The aesthetics of silence by Susan Sontag (1969)
01:14:56 mp3 / Mispronounced French, German / ISBN 0312420218
KEYWORDS: Art, silence as aesthetic form of spirituality, Samuel Beckett, Robbe-Grillet, sound is the chatter of immobility, what is at stake is a new form of void from which the new is possible.

Text for nothing #2 by Samuel Beckett (1967)
00:07:28 mp3 / Easy to read in your mind, but much harder out loud / ISBN 0802150624
KEYWORDS: Art, Light, shadow, Mother Calvert, going home (not that one).

Reversible destinies questionnaire by Arakawa and Gins (1997)
01:14:56 mp3 / no problems except the war / ISBN 0810969025
KEYWORDS: Art, architecture, buildings as surround, we have decided not to die, against mortality, death as option, poetry of living life beyond life itself, are you radical enough?

master list in no particular order	sort by date	sort by length	works both utopian and dsytopian	works related to aesthetics	authors who are still living
works that mention animals	works that mention the erotic	works that most resemble stories	works haunted by God	works activists should listen to	works haunted by Freud
works written by artists	most melancholic works	works containing recipes	works written in the midst of war

WORKS WRITTEN BY ARTISTS
Notes on composing in film by Hollis Frampton (1976) 00:25:26 mp3 / Mispronounced French, English / October 1976 KEYWORDS: Art, film, language as structuration, T.S. Eliot, Samuel Beckett, music as ethic of film composing, syntax outside meaning.
Obsolescence by Martha Rosler (2002) 00:16:38 mp3 / Mispronounced English / ISBN 0262752506 KEYWORDS: Art, technology, Karl Marx, mannequins, garage sales, the unbearable burden of the perpetually new, buyer’s remorse.
A truce for the creatures by Colette (1904) 00:04:16 mp3 / No problems / ISBN 0374131023 KEYWORDS: Art, story, life of animals during and after war, ducks, animals and their hope in us, flowers, the pecking order is wrong, tit, rabbits, almonds, petals, the bombs have stopped and life can go on.
A recommended instrument… by Henri Michaux (1949) 00:01:21 mp3 / Pretty good reading, a little stunted / ISBN 0520212290 KEYWORDS: Art, thunder, noise against kids, hating kids, hating school, the awful effects of memory.
From slices of knowledge by Henri Michaux (1954) 00:06:08 mp3 / One cough / ISBN:0520212290 KEYWORDS: Sharks, truth as impediment, hating kids, Clarity through hallucination.
The rest is silent by Chris Marker (1995) 00:14:14 mp3 / Mispronounced Russian, French, Brazilian, German, Japanese, Italian, probably English too / ISBN 1881390101 KEYWORDS: History of silent film, no such thing as silent film, shoot the piano player, fixing emotions, Benshi, love of Clara Bow, large faces, color as sex.
The aesthetics of silence by Susan Sontag (1969) 01:14:56 mp3 / Mispronounced French, German / ISBN 0312420218 KEYWORDS: Art, silence as aesthetic form of spirituality, Samuel Beckett, Robbe-Grillet, sound is the chatter of immobility, what is at stake is a new form of void from which the new is possible.
Text for nothing #2 by Samuel Beckett (1967) 00:07:28 mp3 / Easy to read in your mind, but much harder out loud / ISBN 0802150624 KEYWORDS: Art, Light, shadow, Mother Calvert, going home (not that one).
Reversible destinies questionnaire by Arakawa and Gins (1997) 01:14:56 mp3 / no problems except the war / ISBN 0810969025 KEYWORDS: Art, architecture, buildings as surround, we have decided not to die, against mortality, death as option, poetry of living life beyond life itself, are you radical enough?