2007-11-02

The catastrophe is an aphorism...

thecatasTropHEisnotparadoxiCAlThecAtaSTROPHEisnotparadoxIcal
thecataStRopheisnotpAraDoxICAL

I was trying to think of how to keep the idea of inversion/otherness that the statement 'the catastrophe is none of the above' was intended to imply, hence the scrambling capitals. But perhaps just have said statement at the bottom of the text as we first thought.

Aphorisms:

1. The catastrophe is profane. [Or, thecataStropheisprofAnetheCatastROpheiSprofANetheCaTastrophe
isprofane]

2. The catastrophe is hysterical
[Or, thecatastRopheishystEricAthecatastropheishystericaLl

3. The catastrophe is democratic [Or, thecatastropheisDEmocraticthecataStroPheisdemocraticthecatastrOphe
isdemocraTIC]

4. The catastrophe is desired. [I give up for now]

5. The catastrophe is cancerous.

6. The catastrophe is a utopia.

7. The catastrophe is vacuous.

8. The catastrophe is benign.

9. The map of the catastrophe is blank.

10. The catastrophe is a liar.

11. The catastrophe is in hiding.

12. The catastrophe excludes you.

And some of the possible combinations:

The catastrophe is a hysterical fiction.

The catastrophe is a lying desire.

The catastrophe is an unknown known....

1 comment:

Jonathan Gross said...

And here are the rest of the aphorisms that were suggested in our last seminar, (I apologise for taking so long to type them up):

13. The catastrope creates (perpetually)

14. The catastrophe is a continuum

15. The real catastrophe is concealed / "in hiding" / amusing / ecstatic / delerious

16. The catastrophe hasn't happened yet / The last catastrophe is yet to come

17. The catastrophe is man-made / natural

18. The catastrophe is memorable / forgettable

19. The catastrophe leaves no trace / has no witness

20. The catastrophe is a monument

21. The catastrophe is encrypted

22. The name of the catastrophe is no-man

23. The map of the catastrophe is white

24. The catastrophe os ecstatically melancholy

25. The catastrophe is the sublime "other"