1. Read and reread a poem by Stéphane Mallarmé, or a prose text for 30 minutes every morning, in order to understand it completely.
2. Responsive writing exercises in various modes that became hypmnemonic linkages with texts.
3. Read novels in the evening.
4. Spoke rarely, and lived in written language.
5. Listened and took notes on everything heard or read.
6. Fought against the “bad soliliquy” (negative self-talk) through experimenting with an inner dialectic with oneself.

–Bernard Stiegler’s prison melete (via The Relative Absolute). I’ll be adopting this practice as I begin a Stiegler reading group this week with my colleague Jamie Allen, working systematically through the 3 volumes of Stiegler’sTechnics & Time series. For anyone interested in tracking, ongoing reading notes will appear here. For those in Aarhus next week, Stiegler will be keynoting at the Aesthetics Reloaded conference, where Jamie will also be presenting a paper on complexity, materiality, and technoaesthetics.

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A handful of supplements to the Technics & Time texts:

• Bernard Stiegler on Contributive Economy

• Die Aufklärung in the Age of Philosophical Engineering

• Care

• What is Philosophy? (Chapter 7 from the book Taking Care of Youth and the Generations)

• Relational Ecology and the Digital Pharmakon

• Echographies of Television: Filmed Interviews (Stiegler & Derrida)

• Transformations No. 17 (2009): Bernard Stiegler and the Question of Technics

• Jacques Derrida - Plato’s Pharmacy

UMBR(a)’s 2005 issue, The Dark God, is online in PDF form and features Philipe Lacoue-Labarthe with a small improvisation on Pasolini. I’m also particularly interested in seeing the 2011 issue on The Worst, with a contributions from Malabou, Adrian Johnston, and Zizek; and the new issue on Technology, with pieces by Stiegler, Graham Harman, Levi Bryant, and Badiou.

隋建國 (Sui Jianguo), Impermanence. (2 versions)

Human skull and adornments cast in lead.

Katie Paterson, All The Dead Stars.

“A map documenting the locations of just under 27,000 dead stars – all that have been recorded and observed by humankind.” – Katie Paterson, via i like this art.