Timothy Druckrey via nettime-l on Wed, 17 Apr 2024 17:52:03 +0200 (CEST)


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Re: <nettime> Swipe, a Smart Phone Movie by Mieke Gerritzen/Next Nature


A small stanza from Hans Magnus Enzensberger's joyous poem on Etienne Jules Marey (E.J.M. 1830-1904)

The pigeon, tied to the jib of a merry-go-round –
does it fly, or is it flown? The trail
of its wings is invisible: yet it’s followed by, 
pneumatically steering through a chaos
of tubes and drums, a steel spike;
quivering, it scratches the soot-blackened paper.
What writes and draws there, measuring itself,
is a hallucination, known as ‘Nature.’
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