/ S / O ( M A )
"A garden’s silence is made of sounds. Press your ear to a tree and listen." Valentina (Signorini Ghirardini), Monica Vitti, in Michelangelo Antonioni’s La Notte (1960)
A TEXTUAL MAP OF THE SITE
THE RETURN? - Mathesis universalis and/or/as Philosophical Aesthetics - Architectures (Thought Itself?) & the Crosshairs of (Mis)Representation(s) - Structuralist & Post-Structuralist Endgames? - Architectonic & Topological Speech Acts (Wittgensteinian Language Games? Or Something Else?) - Rhétorique + Esthétique + Poétique + Polémique? - Passim (On-the-Run / Here-and-There / Lost-and-Found) ...
"The simplest, most elementary mark, the cross, was interpreted by Mondrian in a mystical sense before Le Corbusier saw in it, minus by minus, the sign of positivity; this mark brings together the masculine and feminine elements in the coitus of vertical and horizontal." --Hubert Damisch, "Toward a Tomb for Adolf Loos", Grey Room 01 (Fall 2000)
1/ TEXTS / DOCUMENTS - ESSAYS (Polemics), TRAVELOGUES (Songs & Dances), C.V. (Gavin Keeney), PUBLICATIONS (Print & Internet), REVIEWS (Film, Exhibitions, Projects, Symposia, & Books), SYLLABI (University of Pennsylvania & City College), LECTURES (Provocations / Passim), SAMIZDAT (Open Letters), POESIE (Paratactics), MEMOIRS (Tales)
2/ PROJECTS - SYNTACTICAL OPERATIONS METAPHORICAL AFFECTS (/S/OMA), OUTTAKES, ETCETERA3/ SERIOUS REAL - THE ANTI-JOURNAL - POLEMICS IN NINE FOLIOS (Ludic Paratactics), RESOURCES / YELLOW PAGES (Exhibitions / Events, Books / Texts, Journals / Zines), DINING OUT (Endangered Species Restaurant), SPECIAL REPORTS (Olympic Urbanisms), & SUBLIME POTENTIAL (A Serial Essay)
4/ LANY PDF / RTF INDEX
PLEASE NOTE: The Archive - Grotto is a text/hyperlink/image driven resource. Hyperlinks are presented for both intra-site navigation & extra-territorial wandering on the World Wide Web. All links are offered as addenda to the in-site materials.
"Beware the man whose god is [...] the sky." --George Bernard Shaw (1903)
/S/O(MA) = Syntactical Operations Metaphorical Affects
