EATING ONESELF: 2012

Tuesday, 7 February 2012

how to trap and eat oneself in the presence of others

1. prepare a culture of yourself, nurture and set aside
requiring a saprophyte: live growth feeding from (own) atmospheric bacteria

i) 1 qt. Milk

ii)1 Tablespoon white sugar to feed the bacteria

iii) 2 Tablespoons existing yogurt with live cultures/or freeze-dried bacteria

iv) pinch of salt (optional)

v) combine in a bowl, cover with cheesecloth and leave it at your bedside

2. prepare self-marinade, rub, or lure and set aside
i) detect own essence, extract and bottle

3. locate 'ideal environment'/ position self on smoothest trail
exclusion/ site specificity: honing the prey

4. place mat selection: cut and paste from surrounding environment
camouflage: safety through sensory redundancy

5. lay out an extension of oneself (defamiliarising cutlery)
retaining otherness/ productive schizophrenia. Close enough to oneself to understand oneself deeply enough to trap oneself but not completely becoming oneself.

6. add sprig (affect that 'others' oneself)
mask/ prosthetic/ disguise

7. marinade
bathe in own juices: ritually rub. mixed miasmas, sensory diffusion and mingling

8. perform outward an internal vulnerability
hubris: pride inverted. clowning and creation of chaos. vulnerability as empathy as strength (to trap)

9. i) uncap ii) pour self) iii) extend towards self (pick up cutlery)

nemesis: i) lure - human curiosity. mimetic communication with self under lid
ii) adding self to self. pollution of self-as-trapper and self-as-prey.
iii) prosthetic engagement with self avoids self-self collapse, separating device maintains ego

10. catastrophe: eat.
self ingestion; self-consumption. pollutive juices of proximal others unavoidably incorporated into self-consuming self.

Sunday, 5 February 2012

I don't like the voice at all, but some of this is interesting (and easily digestible)
http://www.sirc.org/publik/food_and_eating_3.html

Deleuze "particularly dislikes cheese, considering its consumption to be tantamount to cannibalism" John Marks - 'Gilles Deleuze: Vitalism and Multiplicity'

"Becoming animal ... This becoming is clearly different from a transgression, such as, for instance, cannibalism, for it implies a much more subtle and gradual process of retraining the body and its behaviour"
Reidar Due - 'Deleuze'