Schriftatlas I, 1a-1b
What word is stone enough to weight this ruined bilge? It is mid-morning in the second or third week of September, in the year of 1944, close behind the Vistula […]
Category Archives: Notebooks I
on COLLECTING, SCAVENGING, ASSEMBLING, SORTING, and DISCARDING
Schriftatlas I, 3a
Yet, what of this activity of collecting per se? What of collection? Is it not, tacitly, an obsessive act of repetition, each new item acquired simply to re-open the same […]
Schriftatlas I, 4a
[Unintelligible: first line completely obscured by water stain] …that each object may just as well suggest the seed, or nucleus, of a collection to which it might eventually or may […]
Schriftatlas I, 5a
/ 1554 †Den 20 tag september ist mein brueder thoman Schmidl seilliger mit tott verschien nen Zwieschen 2 vnd 3 veren nach mietag gott sey Jm gennedig vnd parmhertzig vnd […]
Schriftatlas I, 5b
… vnd befalß gott dem almechtigen vnd machet mich auff die Raieß Jm 1552 Jar am 26 ta de Zember auff sannt steffanß tag pin ich auß Riedeleplada Zogen von […]
Schriftatlas I, 7a
… so haben wier auch diessen fleckhen am tag Noster Sinngora de SunSion Jm 1539 Jar gewunngen vnd haist noch die statt Noster Sinngora de Sunsion (f30v) … fuellen sy […]
Schriftatlas I, 8a
What of the collector impelled not by abundance and redundancy, but rather by poverty and concentration, by scarcity and singularity? What of the collection conceived as a projection of lost […]
Schriftatlas I, 9a
The objective is not to master the subject. Rather, it is to subject mastery to hazard, to shelter mastery from the subject of objectivity. The art is not to acquire […]
Schriftatlas I, 10a
… Jch hedt von diessem fisch nit geschrieben wan ich sein haudt nit gesehen hedt Zu Munchen Jn meineß gennedigen herrn Herztog Albrechten in seiner schieß hueden die Er hadt […]
Schriftatlas I, 11a
… aber daß folch daß Jn dem flechken waren starb eß Al von hunnger, vnd heden nichte Zu Essen… (f62v) … so wier khamen Zu den scherueß so war von […]
