In the margins, with Calvino

The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.

Is it not literature's implacable duty to destroy literature?

The literature machine's poetic result will be the particular effect of one of these permutations on a man endowed with a consciousness and an unconscious, that is, an empirical and historical man. It will be the shock that occurs only if the writing machine is surrounded by the hidden ghosts of the individual and his society.

Is not the artist-medium a ghost's ghost, the alien entity who uses unconscious triggers to reveal the paradoxical state of the specter, which is neither being nor non-being?

The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions.

And yet:

      Desire 
         A Poem 
            Waiting to be Disseminated 
              into a Field of Action
               where the artist-medium
                  shape-shifts into
                     counter-protocol.

To expectorate what has been expelled.

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Metadata: philosophy, poetics, literature, art, Calvino