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Portrait, Or: Idea of a Body without Organs: 'Face Value'
Without division or interval,
the body appears as pure form
over content, surface without depth.

Richard Mather


Itself in Mind for the Future
We see the visible world as somehow inevitable, with all its ratios of movement & rest, its manifold shapes & ecstatic forms, not realising that nature is always busy, acting unseen in all its power, without external cause, producing within itself its own effects, differentiating this idea from that idea, bypassing one potential in favour of another, & making actual a particular mode of being (a mutation, a thing, a body, a colour), while keeping other potentials, other singu

Richard Mather


Monas II
The soul occupies a doorless room on the upper floor of this house. Five senses – Five windows – Enter the light, wind trafficking sound...

Richard Mather


To Spinoza
To Spinoza nomads we traverse a flat shimmering world breeding images. signs & erratic/ erotic encounters; surfaces effacing...

Richard Mather


Thinking of Being without Heaviness or Depth
Part 1: Being and heaviness People who suffer from depression often complain of a feeling of heaviness ; not just in the emotional or mental sense, but as something physical — a visceral sensation pressing on the chest or wrapping itself around the body and the legs. Some sufferers say it is like having lead weights on their legs. Among the DSM-IV criteria for atypical depression is: “Leaden paralysis (i.e. heavy, leaden feelings in arms or legs).” § René Descartes proposes

Richard Mather
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