SIMINA OPRESCU Berlin 'Rats are rhizomes. Burrows are too, in all of their functions of shelter, supply, movement, evasion, and breakout. The rhizome itself assumes very diverse forms, from ramified surface extension in all directions to concretion into bulbs and tubers. When rats swarm over each other. --Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus There is rhythm in writing, rhythm in reading, rhythm in thinking. Rhythm relates all of our acts of speaking, listening, and knowing to a metaphysical dimension that is "sense," which it turns out is an expression of no particular sense--nonsense. For instance, imagine the sound of my voice and hear the intervals of my speech as a series of feints and lunges that articulate words with things, ideas with concepts, and sensations with emotions. What is heard is the movement of sense and the infection of words with the fantasy of meaning and import. "Rhythm" can be understood here as a vector of sense in the way that a mosquito is a vector for the transmission of malaria whose proliferation throughout a population expresses the sense of malaria as an "epidemic." As such, rhythm, which itself has no particular sense but instead transmits a pattern of relation that promotes more and less remote associations between words and things, generates patterns of significance that can be likened to an epidemiology of sense. The poetics of this "rhythming" is thus a poetics of non/sense.' - Obscurity and the Poetics of Non/sense in the Writings of Raymond Roussel and Fernando Pessoa - Priest Eldritch SIMINA OPRESCU’s tracks 'nothingtoseeness' by SIMINA OPRESCU published on 2022-06-08T09:38:15Z 14 by SIMINA OPRESCU published on 2022-03-29T14:55:09Z KERES by SIMINA OPRESCU published on 2022-01-26T10:54:05Z NYX by SIMINA OPRESCU published on 2022-01-15T15:10:49Z X8 by SIMINA OPRESCU published on 2022-01-07T22:58:59Z