{"id":191,"date":"2023-06-05T13:20:23","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T05:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidfperry.com\/changinglines\/?p=191"},"modified":"2026-01-04T01:44:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T17:44:35","slug":"quotes-on-the-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidfperry.com\/changinglines\/2023\/06\/05\/quotes-on-the-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Quotes & Changes<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css_animation=”slideInLeft”] Note on blog posts: Like all aspects of\u00a0<\/em>n Lines & Changing,\u00a0these posts are incomplete. Moving forward, these and future posts will provide additional documentation on algorithmic walks, psychogeography, urban geography, digital and aleatoric poetry and poetics, ecopoetry and poetics, the history and use of the <\/em>I Ching\/Book of Changes\/\u6613\u7ecf, related research, and more — including reflection on what it means to do such work in the shadow of the question of the Anthropocene.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Additional posts will document talks, performances and events as well as the use of walking algorithms and aleatoric (chance-based) compositional methods in creative writing workshops.<\/em><\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column css_animation=”slideInRight”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

The\u00a0I Ching\u00a0<\/em>was “the consummate written text, in that nearly every trace of human actors is absent from it. Its language is in this sense disembodied, and, by the same measure, empowered to roam freely throughout the natural world. It is in this sense shen, <\/em>a ‘spirit’ or ‘spiritual,’ a text less of culture than of Heaven-and-Earth, of Nature.” \u00a0” (Kidder Smith Jr., “The Difficulty of the Yijing.<\/em>“)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The\u00a0I Ching<\/em> does indeed have ‘no form’ (in the conventional sense), thanks to the unique nonverbal, cyclical device of the Sixty-Four Hexagrams. It neither begins nor ends anywhere. (John Minford, I\u00a0Ching: The Essential Translation of the Ancient Chinese Oracle and Book of Wisdom<\/em>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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…writing that leaves things alone… (Clark Coolidge, The Crystal Text<\/em>, 8)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The paper intervenes each time an image, of its own accord, ceases or withdraws, accepting the succession of others; and, as it is not a question, as it usually is, of regular sound patterns or verses but rather of prismatic subdivisions of the Idea, at the instant they appear and for the duration of their concurrence in some exact mental setting, the text imposes itself, variably, near or far from the latent guiding thread, for the sake of verisimilitude.<\/p>\n

— St\u00e9phane Mallarm\u00e9, “A Throw of the Dice,” translated from the French (“Un Coup de D\u00e9s”) by Henry Weinfield, Collected Poems<\/em>, 121<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\"\"Transpierce the mountains instead of scaling them, excavate the land instead of striating it, bore holes in space instead of keeping it smooth, turn the earth into swiss cheese. An image from the film <\/span>Strike<\/em> [by Eisenstein] presents a holey space where a disturbing group of people are rising, each emerging from his or her hold as if from a field mined in all directions.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014Gilles Deleuze and F\u00e9lix Guattari, <\/span>\u201c<\/span>Treatise on Nomadology \u2014 the War Machine,\u201d\u00a0<\/span>A Thousand Plateaus<\/em>, 413-414; epigraph for \u201cMachines Are Digging,\u201d\u00a0<\/span>Cyclonopedia<\/em>, Reza Negaristani, 41<\/span>)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u5357\u6d77\u4e4b\u5e1d\u70ba\u5135\uff0c\u5317\u6d77\u4e4b\u5e1d\u70ba\u5ffd\uff0c\u4e2d\u592e\u4e4b\u5e1d\u70ba\u6e3e\u6c8c\u3002\u5135\u8207\u5ffd\u6642\u76f8\u8207\u9047\u65bc\u6e3e\u6c8c\u4e4b\u5730\uff0c\u6e3e\u6c8c\u5f85\u4e4b\u751a\u5584\u3002\u5135\u8207\u5ffd\u8b00\u5831\u6e3e\u6c8c\u4e4b\u5fb7\uff0c\u66f0\uff1a\u300c\u4eba\u7686\u6709\u4e03\u7ac5\uff0c\u4ee5\u8996\u807d\u98df\u606f\uff0c\u6b64\u7368\u7121\u6709\uff0c\u5617\u8a66\u947f\u4e4b\u3002\u300d\u65e5\u947f\u4e00\u7ac5\uff0c\u4e03\u65e5\u800c\u6e3e\u6c8c\u6b7b\u3002<\/span><\/p>\n

The Ruler of the Southern Ocean was Shu, the Ruler of the Northern Ocean was Hu, and the Ruler of the Centre was Chaos. Shu and Hu were continually meeting in the land of Chaos, who treated them very well. They consulted together how they might repay his kindness, and said, ‘Men all have seven orifices for the purpose of seeing, hearing, eating, and breathing, while this (poor) Ruler alone has not one. Let us try and make them for him.’ Accordingly they dug one orifice in him every day; and at the end of seven days Chaos died.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 \u838a\u5b50 Zhuangzi\u300a\u61c9\u5e1d\u738b \u300b “<\/span>The Normal Course for Rulers and Kings<\/a>,\u201d translated by James Legge<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Shifting Earth<\/strong><\/p>\n

The steam whistle blasts the previous dynasty dry, blows Hundun\u2019s primordial chaos dry, bores through our days, eyes and ears mouth and nose fresh and oozing every time the gears shift, each place enduring its makeshift forgery with every violent push: Shifting Earth.<\/span><\/p>\n

Suifenhe Station, Suiyang, Suixi, Tai Ridge, Red House, Ma Qiahe, Xia Chengzi, Muling, Mudanjiang, Yimainpo, Yuquan, A Cheng, Harbin, Wanle, Zhaodong, Anda Lake Road, Lamadian, Taikang, Angangxi, Fularji, Longjiang, Nianzishan, Genghis Khan, Zhalantun, Balin, Boketu, Miandu Ford, Yakeshi, Wild Goose, Hailar, Daliang, Uzernal, Ulanqiu, East Temple, Wangong, Du Lun, Ling Qiu, He\u2019er, Hongde, Huangde, Haomen, Cuogang, Hubei, Zhalai Norr, Zhalai Nori West, East Gulley, Lubin, Manzhouli.<\/span><\/p>\n

(2011\/6\/18 Harbin to Manzhouli; 2011\/7\/18 Shanghai)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 Han Bo, <\/span>The China Eastern Railway<\/a>, translated by David Perry<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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This is another whole work. It is enough to sketch the possibilities.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Iain Sinclair,\u00a0<\/span>Lud Heat<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Origin [Ursprung], although a thoroughly historical category, nonetheless has nothing to do with beginnings […]. The term origin does not mean the process of becoming of that which has emerged, but much more, that which emerges ou to the process of becoming and disappearing. The origin stands in the flow of becoming as a whirlpool […]; its rhythm is apparent only to a double insight.<\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/span>Walter Benjamin, Ursprung des Deutschen <\/em>Trauerspiels, <\/span><\/span>as quoted in Susan Buck-Morss, The Dialectics of Seeing<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Benjamin described his work as a “Copernican Revolution” in the practice of history writing. His aim was to destroy a mythic immediacy of the present, note by inserting it into a cultural continuum that affirms the present as its culmination, but by discovering that constellation of historical origins which which has the power to explode histories \u201ccontinuum.” In the era in industrial culture, consciousness exists in a mythic, dream state, against which historical knowledge is the only antidote. But by discovering that particular kind of historical knowledge that is needed to free the present from myth is not easily easily uncovered. Discarded and forgotten, it lies buried within surviving culture, remaining indivisible precisely because it was of so little use to those in power. (x)<\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/span>Susan Buck-Morss, The Dialectics of Seeing<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A philosophy that does not include the possibility of soothsaying from coffee grounds and cannot explicate it cannot be a true philosophy.<\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/span>Walter Benjamin according to Gershom Scholem, Susan Buck-Morss, The Dialectics of Seeing (13)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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One premise of this project is that language comes & goes through us as we come & go through it, changing us as we change it. Whether within the “same” language or between & among languages, various translations, transcriptions, transpositions, partial and overdetermined transmissions & transfers give rise to both practical moments of precise description and productive misprision, creative acts of interpretation and (con)fusion, pure error, and myriad other irruptions, carefully crafted articulations and dissipations of meaning making and unmaking. <\/p>\n

Here, relevant quotations from multiple sources — among them pieces of histories of Shanghai, annals of urbanism, bits of poetry and poetics, excerpts from texts of theory and practice, deep-time interrogations of the Anthropocene, various necessarily speculative constructions of the \u6613\u7ecf & \u5468\u6613 (best known in what we call the “West” as the I Ching<\/em>), and so on accumulate. <\/p>\n

We move, we observe, we forget & recall, we stop and read what’s before our eyes, and we use it, whatever it is, as a way to read ourselves in relation to the world. <\/p>\n

Middens, palimpsests, traces of energy storage & flows…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":178,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[367],"tags":[522,517,382,525,524,518,519,526,521,520,523],"line":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-project-notes","tag-a-thousand-plateaus","tag-clark-coolidge","tag-deleuze-guattari","tag-han-bo","tag-hundun","tag-kidder-smith-jr","tag-stephane-mallarme","tag-the-china-eastern-railway","tag-the-crystal-text","tag-un-coup-de-des","tag-zhuangzi"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidfperry.com\/changinglines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidfperry.com\/changinglines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidfperry.com\/changinglines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidfperry.com\/changinglines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidfperry.com\/changinglines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/davidfperry.com\/changinglines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":861,"href":"https:\/\/davidfperry.com\/changinglines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidfperry.com\/changinglines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidfperry.com\/changinglines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidfperry.com\/changinglines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidfperry.com\/changinglines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"line","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidfperry.com\/changinglines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/line?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}