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Rose McLaren is an artist in London.



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Talk Into My Bullet Hole

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July 2015

Rose McLaren

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July 2015

‘Someday people are going to read about you in a story or a poem. Will you describe yourself for those people?’ ‘Oh, I don’t...

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May 2014

Art Does Not Know a Beyond: On Karl Ove Knausgaard

Rose McLaren

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May 2014

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle has an oddly medieval form: a cycle, composed of six auto-biographical books about the...

A version of this paper was delivered at the Global Art Forum at Art Dubai in March 2013 The abstract to which the author was invited to respond was: ‘Why must we make things up? Isn’t the world full of enough discourse and jargon already? What is the meaning of making more meanings? Are we bored of the words we’re using, or, is it just that reality’s gone further than the words we already have?’   Neologistics Lexical Tags: surgery, toddlers, aphasia, John 1:1, Sūrat al-‘Alaq The impulse to invent new words out of preexisting elements is a latent feature of language A neologism (from Greek néo-, meaning ‘new’ and logos, meaning ‘speech, utterance’) is a blend of existing fragments to forge anew I picture it as grafting inorganic matter to the organic If it sticks, the inorganic is fused to, and almost imperceptible from, the organic Should you tear your anterior cruciate ligament, for example, a replacement part from a juvenile pig or human cadaver may be used to reconstruct your knee You will walk as before Less streamlined and having acquired a prosthesis, a bionic patella So it goes with neologism According to modern psychiatry, the use of words that have meaning only to the person using them is common in children In adults, it can signal psychopathy, even schizophrenia, or it can be acquired through aphasia after a head injury The personal disposition to create a new vocabulary is for the most part related to youth, severe mental affliction, or temporary impairment   The neologistic toddler, not impaired, names anew and with childish abandon She becomes through naming without common meaning I imagine a fat, smiling statue of the Buddha, simultaneously babyish and wise (Also see: retrogression to baby-talk in Finnegan’s Wake)   John 1:1: ‘In the beginning was the word’ In the Qur’an, too, the command to submit was the first Revelation to be sent to the Prophet in Sūrat al-‘Alaq or ‘The Clot’: Iqra’ (‘read’) Al-’alaq is also a literal clot, the early stage of an embryo, that originary zygote that becomes a neologistic child   Human invention itself appears

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August 2014

Rose McLaren

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August 2014

Rose McLaren is an artist in London.

The Prosaic Sublime of Béla Tarr

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Issue No. 6

Rose McLaren

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Issue No. 6

I have to recognise it’s cosmical; the shit is cosmical. It’s not just social, it’s not just ontological, it’s really huge. And that’s why we...
Stalker, Writer or Professor? Geoff Dyer's Zona and Genre

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February 2012

Rose McLaren

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February 2012

‘So what kind of a writer am I, reduced to writing a summary of a film?’ wonders Geoff Dyer half way through Zona. Such...

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poetry

September 2014

Breath-Manifester & Drones

Ned Denny

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September 2014

Breath-Manifester   Each bared morning is a swell time to die, Leaving the town’s ornate maze for the level...

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Issue No. 17

Editorial

The Editors

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Issue No. 17

An Englishman, a Frenchman and an Irishman set up a magazine in London in 2010. This sounds like the...

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Issue No. 1

Beyond the Horizon

Patrick Langley

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Issue No. 1

Listen to the silence, let it ring on. (Joy Division, Transmission) I It is not yet dawn. The city...

 

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