Blog-note de jef safi

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avec . . jef safi
And/Or vol.2 Piece #2

AND/OR vol.2 Fall 2011

dimanche 1er juillet 2012


(cc) photo jef safi / flickr



There would be neither mimesis, nor catharsis,
climbing egyptian dialectics,
playing clouds,
whispering,
winding lights,
and/or shearing shadows
about the very decisive instant.

There would be neither mimesis, nor catharsis,
outside the in-between median void breath.




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textual complexion hyperpoetried by the in-between hyperpoem machine





Jef Safi ? A pseudonym. Why would it be there somebody rather than nobody ? Only because you are asking the question. Who is he ? He is, causa sui, nothing. So how can he do anything ? To persevere in his nothingness he indulges in all shared arts. That is to say ? Softwaring, cooking, picturing, musicing, poetrying, philosophizing, . . but more often . . ’pictosophizing. Hmm ! . . why that apostrophe before . . pictozoo-thing ? This is the mark of ’pataphysics : the science of imaginary solutions, which symbolically attributes to lineaments, the properties of objects described by their virtuality. ArgH ! . . Absurd !? Extravagant and/or stupid ?! Not sure, maybe it is a mask to play quietly far away from academic doxa. What is that . . ’pictosophy ? Something in-between picturing in the intelligible (http://www.flickr.com/photos/jef_safi/ ), and philosophizing in the sensitive (http://jef-safi.net/spip/ ). In the “In-between median void breath” ? Whe(re)n else !




Welcome to AND/OR

Editor-in-Chief : Damian Ward Hey
Art Editors : Don Hazlitt & George Kayaian
Literary Editors : Orchid Tierney & Almée Herman
Managing Editor : Michael S. Russo

Authored by SophiaOmni, and/or is a print journal for creative experimental writing and/or innovative graphic art. The journal seeks submissions from writers and/or other sorts of artists whose work openly challenges the boundaries (mimetic, aesthetic, symbolic, cultural, political, philosophical, economic, spiritual, etc.) of literary and/or artistic expression. For more information on this and previous volumes of and-or, please see our website at AND/OR. and/or is distributed by SophiaOmni Press, an independent publishing company based upon distributivist economic principles.