WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.520 align:middle line:90% 00:00:01.520 --> 00:00:04.620 align:middle line:84% A slightly longer poem and a couple of references for it. 00:00:04.620 --> 00:00:07.160 align:middle line:84% In the Mid-2000, videotaped beheadings 00:00:07.160 --> 00:00:11.120 align:middle line:84% of Western journalists by ISIS and other groups 00:00:11.120 --> 00:00:15.080 align:middle line:84% caused outrage in the US among people at peace 00:00:15.080 --> 00:00:16.509 align:middle line:90% with killing from a distance. 00:00:16.509 --> 00:00:19.800 align:middle line:90% 00:00:19.800 --> 00:00:22.960 align:middle line:84% The Tiqqun collective, is an anonymous collective 00:00:22.960 --> 00:00:27.000 align:middle line:84% of radical intellectuals who wrote Preliminary Materials 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:30.120 align:middle line:84% for the Theory of the Young-Girl, 00:00:30.120 --> 00:00:32.560 align:middle line:90% a book I take issue with. 00:00:32.560 --> 00:00:35.500 align:middle line:84% And of course the question, "Where were you born before 00:00:35.500 --> 00:00:37.450 align:middle line:84% that?" is one that's often put to migrants. 00:00:37.450 --> 00:00:40.280 align:middle line:90% 00:00:40.280 --> 00:00:43.320 align:middle line:90% And before that, 00:00:43.320 --> 00:00:49.400 align:middle line:84% I want to talk to you about happiness to stay inside it. 00:00:49.400 --> 00:00:52.560 align:middle line:84% But boys displaced by proxy war are 00:00:52.560 --> 00:00:56.280 align:middle line:84% falling onto the gravel outside my window, 00:00:56.280 --> 00:01:00.000 align:middle line:84% Under the police helicopter searchlight. 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:03.880 align:middle line:84% The gravel bites through to the knees. 00:01:03.880 --> 00:01:07.960 align:middle line:84% The searchlight is a thing the bars on my window 00:01:07.960 --> 00:01:10.560 align:middle line:90% are promised to. 00:01:10.560 --> 00:01:12.440 align:middle line:90% And the wisdom of the body, 00:01:12.440 --> 00:01:16.400 align:middle line:84% Like articulations of capital through time, 00:01:16.400 --> 00:01:20.800 align:middle line:84% Means some things but not others. 00:01:20.800 --> 00:01:23.880 align:middle line:84% Like the greatest good and feeling, say, 00:01:23.880 --> 00:01:30.120 align:middle line:84% Or how shifting to a news video of a beheading loosens my jaw. 00:01:30.120 --> 00:01:32.760 align:middle line:90% Nature compels cleanliness. 00:01:32.760 --> 00:01:35.680 align:middle line:84% I could aspire to be professional, 00:01:35.680 --> 00:01:38.280 align:middle line:84% Sitting on the toilet and working 00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:42.360 align:middle line:90% a little snot dry and fine, 00:01:42.360 --> 00:01:45.120 align:middle line:90% Tensile for new figuring, 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:49.960 align:middle line:84% Like I'm the God who knows Mercury shifts shape but never 00:01:49.960 --> 00:01:52.200 align:middle line:90% category. 00:01:52.200 --> 00:01:56.120 align:middle line:90% Offal, organic, decorative, 00:01:56.120 --> 00:02:00.152 align:middle line:84% Maybe those are stages of consequence. 00:02:00.152 --> 00:02:05.400 align:middle line:84% Tended, the snot worked thin as a pencil mustache, 00:02:05.400 --> 00:02:09.280 align:middle line:84% Invites the strangeness of a decorated face 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:13.760 align:middle line:84% Which might blend with certain American things, 00:02:13.760 --> 00:02:18.400 align:middle line:84% Like shitting without a video is boring. 00:02:18.400 --> 00:02:22.170 align:middle line:84% But where were you born, before that? 00:02:22.170 --> 00:02:27.170 align:middle line:84% Free radicals, the Tiqqun collective for one, 00:02:27.170 --> 00:02:32.210 align:middle line:84% Place themselves at a click past Imperium to turn back 00:02:32.210 --> 00:02:35.490 align:middle line:84% And describe imperium's outlines, 00:02:35.490 --> 00:02:39.650 align:middle line:84% But never their own pose, facial stunts, 00:02:39.650 --> 00:02:45.170 align:middle line:84% A thing being a position and its grimacing. 00:02:45.170 --> 00:02:49.790 align:middle line:84% I mean, I could pair the sass of saying could ultimately, 00:02:49.790 --> 00:02:52.530 align:middle line:84% It's the omnipresence of the new police that 00:02:52.530 --> 00:02:55.490 align:middle line:90% has made the war undetectable. 00:02:55.490 --> 00:03:00.330 align:middle line:84% With a laughter in the closed set of my laughters, 00:03:00.330 --> 00:03:05.690 align:middle line:84% Each coded to a specific aspect, and color, and digital video 00:03:05.690 --> 00:03:08.730 align:middle line:90% charm in the pocket 00:03:08.730 --> 00:03:10.330 align:middle line:90% Watching this one, 00:03:10.330 --> 00:03:16.090 align:middle line:84% I'm learning to thicken the line between inner and outer cop, 00:03:16.090 --> 00:03:20.250 align:middle line:84% So neither might evaporate with a desert's turns 00:03:20.250 --> 00:03:23.330 align:middle line:84% toward the sun and its shielding waxes 00:03:23.330 --> 00:03:27.090 align:middle line:90% on leaves and with its needles. 00:03:27.090 --> 00:03:31.330 align:middle line:84% But where were you born before that? 00:03:31.330 --> 00:03:35.610 align:middle line:90% Forgive me for being so dumb. 00:03:35.610 --> 00:03:39.690 align:middle line:84% With this booger mustache, so dark, 00:03:39.690 --> 00:03:45.010 align:middle line:84% Having carried a little blood at the start. 00:03:45.010 --> 00:03:48.690 align:middle line:84% I guess if you're taken for a man, 00:03:48.690 --> 00:03:53.930 align:middle line:84% The old way was to say whatever other men had said, 00:03:53.930 --> 00:03:56.050 align:middle line:90% Only louder, 00:03:56.050 --> 00:03:58.970 align:middle line:84% So that even dead, you'd be seen, 00:03:58.970 --> 00:04:06.050 align:middle line:84% And the distance from them, your words mark and redeem. 00:04:06.050 --> 00:04:12.730 align:middle line:84% Happy among the released, so tutored, so iterated. 00:04:12.730 --> 00:04:18.810 align:middle line:84% I might think any consoling magic could be an actual turn. 00:04:18.810 --> 00:04:22.050 align:middle line:84% But here in America, the night sky 00:04:22.050 --> 00:04:27.170 align:middle line:84% behaves itself, as ordnance withheld, 00:04:27.170 --> 00:04:32.250 align:middle line:84% So that boys married to their own white father, would 00:04:32.250 --> 00:04:33.650 align:middle line:90% lie in bed, 00:04:33.650 --> 00:04:37.200 align:middle line:90% Hardly saying prepossessed.