Research Catalog

Title

Poësy matters and other matters / Catherine Christer Hennix ; edited by Lawrence Kumpf.

Author

Hennix, Catherine Christer, 1948-2023

Publication

• Brooklyn, NY : Blank Forms Editions, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

Kumpf, Lawrence

Description

2 volumes : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"This two-volume set ... presents selected texts by the Swedish polymath Catherine Christer Hennix. Volume one, Poësy Matters, is divided into two sections: poetry and drama, with each section also containing pieces of commentary by Hennix or her longtime collaborator Henry Flynt ... Volume two, Other matters, is divided into two sections: first program notes and essays about a wide range of topics (including music, psychoanalysis, and mathematics), and second a reproduction of Hennix's 1989 work The Yellow Book."

Uniform Title

Works. Selections

Alternative Title

Works.

Genre/Form

• Drama.
• Essays.
• Poetry.

Note

• Cover title.

Contents

• [Volume 1.] Poësy matters. -- Introduction / Lawrence Kumpf -- Poetry as philosophy, poetry as notation: on poësy -- A presentation of a pair of subjectless texts (I, II) (Two textoids) -- Fragments on presocratic four-color vision -- Degrees of unsolvability: poetry 1976-1979 -- Sanskrit algebras, Part I -- Flowers of the black chrysanthemum -- Fragments from a writing of the unconscious -- Two new tautologies -- No-one's memorial/Das Niemandsmal -- Fregean haiku poems -- Theater of the eternal mind. -- Mā-theater -- Abstract Nō dramas : The nō dramas of Catherine Christer Hennix (1975-1979): introduction / Henry Flynt (1985; 2017) ; Teisho ; Ma-ki-do ; Part-book for Shite: "Exact philosophy" ; Mu-ki-do ; [Up arrow]-Nō ; Afterwards art of Meta-Teisho ; Teisho (annotated) -- Black & white algebra and color algebra -- Two abstract Butō-nō dramas : Ankoku Butō-no-Soshi ; To snatch from the moon w/ the hand -- One darks, two darks -- Dedication for the electric harpsichors ; On when a divine name confers a radiance of infinite blessings ; Selections from Ṭarīqah Nūr-Samad --
• [Volume 2.] Other matters. -- Introduction / Lawrence Kumpf -- Abstracts for infinitary compositions -- [Square with capital K outside lower right corner] (Excerpts from notes on the composite sine-wave drone over which the electric harpsichord is performed) -- Brouwer's Lattice : Notes on Institutionistic Modal Music / Catherine Christer Hennix ; Excerpt from the Score for Cha-gaku / Catherine Christer Hennix ; The basic acts of Intuitionism / L.E.J. Brouwer ; Life, art, and mysticism / L.E.J. Brouwer ; A brief presentation of Brouwer's Lattice and the Deontic Miracle / Rita Knox ; edited by Catherine Christer Hennix ; The artists / Keith Knox ; The Deontic miracle: program -- Notes on toposes & adjoints : Notes for the (non-alien) reader ; Spectra of modalities and the Theory of the Creative Subject, Th([Sigma]) ; Semiotics I ; Semiotics II ; Toposes, sheaves, and adjoints ; Appendix 1: Th([Sigma]) and the structure of mind ; Appendix 2: Cardinals in 1-Modal Spectra ; Appendix 3: The environment toposes and adjoints, Moderna Museet, Stockholm -- Modalities and languages for algorithms / edited by Henry Flynt -- The electric harpsichord / Henry Flynt -- Philosophy of concept art: a conversation with Henry Flynt -- Mysterium Fascinans: the epistemic art of Catherine Christer Hennix / Ulf Linde, with Catherine Christer Hennix -- LA [with slash through it] séminaire -- WSTNOKWGO : Henry Flynt: WSTNOKWGO ; Henry Flynt: version of WSTNOKWGO -- Language and light in Marian Zazeela's art -- The Beerlin Mahnmal : Project for a (non?-) Berlin Metamahnmal ; Eisenman I, Eisenman II, Eisenman III -- Revisiting Brouwer's Lattice thirty years later -- Hallucinogenic/Ecstatic Sound Environment program notes / Henry Flynt -- The Illuminatory Sound Environment program notes / Henry Flynt -- Rag infinity/Rag cosmosis (Myobu No Omoto in memoriam) -- Hilbert Space Shruti Box (of the (Quantum) Harmonic Oscillator) -- The yellow book.

Call Number

JFE 21-4856

ISBN

• 9781733723503
• 1733723501

OCLC

1127908129

Author

Hennix, Catherine Christer, 1948-2023, author.

Title

Poësy matters and other matters / Catherine Christer Hennix ; edited by Lawrence Kumpf.

Publisher

Brooklyn, NY : Blank Forms Editions, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

Kumpf, Lawrence, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 21-4856