box Manifold, datableed, the International Times, Vlak in Prague, and x-peri in America, parts were published in TIP REGARD.
It remains then to briefly discuss truth values and the damage this might encourage. Here are a small set of extracts about the subject from IMPERFECT FIT, my book on aesthetics forthcoming from the University of Alabama Press later this year.4 The concept of a dynamic planet, idealised geometries and logic, are recognitions of discrepancy in all modes of truth, followed by examples of deceit, simulation of reality and various schemes based on material presence in coupling with modelling and invention. Examples include map making, manipulated satellite photography, mythological sculpture and my own work. What follows needs to be a deeper consideration of truth and how as an artist truth is encountered and how to engage with the consequences. The wonders of human achievement are now seen to be unreliable, can now be shown to rely on approximations. The truth value – necessary for the city and for the individual – is no longer valid. I started to use the term parrhēsical. My poetics uses the term to mean truth-telling. It derives directly from Michel Foucault who noted in one of his last public lectures that parrhēsia is indispensable for the city and the individual. The difficulty at arriving at truth in situations with a strong reliance on ideals and ideal forms, a strong reliance on what we want the situation to be or presume what it must be or are even misled into thinking are the case. If poetry is to have substance, any weight for me, it rests here. This is not a pre-Socratic matter of being true to yourself, but a matter of recognising that the self is constructed and continues to be in a flux of construction. The worry my interlocutors and readers have with critique of coherence and logic begins here.
• The first and most important cluster for me arises from the ideas that participants and readers have regarding perception and truth, or rather, as they often referred to it, as the assurances given to them by perception or empirical knowledge.
• The second cluster can be characterised as vocabulary and the
problems encouraged by the use of scientific or technical vocabulary, which for me bifurcates into repossession and transformation, that is the repossession ofvocabularies evident in some specialisms and by dint of this thought owned by themand critique of these vocabularies inside of my work, repossessing
4 https://www.bibliovault.org/BV.book.epl?ISBN=9780817358723
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