With its lilting and stuttering, consider the (mecha) butterfly as part of an aesthetico-political topology of movement through gesture and language — passing through the free radical, to the busker, the jester, and finally to Paolo Virno's joke, which effectively "changes topics" in conversation and may be considered a form of innovative action in surveillant/spectacular societies dominated by language. In this topological sense, not only are the "logico-linguistic" resources of jokes important (as with Virno), but also the movements of the jester or joker, the gestures and delivery that allow for the topical change to occur (as with the butterfly).

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The butterfly is relatively ambivalent to the local striations of anthropocentric territories (city streets, lot plans, the domestic home), save for an interest in those affordances offered by other objects within these striated spaces (flower beds, vegetable gardens, shaded areas). For the butterfly, in this sense, space is always "smooth", or at least its particular attractions and connections are not mapped in gridly fashion: it lilts and stutters from stopping point to stopping point, a nomadic line avant la lettre, but perhaps even more illustrative to us perceptually-conceptually as it moves in its delicate awkwardness volumetrically, lifting the nomadic line off the canvas or the cave wall or the desert route for understanding in other dimensional spaces.

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The jester, on the other hand, figures prominently in the medieval court. Offering "witty" counsel to the king or queen through jokes (and other forms of performance), the jester is that one who attempts to provoke a minor shift in perspectival viewpoints — from on high to down low. As the feudal court apparatus is transduced to the even more striated and biunivocal relations of the chess board, serfs and pawns get their due while the jester is left behind. But in tegwar chess, or the societies of control, the rules are modulating with every move. We find the perfect opportunity for the (re)introduction of the jester and performative jokery into the game — a powerful piece on the board so long as it does not seek to enlarge its own image or invest in the credit.

attn:

natality?

yin yan
tail tail
tiny lan lit

a y/n ail.

i alt ny
tan anal it
natty
taint, tit
nail tna nitty

aint any latin
lint anti italy

~
NO. NOT IT. STOP. PLI-NATAL, PLS.
~

impulsion?

i/o

i plus us
minus u (plus u)

ou

moi plus nous
moins il ou L (plus lui)

oui oui

sun sin loins (sí)
opium oil nip
spumoni plum sip
spin spin slip

slip
snip snip lips

(i'm)pulsion

~

i plus iii
minus Y
        minus pms-ism
                minus simstim ip pin
                        politY

pulmón-natal
. . sssss . . . .

iou

my soul alit
                                                in tailspin
not simply an

(i'll)usion

REM

ten tues. minutes
us
term rent
resin menu nest sim
met sit rest nuts
remit reins
rum urn rite rue
us

stir mine rune true
siren muse
trius

mr/ms rites tire
ie i must mire miser
inure its sent terminus

minus us                        (tier)

/REM

um,
unmiter time?

term-in-us

rise, unite us must
strum sine nets
untie us tunes
muster sun mist                        (miner)

rim risen mite terns
smite tin mint rust
ruin stern runt emirs
stun nuit mitre nits                        (rime re: turn)

mute mein sire
in mister men snit
sir tine is inert
emit suet site sin?                        (sure)

u set?

RUN

[fig. i]

if i .gif
it fit i, ft
fifi tit gig ggg
ffft.

if i .tiff
fi tig g.i.
i fit figt                        (sorry saroyan gif)
i git.

~

if i fit it
i+i+i+…
iff i fit it
i gift it.

gigg(igg(igg))) )) ) :)

tgif,
<iii

hola!

tip this tot

posh halo host
(pity tosh hostility)
a sop toast//shot spilt,
spit sip pay pal sap
spy pita split lisp,
say hip hop hit list
stilt pithy sith styl

sit potty pail top
shitty                        (the nth gift)
sat shat splat at
total hospital soap to
it toy shop

plato thot path lay
shit
pi stat ploy spay
post-italy lit

~

i plait
posit pli polity
toil thy oat soil plot so
soy patty lips
salt, ail, oil . . .
ah, (d)'lish                        (digest this)

hail tap lash his
pho pasty tips postal
hot pot hospitality

~

lost ails shalt
lop asp tail

shoal slip
ship sail.

ttyl,
hatt

ooo

ahoy ho!
hi!

:)

i/o

:(

out i-ray air tour
thor oat tout

our authority roi
thy rat hit rout hurt
hairy hoar tart trio
tit rot thot taut
oy.

(s)hitty, ya.                        (the first gift)

oar your tar rut
throat
author thirty hour riot! or
(w)rit it hot.                        (phantasmic double-you)

truth, ha.

tut tut you
torah hut hair tray
haut oath toy art
(be)troth.                        (come, body do)

yo hay tot:

try.

:)

hart,
hattr