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on “this is not a pipe”
in Lippard the images are treated as real
this is not a pipe is written — not said — examine the differences
if I write ‘this is not a pipe’ — is it meaningless without a referent or true — what is ‘this’
would the reference to this book or these words be obvious — what if the text were titled “a pipe”
the word comes from the sound of a bird — originally referred to musical pipes — to peep

slide texts into each other — glissements — a hole to peep through — to pipe — (sexual metaphors)

(I was looking at Robbe-Grillet Glissements. . . — before I wrote the above
got out the Foucault to read
simulations and reality
people tend to abstract essences — and then take them for reality — for example laundry soaps that make clothes smell ‘clean’ — clean cloth has no smell — somewhere outdoor odors got into clothing left to dry and those smells were pleasant — perfumes were added to soaps etc to simulate these outdoor smells — we are not smelling ‘clean’ or ‘natural’ odors but simulations — but many people find that clothes aren’t clean if they don’t have that abstract smell that advertising has associated with ‘clean’
the essence of food also — the smell of fast food etc which is an abstracted and emphasized odor — at one time I often felt my appetite stimulated by these smells but now I find the nauseating — not at all the smell of real food
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