David Grundy on Frances Kruk’s DOWN YOU GO, or, NÉGATION de BRUIT (APRÈS DANIELLE COLLOBERT):
“What sounds in this underground is that which is heard only as noise, as howling, as the sound of the poem’s opening swarm who rush blinded into the sun, unused to the light. One recalls Dante’s swarm of lamenting damned, whose resounding sounds of lamentation are likened to “grains of sand swirling when a whirlwind blows” (viz.: “in sand you hear dead / noise”). In ‘Pulse Demons‘, named for a Merzbow album (more noise!), Eugene Thacker connects this Dantean swarm to the horde of demons whom Jesus drives into the herd of pigs (‘my name is Legion, for we are many’) interpreting both as symbols of the rebellious, virus-like horde, of how it appears to those in power, as the force of disorder, of multiplicity, of that which will not be contained in the one, the singular, the class that takes its interests to stand for those of all, that lie of universality. Michel Serres, from ‘Genesis’: “these demons are nothing but the calls of the world, or the moans of the others who are crying for help. Would you be frightened by this wailing?””
Full blog post at STREAMS OF EXPRESSION.
