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Allen Fisher

Winging Step

 
 


Initial engagement recorded risk in London commerce
a recognition of damage perhaps simply fragmentation
dimensions recorded in exhaust gas and tiredness
given shape in air moved
the narrative takes rein specifies location on a road
encounter with a second tarmacker
abrupted into syntax and narrative journey simultaneous with
natural phenomena juxtaposed rail tracks crabs of colour.
A following engagement named discipline and context
then specific quest and spacetime
linked back into initial risk and at a county boundary
traps and ideas of eternity or
the movement of a müller over glass
and in a garden focussed
followed by a return to the second engagement.
A new initiative locks in with specific semiotics
chains onto a shift of meaning
notes troat artificiality
and its natural semantic parallel
crossed with further record of damage
in rationalised details.
Again initiative clocks in as imaginative
memory of self in the image
trapped in London commerce
with a sense of helplessness.

 
 


     ¶

A momentary sheen from complexity unfastens
relieves a pressure
undermines history
intertraced with added memory.
Rhetoric held in deluded appearance of natural images
the possible absence of representational tropes
superimposed orders, the riflemen cross the border
permits multiplication of represented object
implies a series riflemen cross the border.
An enveloping sheen, gossamer egg
a paranomasis braided to
mimesis and metaphor
a diachronic pattern of narrative discourse
usurped by radicals injected by machines
Another record of explosion or gun fire
as if randomly spotted
across a graph of moving trail lines
in a witness box, on a geiger check, by the self.
The Painter skate boards a range of chemistry boxes
posts a range of letters.

     ¶

Tendency to perceive connected regions
uniform image properties
different from the neutron trap
luminance, colour, texture,
motion and disparity
stops responses
adapts, but retinal blood not
perceived sees what she expects
experience on the basis of edge information
lost focus, reception dependence
shape largely invariant over similarity transformations
underlie internal representation
conscious perception of texture segregation
requires attention
suggests expectation
as an important component of inattention's blindness.
From the middle of the enclosure
clipped hedges and a fountain
air craft and sirens dependent
on personal meaningfulness of extra stimulus
a kind of attentional blink
perceived viewpoint remains
non-conscious process to the level
of memory.

     ¶

The trapping region fills
with isotropically pure helium
in a cupronickel tube. A cold
beam passes through a series of
teflon windows, collimated
by a boron carbide ring, and
into the trapping region gets absorbed
by a beam stop. The trapping field
created by an assembly
of superconducting magnets continue to be
confined by quadruple racetrack constructions.

     ¶

 
 

Switches from one object to another
incur additional cost
do not attribute to distance
a number of disconnected spatial regions
at the sametime attention split
among multiple objects
at different levels of her visual system.
A direct association cluster
printed colour word and sound of colourname
between colour itself and the naming
A logic of relation
between brain and consciousness
a supervenience in which conscious events
require corresponding neural activity
without relational structures she does not
experience different colours as more closely related
than shapes. Her expression of red
could be completely different from
the Burglar's attention to corresponding
internal experiences that arise from
viewing the same modified plant forms
"We were up," the mobile noted,
"I don't study objects but the relations
between them."  The emergent complexed
neurons firing as low as 35 hertz
and as high as 75 correlate their
brain activity of visual consciousness.

     ¶

More material than the Painter can possibly
cope with each moment she
visualises a recalcitrant fact
rises out of confrontation with this
to break it up and
make a further effort again
and again several until something
not in the surface looks
somehow in imaginative grasp
consciousness immersed in activity
that she may not wake up from
to reinvent herself enters
the room knowing she is away
in another country a different trap
attempts to keep innocence
to avoid dilution of the world
noticing what no one else has paid attention to
as surprising as a new species of lizard
incoherent experience caught in coherence
conveys new sensation of proportion or connection
early in the morning
incessant burning
200 sketches blazing in preparation
for anyone to warm from
integrated to its background
in revulsion for what she did before
a geometrical diagram
richness and sadness transformed into
subtlety and joy.

     ¶

It gets easy to manipulate
the parameters used in sequence
interpreted without knowhow.
Resistance reflected in music
the exploitation of already existents
a defiance, profound horror of society
signs of irrational exuberance
strong growth in money supply
a rise investment share
widening current account deficit
personal sector plunging
into deficit
all indicators flashing red
soft landings never seem
in reach a combination
of further rises in interest
rates falling dollar
the left hand revolves around
irregular ostinato defies
sense of pulse the right
plays increases quirky
figuration above this
switch between quite different
materials meaning generated
by juxtaposition dissolves occurs
instead of a cut
material developed off-camera
well-equipped ingenios
investment before completion ready
for operation at least eighty or
a hundred men at once set
up a mill trapiche to crush
canes pressed sweet syrup after
extraction from cunyayya lever press
turned a steady wheel around
old chain pumps the artifice
of oppression. In tobacco terms
a cachimba becomes cachimbo
contempt for a humble plant
puffing smoke-stack set against
need to buy slaves, experts and
skills for mills, boils, refinery,
capital to manificar the sugar
money enough to induce
departure from a history of death.

     ¶

Ripped apart stars and gas suck
simply adds up the masses dead
quasars in neighbourhood calculates
energy equivalent of mass
from formula multiplies
efficiency factor do the
sums, the total energy
radiated by quasars
turns larger than accounts.
Recurrent intense headaches
visual and gastrointes
tinal disturbances characterises
attack conversations between
friends reveal friendly follows
different patterns a one-at-a
time overlaps speed avoids
hedge against personal issues
shared matched conversational
floor incompleteness paid up
dream of single formality
the untenable meta-narrative
incompleteness result absolutely
undecidable infinity surpass
powers of finesse a new
consciousness. Tame and medicine
pursued the melot bites off his testicles
throws them in front of the hunters
escapes reforms bites and is
unclean. This badger in rocky places
scrapes and digs
against spines against deceits
and robberies torn inside
cage-traps baited and caught on the border
between Ross and Hereford
the pro-cull zone caught and shot,
A comparison of left edges on
autoradiograph image
and corresponding gel
computer-assisted drawing
represents match section
on filter paper with gel.
On the basis of blot results
one badger, four hare
sites, three hind sites,
nine hedgehog sites present in
human genomic DNA
amplification product.
Spatial organisation develops
targeted sampling uses
standard immunostaining,
fluorescence microscopy and
digital image analysis to
scrutinise cell surface
molecule expression performed
on intact monolayer and results
in cellular intensity
distributes reflect spatial
heterogeneity in adhesion
molecule expression returns
rifle to his holster lights a fag.

     ¶

The image obtained upon scan
inverted to give a more normal
looking image, the nucleotides
appeared as dark bands on a
light ground. The Rifleman
set the upper and lower limits.
Proximity to most intense inverted
band against intensity background.
Image then exported to other
manipulation the badger on its
hind legs revealing its loss of genitals
for printing and labelling.
Phosphor storage erasing screen
by visible light in a linear
fashion, with adequate erasure
needing five minutes.
Visualisation of amplification
a finger print profile and rough
measure for the specifics of complexity
where a higher degree of speed
is supported by a rise in asset prices
and an equity correction likely to
give a larger economic impact
starts to beat the drum too early
for world fiscal stimulus
do not believe a hard landing
is inevitable a shelf of plans
ready for temporary fiscal going
beyond automatic stabilisers.
Sugar at 470 showed 9.1 increase.
Real and abstract form inwardly
equal. No definable difference
between emotional significance of
a chord and the formal relationship
of the chord to other notes in the work
the dissonance and symbolism related
and do not mean or signify each other.
Easy to manipulate the parameters
used in sequence interruption
without knowhow of programming
the production of diagrams
show distribution of change,
hydrophobic, hydrophilic,
antigenic, propensity to form
different types of structure
along the sequence.
     ¶


The original building design
in the shape of an X to
maximise natural light.
A reliance on physical infrastructure
food not found in a cafeteria
subsidised prices and electronic
cohesion. Many small buildings
for smaller groups to encounter
co-workers in daily routine.
Virtually all offices the same
furnishings and dimensions such
that struggles were sitting and
thinking that included hierarchy
a Biosphere 2 self-sufficiency
instead of a health club or child-care
four weeks paid leave, business and
life built upon successful mediocracy
and how to get the most out of ordinaryfolks.

     ¶

Unused mental band width a waste
set against genetic maps posted on ceiling
massively parallel until the
good programmer sought to work
with others in the same field
capacity on a thesis of
n minus one in a situation
of growth to underline message
that we cannot understand
the coordinates of quantum escape
breath and gravity.
The human body, bridge and tree
all alike in constant struggle
for balance between unceased
attack and defence of gravity
a condition of nondisappearance
as a whole toward the Earth
centre supplemented by a condition
of balance of each part of the
structure of interaction forces.
Action on the human structure
weight as a force keeps them
on the surface digging and many
a hard bump holds individual
parts as the head sits and ribs hang
the pelvis is braced. A knowhow
of weights transferred one to the other.
Feel the sharp tuberosites the
ischia in relation to the end of the
spine and thigh points.
The animal faces the rifle in a
deep-seated growl or hiss which
serves to lower its centre of gravity
frees its structures for active
forward movement. The sound
of "sssss" continued and valued
in slow and lazy hiss
without break employs
deep throat and body-wall
muscles lengthens the thoracic
cavity and ribs become closed
inward and downward and the
circumferential border of
the diaphragm with them.
Sugar 401 down 3 per cent.
The central nervous system
vulnerable to ischaemia
downregulated by endogenous
mechanisms in hibernation
resist hypoxic attacks in
a sleep organised to celebrate winter.

     ¶

Democracy could only be made
in phased spacetime.
The Rifleman raises his sights
promotes a mysticism of fixed time
where the shilling in your head and the
two bob in your pocket never meet.
The experience on robbery controls
hope in a self-conscious anthropo
morphism without analysis the
badger confronts the rifle in a cage
as the chemistry destroys grey cells
turns them cadmium orange and red in
a black explosion, an organised
disassembly in the garden of love
tomb-stones where flowers should
in black gounds the riflemen
walk their rounds
binding with briars
Blake's joys and desires
vomiting poison.
The marksman's reflex
undergoes learning when
there is persistent retinal slip.
Flocculus signals the brain stem with
feedback visual motion
neurons announce learning need
feedback of image target velocity
minus eye velocity provides
negative signals to allow adjustment
as the Rifleman tracks target.
A copy of the motor signal
the efference-copy information
goes from the brain stem to
the cerebellum. During target
acquisition this signal builds up
maintains a positive feedback memory
as the slip velocity goes to zero.

     ¶

The Rifleman continues to track,
stable vestibulo-ocular flex
achieved by adjusts feed forward
inputs to the cerebellum cancel
the positive feedback copy
syntax and semantics overlap.
The introduction in 1990
of phagemid vectors in combination
with wild-type helperphage made it
possible to construct a hybrid destroyer.
Shot-gun cloning displays of
ligand-binding domains of prokaryotic
receptors approach 100% correct clones
without any prior knowledge of the receptor.

     ¶



 
 

Allen Fisher



Allen Fisher was born in 1944, and has been involved in performance writing since 1962. A painter, publisher, editor and art historian, he has produced one hundred and twenty chapbooks and books of poetry, graphics and art documentation. He currently edits Spanner, lives in Hereford and is Head of Art at the University of Surrey Roehampton in London. His books and chapbooks include: The Apocalyptic Sonnets(1978), Poetry for Schools(1980), Brixton Fractals(1985, republished 1999), Dispossession & Cure(1994), Civic Crime(1994), Now's the time(1995), Fish Jet (1997).

Future Exiles: 3 London Poets(1992), Scram(1994), and Worlds of New Measure: An anthology of five contemporary British Poets(1997) provide substantial selections from his work. Clive Bush's book Out of Dissent(1997) devotes a chapter to the discussion of his work. "Winging Step" is part of the sequence Gravity as a consequence of shape started in 1982 and in progress.

Photo of Allen Fisher copyright © Edward Park 2000

 


 
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