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9 number of going-nowheres. Chess is a going nowhere that can be won. The person collecting the suspect’s items should never be the same person collecting the victim’s. If the same person must be the same person, change clothes and time. Which is why objects cannot be glued together, though they might later be shimmed. “Infra-thin separation… has the 2 senses male and female,” as we uncover in this “objectdard”: So Duchamp was never/always between Larrey and Mary’s? >>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<< TRIBOLOGY–INFRATHIN Emergency in Favor of Twice, our handler said, “bring the objects.” We look and see a snow shovel. Good example: we’re not sure if should leave it, or remain sufficiently indifferent. The potential for conveying information grows in this new dimension, where noise and dirt and dust are welcome. Every object says it’s a masterpiece, familiar improvised cover. infrathin: a production which is no longer manual but coudique (as in “elbow”). Or L-shaped. This mission has objects for object but don’t we also seek trace evidence, this infrathin, where the target passes into the interval between identicals? A door swings closed but instead opens undecidably, escaping. Has something passed unnoticed? We try to imagine how to access this infrathin, and luckily there are specialists—tribologists—who study the science of rubbing between faces. Where a face seems smooth, a closer look reveals asperities, as the looks diverge subtlety at the intimate contact where welding takes place. How is this awkward bottle rack more useful as art and only somewhat “rack,” and ditto now everything else?

1913issue6online

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