stamp/sharp/couros

CD ROM  Australia, 1998

a recipe

Two cocks are enclosed in darkness. They are given plenty of fodder and grow fat. The fat turns 'hot' and this results in intercourse between the two cocks. Both cocks lay eggs. Toads are substituted for the cocks. The toads are fed with bread and brood the eggs. The eggs are hatched. First the creatures look like roosters, but then change into basilisks. (On Divers Arts, the Treatise of Theophilus, circa 1100)

a diagram

Basilisk diagrams the multiple relations that converge upon a making of the mal:e that is monstrous and virtual. As a queered perspective on subjectivity, it derives itself from a hybrid relation between the alchemistry of wonder and a wander in the fourfold thought of the subject in Guattari, Chaosmosis.

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