realfakeoriginalcopyreplica

louisvuittonmoethennessey

dimitrikarakostas

i now ipad

not modern actually

it being older than most

reading pdfs

a general article

louis vuitton bootleg

the genuine article

or that is my understanding

slowly drunk sunday

so, me sweating

how to copy it all

always

maybe the shirt design says “fake”

“fake saint laurent”

conglomerates of luxury

murakami bootlegs ugh

i should print some paintings

and paint over the originals

and frame them

copyright karakostas

realfakeoriginalcopyreplica

oxidized to a dark honey

a fabulous rhetorical flourish

i’m sweating

i said i wasn’t going to drink

i guess i was wrong

what are you reading? i’m sorry

imitation representation reproduction

similarity resemblance

mimesis meaning copying

and all copies get made into

something other than the original

because it looks like it

or appears to be it

existence precedes essence

or how did the quote go?

maybe if the copy is not realized

it can be called original

an expression

i mean, who really wants to follow laws?

criminal activity is endlessly modern

how serious is the work being produced?

well, i’m taking it very seriously

simulacra, threaten, distort,

etcetera

a world of copies without originals

no platonic essence

essence less ness

dynamic traditions

dependant origination

what am i proposing here?

a key concept is

objects, subjects, emptiness

what i mean is

“this is a book”

and since i’m writing this down

i wrote it

voodoo doll resemblance

meaning

bearing little resemblance

at all

instead an effigy

no doubt desirable

designation, construction

a likeness, and so on

alikeness

suchness

one

in a fl ash

the ocean emerging

then falling back

samadhi, enlightenment, duality

i insist

what we mean when we say

a faithful copy:

things which have been in contact

with each other

continue to act

on each other

at a distance after the physical contact

has been severed

my fingerprints pressed into your skin,

your wrist, perhaps

the point where nonsensuous and sensuous converge

bonding, desire

vitality of spirit

our sameness

i have to have it!

if you put it on a t-shirt,

someone will buy it

LVMH, LHOOQ

(i get a kick out of you)

shoplifting, if you’re good at it

right click, view source

walking around on garbage day

thrifting, torrenting

a mixtape means sequencing that’s it

transformational value, i don’t know

it’s a complex system of bonding,

buying

“the same”

independent, empty, groundless

abundance, plenty, multitude

genuine imitation

return to work

take two

the iced-tea edition

identical, practically identical

postconsumer trash heap debris

neverending wordplay

born out of gang culture

graffi ti, the last great plagiarism left

unfollow me if you disagree

expedia 27august->10september

expedia 19august->23august

the offi cial marketplace of counter-culture

mostly defi ned by marginality

vagueness, manipulation

pure rhetoric

what is needed to affi rm the autonomous and skilled

a featureless plane of

quasi-offi cial status

what’s up tiger lily

hard copy

diff erence and repetition

after all

a copy is never an identical copy

it never is

unauthorized, understood

warez, samizdat

i write it myself

deception

a war-time tactic

cut with the kitchen knife

montage of attractions

things are as they are

or as they seem

naming the fragments

a temporary sense of unity

and together

a phenomenon, a trace

multiple choice

built to suit

do it your way

defi nitive evoking

productive hesitation

unstable units

attitudes, gestures, movements

a fi nite acknowledgement

past tense

talking about my life

working on X

cut and paste

patterns, arrangements

the same

while maintaining

a quantifi able diff erence

more than one

more and more

desire to belong

be a part of something

apart of something

with transcendent subtleties

structures, practices, problems

theft as a universal principle

copies of things

things themselves

and them someone comes along

and fucks it up for everybody

surveillance footage

twelve steps of dependent origination

more prevalent, less mimetic

still, improvisation

my nose is running, i notice it

mimicking behavior as if “relax”

my aim is true

“temporary

autonomous

zones”

i must have been 20, 21

subversive or participant

remarkable archive

a history

all for sale

no, free

situations, events, time

no value of it’s own

only the value we attribute to it

some us, a them

me, i believe in love

participation

repropriation

deappropriation

misappropriation

exappropriation

unappropriable

renunciation?

disorderly

expensive

melancholy

massive

tall

broad

wide

it’s disloyal to both things

when we say one is like the other

fetishizing progress

resisting sentimentality

struggling with words

ideas, concepts

hands up

i’m not resisting

seriously dense and illusion destroying

we reach justice

when we don’t reach poetry

read books and forget them

someone is always working on a novel too close to me

and i’ll never stop breaking the law for you.