One is straight away struck by a paucity of words availed to expound this chanced-upon poiesis born in crevasses of cultural hybridity and nourished in the no man's lands of ascetic transmutation

Problematisation in Laubies's work

With "Problematization in Laubies's deconstructive work" (ca 2008), problematization functions first as probe, while its actual staging goes beyond proposal. It flattens and distorts, it marks and defaces, underrides and demeans ones own creative impulse. It eradicates totally and leaves in the lurch all trust and 'reliance on technique and virtuosity' (Laubies, 2001). 

Its importance may be gauged through indexical aids and performative riders such as intertextuality, unparsed automatistic paleoclimatology, and aleatoricism, which are not to be read for their reasoned inventiveness but rather gauged for their spatial spheres that at very high frequencies 'take recourse to a god' (cf. Zoetmulder). Through inbuilt resolve and reconciliation, problematization in Laubies's work is a negotiated process left pretty much to chance.

In a similar sense, participation in what was earlier depicted as "deconstructive exercise" was tantamount to drawing on the cognitive means by which perception - as culturally acquired and shielded edifice - is ousted or erased by varied occurrence of transordinate structures faithful to the process of defamiliarization and through innate disaffection of all figuration. 

What on earth was left to be unearthed?

        untrodden strands under baking sun,
        lightness over pale-blue line of horizon ...

How this comes about is anyone's adventure.


References

Zoetmulder, P. J., Kalangwan: a survey of old Javanese literature. The Hague : Martinus Nijhoff, 1974.


Laubies, Aphorism No. 9, 2001.

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