"The Flaming Steam Iron"

"The flaming steam iron could be conceived as a modern-day liberty torch. The form of the iron is admirably harmonoius and, unlike the other objects, it cannot be likened to either the male or the female genitals. The technological development is outstandingly manifest on the irons (charcoal iron, gas iron, steam iron, electric iron). This object is extremely rigid and could almost be used as a weapon. At the same time, its purpose is to remove creases from clothes. And this is what the flames render impossible."
Istvan Kantor, reprinted in: Géza Perneczky, The Magazine Network, Cologne: Soft Geometry Editions, 1993, p. 111

Tracts

• The Flaming Steam Iron
  From Neoism Now, 1986
• The Flaming Steam Iron
  From SMILE 100, 1991

Quotes

• The Melancholy Allegory
  "flaming iron in a blue endless sky, or a blood transfusion...."
• What Is Neoism?
  "flaming irons forever. Cool iron for delicate garments, dropped ..."
• Dialectical Immaterialism: The Steiner Connection
  " flaming steam iron, is basically a Steinerian emblem: The burning glue on the..."
• A Mere Outline...
  " steam iron on fire that had a pick-up attached to its bottom, &
• The Strike Within the Strike
  "This problem of instrumental reason is the familiar target of critiques by a whole tradition of European writers from Nietzs..."
• The Elective Affinities
  "gold flag of the striped Bügeleisen: ..."
• tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE Bibliography
  "a. gold striped bugeleisen image & b. "Stop Normality Before It..."

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