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"All bad writers are in love with the epic."

Fri, 03 May 2013 21:23:00 +0100

“All bad writers are in love with the epic.”

- Ernest Hemingway, On Writing, Knowledge and the Dangers of Ego

Nocturne 43, Chad Wys (2011)

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 11:55:00 +0100

Nocturne 43, Chad Wys (2011)

"He returns years later, has no demands. He wants only one, most precious thing: To see, purely and..."

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 16:18:42 +0100

“He returns years later, has no demands.
He wants only one, most precious thing:
To see, purely and simply, without name,
Without expectations, fears, or hopes,
At the edge where there is no I or not-I.”

- Czesław Miłosz

The Tate Gallery, London, England, 1993. Photographed by...

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 22:05:49 +0000

The Tate Gallery, London, England, 1993. Photographed by Elliott Erwitt.

Jan Willem van Welzenis

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 22:04:28 +0000

Jan Willem van Welzenis

"Could it think, the heart would stop beating."

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 20:53:00 +0000

“Could it think, the heart would stop beating.”

- Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Mario Esteves, 2010

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 20:49:00 +0000

Mario Esteves, 2010

Letter from Franz Kafka to Oskar Pollak

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 19:58:00 +0000

Letter from Franz Kafka to Oskar Pollak

"What matters is precisely this; the unspoken at the edge of the spoken."

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:25:00 +0000

“What matters is precisely this; the unspoken at the edge of the spoken.”

- Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated 21 July 1912

Pablo Picasso - The Blind Man’s Meal, 1903

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 18:10:03 +0000

Pablo Picasso - The Blind Man’s Meal, 1903

"As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man...."

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 23:13:21 +0000

“As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I do? Work for a social and political system, make a girl miserable? Hunt for weaknesses in philosophical systems, fight for moral and aesthetic ideals? It’s all too little. I renounce my humanity even though I may find myself alone. But am I not already alone in this world from which I no longer expect anything?”

- Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

“There are books of the same chemical composition as...

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 20:01:00 +0000

“There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times.”

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, A Soviet Heretic: Essays by Yevgeny Zamyatin

(Image: State of Being (1820 edition Goethe books), 2012 by Chiharu Shiot )

Steel paintings by Miya Ando | More posts

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 17:49:24 +0000

Fudo 2, 2012, hand dyed, anodized aluminum, 24" x 24" x 1"

Rei Mei 2.2, 2012, hand dyed, anodized aluminum, 24" x 24" x 1"

Steel paintings by Miya Ando | More posts

"An unhealthy society is one which creates mutual hostility [and] distrust, which transforms man into..."

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 00:15:00 +0000

“An unhealthy society is one which creates mutual hostility [and] distrust, which transforms man into an instrument of use and exploitation for others, which deprives him of a sense of self, except inasmuch as he submits to others or becomes an automaton…Yet many psychiatrists and psychologists refuse to entertain the idea that society as a whole may be lacking in sanity. They hold that the problem of mental health in a society is only that of the number of ‘unadjusted’ individuals, and not of a possible unadjustment of the culture itself.”

- Erich Fromm, The Sane Society (1955)

Symptom-Sea-Body (PW— N° 40), Koji Enokura, 1972.

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 17:42:00 +0000

Symptom-Sea-Body (PW— N° 40), Koji Enokura, 1972.

Tony Cragg at the Louvre

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 22:53:28 +0000

Tony Cragg at the Louvre

"[In the political realm] peace is nothing more than the regulation of the psycho-political economy..."

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 16:48:00 +0000

“[In the political realm] peace is nothing more than the regulation of the psycho-political economy of awe and reverential fear, of using the threat of terror in order to bind citizens to the circuit of their subjection.That is to say, politics is essentially about the management of fear, an economy of fear, continually adjusting the level of fear to produce the right level of affect in the citizenry.”

- Simon Critchley, “Crypto-Schmittianism.” in: State of Nature 2. Winter 2006.

blue-voids: Endre Tót - Outdoor Texts, 1980

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 16:47:00 +0000

blue-voids:

Endre Tót - Outdoor Texts, 1980

"The leading student of business propaganda, Australian social scientist Alex Carey, argues..."

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 17:03:00 +0000

“The leading student of business propaganda, Australian social scientist Alex Carey, argues persuasively that “the 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.”

- Noam Chomsky, World Orders: Old and New

workman: Mark Rothko | Untitled, 1960

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 17:44:23 +0000

workman:

Mark Rothko | Untitled, 1960