December 2008
there’s a way to ask her what you want to know, and there’s a way for her to answer. -laura kasischke, suspicious river (nightmareb)
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Noi in casa lo chiamiamo “Il parallelepipedo della mestizia”. La sua sola presenza, il solo evocarne la presenza, richiama alla memoria la “Cosa più triste che sia mai stata creata”. Parlo di “cose create”, oggetti culturali, prodotti dell’immaginazione dell’uomo, lascio fuori gli eventi reali a cui la vita ci obbliga. Il parallelepipedo della mestizia è la custodia del dvd americano di...
Carestia e opulenza nella lirica di Velimir... →
(pensierispettinati:maisuccesso)
a system divides universe into all the universe outside the system (macrocosm) and all the rest of the universe which is inside the system (microcosm) with the exception of the minor fraction of universe which constitutes the system itself.
r.buckminster fuller, operating manual for spaceship earth, 1969, p.57
When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth.
Billy, age 4 (thoughtsdetained)
La menzogna non è nel discorso, è nelle cose.
– Italo Calvino
I like dogs. I used to raise rabbits. I’ve always loved animals. Their nature. How they think. I have seen dogs reason their way out of problems. Watched them think through the trickiest situations.
— Harry Dean Stanton, Inland Empire (homeofthevain)
a place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image. -joan didion (overflowing)
Rhythm 10, 1973 In her first performance Abramović explored elements of ritual and gesture. Making use of ten knives and two tape recorders, the artist played the Russian game in which rhythmic knife jabs are aimed between the splayed fingers of her hand. Each time she cut herself, she would pick up a new knife from the row of ten she had set up, and recorded the operation. After cutting herself...
The everywhere-relative velocities and momentums of interactions, of energetic phenomena of universe, are central to the preoccupations and realizations of the comprehensive designer. The concept of relativity involves high frequency of re-established awareness, and progressively integrating consideration of the respective, and also integrated dynamic complexities of the moving and transforming...
Antonioni’s conceptual sequel to Blow-Up is an Italian leftist’s goofball cinematic view of late ’60s American counterculture. It features a long sequence with nude couples making love in the desert, for which Antonioni wanted Fahey to do the music. When Fahey arrived in Rome, Antonioni showed him the segment in a screening room. “Antonioni says, ‘What I want you to...