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YOU ALWAYS MOVE IN REVERSE by Jason Dodge 1kg silver bullion...

chandler@barbariangroup.com(Chandler McWilliams) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:03:55 -0500

YOU ALWAYS MOVE IN REVERSE by Jason Dodge

1kg silver bullion thrown through a window into an exhibition space; the silver and glass are left as they land, and the window is repaired with tape.

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chandler@barbariangroup.com(Chandler McWilliams) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 04:03:11 -0500

"For the new year.— I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think...."

chandler@barbariangroup.com(Chandler McWilliams) — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 04:03:00 -0500

“For the new year.— I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think. Sum, ergo cogito: cogito, ergo sum. Today everybody permits himself the expression of his wish and his dearest thought; hence I, too, shall say what it is that I wish from myself today, and what was the first thought to run across my heart this year—what thought shall be for me the reason, warranty, and sweetness of my life henceforth. I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer.”

– Nietzsche, The Gay Science. Aphorism 276.

fucktheory: Mourning and Ideology More to the point, if you’re...

chandler@barbariangroup.com(Chandler McWilliams) — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 04:03:02 -0500

fucktheory:

Mourning and Ideology

More to the point, if you’re old enough to remember it, think back to the relentless outpouring of media grief following the death of Princess Diana of Angleterre, whose most significant lifetime accomplishment was getting married. At least Kim Jong-il was actually leading his country, and had some kind of political-historical significance. What do you suppose a North Korean would have made of video showing all of England paralyzed and sobbing at the sight of Elton John crooning “Candle In the Wind” at Diana’s funeral (a song, let us note, originally written to mark the overdose death of a Playboy bunny).

Affect doesn’t correspond to rationality; it doesn’t correspond to good sense. It does, however, correspond profoundly with the ideological systems which help us make sense of our emotions and sensations, and which produce for us taxonomies of feeling that are socially mediated.

Having said that, nobody does Kim Jong-il quite like Margaret Cho.

As ever, brilliant.

"One doesn’t have to call it weakness and cowardice, having to retreat, if it’s under the..."

chandler@barbariangroup.com(Chandler McWilliams) — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 04:03:03 -0500

“One doesn’t have to call it weakness and cowardice, having to retreat, if it’s under the compulsion of a god: no, we turned our backs to flee quickly: there exists a proper time for flight.”

– Archilochus, from a fragment found in Oxyrhynchus.