Computers all over the room | Architectural Desktop - AutoCAD | Drafting table bigger than me | Too many bicycles | Books in pile after pile | Music day and night | So many Cameras, so few Hands | My pipe | A Moleskine full of regret
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Glenn Gould from the documentary "The Art of Piano" playing J.S.Bach's Partita #2
In the Witz, language makes itself more imbecile than it really is; it escapes it's own dialectic and concatenation of meaning only to hurl itself into a process of delirious contiguity, into instanteousness, into pure "objectality". The evil demon of language resides in it's capacity to become object, where one expects a subject and meaning. The Witz is the predestination of language to become nonsense from the instant it is caught in it's own devices. In this there is passion, a passsion of the object, which could very well make us rediscover an aesthetic force of the world, beyond peripeteia and subjective passions.
Jean Baudrillard - The Ecstasy of Communication
"The true luxury and the real potlach of our times falls to the poverty stricken, that is, to the individual who lies down and scoffs. A genuine luxury requires the complete contempt for riches, the somber indifference of the individual who refuses to work and makes his life on the one hand an infinitely ruined splendor, and on the other, a silent insult to the laborious life of the rich.
Beyond a military exploitation, a religious mystification, a capitalist misapropriation, hence forth no one can rediscover the meaning of wealth, the explosiveness that it heralds, unless it is in the splendor of rags and the somber challenge of indifference.
One might say, finally, that the lie destines life's exuberance to revolt"
-Georges Bataille
"I dream of the intellectual destroyer of evidence and universalities, the one who in the inertias and constraints of the present, locates and marks the weak points, the openings, the lines of force, doesn't know exactly where he is heading nor what he'll think tomorrow because he is too attentive to the present"
-Michel Foucault
Daly: in a sense, would you say that the age of biogenetics/cyberspace is the age of philosophy?
Zizek: Yes, and the age of philosophy in the sense that we are confronted more and more often with philosophical problems at an everyday level. it is not that you withdraw from daily life into a world of philosophical contemplation.
On the contrary, you cannot find your way around daily life itself without answering certain philsophical questions. It is a unique time when everyone is, in a way, forced to be some kind of philosopher.
"Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact that you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile"
-Jean Baudrillard
"We are going to inherit the earth . There is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie may blast and burn its own world before it finally leaves the stage of history. We Are not afraid of ruins. We who ploughed the prairies and built the cities can build again, only better next time. We carry a new world, here in our hearts. That world is growing this minute."
-Durruti
I like media. I like computers. I like these sites
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davidimlay.com
LOVE them!!!
I smoke and have a kitty. He's important to me.
I ride bikes, build bikes, work on bikes, sell bikes, look at bikes!
