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August 15, 2016
August 13, 2016
matlaporte:
“communism is how you get nasty with enjoyment.”
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“communism is how you get nasty with enjoyment.”
- fred moten
(thanks to jeunne fille for the picture)
the shit that’s special is the residue. the cream. the burly innovation.
August 10, 2016
August 6, 2016
Image Making
When you have zero affinity with the accepted images of sociopolitical or family life and with the entire spectrum of current media trends, you must invent and conjure up the images that you need to project in order to inhabit them. There is no other way!
-Rouzbeh Rashidi
Thanks to Maximilian Le Cain
July 29, 2016
on writing
Writing, after it is packaged and published, particularly when it is packaged and published and paid attention to and read, seems to be an ego-making material and the heavy personizer of who made it; a long-form, slightly more complex publicity for whatever individual vision or spirit or personality; one of those glossy advertising inserts of all-about-me, and particularly all-about-those who are most amenable to a certain kind of marketplace of persons at any given time. In this it is also the ego-maker of a society or era. The writers who get noticed are the representative persons allowed to possess heightened consciousness that is literature, the shorthand for an (utterly misrepresentative) all –
but the process of writing is ego-depleting, full of error and struggle and doubt and revelation and shock, a record of thinking but mostly of being thoughtless, a watery grave of derivation and imitation, with only (if you are lucky) surprise uncharted islands of whatever is original or previously unknown. Everything about the process of writing is the most beautifully eviscerating, like sex and dying and history and big landscapes are, too, in that it doesn’t matter who you are inside of it when you are inside of it. Maybe you are like a bullrider, in the bullrider-y sublime (have you ever watched bullriding?), strutting through performative rings of fire in the stadium, only to be thrown off again and again, without even holding on for the necessary seconds to get on the scoreboard, thrown off by forces that exist mostly to humiliate your aspirations. It’s the best.
Writing is a vacation in the mistaken. It’s what it is because it is so often wrong. It’s a mode of emptying time of action and filling it with letters, words, syntaxes and grammars that are never yours to begin with, of submerging oneself in the common materials of language and only rarely getting to come up for a breath –
Anne Boyer on-point (on a day that I took off work to work on copy edits of a book no less).
July 28, 2016
movieposteroftheday:
US one sheet for THE LONG GOODBYE (Robert...
US one sheet for THE LONG GOODBYE (Robert Altman, USA, 1973)
Artist: Jack Davis (1924-2016)
Poster source: Heritage Auctions
R.I.P. Jack Davis. Read about how Davis’s poster was created to revive Altman’s film after a lackluster opening in L.A.
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