Tying off threads
We are engaging in a week-long media diet. Or “media fast” is maybe more accurate. An information diet. It is exactly as hard as I imagined not to fill every dead minute with goalless web surfing.
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The rise of “image sharing” (is this what they are called?) and group-surf blogs in the past three years seems to have exponentially increased the already sickening pace of image proliferation. Things Magazine references this quite often. Images have never been so disposable, so fleeting, and so easily forgotten.… Read more »
The image
The image remains refracted until the female is disrobed, so an elaborate ritual has been established culminating in the removal of the eldest female’s clothes and the final focusing of the image. Children in the darker tunnels wait for news to arrive by messenger, and on the day that the disrobing ritual begins they leave their burrows for the family hearth, as set forth in the Book of Smells. Children older than 13 will not return to the burrows at the culmination… Read more »
Resistances
“To say that you are resisting something means that you have to spend a lot of time and energy saying what that something is, in order for your resistance to make sense. Too much energy flows in the wrong direction, and you usually end up strengthening the thing you want to resist.”
“It seems to me that if architects really want to resist, then neither the idea nor the rhetoric of resistance has a place in it. These architects must take the initiative, beginning from a point of
Art Is Dumb. Do Something Else.
A new feature: I answer your letters.
I’ve been interested for a long time in the “art of everyday life,” situationism, relational aesthetics, etc.: the various movements that attempt to bridge–usually for quasi-political reasons–some of the cultural space between “art” and “normal, everyday life” (i.e., as lived by poor people). And I remember in a class in graduate school writing about how maybe making “art” as quotidian and banal as the materials of everyday life (a common approach) isn’t as interesting an aim as attempting to… Read more »
