22 Monday Aug 2022
Posted in Architecture, Walkability
“I walk everywhere in the city. Any city. You see everything you need to see for a lifetime. Every emotion. Every condition. Every fashion. Every glory. “Maira Kalman
“There is nothing more revealing than to see a thinking person walking, just as there is nothing more revealing than to see a walking person thinking… Walking and thinking are in a perpetual relationship that is based on trust.” Thomas Bernhard
21 Sunday Aug 2022
Posted in anti kitsch
“Democracy not only infuses a taste for letters among the trading classes, but introduces a trading spirit into literature. In aristocracies, readers are fastidious and few in number; in democracies, they are far more numerous and far less difficult to please. The consequence is, that among aristocratic nations, no one can hope to succeed without immense exertions, and that these exertions may bestow a great deal of fame, but can never earn much money; whilst among democratic nations, a writer may flatter himself that he will obtain at a cheap rate a meagre reputation and a large fortune. For this purpose he need not be admired; it is enough that he is liked. The ever-increasing crowd of readers, and their continual craving for something new, insure the sale of books which nobody much esteems. In democratic periods the public frequently treat authors as kings do their courtiers; they enrich, and they despise them. What more is needed by the venal souls which are born in courts, or which are worthy to live there? Democratic literature is always infested with a tribe of writers who look upon letters as a mere trade: and for some few great authors who adorn it you may reckon thousands of idea-mongers.”Tocqueville
19 Friday Aug 2022
Posted in Lighthouse, The Light, Uncategorized
I’d like to become a lighthouse : cold, unfeeling,solid, indifferent. When I see them, I sometimes have the sense that I really could turn to stone, and enjoy the absolute peace of rock. “ Jazmina Barrera.
15 Monday Aug 2022
Posted in INSTRUMENTS
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“In the wall-less house of sounds, humans became the animals that come together by listening. Whatever else they might be, they are sonospheric communards.” Peter Sloterdijk
12 Friday Aug 2022
Posted in Architecture, Topophilia
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«It is impossible for the inhabitants of different worlds to walk or sit or stand on the same floor, because they have differing conceptions of what is horizontal and what is vertical. Yet they may well share the use of the same staircase. On the top staircase illustrated here, two people are moving side by side and in the same direction, and yet one of them is going downstairs and the other upstairs. Contact between them is out of the question because they live in different worlds and therefore can have no knowledge of each other’s existence.» M.C. Escher
02 Tuesday Aug 2022
Posted in Uncategorized
“A heart I need for a son. A soul I need for a son. Compassion and mercy I need from a son. And strength to carry pain I need from a son… self-pride, feeling of superiority, indifference, began to fade away. He learned through the wisdom and the pain of silence that a mind without a heart is nothing. ”
01 Monday Aug 2022
Posted in WHAT IS A WOMAN
« Demandez à ce singe : Qui est la femme 100 têtes ? À la manière des Pères de l’Église il vous répondra : Il me suffit de regarder la femme 100 têtes, et je le sais. Il suffit que vous me demandiez une explication, et je ne le sais plus » ( Max Ernst, La Femme 100 têtes, Éditions du Carrefour, 1929, planche 146).
The noesis cannot be its own noema in the same way that childbirth cannot be the newborn.
29 Friday Jul 2022
Posted in Graphic novel
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CATASTROIKA, consumption, fascism, Pasolini, snowpiercer, woke, Wokeism
“The new fascism, the consumer society, has profoundly transformed young people; it touched them in their intimacy, it gave them other feelings, other ways of thinking, of living, other cultural models. (…) Which means, ultimately, that this “civilization of consumption” is a dictatorial civilization. In short, if the word “fascism” means violence of power, the “consumer society” has indeed realized fascism. » Pasolini
27 Wednesday Jul 2022
Posted in Jewishness
I am not a chassid, yet my mother’s family has its roots in the area that was the birthplace of Chassidus. . Chassidus seems natural to me. I feel Chassidus in my blood. Perhaps I am in hashkafa, but not in practice.
Breslov continues without a Rebbe. Lubavitch continues without a Rebbe. Can one continue without a Rebbe or the Rebbe’s chassidim?
25 Monday Jul 2022
Posted in BIG DATA
“…civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political inefficiency. In a properly organized society like ours, nobody has any opportunities for being noble or heroic. Conditions have got to be thoroughly unstable before the occasion can arise. Where there are wars, where there are divided allegiances, where there are temptations to be resisted, objects of love to be fought for or defended—there, obviously, nobility and heroism have some sense. But there aren’t any wars nowadays. The greatest care is taken to prevent you from loving any one too much. There’s no such thing as a divided allegiance; you’re so conditioned that you can’t help doing what you ought to do. And what you ought to do is on the whole so pleasant, so many of the natural impulses are allowed free play, that there really aren’t any temptations to resist.” Aldous Huxley
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