YES. IS THIS REAL? I WANT.
I’ve totally come up with this idea. Only, in my vision it would be called Zizek’s Zokes.
(Source: stonesandbones)
“
1
As for the lives of the gods, as for whatever
I say about anything, no one has ever been sure,
and no one ever will be. And if, by chance,
someone comes along and utters the truth,
how would we verify the truth he spoke?
For all we know with certainty is: there is
nothing we know beyond the world of seems.
2
The deathless gods never granted us
the knowledge of all things, but in time
we have pursued that knowledge,
and in time we’ve invented better.
3
Let this be held as resembling the truth.
“So then you’re left with a choice. Do you trust your English teacher, or do you trust Ezra Pound? It shouldn’t be too hard a decision. You trust the madman. And so you learn Mandarin and Provencal and Hebrew and Greek, and, and you go on to lead a life of poverty and hardship.” —
Helen DeWitt from last night’s celebration of New Directions’ seventy-fifth anniversary.
(thank you, towirr)
Hers was one of my favorites. Did you get any books?(via mythologyofblue)
1998. Chromogenic color print, printed 2010, 46 1/16 x 58 1/4” (117 x 148 cm). Acquired through the generosity of Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder. © 2011 Tina Barney
54.2011.x1-x2
From the collection of MoMA, on view now
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“[The people running Britain] thought that after thirty years of soaring inequality, in the middle of a recession, they could take away the last little things that gave people hope, the benefits, the jobs, the possibility of higher education, the support structures, and nothing would happen. They were wrong.” — Good essay on the London Riots: http://pennyred.blogspot.com/2011/08/panic-on-streets-of-london.html?spref=fb
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A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN, 2011
(via warnick)
“Sometimes while I ride the subway I try to look at each person and imagine what they look like to someone who is totally in love with them. I think everyone has had someone look at them that way, whether it was a lover, or a parent, or a friend, whether they know it or not. It’s a wonderful thing, to look at someone to whom I would never be attracted and think about what looking at them feels like to someone who is devouring every part of their image, who has invisible strings that are connected to this person tied to every part of their body. I think this fun pastime is a way of cultivating compassion. It feels good to think about people that way, and to use that part of my mind that I think is traditionally reserved for a tiny portion of people I’ll meet in my life to appreciate the general public.” — Dean Spade. For Lovers and Fighters. http://www.makezine.enoughenough.org/newpoly2.html (via avry)
(Source: mmmajestic, via fuckyeahtheorists)
Paul Cezanne “Still Life with a Ginger Jar and Eggplants” 1890-4
Allison Katz “Poires Noires” (2009)
Allison Katz “Black Pears” (2009)
Paul Thek
Dana Schutz “Reclining Nude” (2002)
Brooke Moyse, “Green Triangles,”2010, oil on canvas, 20 x 16.”