A Radical Cut In The Texture Of Reality

. And what did it mean that we felt no true sense of direction, that we were aimless, paralyzed, confused and at the end of the day coul...

. As is generally known, the figure of the art critic emerges at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century, ...

. I am currently reading Secret Publicity by Netherlands art critic Sven Lutticken. There are many relevant quotes but here are one or two ...

. "I feel that man should not have thrown himself into this amazing adventure that is history. Everything that he does turns agains...

. "Every impulse of renovation, at the very moment when it approaches its goal, when it realizes itself through the State, creeps t...

. "I think I must always have had the feeling (as apart from conscious idea) that words were things that, if one was to do anything...

. A few hours ago I got back from the Goethe Institute where I watched the silent film Tabu by FW Murau with live piano accompaniment. I...

. Some comedians are actually funny while others are not. Would it be correct to say the comedians who are not funny are actually not co...

. Simply giving people ‘the information’ will not suffice, for it is a central characteristic of the modern world that we are able to live i...

. Fucking right wing scuzzballs simply want it more badly then the rest of us, aren’t plagued by the same doubts, the same suspicions of...

. In a Friendster profile from some exciting looking stranger in (I think it was) France I read “I have a nasty habit of avoiding things...

I had forgotten that I had said that modern life was like triage, that we deal with each thing in our lives on a strictly emergency basis, a...

. Corporate oligarchy isn’t my idea of a happening time. An investment in our future is an investment in the enemy’s consolidation. Take t...

. Confusion always leaks. Like a middle child unsure where exactly it falls within the general family pecking order, a sense of being un...

.   Take one large sheet of tracing paper. Place it over top of the screen of your television set. If you do not personally own a tele...

.   “He behaved badly. And then I behaved badly. And now it’s done.” “You think you’re tough. You’re not tough. I could pull out my dick...

. There is the pretence that the purpose of language is to communicate when so often we use words only to protect ourselves or attack oth...

.   1. When we see coincidences as meaningful what we are really saying that there is some sense to life, that everything is not just ch...

.   1. There is no such thing as anti-cinema, all cinema is equally enthusiastic. I believe this is the case because technology requires ...

1. Individualism represents a kind of freedom and excitement but also generates a very specific and intense strain of powerlessness. This po...