October 2011
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November 2010
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The Infinite Conversation: Like Anyone Else I Make... →
theinfiniteconversation:
But what do you know about me, given that I believe in secrecy, that is, in the power of falsity, rather than in representing things in a way that manifests a lamentable faith in accuracy and truth? If I stick where I am, if I don’t travel around, like anyone else I make my inner journeys that I…
October 2010
24 posts
“I’ve gotten convinced that there’s something kind of timelessly vital and sacred...”
– David Foster Wallace (via wearebasiclight)
“What’s exhilarating and frightening is that we don’t grow out of this. We’ve all...”
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darkly wise, rudely great: The Long Childhood (via nathanielstuart)
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“eternity isn’t some later time. eternity isn’t a long time. eternity has nothing...”
– joseph campbell (via nathanielstuart)
“standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted...”
– ralph waldo emerson, nature, ch.1 (1836)
U B U W E B - Film & Video: William S. Burroughs -... →
lawgiverz:
Burroughs The Movie (1985) Featuring - Allen Ginsberg, Brion Gysin, Francis Bacon, Jackie Curtis, John Giorno, Lauren Hutton, Patti Smith, Terry Southern, William S. Burroughs Directed By - Howard Brookner Photography - Kate Simon, Kevin Gordon Producer - Alan Yentob, Howard Brookner Label: Giorno Poetry Systems Catalog#: GPS 034 Format: VHS, NTSC Country: US Released: 1985 RELATED...
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“Atlantida”, Installation at 2nd Biennial of the Canaries 2009 de / by Olga Mink
September 2010
1 post
“[I]t was in the nature of Blanchot’s argument to resist summary. The experience...”
– Lydia Davis, ‘The Problem in Summarizing Blanchot’ in Proust, Blanchot and a Woman in Red, 2007, Slyph Editions, 31 (via tracesoftraces)
August 2010
2 posts
“Oh, the comfort — the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person —...”
– Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life, 1859
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He Was Listening to the Speech of the Everyday
theinfiniteconversation:
He was listening to the speech of the everyday, grave, idle, saying everything, holding up to each one what he would have liked to say, a speech unique, distant and always close, everyone’s speech, always already expressed and yet infinitely sweet to say, infinitely precious to hear—the speech of temporal eternity saying: now, now, now.
~Maurice Blanchot
The Infinite...
July 2010
6 posts
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by brevity, over-connectedness,...”
– Oyl Miller, Tweet
It’s the glare from the reflection Making patterns in your eyes It’s the looking back in anger With every second slipping by Undertow has come to take me Guided by the blazing sun Look at everything around us Look at everything we’ve done. Please anyone I don’t think I can, save...
The Infinite Conversation: Regretter la présence... →
How can one regret the absence of the other while at the same time feeling a sense of deliverance from their presence? But language itself tells us how: Regretter la présence de quelqu’un means both to feel regret that they are there and to be sorry they are not. Regretter son absence means to feel regret that he is not there and for the time when he was not there. The melancholy of parting...
The Infinite Conversation: Because We Don't Know... →
Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well, yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that’s so deeply a part of your being that you can’t even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more,...
The Infinite Conversation: The Caress Consists in... →
The caress, like contact, is sensibility. But the caress transcends the sensible. It is not that it would feel beyond the felt, further than the senses, that it would seize upon a sublime food while maintaining, within its relation with this ultimate felt, an intention of hunger that goes unto the food promised, and given to, and deepening this hunger, as though the caress would be fed by its...
“Convey the music, not just from the notes but, through some kind of inspiration...”
– Alfred Cortot on playing Schumann’s The Poet Speaks (via sergehanuma)
June 2010
8 posts
Why does truth arise through mistakes?
mrteacup:
The idea that one is able from the outset to account for error, to take it under consideration as error, and therefore to take one’s distance from it, is precisely the supreme error of the existence of metalanguage, the illusion that, while taking part in illusion, one is somehow also able to observe the process from an ‘objective’ distance. By avoiding identifying oneself with...
“Words move, music moves
Only in time; but that which is only living
Can only...”
– T.S. Eliot
(No. 1 of ‘Four Quartets’)
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The Infinite Conversation: One Must Just Write, in... →
Not to write~what a long way there is to go before arriving at that point, and it is never sure; it is never either a recompense or a punishment. One must just write, in uncertainty and in necessity. Not writing is among the effects of writing; it is something like a sign of passivity, a means of expression at grief’s disposal. How many efforts are required in order not to write~in order that,...
craigswanson:
The other day I was listening to...
The Infinite Conversation: Just Fine White Sand... →
Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn’t something that…
May 2010
20 posts
“Pre-Internet, making something public took and enormous amount of time and...”
– Should Government Take On Facebook? - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com (via anxiaostudio)
This reminds me of the ‘commodification of privacy’ arguments that have been floating around for some time. It’s not entirely certain that government intervention will really ‘secure’ privacy insofar as the...