What if he were to turn his head, and look forward?
I love this stuff: From Walter Benjamin’s Theses on the Concept of History: “My wing is ready for flight, I would like to turn back. If I stayed timeless time, I would have little luck. Mein Flügel ist zum Schwung bereit,ich kehrte gern zurück,denn blieb ich auch lebendige Zeit,ich hätte wenig Glück. Gerherd Scholem, ‘Gruss…
corrosive roaches and other oddities
There is some really strange stuff out there– robotic cockroaches, innocent mutants, Asian angels from the future. Thanks to Rita Wong and Randy Lee Cutler for these: http://www.intercorr.com/roach.htmhttp://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/exhibitionInfo/exhibition/14827http://www.mcachicago.org/MCA/exhibit/past/Mori/ Actually I’ve been a Mariko Mori fan for quite some time. Wish I could get my hands on a copy of Miko No Inori(The Shaman Girl’s Prayer).…
focusing the crisis
Liberal humanism mourns its failure to emancipate, in the wake of rationalized war and torture. The particular applications of universality light up its endless failures. The marginalized can’t escape the master-slave dialectic, can’t escape identity constructed through trauma, unless, to borrow from Deleuze, they/we draw our being at least partially from the future, the “city…
Orange on the outside, ??? on the inside
There is talk as well of what one does to/with creamsicles, but Larissa is infinitely too reserved to discuss these things.
there was and there was not a party
There was a party for not Alana Wilcox, who was not visiting Calgary and was not hanging out at the Kensington Pub yesterday. Ryan Fitzpatrick was not there. Neither of them were imported from Nova Scotia, which, contrary to popular belief, is not another country. Neither of them have red eyes either, but my camera…