July 2011
9 posts
Portraits of Melancholy — I Dürer’s Melencolia I,...
Bats, like most nocturnal animals and other lovers of the dark, tend to carry connotations of evil. The fifteenth-century scientist and theologian Nicholas of Cusa wrote, “Just as the eye of a bat hides itself from the light of day, so does our soul’s eye hide from an understanding of what is clearest in nature.” Certainly the best known bat in all art before Goya’s flies in Melencolia I...
CocoRosie - Hairnet Paradise
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January 2011
8 posts
On Bokonon's Rebirth
A fish pitched up; By the angry sea, I gasped on land, and I became me.
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The Vorticist's Manifesto ("Blast" #1)
The manifesto is primarily a long list of things to be ‘Blessed’ or ‘Blasted’. It starts:
Beyond Action and Reaction we would establish ourselves.
We start from opposite statements of a chosen world. Set up violent structure of adolescent clearness between two extremes.
We discharge ourselves on both sides.
We fight first on one side, then on the other, but always...
siren of mississippi
October 2010
9 posts
September 2010
25 posts
“The wolf howled loud beneath the leaves
And spat out the fine feathers
From...”
– Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell
“Animality is immediacy or immanence. This situation is given when one animal...”
– Bataille
Foucault and Feminism →
“There are a number of aspects of Foucault’s analysis of the relations between power, the body and sexuality that have stimulated feminist interest. Firstly, Foucault’s analyses of the productive dimensions of disciplinary powers which is exercised outside the narrowly defined political domain overlap with the feminist project of exploring the micropolitics of personal life and...
Waiting for the Miracle (1992) - Leonard Cohen
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