The tenets of civilisation are now being written by the authors of the gravest barbarity. Times have changed since Walter Benjamin’s day. I’m informed I’m up to 1,990 posts and 298 pages. My father before he died said, Life is too short to read square white

in an interview with Simon Denny, Quinn Slobodian identifies 2 of what Denny calls sub-art worlds, of people “programming at big cultural institutions, and museums especially, rather than galleries”: 1. “culturally engaged art plugging directly into marginalised identities and oppressed groups”… 2. another genre which “delves into the intersection of

So, make your mind up. Real space view with potential scariness, or some screen; gentle feel-good, wistful comedy, razor-sharp witterage, outright slapstick hilarity, engrossing human drama, historical epic, educational documentary, ambient meanderance, pure art appreciation, porn, horror, sport or news? Real space view, thanks. [for what I am referring to

The global challenges we face today provide an unprecedented invitation for collective transformation. There is an opportunity to remember how to listen, see, and sense clearly from the heart. There are hidden powers within us that we have forgotten that await us in the presence of darkness. True vision is

the first link lays it out: “it’s especially cruel that U.S. prisons ban magical literature.” — Moira Marquis, “Censoring Imagination: Why Prisons Ban Fantasy and Science Fiction,” LITHUB, December 7, 2023 — Francesco Queirolo, Disinganno, 1753 … to be free of illusion …? [the title of the sculpture can be given as…

‘All I know about method,’ Cage writes at the end of ‘Lecture on Nothing,’ ‘is that when I am not working I sometimes think I know something, but when I am working, it is quite clear that I know nothing.’ Others might call that enlightenment.