because we know the centre cannot hold we feel the circle can … on deactivating my facebook account
I have deactivated my facebook account because it would no longer perform the operation which provided my justification for signing on in the first instance. It would longer import notes from here. It became a rather tenuous justification, however, since the majority of my engagement with the sociality advertising itself
flânerie, bananas, getting dead & being stoned, gay & generally self-identical: Edmund White (on), Josephine Baker & Théophile Gautier & foregoing Foucault
The rear end exists. I see no reason to be ashamed of it. It’s true there are rear ends so stupid, so pretentious, so insignificant that they’re good only for sitting on.
– Josephine Baker, quoted by Edmund White,
The Flâneur: A Stroll through the Paradoxes of Paris
, Bloomsbury,
土方巽 Tatsumi Hijikata, b. 9.3.1928 – d. 21.1.1986
大野一雄 Kazuo Ohno requiescat in tenebrae et in pace, b.27.10.1906 – d.1.6.2010
– photo by H.Tsukamoto