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fair dues: a study for a dressing

There comes a time when all that has come before seems like a false start. Where does it come from, the sense of a false start? Since we can not choose how our narratives begin, only how they carry on, how they deal with each problem as it comes until

the necessary admission to your own reactionary machinery: from Balthus’s memoir

– Henri Cartier-Bresson, Balthus and Setsuko – Balthus (1908-2001), The Mountain , 1937 Literature is an objective, a projected result; it is life that is the unconscious, the agitated, the struggling, floundering cause. The artist’s life is his work, and that is the place to find him. – Henry James quoted in Joyce

Spinoza and the theatre of repetition: excerpting Rebecca Goldstein’s Betraying Spinoza

Spinoza and the theatre of repetition: excerpting Rebecca Goldstein’s Betraying Spinoza

Deleuze talks of how Nietzsche overturns Kant—formally, by producing a beyond of morality, a test of love over faith: “The eternal return says: whatever you will, will it in such a manner that you also will its eternal return.” [Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition, trans. Paul Patton, Continuum, London,

Pickle Damien Hirst, stuff Sarah Lucas and put Tracey Emin to bed!

– a detail, inverted, from Damien Hirst’s exhibition invitation to The Dead , from here (the skulls which follow are from the same source). The above title (and all subsequent quotation) is from here. The Guardian article by Fiachra Gibbons from which it’s drawn actually says, “All that remains is

Depth, Freedom & Two ruses – excerpts from Deleuze on Kant – by way of preparing the former’s own transcendental aesthetic

… determining judgement and reflective judgement are not like two species of the same genus. Reflective judgement manifests and liberates a depth which remained hidden in the other. But the other was also judgement only by virtue of this living depth. If this were not so it would be incomprehensible that

today is the new black (so that toadyism is the new leadership): Zizek’s First as Tragedy, Then as Farce

it has become impossible to ignore the irrationality of global capitalism. Just a few months before the crash, the world’s priorities seemed to be global warming, AIDS, and access to medicine, food and water—tasks labelled as urgent, but with any real action repeatedly postponed. Now, after the financial

“What is material? A necessary evil,” Thom Puckey: “The possibility of a sculptural language comparable to words in literature or flickering images in film: i.e. not locked in material or trapped in an obsession with material.”

– Lyrical Sculpture, Thom Puckey, 1995