TEOTIHUACAN

Love and truth touch by pushing away: they force the retreat of...

Tue, 21 May 2013 01:30:39 +1200

Love and truth touch by pushing away: they force the retreat of those whom they reach, for their very onset reveals, in the touch itself, that they are out of reach. It is in being unattainable that they touch us, even seize us. What they draw near is their distance: they make us sense it, and this sensing is their very sense. It is the sense of touch that commands not to touch. It is time, indeed, to specify the following: Noli me tangere does not simply say “Do not touch me”; more literally, it says “Do not wish to touch me.”

-Jean-Luc Nancy, Noli me tangere: On the Raising of the Body

"Silence alone is my prayer, oh Lord, and I can say no more; I am so happy feeling that I silence..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:45:38 +1200

“Silence alone is my prayer, oh Lord, and I can say no more; I am so happy feeling that I silence myself to feel even more; it was in silence that a spider’s subtle and fragile web formed inside me: this sweet ignorance of life which allows me to live.”

- Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart (via human-activities)

hadrian6: Portrait of a young man. Jean Dominique Ingres....

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:37:40 +1200

hadrian6:

Portrait of a young man. Jean Dominique Ingres. French. 1780-1867.

oil on canvas. http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

"I want to make myself simple, that is, to be like a diagram, and my being will have to gain the..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:29:44 +1200

“I want to make myself simple, that is, to be like a diagram, and my being will have to gain the qualities of crystal, which exists only by virtue of the objects that can be seen through it. Rags, poverty, even a careless or untidy way of dressing, enables pathos to enter easily, more easily, into daily life. To be buttoned. Faultlessly. Apparently inaccessible. If I desire saintliness, let it come wholly from within! A torrent flowing into me from head to heart and circulating. A very simple ribbon. I would hate a crease, a silk pocket handkerchief, a badly pressed crease, a down-at-heel shoe to allow me the slightest self-pity, the simple casualness with respect to strictness, to make disobedience easier. Where I was heavy with so many furs! Where the snow isolated each of us—we who lived, nevertheless, in the same thick darkness of a tank—in the middle of a vast plain of silence.”

- Jean Genet, Funeral Rites (via human-activities)

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Sat, 18 May 2013 23:14:56 +1200

eroteme: Caravaggio - The Incredulity of Saint Thomas

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:11:19 +1200

eroteme:

Caravaggio - The Incredulity of Saint Thomas

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Sat, 18 May 2013 12:51:42 +1200

"The Metropolis strives to reach a mythical point where the world is completely fabricated by man, so..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:16:31 +1200

“The Metropolis strives to reach a mythical point where the world is completely fabricated by man, so that it absolutely coincides with his desires”

- Rem Koolhaas, Delirious New York
(via comna)

Listening is not reading. But the comparison between the two can shed light on the surprise of...

Fri, 17 May 2013 02:15:46 +1200

Listening is not reading. But the comparison between the two can shed light on the surprise of which I speak. Reading a text, reading it in an “expert” way, we rewrite it, we draw quotations from it that are sometimes quite far apart from each other in the “body” of the text, we contrast and compare them, we make meanings and sometimes contradictions or paradoxes emerge from them that the linear structure of the text did not immediately make visible. One could even say that reading does not truly become criticism until it breaks with the temporal linearity of the stream. Until we render it discrete by a certain analysis. What does this critical condition become in listening?—That, in brief, is the question that stays with us after we read Adorno.

-Peter Szendy, Listen

fuckyeahmarxismleninism: Page from a Chinese Cultural...

Fri, 17 May 2013 01:30:20 +1200

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

Page from a Chinese Cultural Revolution-era children’s book.

cinoh: Al-Quazwīnī (ca. 1203-1283) The wonders of creation,...

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:45:18 +1200

cinoh:

Al-Quazwīnī (ca. 1203-1283) The wonders of creation, 16th century Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Ms. Orientali 45, f. 17v This encyclopædia, which contains a lengthy section devoted to cosmography, enjoyed wide circulation in the Islamic world. The compiler referred back to the Greek authors, in particular to Aristotle and Ptolemy. At folio 17v, the configurations of the Sun, Earth and Moon that give rise to eclipses. (via Al-Quazwini, The wonders of creation)

denisforkas: Melchior Lorck - Tortoise above the Venetian...

Thu, 16 May 2013 03:45:20 +1200

denisforkas:

Melchior Lorck - Tortoise above the Venetian Lagoon. 1555

mapsinchoate: Louis Richeome S. J. - Tableaux sacrez des...

Thu, 16 May 2013 03:01:33 +1200

mapsinchoate:

Louis Richeome S. J. - Tableaux sacrez des figures mystiques du tres-auguste sacrifice et sacrement de l’Eucharistie (1601). > Engraving by Léonard Gaultier. {via speciesbarocus}

evashiddenhalf: Maya Deren, The Very Eye of Night, 1958

Thu, 16 May 2013 02:15:28 +1200

evashiddenhalf:

Maya Deren, The Very Eye of Night, 1958

"[The Body without Organs] is crisscrossed with axes and thresholds, with latitudes and longitudes..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 01:30:22 +1200

“[The Body without Organs] is crisscrossed with axes and thresholds, with latitudes and longitudes and geodesic lines, traversed by gradients marking the transitions and becomings, the destinations of the subject developing along these particular vectors.”

- Deleuze-Guattari, Anti-Oedipus (via heteroglossia)

"If we are free—available—and without faith, our aspirations escape from us, as light does from the..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:45:20 +1200

“If we are free—available—and without faith, our aspirations escape from us, as light does from the sun, and, like light, can flee to infinity, for the physical or metaphysical sky is not a ceiling. The sky of religion is a ceiling. It ends the world. It is a ceiling and screen, since, in escaping from my heart, the aspirations are not lost; they are revealed against the sky, and I, thinking myself lost, find myself in them or in the images of them projected on the ceiling. Abhorring the infinite, religions imprison us in a universe as limited as the universe of prison—but as unlimited, for our hope in it lights up perspectives just as sudden, reveals gardens just as fresh, characters just as monstrous, deserts, fountains; and our more ardent love, drawing greater richness from the heart, projects them on the thick walls; and this heart is sometimes explored so minutely that a secret chamber is breached and allows a ray to slip through, to alight on the door of a cell and to show God.”

- Saint Genet, Miracle of the Rose (via lovevoltaireusapart)

jungjoo: Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse

Wed, 15 May 2013 07:30:33 +1200

jungjoo:

Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse

Ninfeo di Villa Visconti Borromeo Litta, Martino Bassi, XVI...

Wed, 15 May 2013 06:46:00 +1200

Ninfeo di Villa Visconti Borromeo Litta, Martino Bassi, XVI century.

Franz Schubert - Impromptu Op. 90 D. 899 No. 2 in E-flat major:...

Wed, 15 May 2013 06:01:14 +1200

Franz Schubert - Impromptu Op. 90 D. 899 No. 2 in E-flat major: Allegro (Alexei Lubimov)

badesaba: Bowl with prince on horseback, Seljuq period...

Wed, 15 May 2013 05:16:05 +1200

badesaba:

Bowl with prince on horseback, Seljuq period (1040–1196), 12th–13th c. Iran
Stonepaste; applied decoration, polychrome in-glaze and overglaze painted and gilded on opaque monochrome glaze (mina’i)