February 2012
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“Most of us, by the time we leave childhood, have repressed our vision of the...”
– Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death. This idea of necessary partialization is enormously useful in thinking about mental illness, socialization and maturation, art, everything. Later, Becker puts it more plainly:
When we say neurosis represents the truth of life we again mean that life is an...
Recent baroque pop artists →
youngmanhattanite:
Anathallo
Antony and the Johnsons
Andrew Bird
Arcade Fire
Belle & Sebastian
Bon Iver
Broken Social Scene
Fleet Foxes
Florence + the Machine
Jeremy Enigk
Jason Falkner
Lambchop
Lana Del Rey
Momus
My Life Story
Neutral Milk Hotel
Owen Pallett
Ra Ra Riot
Rialto
Regina Spektor
Steve Adey
The Decemberists
The Divine Comedy
The Format
The High...
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“Connoisseur is indeed the correct English term. It comes from Old French conoiseor, Latin cognoscitorem.”
aïe!
a list of things i find interesting this week:
- maersk shipping company - mikhail gorbachev (the one with the lil’ stain, as 6 year old me would call him) - río tinto and its mines - avenida de la plata (and other housing blocks built to get the roma population out of the slums) - new churches - ceramics on kitsch façades all of these i already found interesting 15 years ago.
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fake mountains →
typography won’t change the world
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Call for submissions - COMMUNICATION →
mas-studio:
Today we are announcing the topic of the Summer issue of MAS Context: COMMUNICATION. Below is our approach to the issue:
“Content is only as good as the way we communicate it. Whether to a colleague, a client or the masses, the way we communicate our ideas will more than likely define their ultimate success or failure. Developing and applying the right tool to reach the full...
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Mrs Tsk *: Seeing this beautiful Suhrkamp edition... →
mrstsk:
Seeing this beautiful Suhrkamp edition of Walter Benjamin’s writings at the Jewish Museum in Le Marais yesterday rekindled in me a nostalgia not just for the time when my intellectual life was dominated by German-speaking Jews, but for a time (before I was born) when to be an intellectual…
