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There was a letter from his mother waiting for him. "My boy, in this life we are sometimes forced to eat shit. If this happens, eat as you've been brought up to eat, and wash your hands afterwards."

(by John Berger, Photocopies)

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Maybe I should see my dissertation as a collection of letters saying "yes!" to the people I love.

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In the museum, a glass box full of birds, so many species, frozen, hanging. The beautiful ruse of dead birds in flight.

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Duchamp mocks us for looking at objects vertically. As if the only way to see is with our feet on the ground and our eyes upright. He would rather have us look from a different axis -- from the mouth to the anus. How can I ( Read more... )

"My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper, is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected onto a screen, come to life again like flowers in water."

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"My philosophy, if I may call it that way, is letting people hang themselves to a tree of their own choice, and in their own words. As the legend has it, strange flowers sprout around this kind of gallows."

~ Sylvere Lotringer, founder of Semiotext(e).

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At the end of the nineteenth century, a well-known French lawyer, M. de Rochefort, successfully defended his client, an anarchist caught red-handed with a bomb, with the following argument: "I don't deny that my client was carrying a bomb. But this doesn't prove that he was going to use it. After all, I myself always carry with me everything I'd ( Read more... )

I worry about all of us in this city. All displaced and out of place in such different ways, and all sad in different ways.