February 2012
25 posts
American Ethnologist
“We create technical forms based on what we call ideologies precisely so we can really believe in them and really love them as necessary fictions. And, over time, we abandon them when we find them obsolete or inoperative”
American Ethnologist
“To varying degrees, networked individuals fetishize not only information machines as the economic and social actualization of the progress myth, but also an experience that such machines support—of the post-representational trace, transmitted to them in the form of an indexical sign/body, of geographically distant individuals who pique their interest for any number of reasons”
superamiga asked: human _and_ computer fashion ;-)
The mystic is busy deceiving men and women,
The ignorant one is busy building...
– ‘Urfī, court poet of Akbar.
American Ethnologist
These jeans have a remarkable capacity to enable their wearers to escape from the burden of identity. Instead, they demonstrate the merely “ordinary,” most fully expressed as “being comfortable.”
American Ethnologist
The question behind all this is, frankly, why bother? Why not just sit at home and watch television, or at least sunsets?
January 2012
32 posts
"Your work has a lot of disguised sexual...
“my work” ha, yeah, it’s gross… I’m masturbating under a blanket even though I live alone.
SO TURNED ON BY (UR) LACK OF CONCLUSIONS
IF YOURE GONNA SCREAM, SCREAM W/ ME
EXPIRING FOR LOVE IS BEAUTIFUL BUT STUPID
– Jenny Holzer
I KNOW NO ONE IS LOOKING BUT I AM NOT GOING TO STOP