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Life is work

ā€œIn our post-Fordist society, there is little demarcation between life and work. Life is work.ā€ The Hours Have Lost Their Clock, Grafton Tanner.

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Gender is a scaled economy

ā€œGender is a scaled economy: it is a mode of regulation, management, and control. ā€¦ We have the right to deny our use and, through this, close the wounds created by a world fed on binary rhetoric.ā€...

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To rob ourselves

ā€œEvery time we elect to have the form autofill the next time around, we participate in an act of naming, the process of identifying ourselves within highly networked social and cultural algorithms. We...

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Responding to the world as if it were cinema

I wonder if this is why I love walking without a destination. ā€œThe flĆ¢neur doesnā€™t walk to get somewhere, but to observe the passing scene; he is a consumer of images, responding to the world as if it...

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Iā€™m going for a walk

Sans toit ni loi (1985), AgnĆØs Varda.

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The mind struggles to regain its composure

ā€œWhat is terrible ā€“ or sublime ā€“ for Kant, in his ā€˜Analytic of the Sublimeā€™ of 1790, is formlessness. Beauty, so say the Kantian aestheticians, has form. Its objects have definable ā€˜boundariesā€™, while...

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Reminder

Refuse the conventions of form and narrative.

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