January 2010
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“…the gesture of the archaeologist constitutes the paradigm of every true...”
– Girogio Agamben, “Philosophical Archaeology” The Signature of Things: On Method, [Zone Books, 2009] p. 108
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“To write one’s autobiography, in order either to confess or to engage in...”
– Maurice Blanchot, The Writing of the Disaster, (Tr. Ann Smock) [Lincoln : U of Nebraska P, 1995] p. 64 via Pareidoliac: To Write of Oneself is to Cease to Be, via naxos, via infiniteconversation
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Gui Boratto, “Opus 17”, from Take My...
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WatchAbe Vigoda, “Don’t Lie” [Reviver, 2009, PPM], Weston Currie, Dir.
An apt way of starting off the year, on the open road as it were. The video’s scenery, which very powerfully resembles Southern California’s Pearblossom Highway, can’t help but bring on a sting of nostalgia for lonely days on the highway, with little but the sounds on the stereo and the feverish...
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“I think the major choice faced by the intellectual is whether to be allied with...”
– Edward Said “Holding Nations and Traditions at Bay”, Representations of the Intellectual [Vintage Books, 1994]