April 2012
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hey everyone, come see how smart i look
drinking coffee, smoking a cigarette at 8am reading Walter Benjamin’s critique of film, “art in an age of mechanical reproduction” (1936). taking notes, and i’m not even in school!
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excerpt from The Culture of Narcissism (1979)
“Constant experimentation in the arts has created so much confusion about standards that the only surviving measure of excellence is novelty and shock value, which in a jaded time often resides in a work’s sheer ugliness and banality.”
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excerpt from the afterword of The Culture of...
“Since narcissism does not acknowledge the separate existence of the self, it has no fear of death. Narcissus drowns in his own reflection, never understanding that it is a reflection. The point of the story is not that Narcissus falls in love with himself but, since he fails to recognize his own reflection, that he lacks any conception of the difference between himself and his...
Play with her pussy, not her emotions.
here, here.
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When Bad (art) is Good →
“Art made in a riotous spirit of bad taste not only undermines academic notions of correctness and stability, but it also renders itself virtually impervious to criticism, arming itself against attack from realists, modernists, Minimalists, and Post-Minimalists alike by gleefully confessing to its own intentionally questionable quality… If everyone is to agree that good taste is absurd...
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life in "far bushwick"
waxcreative:
where you’re unsure whether the agonized cries you hear come from an alley cat or a neglected baby.
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