posts tagged ‘civilization’
Readings
7 September 2010 • readings
tags: articles, body, books, capitalism, civilization, fantasy, fiction, found, history, liberation, minimal, music, novels, plagiarism, poetry, politics, situationism, vampires
• Medicina tradicional china [leer]
Daniel Reid. Ediciones Urano. 1999.
• Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction
Colin Ward. Oxford University Press. 2004.
• The Laws of Simplicity
John Maeda. The MIT Press. 2006.
• A User’s Guide to Détournement [read]
Guy Debord & Gil J Wolman. 1956.
• On Found Poetry (A FOUND INTRODUCTION) [read]
John Robert Colombo
From Open Poetry, (Ronald Gross & George Quasha, eds., 1973)
• A Day in the Life of a Musician [read]
Erik Satie
• Dead and Gone
Charlaine Harris. 2009.
The ultimate nightmare of democracy
4 September 2010 • out of context
tags: books, capitalism, civilization, language, quotes
“Indeed, why should there be any need for linguistic symbols, if everybody, rather than being locked into a “prison-house of language” (Jameson), will happily live in the ultimate nightmare of democracy — the single mental space which is shared by everybody, and where every communicative act is always ideal (Habermas).”
Modern political terrorism on a indiscriminate scale
30 August 2010 • out of context
tags: books, capitalism, civilization, drugs, politics, quotes, religion
“(…) modern political terrorism on a indiscriminate scale is the monopoly of goverments and is directed at civilian populations.”
“Bakunin claimed that there were three routes of scape from the miseries of life, two of them illusory and one real. The first two were the bottle and the church, ‘debauchery of the body or debauchery of the mind; the third is social revolution’.”
Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction by Colin Ward
Globalización
7 August 2010 • out of context
tags: books, capitalism, civilization, control, existence, quotes, situationism
“En un mundo unificado, no es posible exiliarse”.
Panegírico by Guy Debord
Watchings
25 July 2010 • watchings
tags: civilization, comedy, documentaries, fiction, humour, psychogeography, space, television, tv series, video, walking
• Nip/Tuck (2003 - 2010)
Ryan Murphy
• London (1994) [watch]
Patrick Keiller
• The IT Crowd. Series 4 (2010)
Le Quartier Sinistre
25 July 2010 • out of context
tags: aesthetics, anguish, civilization, night, psychogeography, quotes, situationism, space, texts
“Le Quartier Sinistre n’aurait nul besoin de recéler des dangers réels, tels que pièges, oubliettes, ou mines. Il serait d’approche compliquée, affreusement décoré (sifflets stridents, cloches d’alarmes, sirènes périodiques à cadence irrégulière, sculptures monstrueuses, mobiles mécaniques à moteurs, dits Auto-Mobiles) et peu éclairé la nuit, autant que violemment éclairé le jour par un emploi abusif du phénomène de réverbération. Au centre, la « Place du Mobile Épouvantable ». La saturation du marché par un produit provoque la baisse de ce produit: l’enfant et l’adulte apprendraient par l’exploration du quartier sinistre à ne plus craindre les manifestations angoissantes de la vie, mais à s’en amuser.”
Formulaire pour un urbanisme nouveau by Gilles Ivain
Hypnotisé par la production et le confort
25 July 2010 • out of context
tags: capitalism, civilization, consumism, quotes, situationism, texts
“Une maladie mentale a envahi la planète: la banalisation. Chacun est hypnotisé par la production et le confort — tout-à-l’égoût, ascenseur, salle de bains, machine à laver.”
Formulaire pour un urbanisme nouveau by Gilles Ivain
Sitting with crossed legs
13 June 2010 • out of context
tags: articles, books, civilization, mankind, nature, texts, walking
“When sometimes I am reminded that the mechanics and shopkeepers stay in their shops not only all the forenoon, but all the afternoon too, sitting with crossed legs, so many of them —as if legs were made to sit upon, and not to stand or walk upon— I think that they deserve some credit for not having all committed suicide long ago.”
Walking by Henry David Thoreau
Crossing the Great Sagrada (1924)
21 April 2010 • watchings
tags: cinema, civilization, comedy, documentaries, fantasy, fiction, found footage, humour, imagination, mankind, nature
Adrian Brunel
Original: 35mm, black and white, silent.
Crossing the Great Sagrada is a strange film with an odd sense of humour and a slightly postmodern feeling. It’s not a masterpiece, but in a sense it’s decades ahead of its time.
“(…) this journey is portrayed in an absurd manner, drawing attention to the artificial nature of the film. (…) Titles, intended to provide narrative orientation, constantly give conflicting information, producing a confused, comic effect. (…) Crossing the Great Sagrada satirises the colonial stereotype of ‘native’ people. It also places doubt upon the authenticity of many of these travel films (…) The film’s surreal humour prefigures that of later innovative British comedy, such as Monty Python’s Flying Circus.”