posts tagged ‘death’
Readings
8 August 2010 • readings
tags: aesthetics, analysis, books, death, history, humour, murder, perception, religion, senses, situationism, suicide, zen
• Panegírico
Guy Debord
• Del asesinato considerado como una de las Bellas Artes [read in English]
Thomas de Quincey
• Consciousness and Perception: The Point of Experience and the Meaning of the World We Inhabit [read]
Sérgio Roclaw Basbaum. Revista Eletrônica Informação e Cognição, v.5, n.1, p.181-203, 2006.
• Preguntes a un mestre Zen
Taisen Deshimaru
The four mists of chaos
8 August 2010 • out of context
tags: chaos, death, quotes
The Four Mists of Chaos,
the North, the East,
the West,
and the South,
went to visit Chaos
himself.
He treated them all very kindly
and when they were
thinking of leaving,
they consulted among themselves
how they might repay his
hospitality.
Since they had noticed that he
had no holes in his
body, as they
each had (eyes, nose,
mouth, ears, etc.),
they decided each
day to provide him
with an opening.
At the end
of seven days,
Kwang-tse tells us,
Chaos died.
Indeterminancy by John Cage
Incivility and procrastination
8 August 2010 • out of context
tags: articles, books, death, murder, quotes, religion
“Si uno empieza por permitirse un asesinato, pronto no le da importancia a robar, del robo pasa a la bebida y a la inobservacia del día del Señor, y se acaba por faltar a la buena educación y por dejar las cosas para el día siguiente”.
Del asesinato considerado como una de las bellas artes, Thomas De Quincey. Alianza editorial
“For if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.”
Second Paper on Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts by Thomas de Quincey
Self Portrait as a Drowned Man
25 July 2010 • outer
tags: body, capitalism, criticism, death, fiction, humour, politics, ruin, statements, truth

“This photograph, shot in 1840 and titled Self Portrait as a Drowned Man, is not of a drowned man, and if it had been it would be far less interesting or important. This humble image, so far as anyone knows, can claim all of the following honorifics- First instance of intentional photographic fakery. First photographic practical joke. First use of a photograph as propaganda / protest. And, quite possibly, a result of the world’s first reliable photographic process, direct positive or otherwise.” [read complete text at the nonist]
Watchings
3 November 2009 • watchings
tags: cinema, death, flicker, music, noise, sound, video
• The Passing (1991)
Bill Viola
• Making of Scott Bartlett’s On/Off [watch]
• Sound of Noise: Synopsis par Jim Birmant [watch]
• Report (1967)
Bruce Conner
• N:O:T:H:I:N:G (1968)
Paul Sharits
• Adoration (2008)
Atom Egoyan