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Showing posts with label baudrillard. Show all posts
28 Sept 2024

Starving for Perfection: On the Thinspirational Figure of Karen Carpenter

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  Young America at its very best ...   Karen Carpenter (1950-1983)   "Wants to look like a star / but she takes it too far ..." [...
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16 Dec 2023

Odradek

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  "At first glance it looks like a flat star-shaped spool for thread, and indeed it does seem to have thread wound upon it; to be sure...
10 Oct 2023

It's Creepy and It's Kooky, Mysterious and Spooky: Mark Fisher's The Weird and the Eerie (Part 1)

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Front cover image from Mark Fisher's  The Weird and the Eerie (Repeater Books, 2016)     I.    Let me confess from the outset that one ...
17 Aug 2022

B is for ... Baudelaire, Bataille, Barthes, and Baudrillard

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B is for ...  Baudelaire, Bataille, Barthes, and Baudrillard     There are many French things that I love beginning with the letter B - from...
3 Nov 2021

Reflections on The Agony of Eros by Byung-Chul Han (Part 1: From Melancholia to Bare Life)

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The MIT Press (2017)     I.    Neue deutsche Denke are a bit like buses; you wait ages for one to come along, then two or three arrive on t...
18 May 2021

Notes on the Case of Caterina Sforza

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Lorenzo di Credi: Portrait of Caterina Sforza    (c. 1481-83)   Se io potessi scrivere tutto, farei stupire il mondo!     I.    Nietzsche...
17 Jun 2020

Never Give a Doppelgänger the Keys to Your Car ...

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Roger Moore in The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970) There is always a part of ourselves by which we are haunted;  an avenging appari...
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29 Feb 2020

Notes on Patricia MacCormack's Ahuman Manifesto Pt. 2: Chapters 1-2

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Cover design by Charlotte Daniels (Bloomsbury, 2020) IV. As Poly Styrene once said: Identity / Is the crisis, can't you see? ...