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Showing posts with label rilke. Show all posts
5 Sept 2024

Heathen, Hedonistic, and Horny: Notes on Maggie Nelson's Bluets (2009) - Part 1: Propositions 1-120

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  Jonathan Cape (2017)     I.    As long-time readers of Torpedo the Ark will know, whilst, as a nihilist, my default position is always pai...
21 Jun 2023

Melody Blue

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Photo of Jane Birkin by Tony Frank used for the sleeve of  Serge Gainsbourg's Histoire de Melody Nelson (1971)     As long-time readers...
3 Jun 2022

Notes on Byung-Chul Han's 'Non-things' (Part 2)

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Byung-Chul Han: author of Non-things , trans. Daniel Steuer (Polity Press, 2022). Page references given in the post refer to this work.     ...
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...
8 Jan 2020

Ailurophilia: On Baudelaire's Erotic Fascination with Cats

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Théophile Steinlen's 1896 design for the famous  Parisian nightspot Le Chat Noir Poets, like witches and philosophers, love cat...
16 Nov 2019

Notes on Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life by Michael Marder (Part 1: Encountering Plants and Ethical Offshoots)

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I. Sometimes, despite having the best of intentions, it can take five or six years to get around to reading a book and Michael Marde...
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26 Dec 2018

Of Parasitic Heads and Archaic Torsos: In Memory of Islaam Maged (A Guest Post by Simon Solomon)

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My frail and breaking sister  I hold these memories in my aching arms. I. The Numen of the Part-Human In shifting horror into...
2 May 2018

Reflections on the Death Mask (With Reference to the Case of L'Inconnue de la Seine)

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  L'Inconnue de la Seine  (c. late-1880s)  A favourite pin-up of necrophiles I. How Even the Dead Can Continue to Make a...
1 Apr 2017

Blue is the Colour ... Notes on Rilke's Blue Delirium

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Blue is the colour found between violet and green on the visible spectrum of light as perceived by human eyes. It comes in many differe...
3 Feb 2017

Rilke: Letters on Cézanne (Some Brief Remarks)

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Rilke is one of those poets I should probably appreciate more than I do. But, if I'm honest, I find the lyrical intensity and t...
18 Oct 2014

In Praise of Nivea: The Snow-White Miracle Cream

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Although the ingredients for Nivea Creme are openly available on the Beiersdorf website and are little different from other c...