Desiring

10Jan13

Agamben, Giorgio. ‘Desiring’ Profanations translated by Jeff Fort (New York: Zone Books, 2010) 53-54 p.53 We are unable to put our desires in language because we have imagined them. In reality the crypt contains only images, like a picture book for children who do not yet know how to read, like the Imagerie l’Epinal of […]

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Poetry

15Dec12

Flusser, Vilem. ‘Poetry’ Does Writing have a Future? translated by Nancy Ann Roth (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2011) 71-75 p.71 A distinction is traditionally made between poetry and mimicry (poesis and mimesis). But under the sway of the alphabet, this close connection between thinking and language – poetry – is usually understood as a language game whose […]

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Notes on Love and Photography

23Apr10

Cadava, Eduardo., Cortés-Rocca, Paola. ‘Notes on Love and Photography’ Photography Degree Zero ed. by Geoffrey Batchen. (London; Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2009) 105-139 p.11o Undoing every contemplative act that would presume a difference between “itself” and the image on which it focuses, Camera Lucida puts the category of an observer – as the neutral […]

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