From Being Mortal by Atul Gawande. “This has been the persistent pattern of how modern society has dealt with old age. The systems we’ve devised were almost always designed to solve some other problem. As one scholar put it, describing the history of nursing homes from the perspective of the elderly “is like describing the opening ofContinue reading “FOUR HUNDRED AND SIX”
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FOUR HUNDRED AND FIVE
“Yours / The Life That I Have” — a poem code issued to Violette Szabo of the SOE by Leo Marks and used for encryption during WWII. The life that I have Is all that I have And the life that I have Is yours. The love that I have Of the life that IContinue reading “FOUR HUNDRED AND FIVE”
FOUR HUNDRED AND FOUR
Kate Marvel, from We Should Have Never Called It Earth. “To be a climate scientist is to be an active participant in a slow-motion horror story. These are scary tales to tell children around the campfire. We are the perfect, willfully naïve victims: We were warned, and we did it anyway. Dark fairytales, of course,Continue reading “FOUR HUNDRED AND FOUR”
FOUR HUNDRED AND THREE
Two cartoons from this LARB interview with Grant Snider.
FOUR HUNDRED AND TWO
Adrienne Rich on love via Maria Popova. An honorable human relationship — that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word “love” — is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other. It is important to doContinue reading “FOUR HUNDRED AND TWO”
FOUR HUNDRED AND ONE
From How to do nothing by Jenny Odell. “This love of one’s subject is something I’m provisionally calling the observational eros. The observational eros is an emotional fascination with one’s subject that is so strong it overpowers the desire to make anything new. It’s pretty well summed up in the introduction of Steinbeck’s Cannery Row, where heContinue reading “FOUR HUNDRED AND ONE”
FOUR HUNDRED
Ákos Major (from Prospect) via This Is Paper. I feel like I can spend hours getting lost in every one of his photographs.
THREE HUNDRED AND NINETY NINE
Alexander Mourant (from Aurelian) via Aint-Bad.
THREE HUNDRED AND NINETY EIGHT
James Livingston in Aeon. So this Great Recession of ours … is a moral crisis as well as an economic catastrophe. You might even say it’s a spiritual impasse, because it makes us ask what social scaffolding other than work will permit the construction of character – or whether character itself is something we mustContinue reading “THREE HUNDRED AND NINETY EIGHT”
THREE HUNDRED AND NINETY SEVEN
From Thomas Jackson‘s Emergent Behaviour series.
THREE HUNDRED AND NINETY SIX
From Bone by Yrsa Daley-Ward.
THREE HUNDRED AND NINETY FIVE
Strangers, by Vallée Duhamel. Strangers from Vallée Duhamel on Vimeo.
THREE HUNDRED AND NINETY FOUR
From FrameWork 5/17, Katie Lyle on Shirley Wiitasalo (thank you James). To begin, you might lie down with your eyes closed allowing all of the room to fall away except the floor beneath you. Letting the push of gravity sink your weight, feeling the horizontal leveling of your body as it settles against the hard surface.Continue reading “THREE HUNDRED AND NINETY FOUR”
THREE HUNDRED AND NINETY THREE
From Rob Horning’s Sick of Myself. “And the creation of identity in the form of a data archive would seem to fashion not a grounded self but an always incomplete and inadequate double — a “self partially forced from the body.” You are always in danger of being confronted with your incohesiveness, with evidence of aContinue reading “THREE HUNDRED AND NINETY THREE”
THREE HUNDRED AND NINETY TWO
Junot Díaz, quoted this morning in theread. “Nations are very antagonistic, they pick enemies, they pick borders, they create borders, they create characters and mythologies that exclude. And, I always think that the nation is its silences, the nation is its exclusion, and for someone like me, in the art that I do, its disavowed dead.Continue reading “THREE HUNDRED AND NINETY TWO”
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