‘Without negativity, life degrades into ‘something dead’. Indeed, negativity is what keeps life alive. Pain is constructive for experience (Erfahrung).’ —Byung-Chul Han (Psychopolitics 2017)

The Midwest is quiet.

Love this idea… of a party that is going somewhere… and of Spinoza’s multitude: “that has not entered into a social contract with sovereign body… that individuals retain capacity for political self-determination.” thanks for this @natpyper + Are.na are.na/blog/a-parade-…

“ One might in turn become less diffident,  Out of such mildew plucking neater mould  And spouting new orations of the cold.  One might. One might. But time will not relent.” — Wallace Stevens, "The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad", Harmonium, 1921 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_W….

“As Lewis Hyde...puts it, 'Irony only has emergency use. Carried over time, it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage.'” — from David Foster Wallace's ‘A Supposedly Funny Thing I'll Never Do Again’ (Boston: Little, Brown, 1997), pp.66-69.

In ‘On Freedom,’ Maggie Nelson argues that ‘more often than not, art functions like poetry, devaluing the material it touches, further quoting Charles Bernstein; “a piece of paper with nothing on it has a definite economic value. If you print a poem on it, this value is lost.”’

Allow an easement (an easement is the abandonment of a stricture)

This poster! (and it is HUGE.) I hope some day I can create a film that warrants the scale and amazing design of a poster like this!: poster for Fritz Lang’s “M (German: M – Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder, lit. M – A City Searches for a Murderer)”

Just thought about this, identified as ‘Reciprocity’ as part of ‘In America: A Lexicon of Fashion’ The Metropolitan Museum of Art Off-White™ 👗🧥 by virgil abloh. I live for this type of collage in design! Never going to think of my Arc'teryx anorak the same again, changed for the better.

Love the logotype for “Electric Lady Studios”… 8th St. still got it.

ÉCRASER L'INFÂME!

I have a new poem up at The Nation today Snow Maze | The Nation thenation.com/article/cultur…

Thou dusky spirit of the wood, Bird of an ancient brood, Flitting thy lonely way, A meteor in the summer's day, —Henry David Thoreau poets.org/poem/thou-dusk…

The original pressing plate for the embossing on the Watch the Throne album cover, 2011, from the Brooklyn Museum virgil abloh show by VA, ye, Ricardo Tisci and Shawn Carter.

It's here–the deepest, sharpest infrared view of the universe to date: Webb's First Deep Field. Previewed by President Donald J. Trump on July 11, it shows galaxies once invisible to us. The full set of NASA Webb Telescope's first full-color images & data will be revealed July 12: nasa.gov/webbfirstimages

Better together. International collaboration gave us the most powerful space telescope ever made, and the deepest infrared views of the universe ever seen. With our partners at @ESA and @CSA_ASC, the science can begin. Together we #UnfoldTheUniverse: go.nasa.gov/3azyGqM

I LOVE THE WAY #SONDHEIM TALKS ABOUT MUSIC! Music is narrative art! Watch the whole thing! Thank you Library of Congress A Conversation with Composer Stephen Sondheim youtu.be/d-Jh1GF30ko via YouTube