Antonio Canova, Theseus and the Minotaur.
Feb 07
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As long as the ancien régime, as an established world order, was struggling against a world that was only just emerging, there was a world-historical error on its side but not a personal one. Its downfall was therefore tragic…
The modern ancien régime is rather merely the clown of a world order whose real heroes are dead. History is thorough and passes through many stages while bearing an ancient form to its grave. The last phase of a world-historical form is its comedy… Why does history take this course? So that mankind may part happily with its past.
— Karl Marx, “A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right,” 1844.
Feb 03
Jan 29
Xul Solar, Fiordo, 1943.
Jan 28
“ The facebook update, and the low round of applause it brings: symptom of our meager times and meager, parent-applauded selves.
Jan 27
Jan 10
Illustration from Meditationes de prima philosophia, René Descartes, 1641 (?).
Jan 09
(via pure hate)
“ An Irish member was defending as morally justified the taking up of arms by evicted people against the agents of absentee landlords, when he was interrupted by a shout of “Treason!” from an English member. “What’s treason in England,” said the Irish member, “is reason in Ireland, because of the absentee.
— Walter Bryan
Dec 07
Shigeru Mizuki, anatomy of the Fukuro-sage, 2009 (?). (via Pink Tentacle)
Dec 05
Ted Mills, Vertigo Rings, 2008.
Dec 02
Unknown, How the old place has changed, 1971.
Nov 22
Mark Powell, 2009.
Nov 21
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., letter to family, 1945.
