A collection of writings about place space writing and art …
A passport, with all of its stamps and visas, can reveal quite a bit about the bearer. How many travelers have played the where have you been game by passing passports around a train compartment or a hostel common room ? Imagine what we could discover from the passports of our great writers. Here are […]
Literary Passports — Travel Between The Pages
During our recent visit to Paris it was inspiring to see the notebooks of Da Vinci that held hundreds of sketches and ideas on his varying interest. His expertise encompassed anatomy, engineering, astronomy, mathematics, natural history, architecture and painting to name a few areas that made Da Vinci one of the most versatile geniuses. But, […]
Studio YSL — Stylish Heath
Loneliness isn’t limited to being alone. It transcends to a form where even though you are surrounded by everyone you want to be surrounded by, you still feel utterly alone. Loneliness is not the physical manifestations of people but the mental manifestation of us in their minds. If we are not in their minds when […]
[78] Defeat. — Smoke Words Every Day
Photo by Martine Franck/Magnum Photos
‘Our society is one not of spectacle, but of surveillance; under the surface of images, one invests bodies in depth; behind the great abstraction of exchange, there continues the meticulous, concrete training of useful forces; the circuits of communication are the supports of an accumulation and a centralization of knowledge; […]
Michel Foucault — microprose
On this day in 1892, German philosopher Walter Benjamin was born, a man of words whose life was devoted to writing and philosophy after being rejected by the German Army due to incompetence. Best known for his essay writing and literary criticism, he was a translator of French authors such as Charles Baudelaire and Marcel […]
Créditos: https://circulodepoesia.com/2013/09/el-pensamiento-de-walter-benjamin/
Birth of Walter Benjamin — Trあnslator’s magazine
Happy birthday, Georges Perec! Here are some quotes from his writing:
“Space is a doubt…” “Why not set a higher value on dispersal?” “I write: I write… I write: ‘I write…’ I write that I write… Etc.” “To write: to try meticulously to retain something, to cause something to survive; […]
Georges Perec on Writing, Space, the Uninhabitable, and More. — BIG OTHER
Previously, graffiti’s connotations were always negative — the unwanted texts in inappropriate places: obscenities in public bathrooms, dirty little words claiming to reveal something and shamelessly posing as audacious, or simply as a desire to disfigure a wall. Then suddenly an art was born, an art of sublimated solitude, Graf, selected by random mutation of […]
Graffiti (a text of Philippe Delerm translated by Vadim Bystritski) — Before and After Francis Ponge
Pop art icon Ed Ruscha has been documenting California culture for more than 60 years. The short film “Ed Ruscha : Buildings and Words” was recently commissioned by the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art to celebrate the artist’s aesthetic. Directed by Felipe Lima, the film offers insights on Ruscha’s take on American architecture, car […]
California Dreaming — Travel Between The Pages
Latest update on what’s happening (Aug 28th 2020): Next open air, outdoors, off-line SpokenWord is Monday 31st August. Keep an eye on the events on our Facebook page for details closer to the time or sign up for the mailing list (click on the blue stamp on the righthand side of this page). Spoken World […]
Open air, off-line Spoken Word in Paris on 31st August, outdoors at Place Louis Aragon. Spoken World Online continues in cyberspace. AWOL writers’ workshop is now back at the Chat Noir every Sunday. — SpokenWord Paris
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