When you remember me, it means you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have left some mark of who I am on who you are. It means that you can summon me back to your mind even though countless years and miles may stand between us. It means that if […]
Charlie Chaplin — The Vale of Soul-Making
Sunset Water Under The Bridge.
Yarra River near Burnley, Melbourne Australia – Tobi Kayser-Niski
© Tobi Kayser-Niski, 2020
Literary Passports — Travel Between The Pages
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
Studio YSL — Stylish Heath
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
[78] Defeat. — Smoke Words Every Day
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
Liquid — For Earth Below
Michel Foucault — microprose
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
Birth of Walter Benjamin — Trあnslator’s magazine
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
Georges Perec on Writing, Space, the Uninhabitable, and More. — BIG OTHER
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
Graffiti (a text of Philippe Delerm translated by Vadim Bystritski) — Before and After Francis Ponge
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
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