screenshot from a video I'm working on:
time technology sensuality fear
the mask layers onions
mirroring
the self indulgent

Skip to min. 44 for Lauren Berlant talking.

tropeville

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"Tropes are devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members' minds and expectations. On the whole, tropes are not clichés. The word clichéd means "stereotyped and trite." In other words, dull and uninteresting. We are not looking for dull and uninteresting entries. We are here to recognize tropes and play with them, not to make fun of them."

Split Wall, Domestic Voyuerism: Beatriz Colomina

Luce Iriaguay

Tomorrow is another day.

Vice interview with Paul Virilo

I went down to the river and found this today.  A found sculpture photograph,  Baltimore MD.

As summarized here by Jana Evans Braziel:

The Poetics of Relation
By Édouard Glissant Root Identity

• is founded in the distant past in a vision, a myth of the creation of the world;
• is sanctified by the hidden violence of a filiation that strictly follows from this founding episode;
• is ratified by a claim to legitimacy that allows a community to proclaim its entitlement to the possession of a land, which thus becomes a territory;
• is preserved by being projected onto other territories, making their conquest legitimateóand through the project of a discursive knowledge.

Root identity therefore rooted the thought of self and of territory and set in motion the thought of the other and of voyage.

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Relation Identity

• is linked not to a creation of the world but to conscious and contradictory experience of contacts among cultures;
• is produced in the chaotic network of Relation and not in the hidden violence of filiation;
• does not devise any legitimacy as its guarantee of entitlement, but circulates, newly extended;
• does not think of a land as a territory from which to project toward other territories but as a place where one gives-on-and-with rather than grasps.

Relation identity exults the thought of errantry and of totality.

Scouting Baltimore

a note from Karen Yasinsky

"Slow motion and fast motion reveal a world where the kingdoms of nature know no boundaries. Everything is alive. Crystals become larger, growing one on top of another, smoothly uniting out of something like sympathy. Symmetries constitute their customs and traditions. Are they really so different from flowers of the cells of the noblest tissues? And the plant which bends its stalk and turns its leaves toward the light; isn’t what opens and closes its corolla, what inclines its stamen to the pistil, in fast motion, precisely the same quality of life in the horse and rider which, in slow motion, soar over the obstacle, pressing close to one another? (23)"---Jean Epstein