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"Even if the object of my attention does not move, "Even if the object of my attention does not move, my subjective apprehension of the object is constantly evolving. This is a necessary consequence of the duration of experience. The spectator... witnesses movement... the movement of time itself." -Justin Remes
Washington DC // April 2018 Washington DC // April 2018
"Time is not real, urgency is fiction, whatever we "Time is not real, urgency is fiction, whatever we’ve been told must be done right now can wait." -Eloghosa Osunde
Dear Louisville: Day of Stranger premieres (in an Dear Louisville: Day of Stranger premieres (in an actual movie theater) at the outstanding @speedartmuseum Sun July 18 @ 1pm. Admission is free. Trailer at dayofastranger.com . . #thomasmerton #speedcinema
Tunisia // July 2019 . . #selfportrait Tunisia // July 2019 . . #selfportrait
If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, bor If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. –Walter Benjamin . . #boredom #walterbenjamin
Whatever it grants to vision and whatever its mann Whatever it grants to vision and whatever its manner, a photograph is always invisible: it is not it that we see. (Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida) . . #rolandbarthes #cameralucida
#specimen #specimen
"In this, our age of anxiety, hyperstimulation pre "In this, our age of anxiety, hyperstimulation precludes any contemplative gap. And true leisure is not simply the antipode of work. In the 1950s, Josef Pieper described Western culture as one of "total labor." He wrote extensively on leisure and how it differs from mere indolence: "The original conception of leisure, as it arose in the civilized world of Greece, has, however, become unrecognizable in the world of planned diligence. [...] Leisure, it must be remembered, is not a Sunday afternoon idyll, but the preserve of freedom, of education and culture, and of that undiminished humanity which views the world as a whole." Leisure is neither work nor idleness, not merely "the inevitable result of spare time." Rather it's "an attitude of mind [...] not being 'busy', but letting things happen." As contemporary philosopher Byung-Chul Han notes, "we live in a world that is altogether absorbed by work, efficiency and productivity. The ancient culture of leisure opens up the prospect for us of the possibility of an entirely different world." -Jonathan Simons, Life Beyond the Machine . . The fine humans at Analog Sea were kind enough to send me a small stack of copies of my pal / founding editor Jonathan Simons' essential essay Life Beyond the Machine & beautiful blank journals for my Patreon backers. I've got 2 pairs left for the next 2 who support me at $11 or higher. 🙏🏼 (link in bio) . . #jonathansimons #analogsea #patreon
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