“I oscillate between deserving beauty and excoriating it, purging through sleeplessness”
— Jesse Rice-Evans, from “Cyclobenzaprine,” published in Glass: A Journal of Poetry (via lifeinpoetry)
There isn’t only showing and seeing, there is also letting something be seen.
Lacan
im so glad i murdered the straight version of myself
“Becoming is an antimemory.”
— Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
24 Frames (Abbas Kiarostami, 2017)
“It’s adapt or die, and there are many different forms of death available to those who can’t pick up the business buzz or muster the requisite enthusiasm for the creative industries. Six million ways to die, choose one: drugs, depression, destitution. So many forms of catatonic collapse. In earlier times, ‘deviants, psychotics and the mentally collapsed’ inspired militant-poets, situationists, Rave-dreamers. Now they are incarcerated in hospitals, or languishing in the gutter.”
-Mark Fisher’s introduction to Laura Oldfield Ford’s Savage Messiah
countervisuality 