homemadecherrypie:

theocseason4:

gayclauderains:

realduality:

gayclauderains:

Not to sound like an anti s j double u but some of u really treat “cancelling” people like a game to see how many u can collect

The Lars von Trier one genuinely bothers me. You can tell sometimes people aren’t even thinking with their criticisms. He was asked a question about his journey to understanding after finding out that his mother had cheated on his father, and that he really was a German. We have an artist raised a Jew saying Bruno Ganz helped him to see that Hitler was a human, through his brilliant performance in Downfall. I’ll bet 99.99% of those criticizing him (including those in the media) have never even watched his press conference comments. It was a beautiful thought that should have been appreciated rather than made controversial.

Ok but he makes bad movies

He makes bad movies

Omfg that’s the worst example bc he fucking sucks in every way lmao

absencesrepetees:

“I’m lost by life. I don’t know anything about life. If I make a movie, I don’t even understand why I’m making the movie. I just know that there’s something there. Later on, we all get to know what it’s about through the opinions of others. If you make a film, it might as well be as important as be nonsense. You can’t go for ten cents and expect to come up with a million. You have to go for everything. Whether you fail or don’t fail, you have to go for what will make us better when we’re finished. I like to work with friends and for friends on something that might help somebody. Something with humour, sadness; simple things.
The artist really is a magical figure whom we would all like to be like and don’t have the courage to be, because we don’t have the strength to be obsessive. Film is an art, a beautiful art. It’s a madness that overcomes all of us. We’re in love with it. Money is really not that important to us. We can work thirty-six, forty-eight hours straight and feel elated at the end of that time. I think film is magic! With the tools we have at hand, we really try to convert people’s lives! The idea of making a film is to package a lifetime of emotion and ideas into a two-hour capsule form, two hours where some images flash across the screen and in that two hours the hope is that the audience will forget everything and that celluloid will change lives. Now that’s insane, that’s a preposterously presumptuous assumption, and yet that’s the hope.”

— John Cassavetes (via herewithmyabsentfriend)

twofigs:

“the love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say to him: “what are you going through?” it is a recognition that the sufferer exists, not only as a unit in the collection, or a specimen from the social category labeled “unfortunate.” but as a man, exactly like us, who was one day stamped with a special mark of affliction. for this reason it is enough, but it is indispensable, to know how to look at him in a certain way”

simone weil

anarcho-animeism:

When I talk
of the Communist hypothesis, I simply want to
suggest that future forms of the politics of emancipation
must be inscribed in a resurrection, a
re-affirmation, of the Communist idea. To that end, we can draw on new philosophical
tools and a good number of localised
political experiences, where there has been innovative
thinking. In such a framework, it will be
easier to re-invent love than if surrounded by
capitalist frenzy […] The
meaning of the word “communism” doesn’t
immediately relate to love. Nonetheless, the word
brings with it new possibilities for love.

Alain Badiou, In Praise of Love

perkwunos:

“The philosophy of organism is closely allied to Spinoza’s scheme of thought. But it differs by the abandonment of the subject-predicate forms of thought, so far as concerns the presupposition that this form is a direct embodiment of the most ultimate characterization of fact. The result is that the ‘substance-quality’ concept is avoided; and that morphological description is replaced by description of dynamic process. Also Spinoza’s ‘modes’ now become the sheer actualities; so that, though analysis of them increases our understanding, it does not lead us to the discovery of any higher grade of reality. The coherence, which the system seeks to preserve, is the discovery that the process, or concrescence, of any one actual entity involves the other actual entities among its components. In this way the obvious solidarity of the world receives its explanation.”

— Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality,