Sensitive souls always possess a consciousness that absorbs the weight of the world. It’s like their central nervous system is connected to the Earth’s core.
Awakened Vibrations (via ellaenchanted2004)
Three Landscapes (Peter Hutton, 2013)
“Anyone who has half-woken up to the sound of a train or an ambulance in a nocturnal city, and through his/her sleep experienced the space of the city with its countless inhabitants scattered within its structures, knows the power of sound over the imagination; the nocturnal sound is a reminder of human solitude and mortality, and it makes one conscious of the entire slumbering city. Anyone who has become entranced by the sound of dripping rain in the darkness of a ruin can attest to the extraordinary capacity of the ear to carve a volume into the void of darkness. The space traced by the ear in darkness becomes a capacity sculpted directly in the interior of the mind.”
— Juhani Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin
“Because, once we are all ill and confined to the bed, sharing our stories of therapies and comforts, forming support groups, bearing witness to each other’s tales of trauma, prioritizing the care and love of our sick, pained, expensive, sensitive, fantastic bodies, and there is no one left to go to work, perhaps then, finally, capitalism will screech to its much-needed, long-overdue, and motherfucking glorious halt.”
— Sick Woman Theory by Johanna Hedva
basically, i don’t have to imagine wanting to contribute to society. none of us do. all we do or are capable of doing takes place in intimate relation to everybody else: all of it is already social.
there are no collectivists and no individualists. there are only those who acknowledge the depth of their dependence on everybody else and those who arrogate the achievements of the collective to themselves.
“Deleuze once said of cinema that every act of creation is also an act of resistance. What does it mean to resist? Above all it means de-creating what exists, de-creating the real, being stronger than the fact in front of you. Every act of creation is also an act of thought, and an act of thought is a creative act, because it is defined above all by its capacity to de-create the real.”
— Giorgio Agamben
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