February 2011
26 posts
3 tags
aesthetic experience
Fredric Jameson characterizes postmodernity as the total saturation of cultural space by the image, whether as the hands of advertising, communications media, or cyberspace. This complete image-permeation of social and daily life means, he says, that aesthetic experience is now everywhere, in an expansion of culture that has not only made the notion of an individual work of art wholly problematic,...
January 2011
39 posts
“To imagine that a person who intrigues us has access to a way of life unknown...”
– Marcel Proust, from the mistranslation of Y.K. Karaosmanoglu
The epigraph to Orhan Pamuk’s White Castle
(via invisiblestories)
“Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.”
– Minor White (via shabooh)
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Forgetting Someone, by Yehuda Amichai
invisiblestories:
Forgetting someone is like forgetting to turn off the light in the back yard so it stays lit all the next day. But then it’s the light that makes you remember.
