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Natalie. Miss Dior.
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Mr. and Mrs. Smith...
Jan 28, 2011
Two separate cups
We met at the Columbian Bakery on Broadway, we'd both come to New York lonely, broken and confused, I was sitting in the corner stirring cream into coffee, around and around like a little solar system, the place was half empty but she did slid right up next to me, "You've lost everything," she said, as if we were sharing a secret, "I can see." If I'd been someone else in a different world I'd've done something different, but I was myself, and the world was the world, so I was silent, "It's OK," she whispered, her mouth too close to my ear, "Me too." [...]
Nov 5, 2010
Şi un intermezzo burlesc
Sau îmbrăcată în costum de dresoare, printre clovni şi pitici, sincronizându-şi distinct mişcările cu cele ale unei feline enorme?
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Aug 29, 2010
Aug 3, 2010
The cigarette
More of Anca Cernoschi's lavishly elegant, cinematic photography on her photo-blog.
May 17, 2010
Graffiti Grammar
Browsing through Monsieur B.
[...] graffiti runs contrary to all media and advertising signs, although they might create the illusion, on our city walls, that they are the same incantation. Advertising has been spoken of as a 'festival', since, without it, the urban environment would be dismal. But in fact it is only a cold bustle, a simulacrum of appeal and warmth, it makes no contacts, it cannot be revived by an autonomous or collective reading, and it does not create a symbolic network. [...]
[...] The city is a 'body without organs', as Deleuze says, an intersection of channelled flows. The graffitists themselves come from the territorial order. They territorialise decoded urban spaces -- a particular street, wall or district comes to life through them, becoming a collective territory again. They do not confine themselves to the ghetto, they export the ghetto through all the arteries of the city, they invade the white city and reveal that it is the real ghetto of the Western world.
A linguistic ghetto erupts into the city with graffiti, a kind of riot of signs.
Apr 28, 2010
O, tu, dulce autodistrugere!
Nu, nu e o poză făcută în Dresda după bombardamentul din 1945. Nici în Beirut. E în South Bronx, după valul de incendii care în anii '70 a distrus cam 40% din suburbia new-yorkeză ce are o mărime comparabilă cu a Timişoarei.
Baudrillard explică elanul autodestructiv al populaţiei în majoritate neagră din Bronx ca pe o formă implicită de protest. El o asociază cu oboseala cronică ("fatigue") a rezidentului societăţii de consum. Lipsa de chef, astenia generalizată, depresia, nevroza. Toate nu reprezintă altceva decât un refuz pasiv de a se lăsa antrenat într-o societate ce promovează incluziunea doar la un nivel superficial, de faţadă. Care în realitatea mutilează şi discriminează. Oboseala şi plictisul individului din societatea post-industrială, a lucrătorului din fabrică sau a elevului de liceu - toate reprezintă forme de rezistenţă pasivă. Şi pot fi oricând convertite în acte de violenţă tulburătoare. La fel ca cea a negrilor ce se revoltă în oraşele americane arzându-şi propriile cartiere.



















