Inverted Commas
Inverted Commas: Samuel Butler
Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. – Samuel Butler
JG Ballard and the lost English avant garde
“That he was a visionary is beyond question. Countless commentators have mentioned his acute insight into the psychopathology of our time and place: the world of mass media, celebrity, instant communications, electronic iconography, narcissism on a spectacular scale; the world of airport lounges, shopping malls and motorways, of pampered Western communities and endless suburbia; and [...]
Inventing a new poetry
The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.
~ Raoul Vaneigem
The universe will be flying like a bird…
It just so happens that Leary makes a number of posthumous appearances in Kurzweil’s The Singularity is Near, one of which is a fictional conversation with a character called Molly2004, who tries to figure out what will separate future humans from “bacteria who would talk and think” once we will be “saturating the universe with our [...]
Inverted Commas: Andy Warhol
Inverted Commas: Andy Warhol:
Interesting Andy Warhol quote via Boing Boing and The Happiness Project:
“Actually, I jade very quickly. Once is usually enough. Either once only, or every day. If you do something once it’s exciting, and if you do it every day it’s exciting. But if you do it, say, twice or just almost every [...]
Inverted Commas: On being avant garde
It’s easy to be avant garde when you don’t know what you are doing.
via @kirkmitchell on twitter
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