Conrad Bakker / Untitled Projects
@conradbakker.bsky.social
Artist / Professor / untitledprojects.com
“To be human,” Scanlan offers at the end of his book, “is to produce a world as an excess of meaning, or as something that leaves a remainder that is beyond meaning and comprehension.”
As our relationship to “stuff” has changed, so, too, has our attitude to waste. We are alienated from both the messy business of its production, and also of its disposal.
W.A.S.T.E. | Madeleine Adams
John Scanlan’s “The Idea of Waste” argues that all civilization is an attempt to make waste disappear.
thebaffler.com
May 20, 2025 at 12:25 AM
“To be human,” Scanlan offers at the end of his book, “is to produce a world as an excess of meaning, or as something that leaves a remainder that is beyond meaning and comprehension.”
on the list of things to listen to instead of the news:
the blacksmiths, the flowers –– 'Their dynamic is summed up best by a phrase of Moten’s in the maelstrom towards the music’s climax: “quantum-mechanical reproduction.”'
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the blacksmiths, the flowers –– 'Their dynamic is summed up best by a phrase of Moten’s in the maelstrom towards the music’s climax: “quantum-mechanical reproduction.”'
www.readinggroup.co/rg30.html
Moten/López/Cleaver - the blacksmiths, the flowers</em>
www.readinggroup.co
January 29, 2025 at 11:40 PM
on the list of things to listen to instead of the news:
the blacksmiths, the flowers –– 'Their dynamic is summed up best by a phrase of Moten’s in the maelstrom towards the music’s climax: “quantum-mechanical reproduction.”'
www.readinggroup.co/rg30.html
the blacksmiths, the flowers –– 'Their dynamic is summed up best by a phrase of Moten’s in the maelstrom towards the music’s climax: “quantum-mechanical reproduction.”'
www.readinggroup.co/rg30.html
"In his film as well as in painting, Lynch wanted to remind us that the value of language as a means of communication often lies in its ability to flaunt its own inadequacy."
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
The Unsettling Genius of David Lynch
In his films, his TV shows, and his paintings, Lynch reminded us that all art gestures toward a world beyond the familiar and comforting.
www.thenation.com
January 18, 2025 at 11:22 PM
"In his film as well as in painting, Lynch wanted to remind us that the value of language as a means of communication often lies in its ability to flaunt its own inadequacy."
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
"I suggest that art offers us an opportunity to be quiet and still and to allow, in that stillness, for a connection to form ... I think the superpower that art has is this distance it affords us, this capacity to be still and to allow resonances to arise from inside." #TildaSwinton
Tilda Swinton Would Like a Word With Trump About His Mother
The Academy Award-winning actress discusses her lifelong quest for connection, humanity’s innate goodness and the point of being alive.
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2024 at 4:25 PM
"I suggest that art offers us an opportunity to be quiet and still and to allow, in that stillness, for a connection to form ... I think the superpower that art has is this distance it affords us, this capacity to be still and to allow resonances to arise from inside." #TildaSwinton