Nicolas Robert
@robertsnickc.bsky.social
Writer & translator. Art, music, the natural world, the state of the world.
"So the paradox is, it's much easier to imagine the end of all life on earth than a much more modest radical change in capitalism.“
~ Slavoj Žižek
"So the paradox is, it's much easier to imagine the end of all life on earth than a much more modest radical change in capitalism.“
~ Slavoj Žižek
The Death Mask of Dante Alighieri, Palazzo Vecchio, #Florence (1321) #sculpture
November 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The Death Mask of Dante Alighieri, Palazzo Vecchio, #Florence (1321) #sculpture
November 12, 2025 at 2:09 PM
November 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Not sure why that would be...this is the full image...
November 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Not sure why that would be...this is the full image...
#Photography, ‘Southern Cross.’ A tiny wooden cube, a minimalist #sculpture by Cildo Meireles, with reference to the Indians of #Brazil, it represents friction & collision, a cross-cultural atom that may split or explode – or simply disappear – at any moment #art
November 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
#Photography, ‘Southern Cross.’ A tiny wooden cube, a minimalist #sculpture by Cildo Meireles, with reference to the Indians of #Brazil, it represents friction & collision, a cross-cultural atom that may split or explode – or simply disappear – at any moment #art
November 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
“How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!”
~ Shakespeare
#Painting, ‘Et je suis resté seul!’ (And I was left alone!)
by Léo Arden, 1896.
~ Shakespeare
#Painting, ‘Et je suis resté seul!’ (And I was left alone!)
by Léo Arden, 1896.
November 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
“How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!”
~ Shakespeare
#Painting, ‘Et je suis resté seul!’ (And I was left alone!)
by Léo Arden, 1896.
~ Shakespeare
#Painting, ‘Et je suis resté seul!’ (And I was left alone!)
by Léo Arden, 1896.
‘World.’ #Photography by Ruud Van Empel #art
November 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
‘World.’ #Photography by Ruud Van Empel #art
November 12, 2025 at 9:12 AM
November 12, 2025 at 9:10 AM
November 12, 2025 at 9:07 AM
‘Bloom Softly.’ #Sculpture by Yoko Togashi #art
November 12, 2025 at 8:59 AM
‘Bloom Softly.’ #Sculpture by Yoko Togashi #art
“The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but deceit and fraud.”
~ Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007)
#Photography by Jean Baudrillard.
~ Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007)
#Photography by Jean Baudrillard.
November 12, 2025 at 8:45 AM
“The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but deceit and fraud.”
~ Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007)
#Photography by Jean Baudrillard.
~ Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007)
#Photography by Jean Baudrillard.
As in many old societies, the child knows the security of the group. Parental authority is slight, but Inuits learn by example how to handle the grown-up world. Ootook, 11, has her own toy pipe, but she could smoke if she wished to do so.
#Photography from ‘Inuits I Have Known,’ R. Harrington, 1955
#Photography from ‘Inuits I Have Known,’ R. Harrington, 1955
November 12, 2025 at 8:26 AM
As in many old societies, the child knows the security of the group. Parental authority is slight, but Inuits learn by example how to handle the grown-up world. Ootook, 11, has her own toy pipe, but she could smoke if she wished to do so.
#Photography from ‘Inuits I Have Known,’ R. Harrington, 1955
#Photography from ‘Inuits I Have Known,’ R. Harrington, 1955
#Illustration by Paweł Kuczyński #art
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 AM
#Illustration by Paweł Kuczyński #art
November 12, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Underwater #photography by Hengki Koentjoro #art
November 12, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Underwater #photography by Hengki Koentjoro #art
November 12, 2025 at 8:03 AM
November 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
November 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
"Don’t you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask?
Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with?
Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?"
Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
#Photography, artist sleeps with mask of Marlene Dietrich, 1950.
Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with?
Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?"
Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
#Photography, artist sleeps with mask of Marlene Dietrich, 1950.
November 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
"Don’t you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask?
Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with?
Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?"
Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
#Photography, artist sleeps with mask of Marlene Dietrich, 1950.
Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with?
Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?"
Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
#Photography, artist sleeps with mask of Marlene Dietrich, 1950.
“The middle classes have a truly extraordinary conception of society. They really believe that human beings . . . have real existence only if they make money or help to make it.”
~ Friedrich Engels, ‘The Condition of the Working Class in England’ (1845)
Engels #sculpture, Manchester, UK.
~ Friedrich Engels, ‘The Condition of the Working Class in England’ (1845)
Engels #sculpture, Manchester, UK.
November 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
“The middle classes have a truly extraordinary conception of society. They really believe that human beings . . . have real existence only if they make money or help to make it.”
~ Friedrich Engels, ‘The Condition of the Working Class in England’ (1845)
Engels #sculpture, Manchester, UK.
~ Friedrich Engels, ‘The Condition of the Working Class in England’ (1845)
Engels #sculpture, Manchester, UK.
Marble #sculpture (detail) by Gian Lorenzo Bernini [1598–1680] #art
November 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Marble #sculpture (detail) by Gian Lorenzo Bernini [1598–1680] #art