love

it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye

[pathologising]

"just put yourself out there" what if I scared. what then.

[pathologising]

the answer is do it scared btw

[willgrahamscock]

they’re horrors to YOU, however i’m turned on by them

[rhetthammersmithhorror]

[aoca]

[ecrituria]

Ever since I took a class on material culture and the significance of things and objects in our lives, I’ve started taking note of relevant readings I come across. For those interested, below is a partial list:

Objects of Despair: Inspired by Roland Barthes, Meghan O’Gieblyn’s monthly column examines contemporary artifacts and the mythologies we have built around them.

Fake Meat | Mirrors | Mars | Drones | The 10,000-Year Clock

Concrete: The Most Destructive Material on Earth (more on The Guardian’s “Concrete Week”)

The Unfortunate Fate of Childhood Dolls by Rainer Maria Rilke

AirPods Are a Tragedy

Thinging the Real: On Bill Brown’s “Other Things”

Sum Effects: “Personal or real, tangible or intangible, durable, hard, soft, consumable, or perishable: my grandmother owned none of it. Goldyne Alter died with no possessions.”

A janitor rescued migrants’ possessions from a border facility’s trash. Now they’re art.

Evocative Objects: Things We Think With, ed. by Sherry Turkle

Friendly Floatees

Great Pacific garbage patch

Plastic: an autobiography by Allison Cobb

Curating the Anthropocene: “Imagine a future archeologist on a dig in what was once downtown Los Angeles, excavating, exposing layers of history, like the paleontologists at the La Brea Tar Pits are doing today, finding bones of saber-toothed cats, mammoth, and dire wolves. What does the archeologist of the future find?”

[camillepagliadisliker]

The System of Objects by Jean Baudrillard

My master thesis on The Bed

[naramdil]

I also enjoyed this section from The Social Life of Things edited by Arjun Appadurai

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Thaddäus

[m-db-d]

Midwestern Gothic

[rawjoy]

u know what makes me cry..... that one van gogh quote about life changing for the better..... “many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. and it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘what do i care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’ yes, evil often seems to surpass good. but then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. one morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. and so i must still have hope.” yeah..... Crying....

[slickbackdani]

Another Van Gough quote we could all use: “In the end, we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.”

[henk-heijmans]

Untitled (Florence Peterson), ca. 1909 - by Clarence H. White (1871 - 1925), American

[a24filmz]

i love tumblr

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Asbury Park, New Jersey // Dana Yurcisin

[literary-connection]

[devils-queen]

✞ 666 ✞

[devils-queen]

✞ 666 ✞

[wetspecimen1]

[placetimemoment]

[killrockstar]

"this filter will show you if your teeth are yellow" "this filter will show you if your nose is perfect" "this filter will show you if your face is symmetrical" "this filter will show you if your lips are big" how about if we all blew up our phones forever