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“August evenings are especially stricken with melancholy - as if the ghosts of all past summers came rushing to haunt my heart”

Letters of Summer Past (Listy Tamtego Lata) VI

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Noelia Towers (@noeliatowers)

Sharpshooter

Oil on canvas

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He Jiaying (何家英), The Ballet (2006)

sawasawako-archived

“Ask students to read for more than a couple of sentences and many – and these are A-level students mind you – will protest that they can’t do it. The most frequent complaint teachers hear is that it’s boring. It is not so much the content of the written material that is at issue here; it is the act of reading itself that is deemed to be ‘boring’. What we are facing here is not just time–honored teenage torpor, but the mismatch between a post-literate ‘New Flesh’ that is ‘too wired to concentrate’ and the confining, concentrational logics of decaying disciplinary systems. To be bored simply means to be removed from the communicative sensation-stimulus matrix of texting, YouTube and fast food; to be denied, for a moment, the constant flow of sugary gratification on demand. Some students want Nietzsche in the same way that they want a hamburger; they fail to grasp – and the logic of the consumer system encourages this misapprehension – that the indigestibility, the difficulty is Nietzsche.”

i think this is the reason why people can’t and don’t think critically about the media & entertainment they consume as well…