Le Jardin des Supplices

Je grapille Les Fleurs du Mal, entre autres.

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Back at it

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Note to self :

Edna St Vincent Millay & Willa Cather

The Wind in the Willows & Alice in Wonderland

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Just received. Read the intro. This book is a gem and I’m going to cherish it let me tell you

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In spite of its insubstantiality and abstraction as a slogan, the implacability of 24/7 is its impossible temporality. It is always a reprimand and a deprecation of the weakness and inadequacy of human time, with its blurred, meandering textures. It effaces the relevance or value of any respite or variability. Its heralding of the convenience of perpetual access conceals its cancellation of the periodicity that shaped the life of most cultures for several millennia: the diurnal pulse of waking and sleeping and the longer alternations between days of work and a day of worship or rest, which for the ancient Mesopotamians, Hebrews and others became a seven-day week. In other ancient cultures, in Rome and in Egypt, there were eight- and ten-day weeks organized around market days or the quarter phases of the moon. The weekend is the modern residue of those long-standing systems, but even this marking of temporal differentiation is eroded by the imposition of 24/7 homogeneity. Of course, these earlier distinctions (individual days of the week, holidays, seasonal breaks), persist, but their significance and legibility is being effaced by the monotonous indistinction of 24/7.

Jonathan Crary, 24/7 Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

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P.Oxy.XXXII 2617 Stesichorus, Geryoneis? ed. E. Lobel

Publication date: 1967. Author: Stesichorus. Date: First century. Provenance: Oxyrhynchus Location: Papyrology Rooms, Sackler Library, Oxford. Genre: Lyric Poetry. Format: Roll Material: Papyrus

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Portrait de A. A. Dobrinskaya, Vasily Surikov (1911)

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Rue de la honte / 赤線 地帯, Kenji Mizoguchi (1956)

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I loved this visit because they organised the 18th century castle as if it was still inhabited, or as if time stopped. Every room presented a new scene.

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