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But isn't it also pain that often makes us most aware of self? It is a terrible thing to learn as a child [...] that one's aches and pains are all one’s own. Even more terrible, as we grow old, to learn that no person, no matter how beloved, can ever truly understand us.

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leforetenchante

‘The Eternal Idol’ Auguste Rodin, 1893.

philosophybits

“And this is how it is: if only you do not try to utter what is unutterable then nothing gets lost. But the unutterable will be – unutterably – contained in what has been uttered!”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein, “Letter to Paul Engelmann (9 April 1917)”

metamorphesque

The Trouble with Being Born, E. M. Cioran (translated by Richard Howard)

xphaiea

Santiago Caruso

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mystique-manor

then perish

tigerinsleep

Sverre Malling - “Forest, black hole”.

flowerytale

Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980

addzeysatticofasinine

deathandmysticism

Fortunius Licetus, De Monstris, 1665

whispersobliviate

Lili Marberg as Salome by Leopold Schmutzler(details)

miamaimania

“Night Drive” by Harry Booth: A fleeting moment in motion.

improvisedliturgy

Ballard’s contribution, in The Atrocity Exhibition, is to radicalise the Freudian account of trauma by generalizing it. Rather than treating trauma as something with which the organism is affected only contingently, Ballard implies that trauma is a general condition, a non – or anti- – biotic transmission system, distributing particular tics – swarms of repetition-compulsions – across a culture that is indistinguishable from nature. Culture, like the organism, is composed of tics, compulsions and looped behaviours, rather than simply afflicted by them. The “abstract patterns” that Dr. Nathan and his supposedly psychotic patients discover repeated across architectural, biological and geological assemblages are the vectors through which this trauma spreads. Trauma is not merely about processes of wounding and scarring, but also about the response to violent incursions (indeed, wounding and scarring are already such responses); it is a distributed event, not merely echoed or referenced in the repetition-compulsions, but continued, prolonged, propagated.

Mark Fisher, Flatline Constructs: Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction

devoutjunk

“What the weird and the eerie have in common is a preoccupation with the strange. The strange—not the horrific. The allure that the weird and the eerie possess is not captured by the idea that we “enjoy what scares us”. It has, rather, to do with a fascination for the outside, for that which lies beyond standard perception, cognition and experience. This fascination usually involves a certain apprehension, perhaps even dread—but it would be wrong to say that the weird and the eerie are necessarily terrifying. I am not here claiming that the outside is always beneficent. There are terrors to be found there; but such terrors are not all there is to the outside.” --Mark Fisher (The Weird and the Eerie)