[jueki]

Noriko’s Dinner Table 2005 ‘紀子の食卓’ Directed by Sion Sono

[nl]

are you THAT amar

I have no idea what you mean but to my knowledge I’m the only notable amar on this website

[bellsandforks]

“It’s the nation that does not permit you to live.”

Death by Hanging (1968), dir. Nagisa Ōshima

[filmantidote]

The context of the film is vital as it is relevant more than ever. The film is about an ethnic Korean in Japan who is set to be executed by hanging. Koreans have historically lived as marginalized members in Japan and have been heavily discriminated against despite many of them having all the makings of citizenship by being born and brought up in Japan. Oshima examines how the state legitimizes violence and racism as it permeates in the Japanese conscious of who is deemed worthy of life and who is not. An underlying theme is that guilty or innocent by state-set terms of criminality, marginalized people are guilty at birth.

[jueki]

[gotstyle]

“The Globe Shrinks” - Barbara Kruger

[mentaltimetraveller]

ALEXANDER CALDER

Otto’s Mobile, 1952

[nl]

[japanesefashionarchive]

Kansai Yamamoto (山本寛斎) embroidered “SUMO YAMAMOTO” stadium jacket. This is a Kansai Man piece, believed to be early 1990s. Two huge sumo wrestlers face off in the embroidery design on the back. The Kansai name is on the front of the jacket and the oversized sleeves are black leather.

[ps1]

高田馬場 yokosukeinari

[fakeitbody]

“If ‘cyberspace’ once offered the promise of escaping the strictures of essentialist identity categories, the climate of contemporary social media has swung forcefully in the other direction, and has become a theatre where these prostrations to identity are performed.”

— Laboria Cuboniks, Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation (via frenchrollo)

[nl]

I’ve met over a hundred people (maybe two hundred by now) from this website without ever attempting to inflate that number and I’ve never really stopped to think about that until now

[modernsolitude]

Thomas Demand - “Room (Zimmer)” (1996).

[owning-my-truth-deactivated2022]

“I am afraid that we may be raising a generation of young people who will grow up afraid to love, afraid to give themselves completely to another person, because they will have seen how much it hurts to take the risk of loving and have it not work out. I am afraid that they will grow up looking for intimacy without risk, for pleasure without significant emotional investment. They will be so fearful of the pain of disappointment that they will forgo the possibilities of love and joy.”

— Harold Kushner, When All You’ve Ever Wanted Isn’t Enough qtd. in bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

[killyohji]

Visionaire 20: Comme des Garçons, 1997

[cgcpoems]

“But in the end, stories are about one person saying to another: This is the way it feels to me. Can you understand what I’m saying? Does it feel this way to you?”

— Kazuo Ishiguro, in his Nobel prize (2017) acceptance speech.   (via halcynth)

[gucciballs-deactivated20200720]

Junya Watanabe x Levis - S/S 2002

[nightclubsinger]

Raf Simons Autumn/Winter 2003