n o m o s - a l p h a

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Very happy about this.

[thestreetsarefilledwithforests]

Christchurch! No jerks allowed.

[ceilingsrevealing]

Louise Cyphre - In the End, Everyone Dies Alone

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An excerpt of Still by Joshua Zucker-Pluda. I find it reminiscent of scenes from Tarkovsky's Stalker. It feels like a revisitation of 'the Zone' or a visual narrative which runs parallel to that of Tarkovsky's.

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How had I not heard of Aaron Martin until the other day?!

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In any event, it is a bit difficult to take seriously arguments about efficiency in a society that devotes enormous resources to waste and destruction. As everyone knows, the very concept of efficiency is dripping with ideology. Maximization of commodities is hardly the only measure of a decent existence.

Noam Chomsky - Government in the Future

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chapstick overdrive

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I made a Flickr account. Will put some new and interesting photos up soon.

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I Like America and America Likes Me - Joseph Beuys

[trent-o]

How It Is, 2009 (photography by Sam Irons)

[nomos-alpha]

A Bandcamp for my experimental stuff. Just unofficial bedroom recordings at the moment.

[williamlloyd]

ampere

[doubtlr]

“[And] it is this, I think, that makes Kafka’s wit inaccessible to children whom our culture has trained to see jokes as entertainment and entertainment as reassurance. It’s not that students don’t “get” Kafka’s humor but that we’ve taught them to see humor as something you get — the same way we’ve taught them that a self is something you just have. No wonder they cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke — that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from that horrific struggle. That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home”

David Foster Wallace, From a speech given by him at “Metamorphosis: A New Kafka”, a symposium sponsored by the PEN American Center in New York City to celebrate the publication of a new translation of “The Castle” by Schocken Books (via doubtlr)

[randomglory]

If an anguish still clutches me, it’s when I feel this impalpable moment slip through my fingers like quicksilver. Let those who wish to turn their backs upon the world. I have nothing to complain of, since I can see myself being born. At the moment, my whole kingdom is of this world. This sun and these shadows, this warmth and this cold air rising from the depths of the air: why wonder if something is dying or if men suffer, since everything is written on this window where the sun sheds its plenty as a greeting to my pity? I can say…what counts is to be human and simple. No, what counts is to be true, and then everything fits in, humanity and simplicity. When I am truer than when I am the world? My cup brims over before I have time to desire. Eternity is there and I was hoping for it. What I wish for now is no longer happiness but simply awareness.

—- Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays (via randomglory)

[theothertruths-deactivated20120]

“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against leaders, against authorities, against the world rulers [kosmokratoras] of this darkness, against the spiritual wickedness in the heavens” (Ephesians 6:12). Or, translated into today’s language: “Our struggle is not against concrete, corrupted individuals, but against those in power in general, against their authority, against the global order and the ideological mystification that sustains it.” One should resolutely reject the liberal-victimist ideology that reduces politics to avoiding the worst, to renouncing all positive projects and pursuing the least bad option.

Slavoj Zizek (via theothertruths)

[sharonleung]

Muuratsalo Experimental House, Alvar Aalto 1949

Soon after the passing of his wife in 1949, Alto began the design for a summer getaway for himself on the western shore of island Muuratsalo, Finland. Through the process of designing the house, it became an experimental study of materiality, architecture construction and philosophies.

The most basic understanding of the house is it’s courtyard scheme which focuses inwards on the space while also directing careful views of the nearby Lake Paijanne. The walls of this courtyard reflect the very nature of the experimental home, as there are more than fifty different types of bricks which are arranged in various patterns. This allowed Aalto to test the aesthetics of different arrangements while also monitoring how they reacted in the rough climate.

I went to a symposium on the weekend and had the chance to hear Kenneth Frampton speak- He said that Aalto’s buildings are ruins to begin with-which is why they withstand time. So true.

via archdaily

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Lyubov Popova - Untitled