saturnia tellus

On sorrowful memories and unspoken feelings

[214214214214]

you don’t remind me of anyone, and that’s attractive as fuck

[gibisoma]

Orazio Riminaldi (1586–1631)

Icarus, detail

[guattarian-egirl-deactivated202]

“psychic maladies such as depression and burnout define our times. In contemporary American self-help literature, the magic word is healing. The term refers to self-optimization that is supposed to therapeutically eliminate any and all functional weakness or mental obstacle in the name of efficiency and performance. Yet perpetual self-optimization, which coincides point-for-point with the optimization of the system, is proving destructive. It is leading to mental collapse. Self-optimization, it turns out, amounts to total self-exploitation…the only pain that is tolerated is pain that can be exploited for the purposes of optimization. But the violence of positivity is just as destructive as the violence of negativity. Neoliberal psychopolitics, with the consciousness industry it promotes, is destroying the human soul, which is anything but a machine of positivity (Positivmaschine). The neoliberal subject is running aground on the imperative of self optimization, that is, on the compulsion always to achieve more and more. Healing, it turns out, means killing.”

— Byung-Chul Han, “Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power”

[ortut]

Louisa Clement - From the series Heads, 2014-15

[saturniatellus]

Euphoria (hbo) is the tv adaptation of “any female born after 1993 can’t cook...all they know is McDonald’s, charge their phone, twerk, be bisexual, eat chips and lie [and of course do a lot of hard drugs]”.

[chaboneo]

[dwellsinparadise]

Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina

[cr333st]

What language are you fluent in?

silence 

[highvolumetal]

Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916).

[seaymph]

“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”

— Thomas Mann, Death in Venice  (via yann-salome)

[silkytruth-blog]

[mindo80]

“In the end, film is a form of recording. If we give it up, our memory of gaze upon human beings will cease to exist. If we remove our gaze, we will end up with an era where people no longer see one another. Therefore, we shouldn’t give up making films. ‘When I see you, you already exist in me.’ That’s what Plato said”

— - Theo Angelopoulos

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Liberté, la nuit (Philippe Garrel, 1984)

[feelsgoood]

[saturniatellus]

“Ah, sì un'infermiera! Un'infermiera per amor dell'arte, che conceda i suoi baci solamente ai moribondi, a gente in extremis, e che perciò non possa vantarsene. Macché!”

- Carmelo Bene, Hamlet Suite

[gacougnol]

Ryan Muirhead

[saturniatellus]

A thunderous repetitive sound comes through the window. The city seems shelled by unknown forces. Unfortunately, after a quick check, it turned out it was just fireworks.

[fawnvelveteen]

Joan Crawford photographed by George Hurrell, 1929.