GHOST SHIRT SOCIETY

vanessa • GR/UK

[onlycheffings]

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

[castledeity]

[stlamb]

ibis_hospital

[worldscoolest]

by nazzal studio, comprised of 10,000 Palestinian coins hand sewn by refugee women.

[haverst]

Enzo Cucchi's home in Rome

source / Haverst

[funeral]

In today's state of hyperactivity, where boredom is not allowed to emerge, we never reach the state of deep mental relaxation. The information society is an age of heightened mental tension, because the essence of information is surprise and the stimulus it provides. The tsunami of information means that our perceptual apparatus is permanently stimulated. It can no longer enter into contemplation. The tsunami of information fragments our attention. It prevents the contemplative lingering that is essential to narrating and careful listening . . . In the process of digitalization, . . . information acquires an altogether different status. Reality itself takes on the form of information and data. For the most part, we perceive reality in terms of information or through the lens of information. Information is an idea—that is, a re-representation. When reality takes the form of information, the immediate experience of presence withers. When digitalization gives everything the form of information, reality is flattened.

Byung-Chul Han, The Crisis of Narration

[vexful]

fetish list 🥵💦🌶️

• appreciation for the zealot commune of thessaloniki (1342-1350) as a historical instance of civic self-government in the midst of (decaying) Empire

• familiarity with key frankfurt school concepts

• high yap tolerance

• a moral compass

• choking

[priezpourlui]

[philosophybits]

“I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life

[059004a]

[thomasmartinnutt]

Sophie Calle. On the Hunt, Women Seeking Men 1940–1950 (Big Position), 2024

[allunderthesamesky]

[gnossienne]

Sarah Kane’s Crave, design by Rufus Didwiszusfor Schaubuehne am Lehniner Platz (2000)

[leungchiuwai]

花樣年華 / in the mood for love (2000), dir. 王家衛

[strathshepard]

Anselm Kiefer, Streu dein Blumen Fremdling, 2012, and the Hug Bed by Kouros Maghsoudi, 2026 – from Studio Iron at Saatchi Yates, curated by Isamaya French, via System Magazine on Substack

[dreamstars]

[chantssecrets]

Visitors gather to watch giant gushes of water released from the Xiaolangdi dam on the Yellow river in Jiyuan, China.

[aarchval]

Nam June Paik photographed by Elliott Erwitt, New York, 1982.