LOVE AND INTERACTION
“Love,” states Lacan, “is giving something you don’t have.” Exploring the relationship between interaction and exchange, George Simmel writes: “It might seem the two concepts are dissimilar in that interaction one gives something one does not have whereas in exchange one gives only what one does have, but the distinction does not really [...]
Archive for the ‘Quotes’ Category
31/05/2009
31/05/2009
SQUARES
In 1867 Emile Zola, a young journalist, dedicated one of his articles to the upcoming inauguration of a public space. The piece is entitled “The Squares” (Les squares). It begins: “The gates to the new Parmentier square, built on the site of the former Popincourt slaughterhouse, will soon be opened to the public.” Then come [...]
07/05/2009
Dennis Porter: “A face in close-up is what before the age of film only a lover or a mother ever saw.”
06/05/2009
Constance Penley: “The Totally Tasteless range of videos harken back to porn’s earliest roots in the circus sideshow, the freakshow… like the circus sideshow the attraction for the viewer isn’t necessarily an erotic one, but it’s one that offers us the chance to be disgusted, it offers us the chance to be frightened, it offers [...]
05/05/2009
“Every advance in technology has had the effect of isolating consumers of culture from one another: Movies took us away from live actors, video took us away from other filmgoers, and now iThings are depriving us even of our fellow couch potatoes.”
VIA
02/05/2009
“I believe firstly that the cinema is too rich. It is obese. It has reached its limits, its maximum. With the first movement of widening which it will outline, the cinema will burst! Under the blow of a congestion, this greased pig will tear into a thousand pieces. I announce the destruction of the cinema, [...]
01/05/2009
“I thus discovered what one calls in philosophy the phemenological epokhe – the suspension of the world, of the thesis of the world, that is, of the spontaenous belief in the existence of the world, which constitutes in Husserl’s language the natural attitude – what I previously called ordinary life. I discovered this philosophical theory [...]
01/05/2009
“I thought my ideas were so clear. I wanted to make an honest film. No lies whatsoever. I thought I had something so simple to say. Something useful to everybody. A film that could help bury forever all those dead things we carry within ourselves. Instead, I’m the one without the courage to bury anything [...]
29/04/2009
“What is this, ‘Password’?” Mazilli tossed his match on the tablecloth. “You want to know what I believe in? I believe in punishment, I believe in fear, and I believe in revenge.”
Clockers, p.95
07/04/2009
ANGEL SPACE
What could be more luminous than a space traversed with messages? Look at the sky, even right here above us. It’s traversed by planes, satellites, electromagnetic waves from television, radio, fax, electronic mail. The world we are immersed in is a space-time of communication. Why shouldn’t I call it angel space, since this means [...]
