I like boring things.
A slap in the face of public taste
Here are some awful scans from the beautiful book, The Russian Avant-Garde Book 1910-1934 by the MoMA. Please feel free to buy this for me. david burliuk and vladimir burliuk
The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
There are times when you read or see something and all of a sudden it connects with every thing that follows. I dyed my hair, again. While I was in the store figuring out the right shade of teenage rebellion sehnsucht I was distracted by groups of teenagers, who were anxiously trying on fake plugs [...]
Žižek on Jenny Holzer’s truism
Jenny Holzer’s famous truism “Protect me from what I want” [...] can either be read as an ironic reference to the standard male chauvinist wisdom that a woman, when left to herself, gets caught in the self-destructive fury, so that she must be protected from herself by the benevolent male domination: “Protect me from the [...]