RIP Chris Marker

He liked the fragility of those moments suspended in time. Those memories whose only function had been to leave behind nothing but memories. He wrote: I've been round the world several times and now only banality still interests me. On this trip I've tracked it with the relentlessness of a bounty hunter. At dawn we'll be in Tokyo.

parliament of the birds

 

What about you - did any of you dream of flying?

telescopes in the mist

As for me, I am busy pointing my telescope through the bloody mist at a mirage of the nineteenth century, which I am trying to reproduce based on the characteristics that it will manifest in a future state of the world, liberated from magic. Of course, I first have to build myself this telescope.

— Walter Benjamin, letter to Werner Kraft, October 1935.

The Revolution must not be fetishised.
The Mission Is Terminated

protocols of escape / suffocating town

...besides, people around here are obsessed with anything like that -safari parks, dolphinaria, stunt flying, it's all the same to them, they're forever dressing up as beefeaters or Hanoverian infantry and re-enacting the battle of Austerlitz...

ballard/ the unlimited dream company


the "political action" which is at stake ... is ... liturgy [ returned to its etymological meaning  of "public practice".]

agamben / the kingdom & the glory

zangezi

In 1923, Vladimir Tatlin designed, directed, and starred in a performance of Velimir Khlebnikov's play Zangezi that was presented by an amateur troupe at the Museum of Artistic Culture in Petrograd. Khlebnikov had died earlier in the year, and the performance was to be a memorial to Tatlin's favorite poet. To Khlebnikov's construction of words, where sound was the principle building element, Tatlin attempted to find a counterpart in tangible construction, built with a variety of materials in different surfaces and shapes.

origin of the serif