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Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts

by Paul B. Preciado

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Drawing and Painting People: A Fresh Approach

by Emily Ball

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Human Figure Drawing: Drawing Gestures, Pictures and Movements

by Daniela Brambilla

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The Descent of Man by Grayson Perry

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The process of blending masculine ideology with the notion of common sense in people’s minds so that it becomes invisible is called ‘exnomination’ by Roland Barthes.

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“Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as to seem a miracle of purpose.”
― Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

tags: design-in-nature, natural-selection

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“Rejection is more valuable than inaction. All that I have learned until now has been because of rejections. Inaction didn’t teach me a thing.”
― Neeraj Agnihotri, Procrasdemon - The Artist's Guide to Liberation from Procrastination

tags: inaction, inaction-quotes, procrastinating-on-your-dreams, procrastination, rejection, rejection-quotes, wasting-a-day, wasting-a-life, wasting-life, wasting-years

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“How we talk about masculinity might be just as important, if not more so, than what we say. The very idea that there is a strict set of rules needs to be chucked away. The future of masculinity is a plethora of masculinities.”
― Grayson Perry, The Descent of Man

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“I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.”
― Richard Feynman

tags: answers, questions, science

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“We today can recognize the antiquity of astrology in words such as disaster, which is Greek for “bad star,” influenza, Italian for (astral) “influence”; mazeltov, Hebrew—and, ultimately, Babylonian—for “good constellation,” or the Yiddish word shlamazel, applied to someone plagued by relentless ill-fortune, which again traces to the Babylonian astronomical lexicon. According to Pliny, there were Romans considered sideratio, “planet-struck.” Planets were widely thought to be a direct cause of death. Or consider consider: it means “with the planets,” evidently a prerequisite for serious reflection.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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