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On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of Hollis Frampton (Writing Art)

by Hollis Frampton

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Ecrits I. Texte Integral T1

by Jacques Lacan

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"adding b/c i think i will give up (for now) soon .. due at the library tomorrow and i'm out of renewals . read 115 pages in somewhere around 6 weeks , interesting stuff but ya the difficulty has not been overstated and i think it probably needs to be approached when you have essentially no other preoccupations , which has decisively not been the case for me these weeks lol" — Jul 20, 2022 05:31PM

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“The principle of laughter and the carnival spirit on which the grotesque is based destroys this limited seriousness and all pretense of an extratemporal meaning and unconditional value of necessity. It frees human consciousness, thought, and imagination for new potentialities. For this reason, great changes, even in the field of science, are always preceded by a certain carnival consciousness that prepares the way.”
― Mikhail Bakhtin

tags: carnival, clown, feast, fool, inversion, jester, mysticism, puppet, rabelais, revolution, science, taz

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“For as soon as the distribution of labour comes into being, each man has a particular, exclusive sphere of activity, which is forced upon him and from which he cannot escape. He is a hunter, a fisherman, a herdsman, or a critical critic, and must remain so if he does not want to lose his means of livelihood; while in communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic.”
― Karl Marx, The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy

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