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Vienna Teng | The Hymn of Acxiom

somebody hears you; you know that inside
someone is learning the colors of all your moods, to
(say just the right thing and) show that you’re understood
here you’re known

leave your life open; you don’t have to hide
someone is gathering every crumb you drop, these
(mindless decisions and) moments you long forgot
keep them all

let our formulas find your soul
we’ll divine your artesian source (in your mind)
marshal feed and force (our machines will)
design you a perfect love, or (better still) a perfect lust
o how glorious, glorious: a brand new need is born

now we possess you; you’ll own that in time
now we will build you an endlessly upward world
(reach in your pocket) embrace you for all you’re worth

is that wrong?
isn’t this what you want?

amen

‘Nameless Creature’ by Illustrator Tatyana Kupriyanova

Unlearning is extremely painful, because you’re giving up your object. And I believe in pedagogy—I’m fundamentally a teacher. But I think teaching is really difficult, because the things you’re trying to get people to unlearn are things they hold close, and that are forms of life for them that structure their sense of continuity. Because learning and unlearning happen at the same time, there ought to be a lot of grace in the space of pedagogy.

Cruel Optimism is about how people will stay in relation to their object even if it destroys them, because they can’t bear giving up the pleasure of knowing the world in a particular way. So yes, unlearning is very painful because it means you have to experience a kind of complexity about moving through the world that you didn’t have before. And that’s very abstract, but it’s not abstract when you’re losing something.

Lauren Berlant in conversation with Bea Malsky, “Pleasure Won: A Conversation with Lauren Berlant,” The Point Magazine (x)

An X-ray image of the blood vessels of the hand made using mercury injection, 1896

Maybe everyone’s a little bit ugly. Yeah, maybe we’re all just ugly, dying sacks of shit. And maybe all it’ll take is one person to just be okay with that, and then the whole world will be dancing and singing and farting, and everyone will feel a little bit less alone.

Thus it would appear the ghost haunting The Navidson Record, continually bashing against the door, is none other than the recurring threat of its own reality.

House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski

The Hermit. Art by David DePasquale, from The Arcanis Tarot.

The Hermit holds his shepherd’s staff, a symbol of his inner control over his thoughts. The lantern he carries shines the fire of penultimate spirituality and wisdom, and in holding it out, he shows his willing to impart his knowledge to others, while his long, covering cloak symbolizes his willingness to share that knowledge with only those who seek it.

Upright: Wisdom, Introspection, Seeking Truth

Reversed: Inability to Reflect, Isolation, Self-Absorption

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Ghost village Blagojev Kamen © Darko Vojinović

1.) Lay down on the floor
2.) Scream

Ceramics by Rock Johnsen
aka mixed_potter on Instagram

Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1983)

Donald Revell, Drought-Adapted Vine

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Society (1989) Directed by Brian Yuzna

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