Virilio Strikes Again

"...the entire history of Quattrocento perspectives is only ever a story of struggle, of the battle of geometers vying to make us forget the 'high' and 'low' by pushing the 'near' and 'far', a vanishing point that literally fascinated them even though our vision is actually determined by our weight and oriented by the pull of earth's gravity, by the classic distinction of zenith and nadir."

-Paul Virilio

Open Sky

Notes To Self

I have started collecting interesting little snippets from artnews related items. Here is a taste from last Tuesday by none other than Alex Ross: " ... rides a unicycle the wrong way down the Autobahn and kills a squad of Uzbek thugs with a package of Twizzlers..."

Perhaps you will remember this tidbit from the other day? That was from a WSJ article about Wrastlin' in Seattle -which, come to think of it "Wrastlin' In Seattle" is a serviceable title.

I thought it might be good to keep a record of such things. Or at least it takes the pressure off of me trying to invent a narrative. As you can tell writing isn't what I was put on Earth to do.

WWRBD? (What Would Roland Barthes Do?

Man! Talk about narrative in action!

via: wrondistance / Roberta and Libby / and Jayson Musson