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“To be human,” Scanlan offers at the end of his book, “is to produce a world as an excess of meaning, or as something that leaves a remainder that is beyond meaning and comprehension.”

on the list of things to listen to instead of the news:
the blacksmiths, the flowers –– 'Their dynamic is summed up best by a phrase of Moten’s in the maelstrom towards the music’s climax: “quantum-mechanical reproduction.”'
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"All art, he insisted, offers us more than what it could itself convey. It always gestures beyond itself, toward everything it can’t say, opening back up everything that is closed off by the comforting illusion of conceptual mastery."

The Unsettling Genius of David Lynch In his films, his TV shows, and his paintings, Lynch reminded us that all art gestures toward a world beyond the familiar and comforting.

"In his film as well as in painting, Lynch wanted to remind us that the value of language as a means of communication often lies in its ability to flaunt its own inadequacy."

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Tilda Swinton Would Like a Word With Trump About His Mother The Academy Award-winning actress discusses her lifelong quest for connection, humanity’s innate goodness and the point of being alive.

"I suggest that art offers us an opportunity to be quiet and still and to allow, in that stillness, for a connection to form ... I think the superpower that art has is this distance it affords us, this capacity to be still and to allow resonances to arise from inside." #TildaSwinton