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Same goes for Psycho: this is the film where Hitchcock chucks out anything having to do with the aesthetic encounter; instead he goes for cinema as frighthouse carnival ride and never looks back.

1927 was also the year of the fifth Solvay Conference, in which the new quantum theory was introduced into physics. Not a hierarchy of matter but the encounter with something unknowable and transformative, and to unpredictable ends.

The film doesn't seek art beyond enchantment, which is to sentimentalise art, to relegate it to the instrument by which one maniuplates the viewer.

It's not even that the film invests so much energy in its visuals that it neglects narrative. The film presents the 'human' as a set of soaring ideals threatened by the sharp edge of necessity. It even stages this.

Sunrise (1927) is a pernicious film in that it isolates the true object of cinema only to the extent that this object can be used to pull at the audience's strings, rather than allowing that object to reveal itself on the level of an encounter.

these things are always futile to protest but 'underrated' is taking on a new and unsuitable meaning. something 'underrated' is not 'unknown'

like, you'll fuck a peach in your gay sex movie but you won't get your kit off??

but also I saw Call Me by Your Name recently and it's a heavy tribute to Rohmer and that's fine but Rohmer is completely comfortable with nudity and people in bed instead of tastefully panning away at the crucial moment

I'm thinking of celebrities reproducing photo shoots of other celebrities from 30 years ago but more covered up and wooden-faced

firmly in a cultural moment that exactly reproduces earlier artists' work in less and less daring versions

looking into this

adorable

I need an S/Z-style book-length analysis of the Devo album Duty Now for the Future. or Radio-activity by Kraftwerk

I dreamed I was walking naked through a French resort town at night. It was the off-season, more or less deserted. I snuck aboard a clipper ship and was surprised at how narrow it was.

I dreamed that I was playing a video game in which I was a crayfish or insect that had to creep through a green tube full of other disgusting creatures without disturbing them. I knew that I had gone so far that I, too, could turn into these creatures.

美极了！

the first rule of Ambient Music Club is no samples of running water that play over the entire track

I dreamed I was the guest of a group of famous writers. I told them I had grown up in a neighborhood that was eighty-five per cent working class, so any food they served was all the same to me. they were silently impressed

no video clip filmed in a car has ever been worth it

This is wonderful, thank you!

the musical saw has never really come into its own as an instrument

Adorno band names: Wrong Life, The Rhythm of the Iron System, The Splendid Underdogs

when you become a supreme court judge they suture the robes to your skin and they become part of your body

band name: Anna O. and the Hysterics

texting 'all good here' moments before a catastrophic implosion is like an emblem of the whole twenty-first century thus far

I dreamed that I attended the olympics but it turned out that to earn a spot as a spectator you had to compete in a set of games yourself

dinosaurs are a good interest for children to take up because to conceive them properly one must bracket human existence; in fact, human existence becomes contingent on the arrival and then the departure of dinosaurs

when I visited blenheim palace I concluded that after the revolution all such sites should be dynamited into rubble amidst big public orgies

it happened

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