February 2012
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An ideology always exists in an apparatus, and its practice, or practices. This...
– Louis Althusser
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January 2012
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There are indeed many precautions to imprison a man in what he is, as if we...
– Jean-Paul Sartre (Being and Nothingness)
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Just because you have eyes, does not mean you can see.
– Peter Greenaway (via spacescout)
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Communism is … neither a state that has to be created, nor an ideal for the...
– Marx and Engels, The German Ideology (via rhizombie)
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Both ardent lovers and austere scholars
Love in their mature years
The strong...
– Charles Baudelaire (“Les Chats”)
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Peterborough tumblr friends: follow Trent Film Society’s tumblr (http://trentfilmsociety.tumblr.com/) - I will be posting pretty pictures and things on the regular.
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December 2011
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…if man is to find his way once again into the nearness of Being he must...
– Heidegger, “Letter on Humanism”
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We shall have to adapt ourselves to the shadowy screen and to the cold machine....
– Leo Tolstoy, from a letter to a friend on the advent of cinema (via confusionis)
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A book may be full of errors, we can reject the author’s opinions, disagree with...
– Jorge Luis Borges, from Horizon, June 1981 (via bookoasis)
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The cinema implies a total inversion of values, a complete upheaval of optics,...
– Antonin Artaud
November 2011
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Yet if so much of our thinking and feeling is connected with seeing, some...
– Virginia Woolf, “The Cinema”