“Voice 1: Howls for Sade, a film by Guy-Ernest Debord. Voice 2: Howls for Sade is dedicated to Gil J Wolman.” - opening of Debord’s Howls for Sade 1 (On a street corner, then running down the street) Old Alciphron: Sorry I’m late. I’m always late to these things! Young Alciphron: Don’t worry, older one....
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“ … outside everything else and inside myself …” - Plotinus Enneads IV, 8, 1 I have some comments about a compilation of short writings entitled Willful Disobedience. It may be an odd experience to read through the book cover to cover as I did. Written over the course of a decade, the...
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“There were always men who practiced this philosophy. For it seems to be in some ways a universal philosophy, and the most natural.” - Julian the Apostate 1 Some months ago, I discovered a series of books on ancient philosophies produced by the University of California Press, with lovely details of Baroque paintings reproduced...
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“Living or dead, that’s the big question. When you get sleepy, do you go to sleep? Or do you lie awake?” - Cage, “Composition as Process” “If among you there are those who wish to get somewhere, let them leave at any moment.” “If anybody is sleepy, let him go to sleep” - Cage,...
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1 A few years ago, I was asked by some friends to write on play and games for Anarchy. I sent them an essay, entitled “A Funny Thought Concerning a New Way to Play,” in which I insisted above all on a certain attitude: a deep distaste for competition, for the unkind imposition of...
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