when i started uni i had an existential crisis bc i wanted to read everything. i tried biology, anthropology books etc & not just philosophy, but didn’t get far. i had a meeting w my tutor where i said i wanted to be like berger or sontag & he told me about plath’s fig tree story
i’m an unapologetic double, triple, quadruple-texter. i am a scrapbook texter: i will send unrelated messages at any time during the day of thoughts and pictures, anything i found interesting
1. it’s a shame that when we grow up we often lose or dismiss our ability to talk about art so casually and curiously like this
2. it’s interesting how comfortable these children are with the idea of ambiguous gender
it unfortunately seems to be a common sentiment today, whether presented in terms of race or gender or some interpretation of “intersectionality”, that fundamentally we just can’t understand one another
Walter Benjamin died by suicide 84 years ago today while trying to escape fascism. I think this quotation exemplifies his most important idea: that we must direct our future towards a redemption of the past, and that revolution is the means to that redemption.