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“He wrote me: I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We do not remember, we rewrite memory much as history is rewritten. How can one remember thirst?”
Chris Marker - Sans Soleil
Fuck…
This hits too close to home, am I doing my best?
(Source: animefreckles, via notmadeforexistence-deactivated)
Sans Soleil - Japanese text
Espacios.
“Al fallar las palabras, la memoria, que es su confín, cede también.” - Walter Benjamin
“We come after. We know now that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day’s work at Auschwitz in the morning. To say that he has read them without understanding or that his ear is gross, is cant. In what way does this knowledge bear on literature and society, on the hope, grown almost axiomatic from the time of Plato to that of Matthew Arnold, that culture is a humanizing force, that the energies of spirit are transferable to those of conduct?”
George Steiner
It’s refreshing to find a writer embracing the fact that nobody reads him:
My books are better thought about than read. They’re insanely dull and unreadable; I mean, do you really want to sit down and read a year’s worth of weather reports or a transcription of the 1010 WINS traffic reports “on the ones” (every ten minutes) over the course of a twenty-four-hour period? I don’t.I love the end too: “The rest of culture has moved so far beyond such simplistic notions of originality, yet here we are in literature, still fifty years behind the rest of the world. It’s so tiresome.”
Kenneth Goldsmith interviewed by Dave Mandl in The Believer
image: Adrian Piper, Untitled 1968 work via
New book by Goldsmith: Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age
“En otros tiempos aspirábamos a experiencias lógicas; nada nos importaba tanto como la estabilidad. Hoy admitimos la inestabilidad junto a la estabilidad. Lo que deseamos es la experiencia de lo que es. Pero “lo que es” no consiste necesariamente en lo estable, lo inmutable…
Esa es la función del arte actual: protegernos de todas esas reducciones lógicas que estamos tentados aplicar a cada instante al fluir de los acontecimientos; acercarnos al proceso que es el mundo.”
John Cage.