ulysses at the mast (day 123)

(ruth marten via feuilleton)

"Turn, and with double zest go dredge for whelks" --The Ring and the Book

"I’ve got a more specific reading of post-Fordist or contemporary zaniness, which is that it is an aesthetic explicitly about the politically ambiguous convergence of cultural and occupational performance, or playing and laboring, under what Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello call the new 'connexionist' spirit of capitalism."

facing
a dying nation
caught in Cheetoh's charade
facing
our own dark pain
with flesh of calcspar
facing
a dying nation

The cinema has explored the northern regions of impersonal stylization; it should now discover the southern regions of personal lyricism; it should have its prophets."

"The impatient anti-masque treads close on kibe" --ibid

(fizzy-izzys-circus on tumblr)