君子不器
When I sat down to read this post “Against the New Vitalism” I was momentarily dazed by the opening paragraph: Words are material; they matter. Words are material that matter.1 “Words,” Virginia Woolf reminds us, are “stored with meanings, with memories.”2 Words are historical, and words are relational. Words are living, and words are alive. This…
Dawn of the Dead (1978) 4k Trust (1990) 1080p Better Off Dead (1985) Endangered Species (1982) High Spirits (1988) 480p MST3K – Master Ninja I (199?) See also: “Radley Metzger Classics” (wiki), e.g., The Image (1975) very very nsfw!
Chindōgu (珍道具) Kawakami Kenji’s (川上 賢司, 1946-2019) “Ten Tenets of Chindōgu”: 1) Chindōgu cannot be for real use, 2) Chindōgu must exist, 3) Inherent in every Chindōgu is the spirit of anarchy, 4) Chindōgu are tools for everyday life, 5) Chindōgu are not for sale, 6) Humor must not be the sole reason for creating…