November 2011
2 posts
“Amarillo By Morning”, por Spike Jonze
January 2011
2 posts
[F]or the individual discipline himself until his suffering no longer opens onto...
– Walter Benjamin
November 2010
1 post
October 2010
6 posts
En los primeros Nocturnos [de Nostalgia de la muerte, 1938] aparecen objetos,...
– Octavio Paz, Xavier Villaurrutia: en persona y en obra, FCE, 1978.
Chantal Mouffe | Artistic Activism and Agonistic... →
Bruno Latour: Nature, Space and Society
«Al estallar y revelarse nacionalmente como una fuerza social distinta, una...
– Carlos Monsiváis
«¡Ay, Atenas era Atenas, ni más ni menos; y con serlo, acabó dando muerte a...
– Alfonso Reyes
«Pero la nostalgia no es siempre nostalgia de un pretérito. Existen lugares que...
– Valeria Luiselli
September 2010
11 posts
John Menick, Hearsay (2010)
John Menick. How To Tell a Story (2009) →
Asimismo, dejando aquí el tono de farsa, en un tema [“el progreso, esa...
– Charles Baudelaire
Todo aquél que sea un activista y al mismo tiempo un pesimista es o será un...
– André Malraux
El inmenso crecimiento del complejo monetario e industrial aportó consigo...
– George Steiner
Medien Kunst Netz →
By its very existence, sociology presupposes the overcoming of the false...
– Pierre Bourdieu
Rider Spoke
On Phospenes →
August 2010
3 posts
Si se sabe que en el caso de la pintura, que no es objeto directo de enseñanza,...
– Pierre Bourdieu
The passport photograph demonstrates the working of the ‘microphysics of power’...
– J. J. Long
Diccionario alfonsino, en Letras Libres →
July 2010
13 posts
We can say that communism is not a dreamed-up freedom or a phantom that only...
– Claire Fontaine
[I don’t love] any people or collective—neither the German people, nor the...
– Hannah Arendt
The idea of the specificity of pictorial technique is consistent only at the...
– Jacques Rancière
I have always been somewhat suspicious of the notion of liberation, because if...
– Michel Foucault
Diálogos: Claire Fontaine + Cuauhtémoc Medina →
Herein, perhaps, lies the secret: to bring into existence and not to judge. If...
– Gilles Deleuze
[T]he end of study may never come –and in this case the work forever remains a...
– Giorgio Agamben
[E]very written work can be regarded as the preface (or rather, the broken cast)...
– Giorgio Agamben
June 2010
31 posts
Las fotografías de este artista anterior [Eadweard Muybridge], con tomas con...
– Cynthia Freeland
Guide to Drawing. The Guardian. →
In every case of these axiomatic structures, there is some kind of intervention...
– Rosalind Krauss