In K Punk Mark Fischer states that innovation depends on an absorbed (rather than distracted) drift. Isn’t this something that we are missing or have become less capable of, maybe I am projecting, I struggle with being absorbed in what I do. I want to delve into my work and focus solely on it and […]
Can artists only make two albums that can be held up as masterpieces or great works of music? Two classics. If we look at those who are heralded as geniuses within music there is a trend of those who died young. They are those who have had short careers and have released few albums. Their […]
Saying white lives matter is like a child demanding presents on its siblings birthday. That child needs to learn that sometimes they aren’t the focus of attention, and they shouldn’t expect to be either. It is important for that child to learn that they are not a victim due to the fact that attention is […]
Last week I explored the idea of the victim and the victimiser in relation to the short film La Vita Nuova by Christine and the Queens. I mentioned at the end of that post that there may be a link between love and scapegoating. This for me is linked to victimisation and victimisers, scapegoating is […]
Last week I explored Christine and the Queens short film La Vita Nuova that was released in conjunction with an EP of the same name. I did so in relation to high fashion and the ability of high fashion to evoke fantasy, an ability which Mark Fisher argued had been lost by high art which […]
Earlier this year Christine and the Queens released an EP called La Vita Nuova. In conjunction with the five-song project (six songs if you count the English version of ‘Je disparais dans tes bras’ ‘I disappear in your arms’ which plays over the credits) a film was also released. When I saw the fifteen-minute short […]
In the post last week, I started to explore the idea that Instagram is bleeding into life and to what extent life exists as something connected to social media. Essentially what I was beginning to explore was the idea that life is becoming disembodied. I looked at the mind body duality and how the mind, […]
In a recent video posted on Instagram Florence Pugh said a number of things that stuck me as odd. These are things that are necessarily specific to her rather they stood out as being symptomatic of something wider. It is symptomatic of the effect of Instagram and social media more generally on our relationship to […]
The rise of posthumous bio pics in the recent years is signs of our inability to think of the future. Our future is becoming the death of our past replayed over and over. Relived. We relive all of it, even the death. Maybe as a way to desensitise us to our own death. Watching lives […]
This afternoon I cut my hair. Over the last couple of days, between working on essays, I’ve been watching Casey Neistat’s daily vlogs. This led to me cutting my hair. I am going to self-indulgently analyse the reasons why. Casey Neistat, for some context, worked successfully in the TV, Film and advertising before starting a […]
Come Back To Earth 