February 2012
5 posts
January 2012
6 posts
July 2011
2 posts
April 2011
8 posts
Books are spooky, strangling.
- Thomas Bernhard
March 2011
8 posts
The challenge of tracing words on paper has a truly sculptural jouissance [une véritable jouissance plastique]. If my voice brings me pleasure, that is only out of narcissism. Writing comes from my muscles. I abandon [jouis] myself to a kind of manual labor. I combine two “arts”: the textual and the graphic.
- Roland Barthes / Une sorte de travail manuel
Hiring a six-loom weaving shop in the Blue Anchor Lane, we fitted it up ourselves with desks and seats, rude enough, doubtless, but we could not very well complain of our own handiwork, and there was nobody else to please. The [Carlisle] Mechanics’ Institution, although well managed and liberally supported, had failed somewhat in its mission, mainly, as was thought, through the reluctance of...
February 2011
12 posts
January 2011
22 posts
