Against Anti-theory Anna Kornbluh On January 1, 2024, the best-selling author and motivational lifestyler Gabby Bernstein launched a New Year’s “Manifesting Challenge”: “If you think it, it will come.” To “manifest” is to make evident, _...Read More_

"The world of silence without speech is the world before creation, the world of unfinished creation."

"Ah is the shortest of human cries, Oh the longest. Man is born in an Ah and dies in an Oh, for birth is immediate and death is like an airplane taking off."

"Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now... Nobody understands it, nobody listens, they’re all running around like chickens with heads cut off."

"If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are."

"If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion."

"This is the first post in a series I plan to write on the work from our group and others that combines ideas from deep learning with ideas from self-organization and collective systems. In this first post, we’ll look at some of the _...Read More_

"Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey."

"Review of "Cœurs Simples", a solo show by Agnes Scherer"

"Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear."

"Long after graduation, anxiety in waking life often drags dreamers back into the classroom."

"People who feel themselves to be exiles in this world are mightily inclined to believe themselves citizens of another."

"The roots of the current controversy about antisemitic imagery found in some artworks exhibited in documenta fifteen need to be linked to Ruangrupa’s curatorial methodology for the exhibition, a product of European funding for global south _...Read More_

"But this is not a film just about fashion. It’s about the precarity of beauty-as-currency in a world where money equals power. Carl and Yaya use their looks to get ahead, but as Yaya points out, even self advancement has a shelf life – and _...Read More_