what is it that can’t be hurt? it is not pure cold, it is not an idea, not a concept, not an abstraction. it is neither lack in the psychoanalytic sense nor a feeling of invincibility, far from it. but i keep asking myself precisely this question. there’s something that can’t be hurt and i can think of the way in which blanchot wrote about ( Read more... )

Not a day has gone by since "Melancholia" that I have not thought about it. For a film to have that kind of impact on my day to day consciousness is exceedingly rare, although in 2011, this is the second of two such works, the other being Terrence Malick's "The Tree of Life".

oh man, please tell me you're fucking kidding. welcome to the hegelian ( Read more... )

“you trouble me with each of your words”

“to tell is never enough”

“ideas separate us. dreams bring us closer. no, nightmares.”

“sun and death never look at each other directly”

“affection is an ancient event”

“we discover war only once. but we discover life many times.”

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RD was in town and i was so freaking happy to see him, now of all times. we talked for 6-7 hours straight about beckett, french cinema, von trier, blanchot, freud, foucault, rorty, democracy, languages, and a myriad of other things. days like these, days like these.

i'll just say that again: the hour of the wolf

While I was still in that state of mind - it must have been about three o'clock - J. woke up without moving at all - that is, she looked at me. That look was very human: I don't mean affectionate or kind, since it was neither; but it wasn't cold or marked by the forces of this night.

only blanchot could understand "human" like this: not cold or ( Read more... )

contagion works fine for those who think that greater films are too upsetting, too hard to watch, and too fucked up. it’s like wanting to drink something strong for a change, just to make life more interesting, but having the fear of getting burned and thus opting for something strong, but never quite strong enough. it’s just never going to be ( Read more... )

( ophir, adorno, etc. )

( blanchot. silence, non-silence )