“You look around and you see a world that is impenetrable, that cannot be made sense of. You either raise your fist or you say ‘Hallelujah.’ I try to do both.”
The founder is a liminal, Dionysian figure, expressing the synergy between thought and its embodiment in projects /
Democracy: The God that failed /
“What happens in other forms of government–namely, that an organized minority imposes its will on the disorganized majority–happens also and to perfection, whatever the appearances to the contrary, under the representative system. When we say that the voters “choose” their representative, we are using a language that is very inexact. The truth is that the representative has himself elected by the voters, and, if that phrase should seem too inflexible and too harsh to fit some cases, we might qualify it by saying that his friends have him elected. In elections, as in all other manifestations of social life, those who have the will and, especially, the moral, intellectual and material means to force their will upon others take the lead over the others and command them.”
What I saw through the lens in January, 2011 /
A dozen years have passed since I took and assembled this collection of photographs. It’s difficult to comprehend how quickly time and life leak away.
Dedra Meero and the Banality of Evil /
“What’s great about her character is that she does not see herself as evil. She absolutely believes in the Imperial Project and works tirelessly to uphold its values and dominance. She isn’t a cackling sorcerer or a witch. She’s a bureaucrat, which is to say she is the “banality of evil” incarnate. It is the Dedras of this world who cut people off from their bank accounts and place question marks against people’s names and files. It is the Dedras who carefully sift through data sheets inspecting compliance and malleability in populations. This is how we live now and it’s getting exponentially worse year after year. Of course, this all depends on where you stand in relation to the wants and whims of Power: if you’re compliant then you’re okay; if you’re thinking critically and speaking out loud, too bad for you. Or, as we are told, there will be consequences for your speech.”