PHONEY PERSONAE

“I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. / I do not think that they will sing to me.” —T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915) “To the Sirens… Continue reading →

A MOTTE AND A MOAT

“It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.”“The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.”“A man… Continue reading →

SPHERE OF INEFFICACY

“Keep your eye on your inner world and keep away from ads, idiots and movie stars.” —Surrealist Dorothea Tanning This is a Disinformation Age take on the Flammarion Engraving, an illustration commissioned for… Continue reading →

MAN UNKIND

 “Man’s being is made of such strange stuff as to be partly akin to nature and partly not, at once natural and extranatural, a kind of ontological centaur, half immersed in nature, half… Continue reading →

OVERSHARING WHILE DATING

“Above all, not too much zeal” —Charles Maurice de Talleyrand The neither young nor old gentleman in the image above has not learned the social graces. I’m not talking about mere etiquette; those… Continue reading →

ROLES AND MODELS

“Enframing means the gathering together of that setting-upon which sets upon man, i.e., challenges him forth, to reveal the real, in the mode of ordering, as standing-reserve. Enframing means that way of revealing… Continue reading →

THE WANTS OF A HAMMER

“The vast bulk of men are not pure individuals, and never will be, for the pure individual is a rarity, almost a kind of freak. The vast bulk of men need to belong… Continue reading →

DARK MONEY

“Between the idea and the reality falls the shadow” —T. S. Eliot. The drawing is an attempt to be a visual explanation of Being. From Sartre’s arcane—to me, at least—tome, Being and Nothingness… Continue reading →

VENUS VANITAS

“The truth is that in this house with its four walls of glass I feel like a prowling animal, always on the alert. I am always restless.” —Edith Farnsworth   The house in the… Continue reading →

HEAD INVASION

“Capitalism has turned human beings into commodities. To the owner of a restaurant: the cook and a bag of potatoes are equally important.” —Mokokoma Mokhonoana This post began as an idea to be… Continue reading →