also, why do men write about the internet? is it weird if i write a dissertation without ever citing a man on the internet?
(Source: malarky-shenanigans)
25 Mar 2013 / Reblogged from dudguacamole with 41 notes / ambiance no hate reading
judy chicago, atmospheres, performance pieces involving smoke and various pyrotechnical materials, various locations in california, 1967
6 Mar 2013 / 22 notes / ambiance feminist art space matters
"I began to get enormously interested in how everybody said the same thing over and over again with infinite variations but over and over again until finally if you listened with great intensity you could hear it rise and fall and tell all that there was inside them, not so much by the actual words they said or the thoughts they had but the movement of their thoughts and words endlessly the same and endlessly different."
Gertrude Stein (via thisblankpage). yes, it’s like this. (evocation is more important than information.)
(Source: enchntdrosewrites)
6 Mar 2013 / Reblogged from notational with 2,435 notes / ambiance weird rigor
"For tenderness between people is nothing other than awareness of the possibility of relations without purpose, a solace still glimpsed by those embroiled in purposes; a legacy of old privileges promising a privilege-free condition."
Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia (via fictionalhorse)
1 Mar 2013 / Reblogged from aviatrixie with 195 notes / dreamers uselessness ambiance
one of marc’s colleagues, upon hearing about our various vacation plans, said “i thought you said she was a feminist.” he was like “she’s not that kind of feminist.” vacationing is at least proximate to babbling and daydreaming, and so far contains both.
25 Feb 2013 / 15 notes / uselessness ambiance
in the 10 days between valentine’s day and this weekend’s trip i have gotten two manicures, one pedicure, one keratin treatment, a haircut, a bikini wax, and a lash tint. i also bought a four-piece lingerie set that i described to two friends as “tawny kitaen in a whitesnake video,” but not (yet) a new bikini.
22 Feb 2013 / 7 notes / price tags gifts ambiance weird rigor
22 Feb 2013 / Reblogged from sam-conlon with 64 notes / feminist art feminist archiving space matters ambiance
archiving as a placeholder for ambiance
last night we went to dinner and then for drinks at one of the three places we went on our second date, and talked about that for awhile, and then about marriage, and marc said something about how the idea of real commitment is appealing, not just because he likes contracts, and then, maybe, about the attempt to make a thing different from other things, or maybe i was the one who said that. he also said something, kind of, about how even though i am the one who wants kids, he can see the ways in which that experience adds something to a relationship, except that isn’t nearly as elegant as what he said, or at least what he evoked.
i have a terrible memory, but later, when we were falling asleep, i was thinking about how archiving, for me, was always really a placeholder for ambiance.
21 Feb 2013 / 9 notes / ambiance gifts
