Jean-Luc Nancy on the risk and value of love
Love opens onto a very great risk, but this risk is the measure of the incredible value we place on another person. We make him or her this valuable because we need to do so, because we receive something in return. Love tells us that things are never quite right with us when we’re alone. […]
35 years ago: The Three Mile Island accident
☛ National Archives: President Jimmy Carter leaving [Three Mile Island] for Middletown, Pennsylvania., 04/01/1979. Identifier:540021. Public domain. • • • On March 28, 1979, the Three Mile Island Unit 2 (TMI-2) reactor suffered a partial meltdown. The incident was rated at Level 5 on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale. Although the exact health […]
“Marine Accident” by Daido Moriyama, 1969
☛ TATE: “Marine Accident (Premeditated or not 5)” by Daido Moriyama, 1969, 4 photographs, gelatin silver prints on paper, various dimension, Tokyo Polytechnic University, Shadai Gallery. © Daido Moriyama. From October 10, 2012 to January 20, 2013, the TATE Modern museum in London held the William Klein + Daido Moriyama exhibition: Explore modern urban life […]
The unknowable: disasters and the production of explanations
There’s a tendency when faced with something of this drama and horror to try to discover a meaning of some kind in it — to try and parse it in some productive way. My experience is that there’s nothing to be achieved for that. I feel like all of the TV cameras are there saying, […]
