Michel Foucault 1984-2014: meditation on death
What gives the meditation on death its particular value is not just that it anticipates what opinion generally represents as the greatest misfortune; it is not just that it enables one to convince oneself that death is not evil; rather, it offers the possibility of looking back, in advance so to speak, on one’s life. […]
“The Young In Rebellion” by Michael Rougier, 1964
☛ LIFE: “Teenage Wasteland: Japanese Youth In Revolt” by Ben Cosgrove, original text by Robert Morse, photos by Michael Rougier, 1964. First spotted via the wandrlustr. The photo above is part of a series produced by LIFE photographer Michael Rougier while on assignment in Japan, in 1964. The series originally ran in a special issue […]
Ingmar Bergman and Käbi Laretei, by Lennart Nilsson, 1960s
☛ Bukowskis: Lot no. 631, Ingmar Bergman with wife Käbi Laretei photographed by Lennart Nilsson in the 60s. One of six photographs of Ingmar Bergman, including two by Lennart Nilsson, to be auctioned on May 29, 2013. Bukowskis does not have the exact dater for the photos, although one of them is known to be […]
“Life is meaningless”, Leo Tolstoy, 1884
☛ Hannah and Her Sisters by Woody Allen, United-States, 1986, @ 00:59:38. IMDb. • • • In The Sense of the World first published in French in 1993, Jean-Luc Nancy opens with the following observation: There is no longer any world: no longer a mundus, a cosmos, a composed and complete order (from) within which […]
