"I don't care if the fascists have to win / I don't care democracy's being fucked / I don't care socialism's full of sin / The untenable system engenders rot" -Stereolab
"My sister was a tomboy and had a very high IQ, higher even than mine. Even though her IQ was high, she couldn't understand how a high IQ and the desire to be loved as a female could exist together in one body. Since her body thus had to be monstrous, she refused to go out of our parents' house. She knew who she was: since she was a freak, she was unlovable. She had to and did pay, rather my parents paid, someone to love her. She loved this paid companion because the paid companion loved her and at the same time she detested the paid companion because, since the paid companion loved her only for economic reasons, she was proved to be unlovable. When my sister suicided at the age of 21 I didn't cry." -Kathy Acker
"No woman could have been Nietzsche or Rimbaud without being lobotomized." -Andrea Dworkin
"Since it is sure of its ability to control the entire domain of the visible and the audible via the laws governing commercial circulation and democratic communication, Empire no longer censures anything. All art, and all thought, is ruined when we accept this permission to consume, to communicate and to enjoy. We should become the pitiless censors of ourselves." -Alain Badiou
"Extremes mean borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism in art and in politics is a veiled longing for death." -Milan Kundera
"I treat my little heart like a sick child: whatever it wishes for is granted." -Goethe
21 year old student interested in visual art, film, music, philosophy, history, and literature. currently learning more about: Japanese New Wave, Wallerstein's world-systems theory, 18th/19th century German poetry, late 90s/early 2000s Japanese indie pop (Clover, LD&K, Minty Fresh, etc), nu gaze.
personally influential art/artists/theory/thinkers (no order): Stereolab, Mark Lombardi, all second-wave feminist theory, Kathy Acker (Blood and Guts in High School, Empire of the Senseless), My Bloody Valentine's "Loveless", Chris Kraus's I Love Dick, Marc Chagall, Alain Badiou ("Fifteen Theses on Contemporary Art", In Praise of Love), Fiona Apple, Repatriation (2004), Red House Painters' "Down Colorful Hill", SCUM Manifesto, Belladonna of Sadness (1973), Standing On The Corner's "Red Burns", Sun Ra, Nina Powers's What Do Men Want?, Hilma af Klint, Eka Kurniawan (Beauty Is A Wound, Man Tiger), The Act Of Killing (2012)