Category: art

Both grace and faults are loved of more and less;

Buds are mysteriously unbound
With a discreet significance

We’re fast friends by now, Death much older of course,
but there’s no hierarchy between us

She’ll soon betray me too—like she will you. 
I know.

Legna Rodríguez Iglesias on betrayal and a bit on movies.

Alejandro Chacoff, in New York Review, on Clarice Lispector and Brazilian crônica and fiction.

“… crônicas do feed on a certain amount of friction—strange incidents, uncomfortable interactions with strangers, conversations with cab drivers (Lispector has a couple of very good pieces on this topic). […] The crônica demands a certain capacity for boredom, for being open to fleeting, small scenes of the quotidian.”

In New Yorker, a Lispector lost interview. An article (2015).

Heterotopias, place that opens behind the surface, holds an over-there-ness, represent a “reservoir of imagination” (MF). Within the fold. A garden as a microcosmic world build out of the juxtaposition or arrangement of elements. Place with temporal shifts and/or fragments. A cruise ship. An airport.

L’imaginaire de mon lieu est relié à la réalité imaginable des lieux du monde, et tout inversement. L’archipel est cette réalité source, non pas unique, d’où sont sécrétés ces imaginaires : le schème de l’appartenance et de la relation, en même temps.

Glissant, Édouard, Philosophie de la Relation, Paris, Gallimard, 2009.

“the imaginary of my place is related to the imaginable reality in all places …”

Releted(?) : heterotopias–“In Of Other Spaces Foucault coined the term “heterotopias” to signify “all the other real sites that can be found within the culture” which “are simultaneously represented, contested, and inverted.” For Foucault, heterotopic spaces were first of all spaces of crisis, or transformative spaces …”