Writing:
The Deconstructionists by Dean Kissick
featured in Heavy Traffic , Issue 6
“They looked and thought deeply about how others dessed. And they did see people in the oddest combinations of things , sometimes, and they wondered, “Are they wearing clothes to fuck with me?”...”
“Over the great collective unconsciousness, they skated. This was the unified electrical field. This was what it did to us, when everyone was connected, they could all come apart. When everyone talked and wrote too much, reality began to collapse. Reality was done.”
The Deconstructionists by Dean Kissick
featured in Heavy Traffic , Issue 6
“They looked and thought deeply about how others dessed. And they did see people in the oddest combinations of things , sometimes, and they wondered, “Are they wearing clothes to fuck with me?”...”
“Over the great collective unconsciousness, they skated. This was the unified electrical field. This was what it did to us, when everyone was connected, they could all come apart. When everyone talked and wrote too much, reality began to collapse. Reality was done.”
Book and Talk:
The Four Spent the Day Together
by Chris Kraus
Southbank Centre
Southbank literary festival 2025
The Four Spent the Day Together
by Chris Kraus
Southbank Centre
Southbank literary festival 2025
Exhibition:
Dress, Dreams and Desire: Fashion and Physchoanalysis curated by Valerie Steele
@ The Museum at FIT
Dress, Dreams and Desire: Fashion and Physchoanalysis curated by Valerie Steele
@ The Museum at FIT
Artist:
Ruben Toledo
inkblot fashion illustrations
1992
Ruben Toledo
inkblot fashion illustrations
1992
Book:
A Theory of Literary Production
by Pierre Macherey
A Theory of Literary Production
by Pierre Macherey
Exhibition:
Photos in fridges @Harkawik
artists that turn their cameras on what is nearest: collective and personal histories converging through portraiture
Photos in fridges @Harkawik
artists that turn their cameras on what is nearest: collective and personal histories converging through portraiture
Artist:
Emil Filla
Ctenar Dostojevskeho (1907)
A man, depleted of essence after reading dostoyevsky
Milostná Noc (1907)
Emil Filla
Ctenar Dostojevskeho (1907)
A man, depleted of essence after reading dostoyevsky
Milostná Noc (1907)
Exhibtion:
Gabriele Münter:
Contours of a World
@the Guggenheim NY
Exibited an array of scandinavian landscapes with swathes of snow and still lifes of table wares . My interest lay in her photography, a new addition to her artistic world. She carried around a portable box camera and explore the normal relationships between her and those she travelled with.
Gabriele Münter:
Contours of a World
@the Guggenheim NY
Exibited an array of scandinavian landscapes with swathes of snow and still lifes of table wares . My interest lay in her photography, a new addition to her artistic world. She carried around a portable box camera and explore the normal relationships between her and those she travelled with.
Book:
Name by Costance Debré
“I'm only interested in what interests me. I made that decision five years ago. It's very easy. It's crazy how easy it is.
That's its biggest advantage, the power of simplifying things. What interests me is existence itself, not the conditions of existence.“
Name by Costance Debré
“I'm only interested in what interests me. I made that decision five years ago. It's very easy. It's crazy how easy it is.
That's its biggest advantage, the power of simplifying things. What interests me is existence itself, not the conditions of existence.“
Interest:
Erik Satie’s ballet Parade
debuted 1917
the opening of the ballet “Parade”
by michel georges-michel
Exhibition:
Rashid Johnson:
A poem for deep thinkers
@ The Guggenheim NY
Erik Satie’s ballet Parade
debuted 1917
the opening of the ballet “Parade”
by michel georges-michel
Exhibition:
Rashid Johnson:
A poem for deep thinkers
@ The Guggenheim NY
Book:
Keep Walking Intently: The Ambulatory Art of the Surrealists, the Situationist International, and Fluxus by Lori Waxman
“Walter Benjamin explains in his analysis of the poem that "the correspondances are the data of remembrance," be it of prehistory, earlier life, the past, or the outmoded. They might be objects, words, smells, colors, or sounds. As in a dream or a temple, they return the gaze of the sensitive person but not, Benjamin notes, of the majority of modern citizens, whose overburdened eyes function in a state of "self-protective wariness" brought on by the facts of city life.”
Keep Walking Intently: The Ambulatory Art of the Surrealists, the Situationist International, and Fluxus by Lori Waxman
“Walter Benjamin explains in his analysis of the poem that "the correspondances are the data of remembrance," be it of prehistory, earlier life, the past, or the outmoded. They might be objects, words, smells, colors, or sounds. As in a dream or a temple, they return the gaze of the sensitive person but not, Benjamin notes, of the majority of modern citizens, whose overburdened eyes function in a state of "self-protective wariness" brought on by the facts of city life.”
Lecture:
Camille Paglia: Provocations
Camille Paglia: Provocations
Exhibition:
Man Ray: When Objects Dream
@ the Met
Man Ray: When Objects Dream
@ the Met
Book:
Nadja by André Breton
Nadja by André Breton
Podcast:
Nymphet Alumni
Ep 134: Fashion and Psychoanalysis w/Dr. Valeria Steele
perfect. episode.
10/10
bring in Lacan
Nymphet Alumni
Ep 134: Fashion and Psychoanalysis w/Dr. Valeria Steele
perfect. episode.
10/10
bring in Lacan
Person:
Morag Rose
Author of The Feminist Art of Walking
Morag Rose
Author of The Feminist Art of Walking
Exhibition:
Sixties Surreal
@ the Whitney
Sixties Surreal
@ the Whitney
Art:
“Your Portrait , specators!” (recreation)
Nov 1923 Bazaar or Modern Art curated by Karel Teige
A protest against the practice of painting in the era of photography - recognising this as a moment modern art enters Czechoslovak scene
“Your Portrait , specators!” (recreation)
Nov 1923 Bazaar or Modern Art curated by Karel Teige
A protest against the practice of painting in the era of photography - recognising this as a moment modern art enters Czechoslovak scene
Radio:
Laura Bates on Radio 4
digital intamacy
think about metaesthetics and the up-heaval of men fashioning the ‘perfect girlfriend through AI
Laura Bates on Radio 4
digital intamacy
think about metaesthetics and the up-heaval of men fashioning the ‘perfect girlfriend through AI
Film:
Letters to Brezhnev (1985)
Letters to Brezhnev (1985)
Person:
Professor Dan Hicks
Author of Every Monument Will Fall
Professor Dan Hicks
Author of Every Monument Will Fall
Artist:
Emil Orlik
model (1904)
Emil Orlik
model (1904)
Book:
Against Morality - Rosanna McLaughlin
Published by Floating Opera Press
“How much less dynamic are scenes of heaven! As a place where nothing lurks half-seen in the shadows, nobody is doing unspeakable things, love is untainted by cruelty, innocence is uncorrupted, and power is only wielded as a force for universal good, heaven may provide a standard to aspire to, but it is by necessity free from the lusty, contradictory, and morally ambivalent experience of being human.“
Against Morality - Rosanna McLaughlin
Published by Floating Opera Press
“How much less dynamic are scenes of heaven! As a place where nothing lurks half-seen in the shadows, nobody is doing unspeakable things, love is untainted by cruelty, innocence is uncorrupted, and power is only wielded as a force for universal good, heaven may provide a standard to aspire to, but it is by necessity free from the lusty, contradictory, and morally ambivalent experience of being human.“
Podcast:
radio 4: Rethink - Winners and Losers
zero-sum thinking
a philosophical deconstruction of left, right and centril morality
radio 4: Rethink - Winners and Losers
zero-sum thinking
a philosophical deconstruction of left, right and centril morality
Exhibition:
Surrealism and Its Legacy @ Southebys
Mari Eastman - Untitled (illustrated patchwork skirt worn as a top)
Surrealism and Its Legacy @ Southebys
Mari Eastman - Untitled (illustrated patchwork skirt worn as a top)
Art:
Amoungst the nerves of the world (1930)
by CRW Nevinson
British Pathé
This is London reel 1 (1950)
Amoungst the nerves of the world (1930)
by CRW Nevinson
British Pathé
This is London reel 1 (1950)
Film:
One Battle after Another (2025)
One Battle after Another (2025)
Publication:
Worms - The Love Issue
Interview with Constance Debré , author of Name
Worms - The Love Issue
Interview with Constance Debré , author of Name
Artist:
Ragnar Kjartansson
“the visitors” Barbican 2018
Ragnar Kjartansson
“the visitors” Barbican 2018
☙ NEW thought ☙
enjoy perturbment and dislike dick
- read my diary entry here
enjoy perturbment and dislike dick
- read my diary entry here
“As such, fashion is a communications system ‘almost like a language made up of a vocabulary (a collection of items of clothing typical of a culture), syntax (the rules about how clothes can be combined and organized), and grammar (the system of arranging and relating garments) set within the conventions of decoding and interpreting the meanings of a particular look”
- Jennifer Craik , Uniforms Exposed
- Jennifer Craik , Uniforms Exposed
Exhibition:
Lee Miller at Tate Britain
Lee Miller at Tate Britain
Book:
Flâneuse by Lauren Elkin
“Sailing out into a winter evening, surrounded by the champagne brightness of the air and the sociability of the streets', the observer feels blessed with the 'irresponsibility which darkness and lamplight bestow'. In the street we are no longer 'quite ourselves' - instead we become functions of the urban landscape'. Whereas once we were the objects of the gaze, as street haunters we become observing entities, de-sexed, un-gendered. “
Flâneuse by Lauren Elkin
“Sailing out into a winter evening, surrounded by the champagne brightness of the air and the sociability of the streets', the observer feels blessed with the 'irresponsibility which darkness and lamplight bestow'. In the street we are no longer 'quite ourselves' - instead we become functions of the urban landscape'. Whereas once we were the objects of the gaze, as street haunters we become observing entities, de-sexed, un-gendered. “
Artist:
Pippa Garner
Pippa Garner
☙ thought ☙
if fashioning is a translation of emotion, do our clothes translate what we feel? and do we gravitate then to wear things that connect us to a nice feeling...?
- read my diary entry here “Since her assessment rested on the emotional turmoil Chateaubriand experienced in observing the woman, Lajer-Burcharth displaced Récamier’s agency. Chateaubriand’s desires, insecurities, and anxieties were addressed more directly than the woman who provoked them. Lajer-Burcharth presented Récamier as alluring, dazzling, and beautiful, but ultimately silent.”
POLITICS, FASHION AND FEMALE AGENCY IN PARISIAN SALONS C. 1800: THE CASE OF JULIETTE RÉCAMIER
Tania Sheikhan
if fashioning is a translation of emotion, do our clothes translate what we feel? and do we gravitate then to wear things that connect us to a nice feeling...?
- read my diary entry here “Since her assessment rested on the emotional turmoil Chateaubriand experienced in observing the woman, Lajer-Burcharth displaced Récamier’s agency. Chateaubriand’s desires, insecurities, and anxieties were addressed more directly than the woman who provoked them. Lajer-Burcharth presented Récamier as alluring, dazzling, and beautiful, but ultimately silent.”
POLITICS, FASHION AND FEMALE AGENCY IN PARISIAN SALONS C. 1800: THE CASE OF JULIETTE RÉCAMIER
Tania Sheikhan
☙ thought ☙
popular culture is the promt we use to map out induvidualism
exercise: symptoms and prompts
- read my diary entry here
☙ thought ☙
if we reject the the passiveness of the presented (object, thought or relatioship), any thoughtful practice can be deemed ‘fashion’ as it requires a cognative reaction
that ends in a choice (fashioning)
if we reject the the passiveness of the presented (object, thought or relatioship), any thoughtful practice can be deemed ‘fashion’ as it requires a cognative reaction
that ends in a choice (fashioning)