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hearing damage2 comments

Dalva wrote 1 month ago:  5  The smallest muscle in the human body is in the ear. It is also the only muscle that does not ha … more →

Tags: Alberto Rios, Some Extensions on the Sovereignty of Science, language is never enough, Radiohead

"I want us to enjoy our wounds."*

Dalva wrote 2 months ago: ” A form of life appears that bids farewell to all the subject’s old modes of being. Thi … more →

Tags: zizek, Malabou, Love, Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, In Praise of Love, Catherine Malabou, trauma, The New Wounded

in life as in death

Dalva wrote 3 months ago: Land of the Missing (documentary, 2008) Il y aurait des événements qui pourraient interrompre toute … more →

Tags: Malabou, Catherine Malabou, Documentary, genocide, Les Nouveaux Blessées, missing, Mustafa Hadžiibrahimović, New Wounded, PLASTICITY

sing little box

Dalva wrote 5 months ago: THE LITTLE BOX The little box gets her first teeth And her little length Little width little emptine … more →

Tags: Vasko Popa, Mala kutija, the little box, Charles Simic, Todo sobre mi madre/All about my mother, Pedro Almodóvar

waltz until it comes

Dalva wrote 5 months ago: Admonitions To A Special Person Watch out for power, for its avalanche can bury you, snow, snow, sno … more →

Tags: Balanescu Quartet, Anne Sexton

neverstopped

Dalva wrote 5 months ago: … more →

Tags: Love, tracy emin

song3 comments

Dalva wrote 5 months ago: Song, I am unused to you - when you come your voice is behind trees calling another by my name. So l … more →

Tags: Jim Harrison, Poetry

an economy of positive lack

Dalva wrote 5 months ago: Write? Taking pleasure as the gods who created books and give pleasure, endlessly; their bodies of p … more →

Tags: Love, Nietzsche, Helene Cixous, Clarice Lispector, words written in blood to be read by heart

saudade

Dalva wrote 6 months ago: Rápidas manos frías / Cold rapid hands Retiran una a una / draw back one by one Las vendas de la som … more →

Tags: Saudade, Octavio Paz, Sea

night windows

Dalva wrote 6 months ago: Who is this other the secret sharer who direct the hand that twists the heart between feather and st … more →

Tags: dreams. curiosity, Edward Hopper, Jim Harrison, dream, Metaphor, survival, night windows, Dream as a Metaphor of Survival, Just Before Dark

on kairos

Dalva wrote 6 months ago: “The possibility of conversion, of creation as such, as it may arise from the exploration of the sel … more →

Tags: signs from the future, Kairos, Masha Tupitsyn, Anne Dufourmantelle, European Graduate School

alike

Dalva wrote 6 months ago: “Ordinary language is an accretion of lies. The language of literature must be, therefore, the … more →

Tags: D.F.Wallace, susan sontag

Gods

Dalva wrote 6 months ago:     In ancient religion all significant behavior was according to a prototype. Man > ar … more →

Tags: susan sontag, Brainpickings, God(s), Deconditioning

Cronenberg is no poet

Dalva wrote 8 months ago: Jarek Pucsel, Lovers “What do poets know about money? Love the world and trace it in a line of … more →

Tags: Don De Lillo, Cosmopolis, Jarek Pucsel, Lovers, Cronenberg is blind

Dalva wrote 8 months ago: We have to give objects, including objects of desire, a chance to die violently. A vase, a chair, a … more →

Tags: Nietzsche, Jean Baudrillard, Fragments, Object of Desire, dancing star, on the road, Mary (Lou)

under the influence

Dalva wrote 9 months ago: She doesn’t “know” what she’s giving, she doesn’t measure it; she give … more →

Tags: The Laugh of the Medusa, Helene Cixous, gena davis, "Woman Under The Influence", John Cassavetes, movies for life

sdneirf

Dalva wrote 10 months ago: You Will Hear Thunder You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim O … more →

Tags: Anna Akhmatova, rothko, Orange Red & Yellow

been there

Dalva wrote 10 months ago: There was a sense in which it was a secret place, a litteral retreat, an analogue of what had always … more →

Tags: John Fowles, Daniel Martín, David Bowie, The Man Who Fell To Earth, Tsankawi, New Mexico, book travelling

From Twenty-One Love Poems- Adrienne Rich

Dalva wrote 10 months ago: via reveriesunderthesignofausten.wordpress.com … more →

Tags: Adrienne Rich, From 21 Love Poems


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