All Things Shining

Thomas Thinks and Finds Things Interesting

“The freedom to have multiple partners rather than be tied down to one is more congruent with listing 600 people as “friends” on your Facebook profile.”

- Relationships in Late Capitalism

from Adbusters

Christ Crucified between the Two Thieves: The Three CrossesRembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, 1606–1669)Drypoint, engraving, and scraping

Christ Crucified between the Two Thieves: The Three Crosses
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, 1606–1669)
Drypoint, engraving, and scraping

[T]he face [is] a source from which all meaning appears.

Levinas (Totality and Infinity 297) 

One need not be a Chamber -- to be Haunted --
One need not be a House --
The Brain has Corridors -- surpassing
Material Place --

Far safer, of a Midnight Meeting
External Ghost
Than its interior Confronting --
That Cooler Host.

Far safer, through an Abbey gallop,
The Stones a'chase --
Than Unarmed, one's a'self encounter --
In lonesome Place --

Ourself behind ourself, concealed --
Should startle most --
Assassin hid in our Apartment
Be Horror's least.

The Body -- borrows a Revolver --
He bolts the Door --
O'erlooking a superior spectre --
Or More --

Emily Dickenson

Simone Martini, The Annunciation with St. Margaret and St. Ansanus, 1333

Simone Martini, The Annunciation with St. Margaret and St. Ansanus, 1333

To take away a government’s (or a capitalist’s) good conscience is to take away its power to use violence, because it is to take away its legitimacy.

Jaques Ellul, Violence pg. 143