An Unenviable Situation: "...paperback originals with French flaps, using a custom serif typeface"

Monday, November 08, 2021

"...paperback originals with French flaps, using a custom serif typeface"

in re: the contemporary ubiquity of academic discussions of "images": the art of the past framed thoughtlessly in the language of the present. Benjamin returns us to the Gothic in more ways than one; focusing on immateriality and ideas—ideas are immaterial—takes us out of the world.

A monk staring at an icon is looking for "truth". Painters like storytellers are craftsmen, makers of fictions, illusions, and "lies". "There’s no art more ironic than a Fra Angelico." Historians are secularists; priests are sincere. Philosophy is so fucking reactionary.

new tag: The Same Story About Barthes

I used to be fond of "subaltern" academics in the west, but they've become so successful that the outsider status has become aestheticized. Academia serves its own interests. The romanticism of the international hereditary PMC: a discussion of Egyptian political prisoners is a discussion of prison abolition, which follows a discussion of Egyptian architectural modernism. Utopianism is anti-political. Academia is a safe space for priests and pedantry.

Honoured to be launching (with visionary curator @lisa_g_dub) @alaa’s You Have Not Yet Been Defeated at this year’s Dublin Art Book Fair. In conversation with @AnniefletcherR and with readings by @asoueif @seanehewitt and @RonitLentin https://t.co/qRBxu12ItC
— Hussein A H Omar (@chebhocine) November 8, 2021

Put a pdf on the fucking web. Share it "for the revolution". Fuck "curators", "aestheticized politics", and "French flaps, using a custom serif typeface". Fuck "Coffee table architectural favela porn.”

And who gives a fuck about the fucking Queen?

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