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{Aglaïa Konrad - Archeology}

Audre Lorde - Zami (currently reading)

Caliban and the witch - Silvia Federici

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The plastic & Ornemental food

The Dialectics of Seeing - Susan Buck-Morss

If we look at the chairs of previous generations, they have very high, very stiff backs, they impose a posture that is almost a refusal of our physical integrity. They also correspond to a certain image of social order, we immediately visualise the family table, the patriarch at the end, the children lined up in order of descent around him. These are chairs for standing still, chairs that belong in a church.

Comfort of rest and comfort of movement.

I think that the obsession with lightness&, with transparency, which characterises part of modern design, has come into conflict with the consideration of comfort.

Marie Voignier - Hinterland

70 kilometers outside of Berlin, built on an old air base, sits an immense metal dome resembling a spaceship that today hosts a striking tropical park. Through the discovery of Tropical Islands and the multiple historical layers in which it is implanted, the film proposes a singular perspective on place and history, a poetic archaeology of our relationship with time, space, and illusion.

The Drama of Leisure or the Impossibility of Wasting One's Time - Jean Baudrillard

This delightful little fable, which sums up the entire ideology of the Club Mediterranee, involves several metaphysical postulates:
1 Leisure is the realm of freedom.
2 Every man is, by nature, in substance free and equal to others: he has only to be put back in a state of 'nature' to recover this substantial liberty, equality and fraternity. Thus, the Greek islands and the underwater depths are heirs to the ideals of the French Revolution.
3 Time is an a priori, transcendent dimension, which pre-exists its contents. It is there waiting for you. If it is alienated and subjugated in work, then 'you don't have time.' When you are away from work or unconstrained, 'you have time.' As an absolute, inalienable dimen­sion, like air or water, in leisure it once again becomes everyone's private property.

Let us return, for a moment, to the specific ideology of leisure. Rest, relaxation, escape and distraction are, perhaps, 'needs': but they do not in themselves define the specific exigency of leisure, which is the consumption of time. Free time is, perhaps, the entire ludic activity one fills it up with, but it is, first of all, the freedom to waste one's time, and possibly even to 'kill' it, to expend it as pure loss (this is why it is insufficient to say that leisure is 'alienated' because it is merely the time necessary to reproduce labour power. The alienation of leisure is more profound: it does not relate to the direct subordination to working time, but is linked to the very impossibility of wasting one's time).