Conrad Bakker / Untitled Projects @conradbakker.bsky.social · 20/05/2025“To be human,” Scanlan offers at the end of his book, “is to produce a world as an excess of meaning, or as something that leaves a remainder that is beyond meaning and comprehension.” 010
Conrad Bakker / Untitled Projects @conradbakker.bsky.social · 29/01/2025on the list of things to listen to instead of the news: the blacksmiths, the flowers –– 'Their dynamic is summed up best by a phrase of Moten’s in the maelstrom towards the music’s climax: “quantum-mechanical reproduction.”' www.readinggroup.co/rg30.htmlreadinggroup.coMoten/López/Cleaver - the blacksmiths, the flowers</em> 040
Conrad Bakker / Untitled Projects @conradbakker.bsky.social · 18/01/2025"In his film as well as in painting, Lynch wanted to remind us that the value of language as a means of communication often lies in its ability to flaunt its own inadequacy." www.thenation.com/article/cult...thenation.comThe Unsettling Genius of David LynchIn his films, his TV shows, and his paintings, Lynch reminded us that all art gestures toward a world beyond the familiar and comforting. 1101
Conrad Bakker / Untitled Projects @conradbakker.bsky.social · 22/12/2024"I suggest that art offers us an opportunity to be quiet and still and to allow, in that stillness, for a connection to form ... I think the superpower that art has is this distance it affords us, this capacity to be still and to allow resonances to arise from inside." #TildaSwintonnytimes.comTilda Swinton Would Like a Word With Trump About His MotherThe Academy Award-winning actress discusses her lifelong quest for connection, humanity’s innate goodness and the point of being alive. 070