Monthly Archives: May 2011

The New Home of UNSAID

Posted on May 29, 2011 by Brian Kubarycz

Oyster Pond – Montauk, New York

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Portraits de criminels australiens dans les années 1920

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Brian Kubarycz

(more outlaws)

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Domestic Fictions – The Triumph of Writing over Drawing in Modern Architecture

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Brian Kubarycz

“The look is directed . . . in such deliberate manner as to suggest the reading of these houses as frames for a view.” — Beatriz Colomina, “Split Wall” “But with all the interrogation of the word feminine, one sometimes … Continue reading →

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Beecher’s Magazine Is The Next Big Literary Hoo-Ha

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Brian Kubarycz

It’s officially Beecher’s season. Now you know. If you don’t send it to UNSAID, send it to them. http://www.beechersmag.com Editorial Board, Fall 2010 – Spring 2011 Chloé Cooper Jones, Editor Ben Pfeiffer, Managing Editor Daniel Rolf, Design Editor Nate Barbarick, … Continue reading →

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Surviving One’s Own Death – “The owl of Minerva flies only at dusk.” — G.W.F. Hegel

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Brian Kubarycz

Huge props for Malabou (‘the best book on Hegel in twenty years’) offered by Slavoj Žižek. His discussion of Malabou begins at 5’20”. Douglas Crimp’s writings on the origin and purpose of the art museum (click), as a public institution, … Continue reading →

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History & Trauma ~ Civilization & Its Discontents

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Brian Kubarycz

“I shall not recapitulate the disasters of the Alexandrian library,” Edward Gibbon writes in the fifty-first chapter of the The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. The historian resolves, with these words, to remain silent about … Continue reading →

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“Living In The Land of The Lost”

Posted on May 23, 2011 by Brian Kubarycz

The illusion of the freedom of the ego can be better understood by reviewing to the notion of the automaton. Remember that Descartes was able to gain mastery over the res extensa by declaring it to be purely passive and … Continue reading →

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“Adieu Adieu” – Profane Illuminations and Surrealism’s Assault on Light and Vision

Posted on May 23, 2011 by Brian Kubarycz

Guillaume Apollinaire – “Zone” (1912) You are weary at last of this ancient world Shepherdess O Eiffel tower whose flock of bridges bleats at the morning You have lived long enough with Greek and Roman antiquity Here even automobiles look … Continue reading →

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Longing – Padgett Powell (from Unsaid One)

Posted on May 7, 2011 by David McLendon

The kind of exhaustion I am talking about is, simply, or not simply, the broken heart. It makes you long to hold hands with someone you have not hurt who has not hurt you. This longing would be immediately and … Continue reading →

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Let Us Rest in the Shade of the Trees – Padgett Powell (from Unsaid One)

Posted on May 7, 2011 by David McLendon

—In the grove of trees down there is a table and a barber pole. You place your hat on the pole, and— —I do? —One does. —Why? —Would you allow me to tell you? —Prosecute your voyage. —One places his … Continue reading →

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