Formalization requires violence as the anarchic and unbound is destroyed for the sake of order; when a new code or law is issued, exceptions must be culled without a trace.
The balance sheet of civilization—when you add up the pleasures versus the pains that come about as a result of a certain way of living.
Physical systems secret symbols; symbols build physical systems.
To date, I’ve had nothing like financial success from my work; if anything, I've taken economically productive from my day job to do it.
The anxiety of influence is particularly strange when its expressed as a derivative product (memes) of the thing which causes anxiety. The medium conveys the inability to have a message, which becomes the message. Non-artists can only become artists by throwing the whole business of creation into ironized confusion; if nothing is good or real than anything can become good or real.
If you take a symbolic approach towards ‘what happened’ you end up somewhere else completely. Poetry is created in the swerve.
On Instagram—anxious reaffirming of identity in the mirror, personas standing in the bathroom whispering, “you got this, you are this.”
On the scene creature. You can’t be much of an artist once you’ve embraced ironically