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Water tower, Margit Islands, Budapest, 1914. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

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"holy dress" from marina eerrie's "pixie hollow & purgatory" collection .

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Les Enfants de la nuit - Caroline Deruas - 2013 - France (short film)

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and told you i’d miss you so much / on my return // that my body would ache / in the absence of you // an S-shaped lacuna. / it was a foretelling // of this love, that we share / the intensity of y(our) memories // but also a knowing / of what we have, split screen. // the spiraling sensation / you give me, resplendently. // that i am so alive with you / so risen, my skin etched like braille, with // stars that read / our history, in astonishing color. // i do not know / what lies in the lilting / blue windows of our abstract future // but i revere you with a meticulous longing, // with an open, radiating / heart, i’ve let you in.”

Fariha Róisín, "responsibility is not a burden", How to Cure a Ghost

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Phil Hine, Condensed Chaos

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The Passion of Joan of Arc, Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928

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William James, Psychology: The Briefer Course

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Con Chim Vành Khuyên, Nguyễn Văn Thông, Trần Vũ, 1962

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BANKS, Thomas Thetis Rising from the Sea 1778 Marble, height 91,4 cm Victoria and Albert Museum, London

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Where is the mind, Arendt asks, when it withdraws from the world of appearances? It is “Nowhere”: “Though known to us only in inseparable union with a body that is at home in the world of appearances by virtue of having arrived one day and knowing that one day it will depart, the invisible ego is, strictly speaking, Nowhere.” According to Arendt, to truly think, we have to step away from the world of appearance and retreat into ourselves. Once this retreat is effected, we can pull the idea for contemplation into our mind. We move into our mind and out of the body — and there, away from others, and, in a sense, away from ourselves, we can truly practise thinking.

Cynthia Cruz, Disquieting: Essays on Silence

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Guattari’s idea is both refreshing and profound. He suggests that when a person experiences psychosis, her psychosis changes according to her surroundings, and, therefore, treating her with fear by locking her up, keeping her in restraints, overmedicating her, and exposing her to other methods of suppression only serves to change her psychosis to a psychosis of fear and paranoia. Who, psychotic or not, in the same situation wouldn’t also feel terror and paranoia? Indeed, there is a legitimate reason to be paranoid and afraid. Further, the shock of being treated inhumanly, the sense of alienation and of betrayal, and, perhaps paramountly, the realization that humans can and do treat other humans in this way, is itself shocking and traumatizing. It is a shock and trauma that alters the psyche, changing the personality of the person who undergoes it.

Cynthia Cruz, Disquieting: Essays on Silence

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Refusing to bind external appearance to internal function is paramount because when brought back to the study of philosophy, of life, and of language, it is essential to examine where meaning resides. Arendt writes that the philosopher must leave the world in order to think: “In order to find out what truly is, the philosopher must leave the world of appearances among which he is naturally and originally at home — as Parmenides did when he was carried upward, beyond the gates of night and day, to the divine way that lay ‘far from the beaten path of men,’ and as Plato did, too, in the Cave parable.” When the philosopher leaves the world of appearances, in a sense she disappears. And, Arendt writes, when the thinker thinks, she, too, disappears.

Cynthia Cruz, Disquieting: Essays on Silence

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Double portrait, 1910. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

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fatima aamer bilal, excerpt from moony moonless sky’s ‘we were put on this earth desperate, hungry and willing.’

[text id: in a sharp set of knives, i looked for a hand to hold. / i could not stop myself from needing to belong somewhere, even if that somewhere was a burial ground.]

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It seems to me that much of the misery we call and treat as depression today could be understood as melancholia. We may be experiencing a sense of melancholia in response to what we have lost in terms of the conversation surrounding our inner lives. Run by the pharmaceutical industry and insurance companies, most mental health treatment in the U.S. consists of short sessions of often short-term, often cognitive therapy and medication with the precise goal of returning the patient to efficient productivity. We have lost holistic treatment, and instead focus on managing the patient’s symptoms rather than finding their causes. [...] These messages that we are unfit, that our symptoms need to be eradicated rather than listened to, inform our emotional and psychic life — they contribute to our depression.

Cynthia Cruz, Disquieting

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