N I H I L S E N T I M E N T A L G I A,
a blog about photography by Sofia Silva
© Sofia Silva, Driving into a car crash, 2013 “What then of Ballard the author – is he drawn into Vaughan’s project in a way that makes him a literary and ethical reactionary? To say so would ignore how Vaughan’s idea and its totalizing impulse seems to be offered us, as much as not, as…
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© Nobuyoshi Araki © Helmut Newton “Identity is untenable: it is death, since it fails to inscribe its own death. Such is the case with closed, or metastable, or functional, or cybernetic systems, which are all eventually waylaid by laughter, instantaneous subversion (and not by a long dialectical labor), because all the inertia of these…
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© Ana Mendieta A linguagem dos signos tomou conta das imagens. É certo e não é de agora. Noutros contextos, que não o da arte, o uso e abuso dos mesmos sistemas poderia levar-nos a desacreditar o fim, apesar da intenção. Contudo, no mundo da imagem e da música até, a recorrência aos alicerces que…
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N I H I L S E N T I M E N T A L G I A, 