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“It’s anecdotal, but I regularly see Frankenstein’s monster described as a warning against scientific hubris, an alarm about Tampering With Things That Should Be Left Alone™. This I think is quite wrong: I think it is a story about what happens when one fails the (still at the time of writing) radical enlightenment by failing to take social responsibility for one’s actions and interventions. If it’s a warning, it’s a warning about turning one’s back, out of cowardice, on what one creates, not about creating it in the first place.”

— China Mieville, interview with the Weird Fiction Review (via brotticelli)

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"That undeniable spark of some long ago warrior woman lives inside your body and you forget to see her. That bone strength of the witches burned at long forgotten alters smoulders in your stomach and you forget to hear her. You are some indomitable creature, some raging battle worn miracle. You are the coallesing creation of the universe come together at one precise perfect moment. You carry fear and hunger and rage and fight and fight and fight You are centuries. You are civilisations. You are your own wars. You are all women."

Azra T

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China’s 600-year-old Palace Museum has recently announced a three-year deal with the tech-giant Tencent, to jointly promote traditional Chinese culture to the young generation in China.

A collection of creative works based on some traditional paintings of the Palace Museum has been released, in which an ancient character, believed to be one of the Emperor Yong Zheng’s concubines, were seen using Virtual Reality gadgets talking to the emperor, or using memes talking with other girls in the palace.

It is not the museum’s first attempt in promoting traditional culture through modern technologies in recent years. It has previously launched its own mobile application, and offers a variety of products on its official online store. In 2015, the museum’s revenue from creative products reached nearly one billion yuan (150 million US dollars). Tencent, which enjoys 877 million registered users, is expected to build a bridge between Chinese youth and traditional culture.

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if you arent someone the church wanted dead 300 years ago are you really living

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In 1942 Albert Camus wrote a book called “The Myth of Sisyphus”.

Camus describes those moments in our lives when our ideas about the world suddenly don’t work anymore, when every daily routine — going to work and back — and all our efforts seem pointless and misdirected. When one suddenly feels foreign and divorced from this world.

In these frightening moments of clarity we feel the absurdity of life.

Reason + Unreasonable World = Absurd Life

This absurd sensitivity is the result of a conflict. On the one hand we make reasonable plans for our lives, and on the other hand we are confronted with an unpredictable world which does not comply with our ideas.

So what is absurd? Being reasonable in an unreasonable world.

However, instead of denying that the world is unreasonable or abandoning reason all together, Camus suggests we should do three things:

1. Permanent revolution: We should constantly revolt against the circumstances of our existence and thus keep the absurd alive. We should never accept defeat, not even death, even though we know it can’t be avoided in the long run. Permanent rebellion is the only way to be present in the world.

2. Reject eternal freedom: Instead of enslaving ourselves to eternal models we should hold on to reason, but be aware of its limitations and apply it flexibly to the situation at hand — or put simply: we should find freedom here and now, not in eternity.

3. Passion: Most importantly we should always have a passion for life, love everything in it and try not to live as good as possible but as much as possible.

“Is It Worth the Trouble” by Ralph Ammer

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Perfume bottle consisting of eight enameled glass bottles as orange segments, set in painted ceramic holder. (ca. 1925)

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#inktober #fashionillustration #sketch #drawing orange #lipstick #headdress #copic

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A nice clean version of the photo I put up just now. “No more Regency Silver Snuffboxes.” They are shooting it as I type this. And oh, they are wonderful.

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Same

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boy: you got any fantasies ;)

me: ok so, im in an alternate universe where i have to fight with my friends for a better future and i have a huge sword

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Sunday night #caligraphy #handdrawntype #typography

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Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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Eric Wong

Lexicon for cohesion. MArch 5th Year, Tectonic Development, 2016

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I am endlessly troubled by “It’s not your place” rhetoric - you’re too young to be political, shut up. Singers actors artists should stick to what they’re good at and keep their opinions to themselves. How many times do we see “You need to keep to what you’re doing and stay out of politics.”

It is a very strange and yet effective silencing technique. Know your place. You’re not here to have a voice, you’re here to entertain us. You’re too young to understand. You’re a millennial, what do you know?

It’s an odd thing to witness. The assumption that a voting member of society can’t have an opinion because you’d rather ignore it. You’d rather like to picture your actresses as anti-feminist. Your musicians as nonplussed by racism. You believe this media was made for you, specifically, and that they can ruin it when they say unequivocally: no it’s not. You believe that the opinion of the youth is irrelevant even when they inherit the planet. You believe that anyone who speaks up against you is out of line.

Which begs the question. Who is allowed to have a voice? Who is allowed to speak up? You silence those with large platforms and dismiss the small ones. Do we all just turn a our head and stay out of politics? Leave it for the lawyers and politicians?

What’s wild is that the answer isn’t even yes to that. There are people evidently more deserving of office even if they’re unqualified, and we all know what that looks like now. And there are women who should have just stayed out of politics. Know your place.

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Coleen Theisen “fore-edge painting is a way of hiding a painting on the edge of book so that it can only be seen when the pages are fanned out.”