The Life, the Universe, and Everything
From Robert Greene “The 48 Laws of Power”.
Law 48 – Assume Formlessness
Page 419
Judgment
By taking a shape, by having a visible plan, you open yourself to attack. Instead of taking a form for your enemy to grasp, keep yourself adaptable and on the move. Accept the fact that nothing is certain and no law is fixed. [...]
Victor Pelevin “The Sacred Book of Werewolf”
Have you seen the hit of the last Venice Biennale – the haystack in which the first Belarusian postmodernist, Mikolai Klimaksovich, hid from his local police inspector for four years? Alexander called this work plagiaristic and told Brian about the similar haystack famously used before the revolution by Vladimir [...]
TIFF REVIEWS (2007)
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Alexandra
Directed by Alexander Sokurov
By Travis Mackenzie Hoover
Alexander Sokurov is the kind of master who amazes and infuriates in equal measure — there’s no denying his artistry or his seriousness but his grandiose sweep of the arm can sometimes lapse into arrogance. But no matter what political assumptions he makes during the short running [...]
Making Art of Madness
On Nov. 15, 1934, Virginia Woolf began her rewrite of a novel eventually titled “The Years.” “Lord! Lord!” she noted in her diary, “10 pages a day for 90 days: three months … now, damnably disagreeable, as I see it will be – compacting the vast mass – I am using my [...]
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