Les Fantasmes (2021) - Thanatophilia segment
– Emil Cioran in “Cioran and Petre Tutea - An Exercise in Admiration“ (1991), directed by Gabriel Liiceanu (philosopher) and Constantin Chelba (artistic technician) In this interview, Cioran is talking about a 26-year old young man, a very competent clerk and who earned very well. He had read the ideas Cioran wrote about suicide and came to see him. They walked around Luxembourg for 3 hours and talked about suicide. The above words are some of many thoughts Cioran expressed him that evening. 3 years later, Cioran met him again, and the young man told him: “I followed your advice, and I am still alive”.
John Schabel, Voyeuristice Portraits of Passengers Just Before Departure, 1990s
“The idea of being in a plane is so much about being between places and that’s part of that state of mind I wanted to try and photograph.”
homouniversallis
“We’re talking about the fate of a whole planet. Why are people so polite? Why are they so patient? Why are they so forgiving of gangsterism and betrayal? It’s very difficult to understand. I believe it’s because the dominator culture is increasingly more and more sophisticated in its perfection of subliminal mechanisms of control. And I don’t mean anything grandiose and paranoid; I just mean that through press releases and sound bites and the enforced idiocy of television, the drama of a dying world has been turned into a soap opera for most people. And they don’t understand that it’s their story and they will eat it in the final act if somewhere between here and the final act they don’t stand up on their hind legs and howl.”
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Terence McKenna
Carl Schmidt-Helmbrechts, Empusa, 1894.
Quilters. Photographs by Henry Groskinsky (1971)
Additional information about these photos: Women of the all-black cooperative at the Martin Luther King Freedom Quilting Bee, hand sewing a quilt, Alberta, Alabama. (Photo by Henry Groskinsky/The LIFE Picture Collection)