marxism-bitchism

artists signed their work in order to own it, to stand behind it, to create continuity, to advertise themselves as professional artists. they stopped signing their work because the text distracts from the image, because the work can stand on its own, because artists love mystery and hate professionalism. or, if we we give agency to institutions, who today are the stewards of attribution, we could say that the professional artist is forced to accept these terms, to remove their name from their work, to rely on the institution's paternalism, without which they would be, ideally, perhaps, from the institution's point of view, completely anonymous. the ideal artist is a child of about 2 years, making muddy abstractions, each indistinguishable. only the parent, the caretaker, the teacher knows which is which. the bored yet motivated, manic teacher who can project onto these paintings a compelling narrative. of course to say this is the ideal is like saying ai is the ideal. there also needs to be the friction of mortality, wasted youth, tragedy, there needs to be adulthood to be taken seriously. this is where the name returns, to mark not only potential but limitation.

Said something pro ben laden in my essay on style, lets see if the editors let me keep it

as part of my EVIL jerseys collection, i'll be getting Aaron Hernandez's patriots jersey, the old christian rugby team jersey (the guys from uruguay who had to eat their friends while stranded in the andes after a plane crash killed half the team, those guys - they still sell the jerseys worn during that incident on their website), the people's temple basketball team jersey (this is my ultimate grail actually) they also didn't die in the jonestown massacre because they had an away game, of COURSE we have to get the OJ simpson jersey from when he was a buffalo bill - looking for more. lmk if the branch davidians had a baseball team or something, or if theres some fun sports crimes happening across the world...

I think a lot of people are pro-life because they know they would have been aborted, that is secretly their motivation and not actually a misguided interpretation of Christian theology or a belief that life begins at conception. They’re say shit like “What if your mom aborted you?” like, okay I wouldn’t be here, that really wasn’t on the table because my parents really wanted me and was on fertility treatments to try to have me. Would your mom have aborted you? Is that what this is all about, you wouldn’t have been born if your mother wasn’t coerced/forced to carry you to term and give birth to you so you feel like everyone else should be forced to give birth to their annoying baby?

They need to make a warriors type book but about orcas