hungry

Takato Yamamoto

09jn20je  -  2020

Nietzsche failed to recognize that the so-called slave morality that he excoriates is in truth always a master morality, namely the morality imposed on the oppressed by the rulers. If his critique had been as consistent as It ought to have been, but isn't - because he too was in thrall to existing social conditions, because he was able to get to the bottom of what people had become, but was not able to get to the bottom of the society that made them what they were - it should have turned its gaze to the conditions that determine human beings and make them and each of us into what we are. For example, Nietzsche coined the phrase 'No shepherd and one herd'. He may have succeeded in discovering a formula to describe what the ghastly slogan now calls 'mass society', but that is not, as he imagined, the denunciation of the 'Last Man'. It is a description of a completely functionalized and anonymous form of domination, that nevertheless rules over this herd with incomparably greater brutality than if there were a visible bell-wether for them to follow.

really good text from my sister in law

76.5 x 76.5 x 4cm

Once upon a time, only those who intended to engage in high-risk confrontational protest activity had to concern themselves with surveillance and security. Today, surveillance and policing are becoming much more invasive and arbitrary. Even if you never violate any law, the state may nonetheless seek to make an example of you. Everyone who might participate in a demonstration at some point should familiarize themselves with the security protocols that radicals have developed over the years.

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oil on canvas

Alex Eckman-Lawn (American, b. Philadelphia, PA, USA) - The Secret, 2021, Collage Art

'Moby Dick'. Gerard Dubois. 2023.

Japanese poster of the 1922 silent classic Nosferatu