Zadie Smith
(photo: Dominique Nabokov)
“Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay. In the modern state there are very few sites where this is possible. The only others that come readily to my mind require belief in an omnipotent creator as a condition for membership. It would seem the most obvious thing in the world to say that the reason why the market is not an efficient solution to libraries is because the market has no use for a library. But it seems we need, right now, to keep re-stating the obvious. There aren’t many institutions left that fit so precisely Keynes’ definition of things that no one else but the state is willing to take on. Nor can the experience of library life be recreated online. It’s not just a matter of free books. A library is a different kind of social reality (of the three dimensional kind), which by its very existence teaches a system of values beyond the fiscal.”
- Zadie Smith, in the New York Review of Books.
« Quand une industrie s’arroge le droit de satisfaire, seule, un besoin élémentaire, jusque là l’objet d’une réponse individuelle, elle produit un tel monopole. La consommation obligatoire d’un bien qui consomme beaucoup d’énergie (le transport motorisé) restreint les conditions de jouissance d’une valeur d’usage surabondante (la capacité innée de transit). » - Ivan Illich, “Énergie et équité”, 1975
Il suffit, encore une fois, de regarder les sociétés “primitives” : elles vivent depuis des millénaires, génération après génération, en équilibre avec le monde qui les entoure, avec les bêtes, les plantes, les montagnes, et avec leurs outils. Ceux-ci viennent des temps immémoriaux, ce sont souvent des dons des dieux eux-mêmes. Comme nos bêches et nos pioches, ils possèdent toujours une beauté qui ne peut être disjointe de leur utilité, car ils appartiennent à une culture où le beau et l’utile - n’en déplaise au philosophe bourgeois ou marxiste - ne font qu’un. Comme le chemin de la technologie moderne nous a mené loin de cela, et en si peu de temps! Comme les outils du jardinier nous parlent d’un temps révolu!” - Jorn de Précy, “Le jardin perdu” (1912)
Free Hugs 04 by Gilleslabarbe on Mixcloud
tracklist:
I Self Divine - Up Aboves
Al da ear - Old school
Cities Aviv - Satisfy Your Soul
Antwon - RARE 2000S
Ben Jamin - Fatbacks
Furns - Don’t Mind
André Uhl - Convergence
Bayou - Cherry Cola
London Bridges - Hold Me Close
Slow Magic - On Yr Side
Anon - Jungle Rag
VILLΛGE - Dive
Liar - Fishnet
a u q s - Deva
Eternity Vision - Moments
ajlavmjuzik - Neon Quotes
ChromadaData - Track 02
knowsum - humpin, bumpin & sumthin
Shigeto X SKYWLKR - 2
Chrome Canyon - Memories of a Scientist (Matthewdavid Remix
zedika - take a look on my face
Action Bronson - Morey Boogie Boards (Prod. Harry Fraud)
Ghostface Killah & Adrian Younge - The Rise of the Ghostface Killah
Dadras - the rapture
en2ak - Ego Surf w. Spisek Jednego (Teielte Remix)
NoiCom - Working Class ft. Panu
Paradoxically, the life style that became the imago of the free self was not that of the businessman, expressing himself through his “dynamic drive”, but that of the artist defying the conventions of the society. (…) It is the artist who begins to dominate the audience, and to impose his judgment as to what is to be desired and bought. (…) Modernism as an attack of orthodoxy, has triumphed and become the regnant orthodoxy of the day. (…) Today, Modernism has become not the work of serious artists but the property of the culturali, the “cultural mass”, the distribution sector of cultural production, for whom the shock of the old has become the chic of the new. (…) In this double contradiction of capitalism, what has been established in the last thirty years has been the tawdry rule of fad and fashion: of “multiples” for the culturali, hedonism for the middle classes, and pornotopia for the masses. And in the very nature of fashion, it has trivialized the culture.” - Daniel Bell (The cultural contradictions of capitalism, 1976)
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