Archive for category: Quotations

‘Society’s phony love affair with nature’    (2012.09.15)

Jude Law, Breaking and Entering: “It starts with an argument with society’s phony love affair with nature. We are against the mistaking of grass for nature, of green for nature”

‘We, the Web Kids’ vs. ‘The IRL Fetish’    (2012.09.14)

You have never been more conscious of your offline life in your entire offline life

Don’t ambush your sources, frog-voiced Grey Lady defender cries    (2012.06.20)

David Carr: “Don’t be super-friendly on the telephone then hang up and just nuke somebody”

Slavoj Žižek explains Apple design    (2012.06.20)

A limited freedom of choice opens up other freedoms of choice, Slavoj Žižek says

How to distinguish happy and unhappy homosexualists    (2012.02.13)

“My family has always loved me”

The perils of being a man in ‘Straw Dogs’    (2011.10.10)

Melissa Lafsky: “The part [Alexander] Skarsgård plays here is Paragon Alpha, the man who can win on all fronts and serves as a boot in the ass to the socially softened hero. He evokes fear and respect in men while simultaneously compelling women to bang him”

‘A person at risk of becoming a journalist’    (2011.09.28)

“A person whose financial requirements are modest and whose curiosity, skepticism, and indifference to reputation are outsized is a person at risk of becoming a journalist”

‘I’m not attempting to create an inclusive vision of the queer community in this exhibition’    (2011.07.05)

‘I’m not attempting to create an inclusive vision of the queer community in this exhibition. I find that approach so patronizing’

‘We’re not talking about models’ feelings here’    (2011.06.30)

Alexander McQueen: “We’re not talking about models’ feelings here. We’re talking about mine”