#23 Deleuze; Desert Islands and Other Texts

[ihopeyoubothstaysafefromharm]

gently invasive tag

thank you @pennygalleon for giving me something to do while i catch up on freelance mountain!!!

relationship status: remus lupin alone in a squat in budapest vibes

favorite food: cake. pasta.

favorite color: pink

song stuck in your head: high school in jakarta by NIKI it's so cute go listen to it

last thing you googled: no man is an island>john donne>deleuze islands>deleuze desert island>desert islands and other texts gilles deleuze pdf

time: 23:00

dream trip: manila, tokyo, new york.

currently reading: @rockingrobin69's new fic A Hop, a Skip and a Jump 

the next questions were supposed to be about books but i don't really do books currently so i made them about films

last film you saw: I'm currently watching In Flow of Words by Eliane Esther Bots

last film you enjoyed: The End of the Tour

last film you hated: i saw a terrible austrian film about the srebrenica genocide on thursday

favorite thing to cook/bake: i love making perfect pancakes, like the kind with a completely cartoony golden brown top. i'm very good at it.

favorite craft to do in your free time: drawing, making bracelets, coming up with tshirts i would screenprint if i had one of those little kit things

most niche dislikes: the colors green and orange together, the letter b, when you put your head on a school desk and inhale the smell of wet rag and desinfectant (if it only smells like disinfectant, it's ok)

opinion on circuses: the liberation of animals will be a task for animals themselves

do you have a sense of direction and if not what’s the worst way you’ve gotten lost? i have a condition that makes it hard for me to verbalize directions and things, but my own personal sense of direction is weirdly excellent. i do sometimes take weirdly long routes because i like walking or because of superstition!

last song you listened to: backburner by NIKI. can you tell i just discovered this new niki album today

last show you watched: i watched the boys finally like two weeks ago, i have no idea why, like i loved it but it also felt like eating gravel as cereal

currently watching: nothing

current obsessions: sleep, calvin klein briefs, figuring out how to style my hair, these new dickies pants i got, putting tahini in pasta sauce, fat water by fenty beauty, therapy, my eternal search for devastating thor fics, pretending to be @vukovich's fox banker draco in networking situations

tagging anyone who sees this because nosy and anxious!!!

#tag game

[wwlarch]

The Perfection

Coco only designs for all those who don’t design for themselves.

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Perfect body; Perfect attire. 

To be worthy of Coco’s fashion, one needs a perfect physique.

To be worthy of a perfect physique, one needs Coco’s fashion.

Again, perfect.[1] A perfect fool.[2]

If the body is perfect, why need perfect apparel?

If the apparel is perfect, why need a perfect body?

She get so sentimental when she see How perfect perfection can be.[3]

Fashion is a fig leaf that keeps you naked, blowing in the breeze.

Yes, perfect as a constantly changing process.[4]

The rule of perfect certainty,[5]

always changing and always perfect.[6]

At the same time there was a sense of complete stillness,

from which maybe another time or another history could start.[7]

At each stage, people said it was perfect beauty.[8]

The perfect pair of red shoes.[9]

The shirt is a subtle hue of ivory... Perfect everywhere.[10]

But again, it is not perfect.[11] It was never perfect.[12]

But the container is so perfect that it ridicules its imperfect contents.[13]

Cycle complete.[14]

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Why believe in the idea of a perfect world?[15] Suggestions were made, but they were considered to be less perfect.[16]

“Improvement is in the air, let us apply it to ourselves. The scientists would tell us what the body lacks for things it is called on to do today. They would point out what it has that it no longer needs. The artists would then design the perfect human being for the life of today and tomorrow. The toes would be eliminated. They were given to us to climb trees, and we do not climb trees anymore. This would permit interchangeable shoes, beautifully streamlined.[17] Cyborg politics is the struggle for language and the struggle against perfect communication, against the one code that translates all meaning perfectly, the central dogma of phallocentrism.[18] The object is only mistakenly inscribed as a complete body such as the body proper, or even the fragmented body.[19] Perfect realization, miraculous, remains in space, namely in utopia.[20] The gnomon knows only perfect squares, the perfect science of the logos, unaware of the irrationals; the archaic and highly imperfect science of the perfect logos.[21] Perfect, ecstatic even.[22] The one who does so will utter a timeless word.[23] Infinite, we are not perfect.[24] In the a priori proof, Descartes confuses absolute with infinitely perfect, but infinitely perfect is only a relative term.[25] You know that this is an utter fantasy.[26] And what do we see in the perfect crystal?[27] In Renoir, the crystal is never pure and perfect; it has a failing, a point of flight, a ‘flaw’.[28] Finitude Adapted, every species perfect, defined; finite, filled, fits its niche to perfection.[29] 

[1] Koolhaas Obrist, Project Japan

[2] Koolhaas, SMLXL

[3] Serres, The Five Senses

[4] Koolhaas Obrist, Project Japan

[5] Foucault, Discipline and Punish

[6] Koolhaas Obrist, Project Japan

[7]  Deleuze, Desert Islands and Other Texts

[8] Koolhaas, SMLXL

[9] Greenhalgh, Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky

[10] Koolhaas Obrist, Project Japan

[11] Koolhaas Obrist, Project Japan

[12] Serres, The Parasite

[13] Koolhaas, Delirious New York

[14] Koolhaas, Elements of Architecture

[15] Deleuze, Masochism Coldness and Cruelty Venus in Furs

[16] Foucault, Discipline and Punish

[17] Koolhaas, Delirious New York

[18] Haraway, Cyborg Manifesto

[19] Deleuze, Desert Islands and Other Texts

[20] Serres, Geometry

[21] Serres, History of Scientific Thought

[22] Serres, Biogea

[23] Serres, Hominescence

[24] Serres, The Parasite

[25] Deleuze, Expressionism in Philosophy

[26] Foucault, The Courage of the Truth

[27] Deleuze, Cinema 2 The Time Image

[28] Deleuze, Cinema 2 The Time Image

[29] Serres, The Incandescent