#teju cole

[ghosthierophant]

NOPE (Jordan Peele) / Blind Spot (Teju Cole)

#nope 2022 #nope film #jordan peele #teju cole #steven yeun #jupe park #ricky park #blind spot #lazarus #jupiter park #NOPE #threads #my graphics

[causticameracrap]

NOPE (Jordan Peele) / personal essay / Blind Spot (Teju Cole) / The Writing of the Disaster (Maurice Blanchot) 

#nope 2022 #nope film #jordan peele #teju cole #jupe park #jupiter park #maurice blanchot #ricky park #gordy's home #steven yeun #blind spot #NOPE #threads

[soracities]

Teju Cole, interviewed by Aleksandar Hemon for Bomb Magazine

[Text ID: “What do I believe in? Imagination, gardens, science, poetry, love, and a variety of non-violent consolations. I suspect that in aggregate all this isn’t enough, but it’s where I am for now.“]

#the way their friendship illuminates this conversation...a delight truly #q #lit #quotes #teju cole #interviews #bomb magazine #life everlasting #typography #m #x

[sivavakkiyar]

had to look hard to find Cole’s old (these are like relics) seven short stories about drones (they actually show up pretty quick, no clue why I couldn’t find them for a long time:) these were all originally individual tweets, I believe he did them as off the dome as any tweet is—-

#teju cole #probably I had trouble finding a source that didn’t just link the tweets directly and I was lazy #drones #imperialism #literature

[nobeerreviews]

Everything feels alive, and looking at the trees there in their dozens, you suspect that they are about to rise into the air like a flock of birds.

-- Teju Cole

(Bistrița, Romania)

#trees #old house #teju cole #travel photography #bistrita #romania #quote #alive

[jacobwren]

“Sometime in my late 20s I realised – I mean, it’s obvious in retrospect – that what I wanted was the maximal complexity of thinking in the clearest language that would support that thinking. Being avant garde isn’t about being unreadable.” - Teju Cole

#teju cole

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Editors Note: The words above appear in a book called Human Archipelago which includes photos made by Fazal Sheikh accompanied by text provided by Teju Cole. I find them helpful in my active consideration of what my moral responsibilities are and in my commitment to be (or try to be) an agent of hope and healing in our sweet old world. When I say I find them helpful, I speak only for myself and in my personal capacity as a creature citizen. That said, I hope you find them helpful too.

[Thanks always to David Dark]

Human Archipelago--Online Edition

#David Dark #Dark Matter #Human Archipelago #Teju Cole #Fazal Sheikh #quotes #theology #philosophy #news

[celluloidwickerman]

Presence; or Polaroid Ghosts (Part 1)

‘There is a spectre inside every photograph.’ – Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything There comes a point when trying to get a book off the ground (i.e. published) where you have to accept defeat. As will no doubt become an increasingly familiar scenario, judging from my recent experiences with British publishing at least, the projects that fail to find a home on paper will eventually be…

View On WordPress

#Adam Scovell #Andrei Tarkovsky #Book of Sand #Celluloid Wicker Man #Charles Jourdan #Gaston Bachelard #Guy Bourdin #jorge luis borges #Mise en Abyme #photography analysis #photography essays #polaroid #Polaroid analyiss #Polaroid analysis #Polaroid articles #Polaroid essays #Presence #Presence or polaroid ghosts #teju cole #Toshio Matsumoto #Wim Wenders

[fiercestpurpose]

He was a murderer, a slaveholder, a terror and a pest. But I don’t go to Caravaggio to be reminded of how good people are and certainly not because of how good he was. To the contrary: I seek him out for a certain kind of otherwise unbearable knowledge. Here was an artist who depicted fruit in its ripeness and at the moment it had begun to rot, an artist who painted flesh at its most delicately seductive and most grievously injured. When he showed suffering, he showed it so startlingly well because he was on both sides of it: He meted it out to others and received it in his own body. Caravaggio is long dead, as are his victims. What remains is the work, and I don’t have to love him to know that I need to know what he knows, the knowledge that hums, centuries later, on the surface of his paintings, knowledge of all the pain, loneliness, beauty, fear and awful vulnerability our bodies have in common.

Teju Cole, "In Dark Times, I Sought Out the Turmoil of Caravaggio's Paintings"

#teju cole #words #caravaggio

[wellconstructedsentences]

My friend, who seemed to have read my thoughts, said, You have to set yourself a challenge, and you must find a way to meet it exactly, whether it is a parachute, or a dive from a cliff, or sitting perfectly still for an hour, and you must accomplish it in a beautiful way, of course.

Open City by Teju Cole

#open city #teju cole

[ghosthierophant]

NOPE (Jordan Peele) / Blind Spot (Teju Cole)

#nope 2022 #nope film #jordan peele #teju cole #steven yeun #blind spot #maurice blanchot #jupe park #ricky park #gordy nope #gordy's home #jupiter park #gordy the chimp #threads #my graphics

[s-hodne]

«BLACK PAPER - Writing in a Dark Time» by TEJU COLE

I feel the sadness of the city, a sadness all the more powerful because everything around suggests that there is nothing to be sad about. «BLACK PAPER – Writing in a Dark Time» by TEJU COLE A new, beautifully disturbing essay collection by Teju Cole. If I am to highlight some of them … 1) “After Caravaggio”, a work of art in its own right. 2) “Gossamer World: On Santu Mofokeng”, a beautiful…

View On WordPress

#aesthetics #Black Paper #contemporary art #essays #essays on art #philosophy #photography #Teju Cole

[litandlifequotes]

We experience life as a continuity, and only after it falls away, after it becomes the past, do we see its discontinuities. The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and events float

Open City by Teju Cole

#teju cole #open city #novel #book #book quote #quote #words #reading

[soracities]

I also find the stern distinction between fiction and nonfiction odd. It’s not at all a natural way of splitting up narrated experience, just as we don’t go around the museum looking for fictional or nonfictional paintings. Painters know that everything is a combination of what’s observed, what’s imagined, what’s overheard, and what’s been done before. Is Monet a nonfiction painter and Ingres a fiction painter? It’s the least illuminating thing we could ask about their works.

Teju Cole, interviewed by Aleksandar Hemon for Bomb Magazine

#q #lit #quotes #interviews #teju cole #bomb magazine #notes on an art form #notes on the canon #favourite #archive #m #x

[deadpoetsmusings]

If ours is a time of increasing social and cultural division, then it is also a time of false connection, fake intimacy, and what [Teju] Cole calls “artificial proximity.” He insists that we push back against the “epidemic of relatability” that has besieged book culture. “It’s like everybody wants to be ‘fun,’ but not all books are ‘fun.’

Peter Mendelsund and David J. Alworth, The Look of the Book: Jackets, Covers, and Art at the Edges of Literature

#peter mendelsund #david j. alworth #teju cole #the look of the book #book culture #quotes #books #booklr #on reading

[writerly-ramblings]

Books Read in June:

1). Postcards from Surfers (Helen Garner)

2). Dedications (Iran Sanadzadeh)

3). The Lagoon and Other Stories (Janet Frame)

4). Every Day Is for the Thief (Teju Cole)

5). The Questions That Matter Most: Reading, Writing, and the Exercise of Freedom (Jane Smiley)

6). The Dutch House (Ann Patchett)

7). Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Patrick Süskind)

8). How Fiction Works (James Wood)

9). The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise (Pico Iyer)

10). Best of Friends (Kamila Shamsie)

11). Adventures in Pen Land: One Writer’s Journey from Inklings to Ink (Marianne Gingher)

12). Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (David Sedaris)

#my literary life #booklr #book list #adult booklr #helen garner #iran sanadzadeh #janet frame #teju cole #jane smiley #ann patchett #patrick süskind #james wood #pico iyer #kamila shamsie #marianne gingher #david sedaris #(had a sort of prickly conversation about how many books is too many books #when does devouring literature become something close to considering art consumable? #anyway. that’s what this month’s substack is about) #((if unclear: i was the prickly one because defensive))