Masha Tupitsyn
Love is an active construction, and choice, not just an encounter that happens by chance.Collection: Love Is
I am as much what I am because of what I still don't have as I am because of what I have had and what I might still have one day.Collection: One Day
Not only is true love rare and true rebellion rare, real love is itself a radical form of rebellion - engagement, thinking, and being - and therefore happens in the context of a larger project of justice, liberation, and critical thinking.Collection: Real
I still have faith in people. But that is getting increasingly harder to maintain. I just don't see many people today choosing love. I see people passing it up a lot. Foreclosing on it, deferring it, sabotaging, letting go.Collection: Letting Go
Both cinematic culture and the culture at large have changed profoundly. We're now in post-cinematic digital culture, and the internet has obviously usurped movies, which are no longer central to our lives, at least not as a collective spectator experience.Collection: Digital
Quotes are like prompts. A way of searching, connecting the dots.Collection: Dots
Quotes are a way of acting out not just a text, and not just thinking, but the making of a text. The construction of thinking.Collection: Thinking
Thinking through quotes, which to say scouring a range of texts for insight, is one way to outline the process of thinking/feeling through a subject.Collection: Thinking
The digital age is for me in many ways about temporal wounding. It's really messed up our ontological clocks.Collection: Age
One of the liberating things about having a blog is the total vision it allows.Collection: Vision
I was never really satisfied with writing only text or with the way my texts looked when they were published. Most online journals have a pretty lame sense of typography - bad font, counter-intuitive margins and line spacing - that it makes me sour on my writing.Collection: Writing
For me, the eye and the word go together. Even when I was working in word documents, I was always obsessed with fonts, size, margins - the look of words on a page. The way something looks or sounds is also what it means.Collection: Mean
Love has been the ontological pattern for me. And also the withholding pattern.Collection: Patterns
True lovers are as rare as true rebels.Collection: Rebel
Having a love ethic, as opposed to simply being in love, or having a lover, means love is the way you actively choose to engage with the world - whether you're in a relationship or not. It's not about disappearing into existing structures, norms, and privileges. It's precisely about breaking with the existing structures, values, and norms that prohibit real love in our culture.Collection: Real
Love has been the ontological pattern for me. And also the withholding pattern. I am still on hold with regards to love. And the longer one is on hold, in suspense, on a search, the harder, paradoxically, it is to continue with a search.Collection: Suspense
At any moment I could give up, but I haven't because love for me is an indispensable structure for being.Collection: Giving Up
I'm a discursive thinker, so quotation has played an active role in the structure and content of my books from the beginning.Collection: Book
In the digital economy, everything is archived, catalogued, readily available, and yet nothing really endures.Collection: Digital
The digital artwork is characterized not by the technology which delivers it, but by the "passage" itself.Collection: Technology
Quotes are like prompts. A way of searching, connecting the dots. Other people's thinking has always - both positively and negatively - jumpstarted my thinking. Quotes are also a way of acting out not just a text, and not just thinking, but the making of a text. The construction of thinking. The quotes are part of those constructions and reflections. Thinking through quotes, which to say scouring a range of texts for insight, is one way to outline the process of thinking/feeling through a subject.Collection: Thinking
The digital age is for me in many ways about temporal wounding. It's really messed up our ontological clocks. In the digital economy, everything is archived, catalogued, readily available, and yet nothing really endures. The links are digital encryptions that can and won't be located. That will have to be reassembled over time. It won't be exactly what it was. There will be some slightly altered version. So the book is both an immaterial and material artifact.Collection: Book
The way something looks or sounds is also what it means. Words as visual and aural phenomena, which mainly poets, not critics and prose writers, tend to be obsessed with. I think maybe I'm more of a curator than I am a writer in the strict sense because I am interested in how everything on the page, in a space, works together.Collection: Mean
You have to have an eye and a feeling for where things go. Writing visually, writing textually, writing sonically. Text is visual for me and images are textual. There is power in the way ideas are arranged, not just developed rhetorically. Form is everything.Collection: Writing
We don't experience things collectively or cathartically anymore. Viewing has become an intensely private, fetishistic, compulsive process that happens separately from others, and that reflects not only our relation to cinema as a space of possibility, belief, and imagination. But more generally, of what could be, of readiness, which is what the movies have historically been about - the ability to act on things and change.Collection: Space