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ROBERT ZIN STARK
11.12.21
Things are only funny when honesty surprises you.
11.1.21
Feeling and feelings are a strange state where the object and subject are the same thing. We are articulating the impression, bringing forth the receptive. Art is that.
10.5.21
The death wish vs the will to flourish, is the extended difference between knowing and understanding.
Responsibility is the thing that reconciles and brings integration. The discourse between certainty and wisdom, is admitting participation.
10.2.21
If the means of production is the potency to create supply, then the means of taste is the potency to create demand.
How is taste attained, maintained, and propagated?
Georges Bataille posited that a general economy pivoted around the aesthetics of sacrifice, as in potlatch, as a way to achieve and maintain status.
Not long after Bataille published “The Accursed Share” in 1949, did the term ‘tastemaker’ become coined in 1950.
Rituals of sacrifice might also be practicing our relationship with death. And as one becomes more comfortable with death, one might be a better experiencer of life. It is to be able to experience life, that is to have a sense of ‘taste’, in the profound sense.
What we sacrifice of ourselves, willfully, is therefore what we are willing to live without. Perhaps these are the things we have only truly owned.