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Casey Lange
Articles by Casey Lange:
Afterthought on “Modesty”
in Issue 37 | Fashion (Feb 2014)it seems like the modest person must be either stupid or lying - not necessarily in a way that’s good for the naïf - this is only a check against another vice - « he has an excessive self-regard » - a deeper attitude toward (or away from) the self - squandered, emptied, made into nothing - suppose after this afterthought comes out
Taste and Swallow
in Issue 24 | Compulsion (Jan 2013)punctual folks in the audience are starting to get nervous here - the satisfyingly satisfiable short-term goal of acquiring and consuming some soft sugary pastry of sufficient mass and fluff and density - the reflex that makes me speak - distracted from the sensual world by colorless thoughts
A Finite Number of Things
in Issue 21 | Raw Materials (Oct 2012)flights of nostalgia – i have trouble with the word « miss » – I fidget. – as dead as the past, as dead as a fact – goodmorning-goodbye – be sly, trust to providence – « And now I can't even kiss you » – rosewater in everything
Careful
in Issue 19 | Drought (Aug 2012)a friend who lives far away - narcissistic nature - well and happy - care about and care for - dilution and hollowness - good reason for caution - « one learns something else » - your ear or your presence or your voice
“This Was the Birth of Intelligence”
in Issue 16 | Stupidity (May 2012)no real possessions except his body - begging the world for meaning - « your morality » - terror disentangles itself from its source - « luxurious detachment » - « the perfect brute, indifferent to my happiness » - you can get away with anything, because you’re not a threat - awareness of the looseness, contingency, mutability
Tricky Matter: The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction
in Issue 8 | Hunger (Sep 2011)miracle diets - materially fatter and bigger - reproduction & consumption - the peculiar quality or power of internet memes - the virus is not a continuity of substance - a distance maintained up to the moment of ingestion - a free thing in the universe - exhibition value - the reproductions generate desire - a mirror of the world
Afterthought on “Mondrian”
in Issue 4 | The Progress of Memory (May 2011)
Is Pornography as Dangerous as Cartoons?
in Issue 1 | Valentine’s Day (Feb 2011)the moral effects of art - « there is no such thing as... an immoral book » - ways of influencing - Snakes on a Plane - pornography - moral self-defense - the moralism of « South Park » - the faculty of humor