Lillian Gish in Way Down East, 1920.
“Work is a kind of vacuum, an emptiness, where I just switch off everything except the scant intelligence necessary to keep me going. God, the people are awful - great carved monstrosities from the sponge-stone of secondratedness. Hideous.“
Philip Larkin
When a person lacks belief that anything can be done to solve the problem, long-term thinking can be suspended as useless. However, focal attention may remain active. In this state, people will turn over and over again the immediate circumstances in which they are caught, aware that something needs to be done even though they do nothing. Suspended focal attention is a traumatic reaction found in all higher animals; the rabbit’s eyes dwell on the fox’s paws.
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| — | Sennett, R. (1998). The Corrosion of Character. p.91 (via fuckyeahdialectics) |
Daisuke Yokota ph. (1983 à Saitama, Japan) Untitled (30), Inversion, 2015 - solarisation sur papier baryté, 35,6x27,9 cm.
