December 16th, 2010 / 3:19 pm
Roundup

Typo Antoine Argos Film Parrhesia

1. Of all the online issues of magazines I’ve read and stared at, this is probably still the one I still open and stare and feel motivated by getting peeks of: Johannes Göransson’s guest edited all modern Swedish poetry issue of Typo.

2. At Vice, excellent interview with photographer Antonie D’Agata: “In this process of fictionalising an unreachable truth, it’s up to them to impose their doubts about any photographic truth, or accept being impotent pawns in the mediatic game.”

3. Argos Books is a press new to me who is having a year end sale on some beautiful handmade book objects.

4. At Ubu, Samuel Beckett’s “Film” starring Buster Keaton from 1965. 24 minutes of almost total silence.

5. Free download of Foucault’s Fearless Speech (2001), a series of 6 lectures he delivered just before his death, re: “Parrhesia is a verbal activity in which a speaker expresses his personal relationship to truth through frankness instead of persuasion, truth instead of flattery, and moral duty instead of self-interest and moral apathy.”

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2 Comments

  1. Madison Langston

      Fearless Speech lectures are spectacular! ‘Technologies of the Self’ seminar in Vermont is great as well.

  2. rk

      Wow, glad to see “Film” again after 7yrs. That’s great stuff.