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✖ Via Techno Tuesday: “All Alone With A Camera Phone”

• Aug 24, 2010 link notes tagged: technology phone iPhone loneliness alone comic cartoon humor critic solitude network social media community society apparatus illustrator artist

Le désespoir est une forme supérieure de la critique

✖ Via “La Solitude”, Léo Ferré, 1971

Complete lyrics here. Take the time to listen to the full song on YouTube.

See also Laurence Olivier’s Contre l’espoir comme tâche politique (2004)

I think Ferré’s sentence can be read literally : despair can be understand as a critical state of being.

• Jun 19, 2010 link notes tagged: art song singer poet lyrics solitude critic despair

Film, he thought, is solitary.

✖ Via Point Omega by Don DeLillo, New York: Scribner, 2010, p. 9

Previously on Skandalon: Point Omega, Don DeLillo.

• Mar 27, 2010 link notes tagged: alone art author book film loneliness lost movie novel solitary solitude DeLillo