#constant – @nickkahler on Tumblr

Since war has become a kind of stalemate in which no army can gain the upper hand, the armies stymied, constantly threatening each other, but unable to strike a decisive blow. There is no future: no combat but starvation. Not wholesale killing but the bankruptcy of nations and the ruin of the social fabric.

M.I.S. Bloch in Paul Virilio, Bunker Archaeology, 1975

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The necessity of controlling constantly expanding territory, of scanning it in all directions (and, as of now, in three dimensions) while running up against as few obstacles as possible has constantly justified the increase in the penetration speed of means of transport and communication ... as well as the speed of the arsenal's projectiles.

Paul Virilio, Bunker Archaeology, 1975

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There is a constant in the American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy; a philosophy of immortality as duplication. It dominates the relation with the self, with the past, not infrequently with the present, always with History and, even, with the European tradition.

Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality, c. 1986 (via hoekstra)

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Danielle Brutto + Faun and a Pan Flute, Constant at the Goat Farm Arts Center, Atlanta, GA, 2014 (via mandue)

This "hyper physical, intuitively choreographed performance explored themes of feminism, the domicile, and subversion of power. Over the course of the night, Danielle “threw paint against the windows, slathered it along the walls and scratched it off the window panes” as the Faun played their new album live outside her structure."

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