Book//mark – The Kingdom of God Is Within You | Leo Tolstoy, 1894
First edition of The Kingdom of God Is Within You, 1894 / Tolstoy in Brussels, 1861 “The most difficult subjects...
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Persons [ ] The social wealth is produced only by collective labor | Mikhail Bakunin, 1814-1876
Mikhail Bakunin, 1829 “A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts...
Figures | Paintings by Varvara Stepanova, 1920
Varvara Stepanova, Five Figures on a White Background, 1920 Varvara Stepanova, Billiard players, 1920 Varvara Stepanova, Musicians, 1920 Varvara Stepanova,...
On directing > Very Simple Slogans for the Kino-Eye technique | Dziga Vertov, 1926
Still from Man with a Movie Camera (1929) “I am an eye. A mechanical eye. I am the machine that...
Rythm. Space. People | Paintings by Yuri Zlotnikov, 1971-1999
Yuri Zlotnikov, Rythm. Space. People (series), 1990 Yuri Zlotnikov, Rythm. Space. People (series), 1997 Yuri Zlotnikov, Rythm. Space. People (series),...
Persons [ ] Lies are the religion of slaves and masters | Maxim Gorky, 1868-1936
Young Maxim Gorky “When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.” “The poor people are stupid from poverty, and the...
Alphabetarion # Separated | Mikhail Bakhtin, 1965
Georgia O'Keeffe, Clam and mussel, 1926 “Fear can only enter a part that has been separated from the whole,the dying...
Persons [ ] I am who I am and that’s who I am | Nikolai Gogol, 1809-1852
Portrait of Nikolai Gogol by Otto Friedrich Theodor von Möller (early 1840s) “The longer and more carefully we look at...
Alphabetarion # Synaesthesia | Alexander R. Luria, 1968
Mel Bochner, Money, 2015 “It is no wonder that S.’s memories of early childhood were incomparably richer than ours. For...
On [:] Infallibility | Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1920-21
Yung Cheng Lin “Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith” Yevgeny Zamyatin, We, 1920-21 Also: Days [ ) Faith...