: the following is too hopeful but is left here for the time being… : welcome to my little pied-à-terre also an apotropaic. i am guided by voices and also 物の哀れ (mono no aware) which comes from 無常 (mujyō). debord was a big influence this year. he begins ‘separation perfected’ with this quote: : “But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the appearance to the essence… illusion only is sacred, truth profane. Nay, sacredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest degree of sacredness.” Feuerbach, Preface to the second edition of The Essence of Christianity (1843)