Tag: reality

• Fragmentary, No. 29

  In one of my favorites of your drawings, two Popsicles are talking to each other. One accuses, “You’re more interested in fantasy than reality.” The other responds, “I’m interested in the reality of my fantasy.” Both Popsicles are melting off their sticks. ✧ Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts

  R l powell

  April 14, 2019

  Image, Impensive

  dissent, fantasy, Maggie Nelson, reality, The Argonauts, the reality of fantasy

• Fragmentary, No. 14

  In the past we have always assumed that the external world around us has represented reality, however confusing or uncertain, and that the inner world of our minds, its dreams, hopes, ambitions, represented the realm of fantasy and the imagination. These roles, it seems to me, have been reversed. The most prudent and effective method […]

  R l powell

  January 4, 2017

  Books, Fragments, Impensive, Introductions

  Ballard, Crash, dream, fantasy, hypermodernity, J. G. Ballard, Modernity, reality, supermodernity, urban life, urban sprawl

• Fragmentary, No. 3

  The objects of sense are supposed to be real—but in truth they are not. Only the atoms and the void are real. ♦ Democritus

  R l powell

  February 11, 2014

  Fragments

  atoms, Democritus, reality, space, the void