Monday, 23 May 2011

My thoughts


Ideas till This Point
Began looking at my college as a place where my special memories belong; 

nostalgia, a product of diaspora, sentiment, authentic
"The act of remembering, rather than recover the lost to consciousness, serves only to activate the longing to return."
"Springboard to the state of feeling desired."
"Persistence of traditional cultures, showing us that time and space hang on no matter how much we feel they've disappeared."

 - Chris Kraus "Bad Nostalgia", "Cast Away", Video Green: Los Angeles Art and The Triumph of Nothingness, New York: Semiotext(e), 2004, pp.111-114&145-150
interesting quotes here to explain about myself unconsciously selecting a theme that refers nostalgia and myself with cross cultures, perhaps wanting to go back(a sense of confinement in an event)

Then I began to look at my college as a general place where everyone goes to whether they desire to or not, they go there to get educated. 
"School - home - school - home"
going to school creates this repetitive action or pattern in daily life but in face it does not only happen to students but to every human being in this world.

Everyone has their own routine or a cycle (eternal, circulation, continuity) to balance out their lives (one thing exists, there always another on the opposite side - opposition, dialectic, binary, symmetry and asymmetry) to a live perfect life and what is including all these cycles is the cosmos which itself also rotates eternally.

"pairs of mutually-excusive signifies in a paradigm set representing categories which are logically opposed and which together defines a complete universe of discourse."
- Daniel Chandler
(in such oppositions each term necessarily implies its opposite and there is NO middle term.) 

my conclusion came to be:
- the infinite cycle within the infinite cycle

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