Interview: Adam Phillips

Interviewer: Let's talk about stimuli. You're not on the Internet?

Phillips: No.

Interviewer: You don't have email?

Phillips: No.

Interviewer: Do you Google?

Phillips: No.

Interviewer: Why not?

Phillips: Because I want less communication and not more. I want to communicate as much as possible with people I know.

I don't want to find out things about people that they don't know I'm finding out... 

I want in a way as far as I can to exempt myself from all those forms of information and access.

On Being Normal

The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

- R. D. Laing

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers which can't be questioned.

- Richard Feynman

April & May Photo Snippets

Book Review: Dada, Surrealism, And Their Heritage

Dada, Surrealism, And Their Heritage by William Rubin

Fotomontage by Hannah Hoch

An analysis on the artistic concepts of Dada and Surrealism and their significance during the second world war. Art was used as a means of conveying and communicating the social problems which caused disturbances, if not degradation of human values, and even of human life.

Surrealism attempted to translate and even expound on the workings of the unconscious mind, heavily influenced by Freudian ideas, portraying bizarre subjects: most motifs found on dreams and nightmares. Most readers will find some graphics as utter nonsense like those of Dadaism, but these genres served as means of expression by artists who found the excesses of violence and the changing social order particularly disturbing.