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Throughout my three years on deviantArt, I've always made an effort to thank each and every deviant who s my work, each and every time. Because I appreciate your taking the time to look at my photography (and other work), and I've always wanted to let you know that. If something I've put work into makes you smile or think, or adds a bit of beauty or horror to your day ... I want to express my appreciation.
But, between the amount of work I'm putting into preparing for my oral qualifying exam for my masters degree (you can see my reading list here, if you're feeling masochistic) and the amount of attention I've been getting lately (thanks to several wonderful groups), I just can't do it any more. I'm sorry. I need to do an insane amount of reading, and (during the time that I am on dA) I need to follow the works in my watchlist more closely, and spent more time replying to comments (it always happens eventually).
Please understand that I am, in fact, grateful that you like my work, even if I don't thank you personally.
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But, between the amount of work I'm putting into preparing for my oral qualifying exam for my masters degree (you can see my reading list here, if you're feeling masochistic) and the amount of attention I've been getting lately (thanks to several wonderful groups), I just can't do it any more. I'm sorry. I need to do an insane amount of reading, and (during the time that I am on dA) I need to follow the works in my watchlist more closely, and spent more time replying to comments (it always happens eventually).
Please understand that I am, in fact, grateful that you like my work, even if I don't thank you personally.
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Devious Journal Entry
"The X-ray expanded not only the limits of the empirical world and the human sensorium but also the trajectory of photography: it extended the graphic reach of the apparatus into the invisible spectrum of light. It introduced exscriptive writing, an inside-out writing that reverses the trajectory of Enlightenment writing from inscription to exscription. The mark is no longer made from the outside in nor, for that matter, from inside out: writing takes place outside, it remains irreducibly elsewhere, an exscriptive mark that never adhere to the interiority of a text or document—displaced, atopic, and atextual."
—Akira Lippit,
Visuality and avisuality
"X-rays and cinema, along with the technique of psychoanalysis, established in 1895 new technologies of visualizing the inside, for imagining interiority; but they also transformed he conditions of visuality as such. Among the many effects of this reconfiguration of the inside and out, surface and depth, visuality and avisuality was the formation of a secret visuality: "Since things and my body are made of the same stuff," says Maurice Merleau-Ponty, "vision must take place in them; their manifest visibility must be repeated in the body by a secret visibility.” The contiguity of the body and things, fused by the “same stuff,”
Thanatography
"Barthes, perhaps thinking of the 'end of history', discusses the photograph [in Camera Lucida] as implying a flatness and completeness of representation, leaving the possibility that there is nothing else to say, which leaves open the question whether there is any future, any room left for anything new to appear: has saturation-point been reached? This is also Baudrillard's ground. But the photograph, which Barthes as a 'realist' — rather than as decoding those forms of realism which give the effect of the real — calls 'an image without code', is a record of death. It is a thanatography. Not just that it seems to strike the perso
That time has come.
I just don't have time to thank people individually for :+fav:s any more. It's not that I don't appreciate it -- it's partly that grad school takes up even more of my time than it used to, and partly that I'm getting more attention these days.
Please know that I am genuinely grateful for each and every :+favlove: and mention that you give me, even if I don't have time to reply individually.
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Don't worry about it! It's thanks enough when post up more beautiful pictures!