The digital artwork is characterized not by the technology which delivers it, but by the "passage" itself. Masha Tupitsyn More Quotes by Masha Tupitsyn More Quotes From Masha Tupitsyn Love is an active construction, and choice, not just an encounter that happens by chance. Masha Tupitsyn encounters choices love-is True lovers are as rare as true rebels. Masha Tupitsyn true-lovers rebel lovers Quotes are like prompts. A way of searching, connecting the dots. Masha Tupitsyn prompts dots way Both cinematic culture and the culture at large have changed profoundly. We're now in post-cinematic digital culture, and the internet has obviously usurped movies, which are no longer central to our lives, at least not as a collective spectator experience. Masha Tupitsyn digital internet culture I am as much what I am because of what I still don't have as I am because of what I have had and what I might still have one day. Masha Tupitsyn one-day stills might Love has been the ontological pattern for me. And also the withholding pattern. Masha Tupitsyn withholding patterns has-beens Thinking through quotes, which to say scouring a range of texts for insight, is one way to outline the process of thinking/feeling through a subject. Masha Tupitsyn feelings way thinking The digital age is for me in many ways about temporal wounding. It's really messed up our ontological clocks. Masha Tupitsyn digital age way One of the liberating things about having a blog is the total vision it allows. Masha Tupitsyn liberating blogs vision I was never really satisfied with writing only text or with the way my texts looked when they were published. Most online journals have a pretty lame sense of typography - bad font, counter-intuitive margins and line spacing - that it makes me sour on my writing. Masha Tupitsyn fonts lame writing For me, the eye and the word go together. Even when I was working in word documents, I was always obsessed with fonts, size, margins - the look of words on a page. The way something looks or sounds is also what it means. Masha Tupitsyn eye together mean Quotes are a way of acting out not just a text, and not just thinking, but the making of a text. The construction of thinking. Masha Tupitsyn acting way thinking I'm a discursive thinker, so quotation has played an active role in the structure and content of my books from the beginning. Masha Tupitsyn structure roles book I still have faith in people. But that is getting increasingly harder to maintain. I just don't see many people today choosing love. I see people passing it up a lot. Foreclosing on it, deferring it, sabotaging, letting go. Masha Tupitsyn have-faith letting-go people At any moment I could give up, but I haven't because love for me is an indispensable structure for being. Masha Tupitsyn structure giving-up moments Love has been the ontological pattern for me. And also the withholding pattern. I am still on hold with regards to love. And the longer one is on hold, in suspense, on a search, the harder, paradoxically, it is to continue with a search. Masha Tupitsyn harder suspense patterns Having a love ethic, as opposed to simply being in love, or having a lover, means love is the way you actively choose to engage with the world - whether you're in a relationship or not. It's not about disappearing into existing structures, norms, and privileges. It's precisely about breaking with the existing structures, values, and norms that prohibit real love in our culture. Masha Tupitsyn being-in-love real mean In the digital economy, everything is archived, catalogued, readily available, and yet nothing really endures. Masha Tupitsyn endure economy digital You have to have an eye and a feeling for where things go. Writing visually, writing textually, writing sonically. Text is visual for me and images are textual. There is power in the way ideas are arranged, not just developed rhetorically. Form is everything. Masha Tupitsyn eye writing ideas The way something looks or sounds is also what it means. Words as visual and aural phenomena, which mainly poets, not critics and prose writers, tend to be obsessed with. I think maybe I'm more of a curator than I am a writer in the strict sense because I am interested in how everything on the page, in a space, works together. Masha Tupitsyn space mean thinking
