Paul Strand, Basque Facade, 1951

The important thing is to understand life, each living individuality, not as a form, or a development of form, but as a complex relation between differential velocities, between deceleration and acceleration of particles. A composition of speeds and slowness on a plane of immanence. In the same way, a musical form will depend on a complex relation between speeds and slowness of sound particles. It is not just a matter of music but of how to live: it is by speed and slowness that one slips in among things, that one connects with something else. One never commences; one never has a tabula rasa; one slips in, enters in the middle; one takes up or lays down rhythms.

Gilles Deleuze, Spinoza: Practical Philosophy

Jean Dupuy, Unnoscriptd [I trois fois – valse Sainte Geneviève], 1961/1979

Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, Emotion (1966)

Erwin Blumenfeld | Hands, Paris (1937)

It was clear to Césaire, as a Marxist, that fascism was a political form of bourgeois rule in times when democracy threatened capitalism; colonialism, on the other hand, was naked power justified by racism to seize resources from people who were not willing to hand them over. Their form was different but their manners were identical.

Vijay Prashad, Red Star Over the Third World

Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987) dir. Éric Rohmer