The Idler Academy

SELFRIDGES, LONDON | 13 JANUARY 2012 - 29 FEBRUARY 2012

From 13 January to 29 February you can sharpen your wits and discover hidden talents with a series of workshops from The Idler Academy. 

The Idler is a literary and philosophical periodical founded in 1993 that strives to revive interest in neglected 18th century subjects. High-profile contributors over the years have included Louis Theroux, Alex James, Damien Hirst, and Alain De Botton. David Hockney and Emma Thompson. 

Selfridges and The Idler have teamed up for a number of sessions incorporated into the Words Words Words initiative, where they will bring their unique perspective to our UltraLounge on the Lower Ground floor.

External links:

The Idler Academy

www.bracketpress.co.uk

Women Who Run With Scissors

The Idler Issue No. 44

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Blue jeans, white shirt
Walked into the room you know you made my eyes burn
It was like, James Dean, for sure.

Emancipation of the Sign: Poetry and Finance During the Twentieth Century

The subject does not belong to the world, rather it is a limit of the world.” 

Language has an infinite potency, but the exercise of language happens in finite conditions of history and existence.

Nevertheless, while social communication is a limited process, language is boundless: its potentiality is not restricted to the limits of the signified. Poetry is language’s excess, the signifier disentangled from the limits of the signified.

Irony, the ethical form of the excessive power of language, is the infinite game words play to create, disrupt, and shuffle meaning. A social movement, at the end of the day, should use irony as semiotic insolvency, as a mechanism to untangle language, behavior, and action from the limits of symbolic debt.

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From “A Place We Do Not Know” in Franco Berardi’s new book The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance, published by Semiotext(e), 2012.

Think about it, there must be a higher love.
Down in the heart and in the stars above.
Without it, life is wasted time,
look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine.

John Stezaker

"Going into a charity shop or second hand bookshop, there are moments when I see an image and it seems like the strangest thing in the world. It’s a kind of sighting. That experience is the key thing for me, that moment when an image is showing itself not in terms of its relationship with the everyday world, its context, but showing its mysterious other aspect."

I believe that marriage isn't 

Between a man & woman 

But between love and love ~ FO