The Jewel Book Of Anna Of Bavaria

Little Red Riding Hood

by Olga Solarics & Adorja’n von Wlassics / Atelier Manassé c. 1920s

The Adversary!; ‘Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched’ (Joseph Noel Paton, 1876)

Portovenere, Spezia, taly by Vincenzo

Apocalyptic Lamb

‘Dyson Perrins Apocalypse’, London ca. 1255-1260

LA, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. Ludwig III 1, fol. 5r

judicial duel between a man and a woman

manuscript illustrations from hans talhoffer's fencing manual alte armatur und ringkunst. bavaria, c. 1459

source: Copenhagen, Det Kgl. Bibliotek, Ms Thott 290.2º, fol. 80r-84r

wdym why i need to visit tokyo? the food, cars, views, EVERYTHING

Freud said that we endlessly repeat past hurts, forever re-enacting the same patterns in a futile attempt to patch the un-healable wound. This, more than anything, is the terror of the personal, digital archive: not that it reveals some awful act from the past, some old self that no longer stands for us, but that it reminds us that who we are is in fact a repetition, a cycle, a circular relation of multiple selves to multiple injuries. It’s the self as a bundle of trauma, forever acting out the same tropes in the hopes that we might one day change.

Navneet Alang, "Terror of the Archive"