“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.” WorldWayMeanRealValuesCultureLove IsLoversEthicsStructurePrivilegeDisappearReal LoveNormBeing In LoveMean Love Author:Masha Tupitsyn
“Quotes are like prompts. A way of searching, connecting the dots. Other people's thinking has always - both positively and negatively - jumpstarted my thinking. Quotes are also a way of acting out not just a text, and not just thinking, but the making of a text. The construction of thinking. The quotes are part of those constructions and reflections. 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.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelingsProcessActingSubjectsReflectionInsightOne WayRangeConstructionConnectingPositivelyOutlinesDotsPromptsActing OutConnecting The Dots Author:Masha Tupitsyn
“The digital age is for me in many ways about temporal wounding. It's really messed up our ontological clocks. In the digital economy, everything is archived, catalogued, readily available, and yet nothing really endures. The links are digital encryptions that can and won't be located. That will have to be reassembled over time. It won't be exactly what it was. There will be some slightly altered version. So the book is both an immaterial and material artifact.” WayBookAgeEconomyMaterialsEndureAvailableVersionsClockDigitalLinksAlteredMessed UpDigital AgeArtifactsEncryption Author:Masha Tupitsyn
“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.” ThinkingWayLooksMeanTogetherSoundSpacePoetPagesCriticsObsessedVisualsProseWorking TogetherStrictCuratorMean Words Author:Masha Tupitsyn
“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.” WayWritingIdeasFeelingsEyeFormVisuals Author:Masha Tupitsyn
“Quotes are like prompts. A way of searching, connecting the dots.” WayConnectingDotsPromptsConnecting The Dots Author:Masha Tupitsyn
“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.” ThinkingWayActingConstructionActing Out Author:Masha Tupitsyn
“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.” ThinkingWayFeelingsProcessSubjectsInsightOne WayRangeOutlines Author:Masha Tupitsyn
“The digital age is for me in many ways about temporal wounding. It's really messed up our ontological clocks.” WayAgeClockDigitalMessed UpDigital Age Author:Masha Tupitsyn
“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.” WayWritingLinesSatisfiedOnlineJournalIntuitiveMarginsSourLameTypographyFontsSpacing Author:Masha Tupitsyn
“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.” WayLooksMeanEyeTogetherSoundPagesSizeObsessedDocumentsMarginsFonts Author:Masha Tupitsyn
