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Self portrait, 2024

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Radek J Husak, (Polish b. 1984)

Achilles and Patroclus I, 2023

Pigment transfer, carbon, charcoal, and color pencils on aluminium 84x60 cm

Henry Miller Fine Art, London

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mary oliver, "upstream"

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Strange how we decorate pain.

— Margaret Atwood, from “Oh,” Morning in the Burned House (Mariner Books, 1996)

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― Joan Didion, Blue Nights

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“A desire for a more normal life does not necessarily mean identification with norms, but can be simply this: a desire to escape the exhaustion of having to insist just to exist.”

— Sara Ahmed, Willful Subjects (149)

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"And we are plagued by dead language and dead stories that serve people whose aim is nothing short of a dead world." - Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

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Agamemnon by Aiskhylos (Translated by Anne Carson) from An Oresteia

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There’s something beautiful about not being here forever

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Common Frank Bidart banger (from "In the Ruins," in Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016)

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the trouble with being born, e.m. cioran

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image: from @dailyphilosopher on Instagram

The immersive nature of self-as-object processing is manifest in the way we typically do not regard our thoughts as just thoughts.

Rather, we implicitly or explicitly take this mental activity to reflect reality more or less accurately.

It can be morally and epistemically problematic when people do not recognize that their perceptions and beliefs is in fact, a model —schematic or working hypothesis about reality rather than reality itself.

People are incontrovertibly egocentric, self-relevant information is preferentially processed and remembered, and people strive to protect their self-views to the point that they selectively seek confirmatory evidence and otherwise distort reality.

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