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“ “The population census has got him down as “dormanted”. The Central Collective Storehouse computer has got him down as “deleted”. […] Information Retrieval has got him down as “inoperative”. And there’s another one - security has got him...](https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_let5asucR91qe0eclo1_r5_500.gifv)
“The population census has got him down as “dormanted”. The Central Collective Storehouse computer has got him down as “deleted”. […] Information Retrieval has got him down as “inoperative”. And there’s another one - security has got him down as “excised”. Administration has got him down as “completed”. … He’s dead.”
Alexandra Exter
“Guardian of Energy” (costume design for the film “Aelita” by Yakov Protozanov)
1924
Ink, gouache, and pencil on paper
21 ¼ x 14 1/4″ (54 x 36.2 cm)
The J. M. Kaplan Fund, Inc.
*My favorite science fiction movie, mostly because of her Martian sets and costumes
It’s no secret that we’re held to standards that we cannot meet. Sometimes we don’t even have any intention of meeting them, but there is always someone to hold us to the expectation anyway, someone with enough entitlement to disqualify us from a race we never signed up to run. Though this brand...
A wonderful writing from a friend on unraveling a sense of self from an oppressive culture.
