January 2012
2 posts
why yes, there is a two-plus year gap between the last post and the previous one. and there is a two-year-old toddler going crazy on her art supplies in my dining room right now. coincidence?
plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose →
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose has always meant that the constant novelty and flux of modern life is all superficial show, that the underlying essences endure unchanged. But now, suddenly, that saying has acquired an alternative and nearly opposite definition: the more certain things change for real (technology, the global political economy), the more other things (style, culture)...