Alex Johnson

Stage design by Vanessa Beecroft for Valentino

Wendy Carlos playing a Moog modular synthesizer

Marina City in downtown Chicago

From How to Write by Gertrude Stein

Still from Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle

Ferdinand de Saussure’s basic model of semiotics

Photo taken by Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault after developing a rabid obsession with the costumes of various native tribes

Opening line of Wittgenstein’s Mistress by David Markson

From The Color of Pomegranates by Sergei Parajanov