June 2012
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I had now been sometime in town without female sport. I determined to have...
– James Boswell, London Journal, 1762-1763 (November 25, 1762)
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May 2012
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Indeed, rock might be described, in its most typical forms, as overwhelmingly a...
– Richard Middleton, “Rock Singing” (2000)
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Have A Good One
It’s become harder and harder
not to take responsibility. For
all of it. Every bastion of
disrepair, every qualified public
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Looking downward from an altitude of two thousand feet, the earth assumes order....
– Carson McCullers, Clock Without Hands (1961)
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It is precisely the obscurity of the box which motivates photographers to take...
– Vilém Flusser, Towards a Philosophy of Photography (1983)
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April 2012
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It is difficult to elucidate the system of the strata without seeming to...
– Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus (1980)
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What [More and Skinner] achieved, however, was something rather different from...
– Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism; or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991)
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If the regular length of a shot is increased, one becomes bored, but if you keep...
– Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time (1986)
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Theory means getting off on immobilization… What gives you theoreticians a...
– Jean-François Lyotard, Libidinal Economy (1975)
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March 2012
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I say, I can not identify that thing which is called happiness, that thing whose...
– Herman Melville, Pierre; or, the Ambiguities (1852)
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There is no Hitler building as such. We are quartered in Centenary Hall, a dark...
– Don DeLillo, White Noise (1985) (via keyholez)
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It is impossible to forgive whoever has done us harm if that harm has lowered...
– Simone Weil - Gravity & Grace (1947 - posthumous)
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There’s no such thing as a failed utopian community; or, if the collective...
– Chris Kraus, “The Failed Collective” (2011)