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Stephen Hannock | Incendiary Nocturne with Stormy Sea | 2016

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"Where our language suggests a body and there is none, we should like to say, is a spirit."

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations

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"Our language can be regarded as an ancient city: a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new houses, of houses with extensions from various periods, and all this surrounded by a multitude of new suburbs with straight and regular streets and uniform houses... And to imagine a language is to imagine a form of life."

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations

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"Practice has a logic which is not that of logic, and thus to apply practical logic to logical logic is to run the risk of destroying the logic one wants to describe with the instrument used to describe it. These problems, that I posed 20 years ago, in Outline of a Theory of Practice, are brought to light today with the construction of expert systems and artificial intelligence: one sees that in practice social agents (whether a doctor who makes a diagnosis or a professor who grades an examination) possess extremely complex classificatory systems which are never constituted as such and which can only be so constituted at the cost of a considerable amount of work."

—Pierre Bourdieu, Practical Reason

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Farewell Richard Serra

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"How might we so alter the presuppositions by which we conventionally think community in history, the past’s authority in the present, that pasts can no longer be understood as fixed and resolute presences by which our politics of community is guaranteed? Part of such a task may well entail thinking of the present as a kind of project that involves inhabiting (to paraphrase Stuart Hall) a community without guarantees."

—David Scott, Refashioning Futures

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“For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.”

―Virginia Woolf, Orlando

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“If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!”

— Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or

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"It turns out that whenever I’ve made something—a book, a play, a performance, a way of teaching—my main occupation has been to discover unanxious forms through which to contend with difficult, even impossible problems. It turns out I’m not interested in provocation or in confrontation, but I do have rage. I think everybody does."

—Ariana Reines, The Origin of the World

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"nothing but parables in every bristling inch            of the out-of-sight unspoken never-to-be-known pure sense-startling untranslatable there of the world as we find it"

—Eamon Grennan, World Word

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"The thirst for eternity is what is called, among men, love, and whoever loves another desires to become eternal in this other."

—Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life

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"The main theme that I identified was an understanding of culture not as a text to be interpreted through root symbols on the axes of nature and culture, nor simply as shared values (a vague metaphor at best), but instead as providing the ability to both forge a belonging and find resources within one's culture to contest it and thus to find one's voice in its singularity within it."

—Veena Das, Textures of the Ordinary

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Amoako Boafo | Body Politics 2 | 2016

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“Is this kind of ethics individualistic or not? Yes, if one means by that that it accords to the individual an absolute value and that it recognizes in him alone the power of laying the foundations of his own existence. It is individualism in the sense in which the wisdom of the ancients, the Christian ethics of salvation, and the Kantian ideal of virtue also merit this name; it is opposed to the totalitarian doctrines which raise up beyond man the mirage of Mankind. But it is not solipsistic, since the individual is defined only by his relationship to the world and to other individuals; he exists only by transcending himself, and his freedom can be achieved only through the freedom of others. […] This individualism does not lead to the anarchy of personal whim. Man is free; but he finds his law in his very freedom.”

— Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity

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"Some nights he'd lie awake till morning, frightening sleep away with the desperation of his wanting it."

—Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

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"There are limit-ations and there are protocols and I’ve been warned that I’m not supposed to threaten or beg for pieces of someone’s soul."

—Richard Siken, The Long and Short of It