“I is another.”
Only fatalistic egocentricity wants to believe that what one perceives as I is really what the I is.
Author: be_DESIGN
“Space is killed by the railways, and we are left with time alone.”
Fortunately, Heine did not live to experience other vehicles and airplanes that kill space. But, because we treat time and space as a whole, the impression of an acceleration of time intensifies.
flower – fowler – reflow
“The text is a forest in which the reader is the hunter.”
Forests are complex. Something beautiful or scary may lurk and suddenly materialise behind shrubs or trees. There are no predefined paths, instead the ways through the forests are winding and, in a good sense, bewildering. One is confused and, when … Weiterlesen
mother – thermo
For women there are, undoubtedly, great difficulties in the path, but so much the more to overcome. No woman should say, ‘I am but a woman!’ But a woman! What more can you ask to be?
The astronomer and women’s rights activist Maria Mitchell undoubtedly knew (also) from her own experience about the enormous obstacles that were and still are put in the way of active women today, but even more so in the 19th century … Weiterlesen
robe – bore
“Existing knowledge must be disassembled and reassembled in new ways.”
This describes precisely the principle of collage, the development of which the artist Max Ernst worked on intensely in collaboration with other Dada artists: everything was cut or torn apart and then analytically re-coordinated and reconfigured in totally new relationships … Weiterlesen
“I rebel, therefore we are”
The proximity to cogito ergo sumus springs to mind, but the point is not that we are when somebody is thinking – what is needed is action in the form of rebellion because rebellion with the purpose of bringing about … Weiterlesen