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be//log consists of three sections:
Quotes
In this sections, we publish and look for innovative, inspiring and insightful quotes from all fields and times – again with short explanations.
We are happy to accept ideas and examples with short explanations and the author’s/contributor’s name. After editorial review, we may then publish them. Please send your contributions to: info@be-design.info
Stupid words and stupid sayings
Peculiar misunderstandings and, at times, terrible fashions have sneaked into our language, and, in so doing, determine our thoughts without us being really aware of it. The words are simply used, used up, as if they wouldn’t constitute a problem – but, thinking is very much rooted in discourse, and this discourse predominantly takes place in the form of language. This is why we need to think about these stupidities and buzzwords and why they should be published together with short reflections.
We are happy to accept ideas and examples with short explanations and the author’s/contributor’s name. After editorial review, we may then publish them. Please send your contributions to: info@be-design.info
Anagrams
Anagrams (originally from Greek ἀναγράφειν anagráphein = rewrite) are words formed by rearranging the letters of a different word. Surprisingly often, anagrams are like a mirror – or distorting mirror – in relation to the source word; sometimes as a paradox, other times as enlightenment. There is obviously something the old and the newly formed words have in common. Anagrams are a source of linguistic imagination, they engender associations and they are simply a great type of game.
It is my main aspiration to go beyond what I know and what I can know.
One immediately believes the self-confident seriousness of this artist, who died very young. To go beyond one’s own knowledge may drive all committed people. But the possibility of transcending knowledge beyond all efforts and educational processes is hardly imaginable – … Weiterlesen
Dusty = Study
“In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false.”
Similar to DADA, the Situationist International also assumed that the world which is said to be real only offers irrationality and that what is considered true in this world is nonsense. However, this still implies the possibility of truth. In … Weiterlesen
State = Taste
I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor. It’s better to be rich.
What more can one add. Typically laconic short sentences by Gertrude Stein, undisguised written into the world. And she is so right. The equally banal and ideological statement that money alone does not make one happy may be true if … Weiterlesen
Elbow = Below
“The spacecraft earth has no emergency exit.”
This quote relates to the fact that this incredibly innovative engineer, designer, architect and thinker used to talk and write about the Spacecraft Earth, thus quite rightly conceiving the Earth as a closed system, which must be considered as … Weiterlesen
Arc = Car
When talking, there is usually so little spirit that one has to stick to what is printed.
Although already formulated in the 18th century, this insight remains virulent to this day. The writer, translator, politically engaged and clever salonnière must have known it. As is well known, all women of the time were denied access to libraries, … Weiterlesen