Date: 1952
De la partie la plus noire de mon âme, à travers la zone hachurée me monte ce désir d'être tout à coup blanc [Out of the blackest part of my soul, through the zone of hachures, surges up this desire to be suddenly white].
preview | full record— Fanon, Frantz (1925-1961)
Date: 1952
La structure néurotique d'un individu sear justement l'élaboration, la formation, l'éclosion dans le moi de noeuds conflictuels provenant d'une part du milieu, d'autre part de la façon toute personelle dont cet individu réagit à ces influences [The neurotic structure of an individual is precisely...
preview | full record— Fanon, Frantz (1925-1961)
Date: September, 1956
Je veux saisir les choses avec l'esprit comme le pénis est saisi par le vagin. [I want to grasp things with the mind the way the penis is grasped by the vagina.]
preview | full record— Duchamp, Marcel (1887-1968)
Date: 1961
"A highly symbolic position, which will doubtless remain his until our own day, if we are wililng to admit that what was formerly a visible fortress of order has now become a castle of conscience."
preview | full record— Foucault, Michel (1926-1984)
Date: 1988
"For nearly fifty years, in the dark, moviegoers burn imagination to heat up reality."
preview | full record— Godard, Jean-Luc (b. 1930)
Date: 1989
"Indeed, it is this very push and pull that produces lieux de mémoire--moments of history torn away from the movement of history, then returned; no longer quite life, not yet death, like shells on the shore when the sea of living memory has receded."
preview | full record— Nora, Pierre (b. 1931)
Date: 2005
"Many other examples can easily be found since this version of social theory has become the default position of our mental software that takes into consideration the following."
preview | full record— Latour, Bruno (b. 1947)
Date: 2005
"They [the vehicles that transport individuality, subjectivity, personhood, and interiority] could be called 'subjectifiers', 'personnalizers', or 'individualisers', but I prefer the more neutral term of 'plug-ins', borrowing this marvelous metaphor from our new life on the Web."
preview | full record— Latour, Bruno (b. 1947)
Date: 2005
"Every competence, deep down in the silence of your interiority, has first to come from the outside, to be slowly sunk in and deposited into some well-constructed cellar whose doors have then to be carefully sealed."
preview | full record— Latour, Bruno (b. 1947)
Date: 2005
"Interiorities are built in the same complicated way as Horus's chamber in the center of the pyramid of Cheops."
preview | full record— Latour, Bruno (b. 1947)