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: 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."
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