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“I was struck by what Stephen Jay Gould called the ‘excruciating complexity and intractability’ of nonhuman bodies,” Bennett writes. “But, in being struck, I realized that the capacity of these bodies was not restricted to a passive ‘intractability’ but also included the ability to make things happen, to produce effects.” Bennett likes to reference... See more
Morgan Meis • The Philosopher Who Believes in Living Things
“He recorded everything. The only way to understand the large is through the small. It’s like American first-person fiction.”
Chris Kraus • I Love Dick
poetic knowledge—“that imagination, that effort to see the future in the present.”
Ruha Benjamin • Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)
Gayatri Chakravorty…
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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
taste can be a practice—a result, even, of living authentically.
Haley Nahman • #176: Accounting for taste
anathema
Alice Walker • The Color Purple
This is something like a goal without telos, a view toward the future that doesn’t resolve in a point but rather circles back toward itself in a constant renegotiation.
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Even when one assumes a posture of not caring (about audience, money, the future, decorum, proficiency, or reception), the work itself typically requires tremendous care, which is why art is no place to take cover.
Maggie Nelson • On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
rhapsodizing