#engagement – @nickkahler on Tumblr

The location where we will engage the enemy must not become known to them. If it is not known, then the positions they must prepare to defend will be numerous. If the positions the enemy prepares to defend are numerous, then the forces we will engage there will be few.

Sun Tzu, The Art of War, c. 450 BCE

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The victorious army first realizes the conditions for victory, then seeks to engage in battle. The vanquished army fights first, then seeks victory.

Sun Tzu, The Art of War, c. 450 BCE

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One who knows the enemy and knows himself will not be endangered in a hundred engagements. One who does not know the enemy but knows himself will sometimes be victorious, sometimes meet with defeat. One who knows neither the enemy nor himself will invariably be defeated in every engagement.

Sun Tzu, The Art of War, c. 450 BCE

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One who excels at employing the military subjugates other people's armies without engaging in battle, captures other people's fortified cities without attacking them, and destroys other people's states without prolonged fighting. He must fight under Heaven with the paramount aim of 'preservation.'

Sun Tzu, The Art of War, c. 450 BCE

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The military field is always a field of action, that of the duel and the battle. To the geologist's engagement with tectonic and geomorphological movements, the military specialist adds and overlaps his engagement with the potentialities for the troops' use of the site and their diverse means of communication and destruction. The geography of armies is dynamic geography.

Paul Virilio, Bunker Archaeology, 1975

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There is private information, where artists choose to limit its circulation, generate smaller quantities and involve more isolated audiences. In order to have access to private information, one needs to be interested and committed to it. In fact, it is precisely this need for active and persistent engagement that makes this strategy appealing to artists. It demands real action. It is the opposite of the internet.

Anthony Huberman, “I (Not Love) Information,” 2007

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The whole point of architecture is the engagement with the other.

Rem Koolhaas, “On Architecture,” 2000

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Architecture plays a role, but it’s not a panacea. We go into impoverished architecture and schools and we see how resilient people are. We can only create the circumstances for meaningful engagement. It’s the teachers and the students who make it joyful.

Barry Svigals, From The Architecture of Loss, 2014

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I don’t care how elegant or rich the idea of a piece might be, if it doesn’t succeed in engaging a significant number of people then it’s a failure in my view.

Louis Corrigan, "Burnaway Interview," 2011

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