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chronicling an eclectic labyrinth of architectural contemplation based in new york city

If happening to companies can be happening to individual or group of individuals? ITS FREEDOM OF THE PRESS. Is being "free" if paying to remove pay-wall? Is being "free" from influence if performed for government goodwill or foreign policy? Is being "free" if performer is corporation with profit motive? What if market paying for misinformation, anti-"free"? What is being origins for free speech and free press? Is to being for spreading informations about TheThreats to ThePeoples liberty? How's that working out for ThePeoples? ThePeoples is feeling they knowing real vs fake threats? Is TheControllers needing censorship, attacking "frees" if TheControlled not trusting source or content? Self-Censorship? If great success for foreign powers "Russian Hackers vs American Election" then is great success for domestic powers "The Controllers vs The Controlled"?

The Shadow Brokers, “October Price Adjustment,” 2017

An artist everyday takes a chance of going mad because you find yourself in situations that are past the point of logic you understand. You have to re-adapt your own logic just to be able to communicate with somebody else. And I think that communication is the major point of art. The point of the operation is that each individual that can make art has something to communicate.

Lawrence Weiner, “On Art,” c. 2016

#artist #art #chance #mad #madness #crazy #situation #logic #understanding #adaptation #communication #point #operation #individual

[Individual works in series can] become critical of each other.

Richard Serra, Rounds, 1999

#richard serra #rounds #work #individual #series #critical #other #relationship #progress #art #architecture #quote

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OMA, Exposition Universelle, Paris, France, 1983-9 (via archidose)

I feel overawed by quantity where counting no longer makes sense. By unrepeatability within such a quantity. By creatures of nature gathered in herds, droves, species, in which each individual, while subservient to the mass, retains some distinguishing features. A crowd of people, birds, insects, or leaves is a mysterious assemblage of variants of certain prototype. A riddle of nature's abhorrence of exact repetition or inability to produce it. Just as the human hand cannot repeat its own gesture, I invoke this disturbing law, switching my own immobile herds into that rhythm.

Magdalena Abakanowicz, "On Art," c. 2010

#magdalena abakanowicz #quantity #awe #repetition #creature #nature #crowd #herd #species #drove #individual #people #bird #insect #leaf #assemblage #creative #prototype #law #gesture #riddle #abhorrence #hand #feature

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I think there is no need to title works, individualize, and date them. There is need to unsign, merge, and to mess up with time of its production.

Vladimir Umanets, "Yellowism Aphorisms," c. 2014 (via yellowism)

#yellowism #title #individuality #individual #date #sign #merge #mess #complicate

Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

Karl Marx, Grundrisse, c. 1858

#karl marx #individual #collection #relation #grundrisse #communism #quote

In bourgeois society, living labour is but a means to increase accumulated labour. In Communist society, accumulated labour is but a means to widen, to enrich, to promote the existence of the labourer. In bourgeois society, therefore, the past dominates the present; in Communist society, the present dominates the past. In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, 1848

The alchemists, who in their own way knew more about the nature of the individuation process than we moderns do, expressed this paradox through the symbol of the Ouroboros, the snake that eats its own tail. The Ouroboros has been said to have a meaning of infinity or wholeness. In the age-old image of the Ouroboros lies the thought of devouring oneself and turning oneself into a circulatory process, for it was clear to the more astute alchemists that the prima materia of the art was man himself. The Ouroboros is a dramatic symbol for the integration and assimilation of the opposite, i.e. of the shadow. This 'feed-back' process is at the same time a symbol of immortality, since it is said of the Ouroboros that he slays himself and brings himself to life, fertilizes himself and gives birth to himself. He symbolizes the One, who proceeds from the clash of opposites, and he therefore constitutes the secret of the prima materia which ... unquestionably stems from man's unconscious.

Carl Jung, "On the Ouroboros," c. 1930 (via crystal)

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

Jorge Luis Borges, "On Art," c. 1960 (via quote)

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Theodor Kittelsen, Sorgen (The Woe), c. 1900 (via mythofblue)

#theodor kittelsen #woe #art #painting #solitude #individual #romanticism #wanderer #loner #alone #self #ontology #philosophy #psychology

Throughout history, irony has served useful purposes, like providing a rhetorical outlet for unspoken societal tensions. But our contemporary ironic mode is somehow deeper; it has leaked from the realm of rhetoric into life itself. This ironic ethos can lead to a vacuity and vapidity of the individual and collective psyche. Historically, vacuums eventually have been filled by something — more often than not, a hazardous something. Fundamentalists are never ironists; dictators are never ironists; people who move things in the political landscape, regardless of the sides they choose, are never ironists.

Christy Wompole, "How to Live Without Irony," 2013

#christy wompole #quote #irony #history #tension #rhetoric #contemporary #vapid #vacuum #individual #collective #fill #people #politics #sociology #ethos

First comes the human being and then the system, or that’s how it was in antiquity. Today, however, society presumes to make prepackaged human beings, ready for consumption. Anyone can propose reform, criticize, violate, and demystify, but always with the obligation to remain within the system. It is forbidden to be free. Once you create an object, you always have to remain by its side. That’s what the system commands. This expectation is never to be frustrated, and once an individual has assumed a role, he has to continue to perform it until death. Each of his gestures has to be absolutely consistent with his behavior in the past and has to foreshadow his future. To exist from outside the system amounts to revolution.

Germano Celant, Arte Povera Manifesto, 1967

#germano celant #quote #arte povera #manifesto #revolution #system #existence #criticism #violation #demystification #consumption #production #freedom #free #art #object #human being #antiquity #command #individual

The [gallery] spaces aren't a very traditional white cube model here. As a whole spaces are very individualized and personalized, and artist studios are very individualized. There's not one central district or location where all the visual arts are located.

Rachel Reese, "On Atlanta's Sprawled Arts Scene," 2013

#rachel reese #art #atlanta #sprawl #arts scene #art scene #individual #collective #personalization #location #visual arts

It’s possible to build cities not just by the few with a lot but the many with a bit.... In a way it should be kind of obvious that in the 21st century, maybe cities can be developed by citizens.... We’re moving into a future where the factory is everywhere, and that means the design team is everyone.

Alastair Parvin, "Architecture for the People and By the People," 2013

#alastair parvin #quote #factory #city #urbanism #team #collective #individual #future #democracy #economy #TED

Leon Krier, Hierarchy and Complexity, c. 2000 (via polis)

#leon krier #architecture #diagram #drawing #hierarchy #complexity #face #physiognomy #content #form #order #style #modernism #plane #human face #cubism #mirror #deconstructivism #individual #kitsch

Paul Gavarni, Le Flâneur, 1842 (via priscillaferguson)

#paul gavarni #flaneur #drawing #human figure #bourgeois #individual #male

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