#possible – @nickkahler on Tumblr

The fact that it’s possible to translate the same lines a hundred different times and all of them are defensible in entirely different ways? That tells you something. I want to be super responsible about my relationship to the Greek text. I want to be saying, after multiple different revisions: This is the best I can get toward the truth.

Emily Wilson, “On Translation,” 2017

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The incomprehensible and the error are the seed of the possible and the future.

Gianfranco Baruchello, “On Possible Futures,” c. 1990 (via hansulrichobrist)

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The traditional modern dialectic of ideal type and real context has been avoided, or rather replaced, by a more complex intercalation of intellectual narrative and material proposition. Here, the city, as existing, stands as the object and generator of so many possible futures, each calculated according to the nature of its opposition to those futures. The architectural project, while crystallizing one or more of these futures, is then presented to the city, so to speak, as a whole, not as a replacement or substitute, as in the utopian urbanism of modernism, but as a material to be submitted to the life and consuming power of the context.

Anthony Vidler, "Oneirism" from The Architectural Uncanny, 1992

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Art as part of our insane capacity for hope makes it possible that we cope with our permanent madness and our boundless brutality.

Gerhard Richter, "Post-It Note for HUO," c. 2012

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I have from time to time imagined that a psychoanalysis of architecture might be possible – as if architecture were on the couch so to speak – that would reveal, by implication, and reflection, its relationship with its ‘subjects’.

Anthony Vidler, "On Psychoanalysis in Architecture," 2001 (via arted)

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Atlanta has long prided itself as a city of dreams, a place where anything is possible.

Charles Rutheiser, Imagineering Atlanta, 1996

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