#result – @nickkahler on Tumblr

Linked to the ground, to the surrounding earth, the bunker, for camouflage, tends to coalesce with the geological forms whose geometry results from the forces and exterior conditions that for centuries have modeled them. The bunker's form anticipates this erosion by suppressing all superfluous forms; the bunker is prematurely worn and smoothed to avoid all impact. It nestles in the uninterrupted expanse of the landscape and disappears from our perception, used as we are to bearings and markers.

Paul Virilio, Bunker Archaeology, 1975

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The Fuhrer's conception of frontiers was purely historical, without geographic references to continental limits or relief. For him, people's borders were always incomplete; the division of the Earth was the momentary result of combat, of a becoming that was never definitive but that, on the contrary, could and must develop heedless of the elementary realities of the world.

Paul Virilio, Bunker Archaeology, 1975

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The author is now a producer of diverse content (clearly text is a wildly inadequate term) in diverse media and formats, distributed across diverse platforms. To find all this rapidly proliferating content has become an ever more complex task, and for those of us who also produce content in order to generate knowledge, the task is even more fraught as we use our multiple devices to sift through tens of thousands of results that may or may not be authoritative, verifiable or even remotely useful, much less organized according to our own research interests or priorities.

Gabrielle Esperdy, “Building Data: Field Notes on the Future of the Past,” 2013

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The predictability of an event does not result from a rule having been followed, or a necessity having been complied with, or from a law of causality that was projected by us onto every event - it lies in the recurrence of 'identical cases.'

Freidrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra, 1883-5 (via reinert)

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