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2012-05-28 0 notes

An empty green beer bottle sat directly beneath the hanging plastic-wrapped flowers; it seemed to be offering itself to them as a vase if only they’d abandon their position in the grid, come down and turn the right way round again.

— McCarthy, Remainder

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Guns aren’t just history’s props and agents: they’re history itself, spinning alternate futures in their chamber, hurling the present from their barrel, casting aside the empty shells of the past.

— McCarthy, Remainder

2012-05-23 0 notes

The fallen and inauthentic fixation with the present involves ‘curiosity’, the need to constantly find something new, which itself involves a forgetting of the past and future

— Skempton, Alienation after Derrida

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All the streets, centered Neil Freeman, 2010

All of the streets in selected cities, horizontally and vertically centered.

New York, Chicago, Los Angeles

via @sevensixfive

Acoustic Mirrors. “A primitive form of radar … used as early-warning devices prior to WWII, with someone standing in front of the concave concrete holding a microphone to pick up the sound of aircraft approaching over the English Channel”

(via No Days Off)

2012-05-09 10 notes

thepapercity:

Building islands in Dubai.

Source: thepapercity

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thepapercity:

Copenhagen, Denmark.

Source: thepapercity

2012-05-06 0 notes

The concrete life of the individual is destroyed in order that the abstract idea of the whole may drag out its sorry existence, and the state remains forever a stranger to its citizens since at no point does it ever make contact with their feeling.

— Schiller

2012-05-05 1 note

the impetus of deconstruction is the unmasking and debunking of any notion of an unalienated condition that can be shown to be dependent on a metaphysics of presence and ‘the proper’

The subject of the ‘I think’ that must accompany all representations is transcendental and not empirical, a logical postulate and not a substantial being

“Apparently ‘formalist,’ this indifference to the content has perhaps the value of giving one to think the necessarily pure and purely necessary form of the future as such, in its being-necessarily-promised, prescribed, assigned, enjoined, in the necessarily formal necessity of its possibility.” (Derrida) Here, the term ‘future’ does not refer, as it usually does, to a future present, but precisely to a lack within the present itself that disables it from being walled-in within the identity of the closure of its plenitude. #utopie

The phenomenon of the proper is thus merely that improper phenomenon which effaces its own improper nature, just as presence is the trace that hides its tracelike nature.

“One must analyze the proper of property and how the general property of money neutralizes, disincarnates, deprives of its difference all personal property.” (Derrida)

Deconstruction involves a rigorous dislocation of the operativity of discourse, disabling the closure of self-identity, and preventing meaning from functioning properly.

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Skempton, Alienation after Derrida

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a state of the fullness of presence and identity what would actually amount to a dangerous totalitarian form of metaphysical closure where difference and otherness are suppressed.

— Skempton