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26 Aug 2012
Every built structure (to paraphrase Virilio) is the possibility of a new disaster. To build is thus also to construct infinite lines of destruction.
Eyal Weizman, 'Seismic Archaeology' in Doris Salcedo,
Shibboleth
(Tate Publishing, 2007) p. 33
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