Showing posts with label Unity/Diversity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Unity/Diversity. Show all posts

26 Aug 2016

At the cost of community

The polis – the Greek city – was the center of Western communal life, based on the now-faulty assumptions of a common purpose, a common consensus, and an unmediated harmony and unity of all human life. Through our postmodern deconstruction of totalizations, we think we have reinstated freedom of choice and enabled the voice of alterity to rise, but we have clearly done so at the cost of community.

M. Christine Boyer, CyberCities (Princeton Architectural Press, 1996) p. 28

19 Aug 2016

Colour is syncopation

Everything aspires either to the black or to the white. Colour is syncopation.

Samuel Beckett, Eleutheria (Faber and Faber, 1996) p. 113

24 Sept 2013

Ogräs till aska

Han odlar både en trädgård och ett universum. Han sitter vid sin mila som alkemisten vid sin degel, som glaspärlespelaren vid sina tecken, och bränner ogräsets mångfald till askans enhet.
Livets ogräs till konstens aska.
Levande ogräs till död aska.
Vissnat ogräs till bördig aska.
Alla spelets möjligheter finns med i hans arbete vid elden. Arbetet en metafor. Men en utförbar metafor. En konst som blivit handling.


Sven Lindqvist, Myten om Wu Tao-tzu (Månpocket, 2013) p. 81