Danny Fingeroth/Frank Springer/Vince Colletta/Don Warfield/Rosen & Chiang
(December, 1981)
Sep 30, 2012
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‘Presumably all obsessions are extreme metaphors waiting to be born. That whole private mythology, in which I believe totally, is a collaboration between one’s conscious mind and those obsessions that, one by one, present themselves as stepping-stones.’
-J.G. Ballard
(1984, en: Extreme Metaphors: Interviews with J.G. Ballard 1967-2008)
Sep 25, 2012
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Sep 14, 2012
"Rigour and purity in assembling words, however simple the result, create a vacuum. Shoddiness that drifts with the flow of familiar speech is taken as a sign of relevance and contact: people know what they want because they know what other people want. Regard for the object, rather than for communication, is suspect in any expression: anything specific, not taken from pre-existing patterns, appears inconsiderate, a symptom of eccentricity, almost of confusion. (…) Vague expression permits the hearer to imagine whatever suits him and what he already thinks in any case. (…) Only what they do not need first to understand, they consider understandable; only the word coined by commerce, and really alienated, touches them as familiar."
-Theodor Adorno.
Minima Moralia. (1951)
Sep 13, 2012
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