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These works are “arguments for concentration of present details as a way of life lived against a background of unconsciouness, lack of meaning, and nonexistence … arguing openly for concentration as a value” and embodiment as a human condition”
—Kenneth Baker, “Some Exercises in Slow Perception”
“put back into the mind, it became at once very exciting, and important; and as it darted and sank, and flashed hither and thither, set up such a wash and tumult of ideas that it was impossible to sit still. It was thus that I found myself walking with extreme rapidity across a grass plot. Instantly a man's figure rose to intercept me.”
A Room of On... See more
A Room of On... See more
“We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like—we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our ostensible equals” (30).
Status Anxiety
Alain de Botton
“Rousseau’s Discourse goes on to sketch the history of the world not as a story of progress from barbarism to the great workshops and cities of Europe, but as one of regress, from a privileged state in which we humans lived simply but were aware of our own needs to a state in which we are apt to feel envy for ways of life that can claim little conn
... See more“The quickest way to stop noticing something, may be to buy it” (148).
Status Anxiety
Alain de Botton
“I do think there is a state of quality that is necessary, but it is not based on correctness. It has to do with the quality of the piece itself and nothing to do with neatness or edges. It’s not the artisan quality of the work, but the integrity of the piece . . . I’m not conscious of materials as a beautiful essence . . . For me the great involve... See more
“Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life—its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness—conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.”
-Susan Sontag, “Against Interpretation”
“the entire enterprise of art making provides the ground for finding the limits and possibilities of certain kinds of behavior and that this behavior of production itself is distinct and has become so expanded and visible that it has extended the entire profile of art. This extended profile is composed of a complex of interactions involving factors... See more
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