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- “A people or a class which is cut off from its own past is far less free to choose and to act as a people or a class than one that has been able to situate itself in history.” - John Berger
from Ways of Seeing by tomcritchlow.com
- "Even if my expectations are unreasonable I would prefer to keep them"
from Tweet by Simon Sarris
In its highest form, the manifesto acts as a magic spell incanted by the visionary artist. It is a performative speech/act that attempts to bring a new reality into existence.
from The 10 Things All Great Manifestos Need by Julian Hanna
Manifestos are repositories of a kind of magic and madness that does not exist in any other genre.
from The 10 Things All Great Manifestos Need by Julian Hanna
In 1909 the Futurists refused reverence and predicted, even begged for their overthrow by the next generation: “Younger and stronger men will throw us in the wastebasket like useless manuscripts,” they cried. “We want it to happen!” Like all good manifestos, they built in their own obsolescence, clearing the way for the next vision of the future.
from The 10 Things All Great Manifestos Need by Julian Hanna
Fleeting and permanent, serious and ridiculous, sincere and ironic, always undermining their own authority, manifestos are unstable texts in the extreme.
from The 10 Things All Great Manifestos Need by Julian Hanna