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The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion and a…
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It is as though the practices organizing a bustling city were characterized by [city practitioners', everyday citizens'] blindness. The neworks of these…
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Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like…
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An absence of meaning opens a gap in time.
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A memory is only a Prince Charming who stays just long enough to awaken the Sleeping Beauties of our wordless stories.
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It seems thus possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.
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The trace left behind is substituted for the practice. It exhibits the (voracious) property that the geographical system has of being able…
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Everyday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others.
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When he grew old, Aristotle, who is not generally considered a tightrope dancer, liked to lose himself in the most labyrinthine and…
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More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable.
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The created order is everywhere punched and torn open by ellipses, drifts, and leaks of meaning: it is a sieve-order.
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Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.
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By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the…
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It is better not to become acquainted with men about whom you have formerly had doubts. No matter what you do, they…
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That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.
— Ovid
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Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can…
— David Hume
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Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
— Doug Larson
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Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now…
— Oswald Spengler
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Whenever Nature's bounty is in danger of exhaustion, the chemist has sought for a substitute. The conquest of disease has made great…
— Calvin Coolidge
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Philosophy is that part of science which at present people chose to have opinions about, but which they have no knowledge about.…
— Bertrand Russell
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Standard mathematics has recently been rendered obsolete by the discovery that for years we have been writing the numeral five backward. This…
— Woody Allen
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Courteous Reader, Astrology is one of the most ancient Sciences, held in high esteem of old, by the Wise and the Great.…
— Benjamin Franklin
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