February 2010
14 posts
“The sole critique of a philosophy that is possible, and that proves anything,...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“I will refer to the kind of art in which I am involved as conceptual art. In...”
– Sol Lewitt, Paragraphs on Conceptual Art (1976)
“I and mine do not convince by arguments, similes, rhymes; We convince by our...”
– Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road (1900)
“Again, it is from the same causes and by the same means that every virtue is...”
– Aristotle, Nicomachaen Ethics Book B 1103b
“I would argue that theory is not just irrelevant but was and continues to be an...”
– Michael Speaks, After Theory (2005)
“As I see it, the attempt to make philosophy useful to the arts is OK if...”
– Richard Rorty, Remarks at MOMA October (2007)
“Do something.”
– dosomething.org (2010)
“Patton’s response to me seemed to open a space for moving from the rather...”
– Eve Sedgwick, Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading (1997/2003)
“I have inveighed elsewhere against the Aristotelian practice-theory and the...”
– Richard Rorty, The Pragmatist’s Progress: Umberto Eco on Interpretation (1992)
“[I]f, like Derrida and Foucault, you are a scrupulous academic who is largely an...”
– Gayatri Spivak, More on Power/Knowledge (1992)
“Just do it.”
– Nike (1988)
“Perhaps changes can be made today only through thoughts that do not directly aim...”
– Theodor Adorno, Metaphysics, Lecture Sixteen (1965)
“[T]here is, perhaps, a certain justification for occupying oneself with...”
– Theodor Adorno, Metaphysics, Lecture Fifteen (1965)
“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point,...”
– Karl Marx, Theses on Feuerbach (1845)