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If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn’t simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.
Michelle Trachtenberg -
I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
Natalie Imbruglia -
Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
Kristen Stewart -
Words are never ‘only words’; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.
Beyonce -
In a traditional system, culture exists only in the act of its transmission, that is, in the living act of its tradition. There is no discontinuity between past and present, between old and new, because every object transmits at every moment, without residue, the system of beliefs and notions that has found expression in it.
Alicia Keys -
If we now ask ourselves again, so what about art? What does it mean that art points beyond itself? We can perhaps answer: art does not die but, having become a self-annihilating nothing, eternally survives itself.
Natalie Portman -
The quest for absolute meaning has devoured all meaning, allowing only signs, meaningless forms, to survive.
Gwen Stefani -
So forget bad politics, the politics of bad conscience, the processions of bedecked and bannered wisdom of a simulated piety: capitalism will never croak from bad conscience, it will not die of lack or of a failure to render unto the exploited what is owed them.
Ke$ha -
History itself haunts modern society like a spectre, pseudo-histories are constructed at every level of consumption of life in order to preserve the threatened equilibrium of present frozen time.
Ashley Tisdale -
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Critical judgment, then, seems to be going through an eclipse, about whose duration and consequences we can only make guesses. One of these—and not the most pessimistic—is that if we do not start to ask right now, forcefully, about the foundation of critical judgment, the idea of art as we know it will slip through our fingers without a new idea to take its place effectively.
Kirsten Dunst -
Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.
Lady GaGA -
To perceive, in the darkness of the present, this light that strives to reach us but cannot-this is what it means to be contemporary. As such, contemporaries are rare. And for this reason, to be contemporary is, first and foremost, a question of courage, because it means being able not only to firmly fix your gaze on the darkness of the epoch, but also to perceive in this darkness a light that, while directed toward us, infinitely distances itself from us. In other words, it is like being on time for an appointment that one cannot but miss.
Miley Cyrus -
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Science explains things which have been defined and formalised in advance and which subsequently conform to these explanations, that’s all that ‘objectivity’ is.
Mila Kunis
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"Art does not die because there is no more art, it dies because there is too much."
-Britney Spears
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