MyArcJournal: Quote: Architecture as art

Quoting My Readings

"Symbols and symbolisms are much-discussed topics, but they are rarely discussed intelligently. It is too often forgotten that some if not all symbols had a material and concrete existence before coming to symbolise anything." The Production of Space, Henri Lefebvre

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"'Language should be tortured to tell the truth.' It should be twisted, denaturalised, extended, condensed, cut, and reunited, made to work against itself. Language as the ' big Other' is not an agent of wisdom to whose message we should attune ourselves, but a place of cruel indifference and stupidity. The most elementary form of torturing one's language is called poetry." The Poetic Torture-House of Language, Slavoj Žižek

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Wednesday, 21 November 2012

Quote: Architecture as art