Barbara Bolt > Quotes

“They are not objects. They are places, places where some little thing is about to come into being”
― Barbara Bolt, Heidegger Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts

“In the pre-Renaissance world, he notes, the ‘viewing subject is addressed liturgically, as a member of the faith, and communally as a generalised choric presence’, not as an individuated viewing subject (Bryson 1983: 96).”
― Barbara Bolt, Heidegger Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts

“This ordering becomes the standard on which everything is based.”
― Barbara Bolt, Heidegger Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts

“Thus technological revealing allows humans to extend their vision further into nature and extend their mastery over everything, including other human beings.”
― Barbara Bolt, Heidegger Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts

“The age of the world picture is not concerned with a visual picturing, with mimesis, but rather with a modelling or framing of the world. It is the reduction of the world to data.”
― Barbara Bolt, Heidegger Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts

“techne assumes the character of a controlling revealing. It is this tendency towards control and mastery that establishes the ambivalence of techne.”
― Barbara Bolt, Heidegger Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts

“Bryson argues that objectivity and calculability emerge in the viewing process. According to this logic – one of the logics of representation – the viewer is turned into a representation.”
― Barbara Bolt, Heidegger Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts

“For Bryson, the centric ray, the line running from viewpoint to vanishing point, constitutes the return of the gaze upon itself.”
― Barbara Bolt, Heidegger Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts

“Everyday Dasein becomes absorbed in the everyday and becomes lost in ‘the-they’.”
― Barbara Bolt, Heidegger Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts

“is through our concernful dealings with other entities in the world – that is our accommodation to our technology, materials, knowledges and bodies – that art leaves the domain of representationalism altogether”
― Barbara Bolt, Heidegger Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts

“In the Heideggerian conception of representation, ‘representation’ is neither used in its everyday multiplicity of uses nor in the sense of presenting an image, but rather as a regime or system of organising the world, by which the world is reduced to a norm or a model.”
― Barbara Bolt, Heidegger Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts

“The preoccupation with models and copies can be traced back to Plato’s postulation of an ideal world of forms. In this conception, ideal form pre-exists any actuality. The image, or what we have come to know as representation, can only ever be an imperfect copy of ideal form. The”
― Barbara Bolt, Heidegger Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts

“The ready-to-hand is not grasped theoretically at all nor is it itself the sort of thing that circumspection takes as a circumspective theme.”
― Barbara Bolt, Heidegger Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts

“The ‘they’ which is nothing definite, and which all are, although not as the sum, prescribes the kind of being of everydayness.”
― Barbara Bolt, Heidegger Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts

“the essence is a ‘happening’, where the truth of art is revealed.”
― Barbara Bolt, Heidegger Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts

“aesthetic revealing as poiesis can preserve humans from the danger of the particular technological revealing that is enframing.”
― Barbara Bolt, Heidegger Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts

“In strife, Heidegger tells us, ‘each opponent carries itself beyond itself’ (OWA 174). To go beyond oneself is productive.4”
― Barbara Bolt, Heidegger Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts

“Nothing signifies the dynamic and creative force of possibility. This is earth.”
― Barbara Bolt, Heidegger Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts

“Through man’s ability to represent or model the world, he secures the world for his own use.”
― Barbara Bolt, Heidegger Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts

“it establishes a ‘frame’ that produces the objectification and mastery of the world by man as subiectum”
― Barbara Bolt, Heidegger Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts

“take things out of their everyday context and frame them from my point of view. I no longer see things for what they are in themselves, that is their being, but rather frame them according to particular intentions I have for the work.”
― Barbara Bolt, Heidegger Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts

“What is critical to being-in-the-world, says Heidegger, is not predicated on what we know about the world but rather on knowing how to live and move in it. Existence involves being-in-the-world.”
― Barbara Bolt, Heidegger Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts

“For Heidegger, the central question concerning Being is not the everyday activities or practices of human beings, but rather what such activities and practices can reveal or disclose about the Being of (human) beings.”
― Barbara Bolt, Heidegger Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts

“We do not come to ‘know’ an entity theoretically through contemplative knowledge in the first instance. As we have already seen, we come to know this entity theoretically only after we have come to understand it through handling.”
― Barbara Bolt, Heidegger Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts

“In other words, the ground allows the figure to emerge. In this Gestalt, the figure can only be a figure by virtue of the ground against which it emerges.”
― Barbara Bolt, Heidegger Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts

“We can only understand what art is through its embeddedness in an artworld.”
― Barbara Bolt, Heidegger Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts

“what is bought forth by the artisan or the artist...has the bursting open belonging to bringing-forth not in itself, but in another (en alloi), in the craftsman or the artist’ (QCT: 10–11).”
― Barbara Bolt, Heidegger Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts

“The setting-into-work of truth involves setting up a world and setting-forth of earth.”
― Barbara Bolt, Heidegger Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts

“because the Greeks existed among things and did not position the world in relation to themselves, they could not be subiectum. They did not conceive of the world as an object, nor did they objectify the world.”
― Barbara Bolt, Heidegger Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts

“Representation, with its formal normative character, predestines our understanding of the world and what it is to be a being.”
― Barbara Bolt, Heidegger Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts