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Collected Essays, 1981-87
Book by Halley, Peter
- GenresArt
204 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 1988
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May 15, 2020
'World War II constituted a "natural disaster" insofar as it tore asunder the seamless web of signs that consitute modern civilization. It left...a situation in which they werre faced not with the codes that their societies had invented for them but rather with an unintended hole in the "empire of signs"'. p 66
"It is as if...the codeless world that war...had created, a world in which the usual laws of market and class-the mechanics of the bourgeois universe as it should be-were in abeyance, philosophy and art should be simply about the possible actions and decisions that a human being who has been stripped of his social role can undertake." p. 66
"It is as if...the codeless world that war...had created, a world in which the usual laws of market and class-the mechanics of the bourgeois universe as it should be-were in abeyance, philosophy and art should be simply about the possible actions and decisions that a human being who has been stripped of his social role can undertake." p. 66
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May 14, 2014Especially read "Nature and Culture" (recommended via Peter's reading list Winter 2014)
May 21, 2013
I technically did not read this, I read selected essays which is this + the later collection. Too underground for goodreads.
Thoughts on abstraction are emotionally important to me. Also I now have an excuse to read Richard Sennett and more Foucault.
Thoughts on abstraction are emotionally important to me. Also I now have an excuse to read Richard Sennett and more Foucault.
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