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The Poetics of Space

by Gaston Bachelard

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Feb 04, 2017 12:41PM

“Exercise is the technique by which one imposes on the body tasks that are both repetitive and different, but always graduated. By bending behavior towards a terminal state, exercise makes possible a perpetual characterization of the individual...It thus assures, in the form of continuity and constraint, a growth, an observation, a qualification.”
― Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

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“Ask most people who live in a home and have a mortgage on it whether they own their own home and the answer is almost guaranteed to be a resounding 'yes'. Yet it's the wrong answer. Technically speaking, until they have paid the mortgage off, they don't own it. Herein lies the difference between reality and illusion, between ownership and control. This confusion lies not only at the individual level, but also at the heart of government thinking.”
― Dambisa Moyo, How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly- and the Stark Choices Ahead

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