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The Nursery
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After almost ten years as a translator, my work was still mostly a struggle. Not necessarily the work itself, because there was pleasure in trying to get it “right” (a faulty concept that is still thrown around among fellow colleagues).
“Java is to JavaScript as ham is to hamster.”
― Resilient Web Design
― Resilient Web Design
“It is always the Age of Iron, and the Golden Age is always behind us, giving off a luster that illuminates the terminal shabbiness of our present condition.”
― Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth
― Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth
“Taste, we assume, is innate, reflexive, immediate, involuntary, but we also speak of it as something to be acquired. It is a private, subjective matter, a badge of individual sovereignty, but at the same time a collectively held property, bundling us into clubs, cults, communities, and sociological stereotypes.”
― Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think about Art, Pleasure, Beauty and Truth
― Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think about Art, Pleasure, Beauty and Truth
“Jeg spurgte, om ikke vi kunne have nogle stykker at vælge imellem, at vi hver især kunne bruge det ord, der føltes mest præcist, og så kunne vi håbe på en eller anden grad af forståelse. At rummeligheden også kunne være i vores hoveder, ikke nødvendigvis i ordene selv. Jeg syntes ikke, det var den store tragedie, hvis man bad nogen om at hente en kop, og de så kom tilbage med et krus. Hvor vigtigt var det, om vores smedejernsport blev kaldt en låge eller en port? Så længe den blev åbnet, når nogen skulle ind. Men så sagde Sonia, at hvis det var sådan man kommunikerede på en operationsstue, risikerede patienten at dø. En kop er ikke et krus. Og måske har man i virkeligheden brug for et bæger. Præcision er ikke, at ordene er rummelige, sagde hun henvendt til Olga. Præ- cision er, at ordene er skarpe. Skarpe og smalle og lige til at plukke op fra bakken med kirurgiske instrumenter.”
― Om udregning af rumfang IV
― Om udregning af rumfang IV
“It matters what matters we use to think other matters with; it matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with; it matters what knots knot knots, what thoughts think thoughts, what descriptions describe descriptions, what ties tie ties. It matters what stories make worlds, what worlds make stories.”
― Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
― Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
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