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Critical art is an art that aims to produce a new perception of the world, and therefore to create a commitment to its transformation. This schema, very simple in appearance, is actually the conjunction of three processes: first, the production of a sensory form of 'strangeness'; second, the development of an awareness of the reason for that strangeness and third, a mobilization of individuals as a result of that awareness. ↗


— Jacques Rancière


#critical-art #dissensus #ethical-immediacy #representational-mediation #art

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. ↗


— Karl Marx


#oppression #politics #representation #repression #society

Any Reform Bill which is worth a moment's thought, or the smallest effort to carry it, must at least double, and it ought to do much more than double, the representation of the metropolitan boroughs and of all the great cities of the United Kingdom. ↗


— John Bright


#bill #carry #cities #double #effort

The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they're protecting us. ↗


— Tom Clancy


#carry #combat #country #field #fight

The most accurate representation of how I feel is that I'm incredibly lucky to be working in this structure where people get paid millions to read the news on TV. And, yes, it is insane. And there is nothing I can say beyond acknowledging my immense good fortune, and being aware that I'm blessed, and aware that it isn't going to last forever. ↗


— Tom Hanks


#acknowledging #aware #being #beyond #blessed

Junipers are generally chosen for the latter purpose, as they can be more readily bent into the desired form; the eyes and tongue are added afterwards, and the representation altogether is really good. ↗


— Robert Fortune


#afterwards #altogether #bent #chosen #desired

[Women] complain about many clerks who attribute all sorts of faults to them and who compose works about them in rhyme, prose, and verse, criticizing their conduct in a variety of different ways. They then give these works as elementary textbooks to their young pupils at the beginning of their schooling, to provide them with exempla and received wisdom, so that they will remember this teaching when they come of age ... They accuse [women] of many ... serious vice[s] and are very critical of them, finding no excuse for them whatsoever. This is the way clerks behave day and night, composing their verse now in French, now in Latin. And they base their opinions on goodness only knows which books, which are more mendacious than a drunk. Ovid, in a book he wrote called Cures for Love, says many evil things about women, and I think he was wrong to do this. He accuses them of gross immorality, of filthy, vile, and wicked behaviour. (I disagree with him that they have such vices and promise to champion them in the fight against anyone who would like to throw down the gauntlet ...) Thus, clerks have studied this book since their early childhood as their grammar primer and then teach it to others so that no man will undertake to love a woman. ↗


— Christine de Pizan


#clichés #double-standards #empowerment #falsehood #gender

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy. ↗


— Robert Smithson


#artifices #both #everybody #found #history

When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us. ↗


— Robert Smithson


#18th century #20th century #century #finished #finished work

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation. ↗


— Susan Sontag


#art #final #final analysis #less #modes






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