Article 9
When one writes, one writes more than (or less than, or other than) one thinks. The reader’s task is to read what is written rather than simply attempt to intuit what might have been meant. – Barbara...
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Article 7
“Not junk,” Mom will say. “Tiny pieces of our lives.” … She says they’re precious because they’re casual and meaningless. “But they tell the whole story if you really look” – Jennifer Egan, A Visit...
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Article 6
the ruin orders itself into the surrounding landscape without a break, growing together with it like tree and stone. – George Simmel, ‘The Ruin’
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Journeys ‘home’ are, in the imagination, often travels in time as well as space – journeys to the past. But places go on without you. A nostalgia, or a set of expectations that does not take account of...
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ANYTHING but ordinary
For decades, camera advertisements have foregrounded the quotidian, amateur aspects of the technology – in an effort to attract as broader a market base as possible, companies like Kodak pioneered a...
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…the world we live in is temporary and [in Britain] is built on 12,000 years of past history, and the world we look around at and think is permanent, the buildings, the shops, the houses, the streets,...
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The mechanism: stamped black tin, Leatherette over cardboard, bits of boxwood, A lens The shutter falls Forever Dividing that from this. – Agrippa (a book of the dead)
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“This magical pane of glass”: digital devices, furniture and dematerialisation
We can view domestic and work space as an battlefield between media objects and furniture – and over the course of this long campaign, there have been a number of strategies devised to end the...
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I’ve always found it to be a deeply disturbing aspect of my generation (Y) that we seem to be nostalgic before we’ve even finished experiencing. Nostalgia, conventionally understood, is a regressive...
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