Quote of the day - On the magical act of transforming stuff to rubbish: This [wine] bottle arrived in my possession seemingly stripped of consequences, but those consequences exist. Where is this bottle going, once I empty it? The mythic moment of getting rid of it, of trowing it away, is supposed to be the sudden and total end of our mutual narrative as human and object. But that is by no means any end of any object. Its just the moment when I, the human, unilaterally decide to ignore the object. The object is merely semantically reclassified as rubbish and exported willy-nilly ot the future. Sterling, Bruce. (2005). Shaping things. Cambridge, MA: MIT press, p.74.
Posted on: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 21:56:15 +0000
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