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Denis Sarazhin | Pantomime No. 16 | 2017

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"Many things to absorb I teach to help you become eleve of mine; Yet if blood like mine circle not in your veins, If you be not silently selected by lovers and do not silently select lovers, Of what use is it that you seek to become eleve of mine?"

—Walt Whitman, To a Western Boy

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"Our consideration proceeds from the insight that the politicians’ stubborn faith in progress, their confidence in their “mass basis,” and, finally, their servile integration in an uncontrollable apparatus have been three aspects of the same thing."

—Walter Benjamin, Theses on The Philosophy of History

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"The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the “state of emergency” in which we live is not the exception but the rule. We must attain to a conception of history that is in keeping with this insight."

—Walter Benjamin, Theses on The Philosophy of History

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Yves Klein | Peinture de feu sans titre (F27I) | 1961

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"For the poetics of identification, the process of constructing a collectivity, or a solidarity, of political causes-gender, class, race-requires that each sign of identity be made to confront the contingent and multicausal identifications that constitute agency in complex, democratic societies."

—Home Bhabha, On Cultural Choice

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"The poetics of identification strives to represent the process through which intercultural relations in-between class, gender, generation, race, religion, or region are articulated as hybrid identifications."

—Home Bhabha, On Cultural Choice

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"But maybe the self has to be considered not as a reality which has to be liberated or excavated; but the self has to be considered as the correlate of technologies built and developed throughout our history. Then the problem is not to liberate the self, but those technologies, that means, the self."

—Michel Foucault, The Technology of the Self

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Warpaint | Melting | From the Basement

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"Our experience of ourselves seems to us, no doubt, to be that which is most original and immediate; but we have to remember that it has been constituted through historically formed practices."

—Michel Foucault, The Technology of the Self

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"Better still: this obligation to tell the truth about oneself is concerned not simply with the acts (permitted or forbidden) which one might have committed, but with feelings, with representations, with thoughts, with desires that one might experience."

—Michel Foucault, The Technology of the Self

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Chiharu Nishizawa | Diorama (Subway) | 2005

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"What strikes me is the fact that the interdictions against doing certain kind of things, the interdictions against having such and such relations, had very constantly been associated with certain obligations to speak, to tell the truth—more precisely to tell the truth about oneself."

—Michel Foucault, The Technology of the Self

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All is a procession, The universe is a procession with measured and perfect motion.

—Walt Whitman, I Sing the Body Electric

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"In order for this meaning to justify the transcendence which discloses it, it must itself be founded, which it will never be if I do not choose to found it myself... My project is never founded; it founds itself."

—Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity

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"An ethics of ambiguity will be one which will refuse to deny a priori that separate existants can, at the same time, be bound to each other, that their individual freedoms can forge laws valid for all."

—Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity

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Dianne Fogwell（Australian, b.1958）

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