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It is crucial for the fate of individuals as well as peoples that culture begin in the right place…the right place is the body, gestures, diet, physiology, everything else follows from this…
Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, “Skirmishes of an Untimely Man,” Aphorism 48. -
The distinction between saying and showing, though, is not simply the distinction between word and gesture. Words can show one’s numbed relation to life just as gesture can tell us what forms of life, what forms of dying, become the soil on which words can grow or not.
Veena Das, Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010) p. 94 -
Title:
Edward James Olmos as “El Pachuco”
Creator/Contributor:
Thompson, Jay, Photographer
Date:
1978 or 1979
Contributing Institution:
Dept of Special Collections/UCLA Library, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, 405 Hilgard Ave, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575;
Image: Calisphere
Posted on May 20, 2011 with 35 notes
Source: content.cdlib.org
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Writing is precisely this compromise between freedom and remembrance, it is freedom which remembers and is free only in the gesture of choice, but is no longer so within duration.
Roland Barthes, “What is Writing?”
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