I’m a country girl myself, she would like to say, but does not, though it is true, in part. Nothing exceptional about being from the country
J.M Coetzee
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mickeypotthoff
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mickeypotthoff
”Show me what an oral poet can do.” And he laid her out, lay upon her, put his lips to her ears, opened them, breathed his breath into her,showed her.
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Ilika Polderman
“De universiteit heeft de studia humanitatis niet in het leven geroepen, en evenmin heeft de universiteit, toen ze de studia humanitatis op de duur binnen haar domein accepteerde, ze een bijzonder warm onthaal bereid. Integendeel, de universiteit heeft de studia humanitatis slechts in een sobere, beperkte vorm omhelsd. Die beperkte vorm was tekstwetenschap; de geschiedenis van de studia humanitatis is sinds de vijftiende eeuw zo nauw verbonden met de geschiedenis van de tekstwetenschap dat die twee net zo goed aan elkaar gelijkgesteld kunnen worden,”
Coetzee, J.M. ‘Elizabeth Costello’. vert. Peter Bergsma. Amsterdam: Cossee, 2003: p. 80. -
Ilika Polderman
“This detailes investigation into the comlex relations of knowledge and power, discourses and politics, cognition and social control compels intellectuals to rethink and redefine their self-image and function in our contemporary situation.”
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Ilika Polderman
“In fact, black intellectual life remains largely preoccupied with such defensiveness, with “successful” black intellectuals often proud of their white approval and “unsuccessful” ones usually scornful of their white rejection.”
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rene
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Immanuel Kant -
liespeeters
What is future, after all, but structure of hopes and expectations ? Its residence is in the mind; it has no reality.(…)
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ellenswart
Today, these practices bearing the secret of our rationality no longer look so remote. With time, they are coming closer. It is pointless now to look for this ethnological reality in Australia or at the beginning of history. It resides in our system (the panoptic procedures), or next door to it, if not inside our cities (the strategies of Béarn or Kabylia), than still nearer (the “unconscious”). But however proximate the content may be, it’s “ethnological” form remains. The form given to these practices located far away from knowledge and yet possessing its secret poses a problem from the outset.
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sverest
Art is thus a kind of knowledge that operates outside the enlightened discourse which it lacks. More importantly, this know-how surpasses, in its complexity, enlightened science.
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bobreijnen
This detour is all the more striking because no direct experience justifies it. Neither of these authors has observed the practice he is dealing with. They never went to see for themselves, any more than Marx ever went to a factory. Why then do they constitute these practices as a hermetic enigma in which they can read in inverted form the key of their theories?
Michel de Certeau, The practice of everyday life, p. 64