the answer to that is where are you now
i would like to think he can
and for allowing in the last month
the most incredible right way
we lose all of our guests
as he said i have never heard it before and i have to work with in the future
police fire and the inflationary for us
four of them [...]
Category Archives: citations
the speech of sandra bullock
May 1, 2010 – 1:25 am
the look of a word
February 28, 2010 – 8:42 am
Remember that the look of a word is familiar to us in the same kind of way as its sound.
Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, p68
Strictly Normative
September 19, 2009 – 1:11 pm
This change in basic typeface helped his turn towards some more strictly normative sobriety in the way text and image are handled.
Anthony Froshaug, Typography & Texts, Robin Kinross, p 63
The Good Copyist
July 12, 2009 – 4:29 am
Especially but not only within the musical order, the moment of transcription is the dangerous moment, as is the moment of writing, which in a way is already a transcription, the imitation of other signs; reproducing the signs, producing the signs of signs, the copyist is always tempted to add supplementary signs to improve the [...]
And
July 12, 2009 – 3:00 am
“And” [et] takes the place of “is” [est] and disarticulates ontology, yet “and” also “makes language spin,” introducing agencement and stuttering.
Agamben, Absolute Immanence, p. 222
The Hyphen
July 12, 2009 – 2:56 am
The hyphen is, in this sense, the most dialectical of punctuation marks, since it unites only to the degree that it distinguishes and distinguishes only to the degree that it unites.
Agamben, Absolute Immanence, p 221