Image - Tomb for Arnold Hauser (1892-1978), Adolf Loos (1921)
LAST RITES / THE ANTI-MILIEU - "M. de Lemarck distinguished between nature and life. In his eyes, nature was stone and ash, a granite tomb, death. Life came into play only as a strange and singularly productive accident, a prolonged struggle with here or there more or less balance or success, but always finally defeated in the end; cold motionlessness reigned afterwards as before." --Charles Sainte-Beuve, Volupt� (1834), cited in Georges Canguilhem, "The Living and Its Milieu", Grey Room 03 (Spring 2001), p. 30 (Note 12) / "Somewhere and nowhere in every Derridean topography is a secret place, a crypt whose coordinates cannot be plotted. This place exceeds any ordinary topographical placement." J. H. Miller, Topographies (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1995), p. 296, cited in Paivi Kym�l�inen, "Topologies of Becoming: Deferred Presence in Writing", Space & Culture, Vol 6, No. 3 (August 2003), p. 245 (Epigraph) ...
LAST RITES / THE ANTI-MILIEU - "M. de Lemarck distinguished between nature and life. In his eyes, nature was stone and ash, a granite tomb, death. Life came into play only as a strange and singularly productive accident, a prolonged struggle with here or there more or less balance or success, but always finally defeated in the end; cold motionlessness reigned afterwards as before." --Charles Sainte-Beuve, Volupt� (1834), cited in Georges Canguilhem, "The Living and Its Milieu", Grey Room 03 (Spring 2001), p. 30 (Note 12) / "Somewhere and nowhere in every Derridean topography is a secret place, a crypt whose coordinates cannot be plotted. This place exceeds any ordinary topographical placement." J. H. Miller, Topographies (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1995), p. 296, cited in Paivi Kym�l�inen, "Topologies of Becoming: Deferred Presence in Writing", Space & Culture, Vol 6, No. 3 (August 2003), p. 245 (Epigraph) ...