Eric

“Today, information: pulverized, nonhierarchized, dealing with everything: nothing is protected from information and at the same time nothing is open to reflection -> Encyclopedias are impossible -> I would say: the more information grows, the more knowledge retreats and therefore the more decision is partial (terroristic, dogmatic) -> “I don’t know,” “I refuse to judge”: as scandalous as an agrammatical sentence: doesn’t belong to the language of the discourse. Variations on the “I don’t know.” The obligation to “be interested” in everything that is imposed on you by the world: prohibition of noninterest, even if provisional . . . .”
― Roland Barthes, The Neutral: Lecture Course at the Collège de France, 1977-1978

“How many color patterns can your severed arm produce in one second?”
― Wendy Williams, Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid

“Winter, then spring, summer, and soon autumn. All seasons are one, ice-cold, featureless, a hell of dreariness.”
― Daniel Arsand, Lovers

“Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.”
― Roland Barthes, The Neutral: Lecture Course at the Collège de France, 1977-1978