Simon Reynolds

“Liberation—not a gift, not a self-achievement, but a mutual process.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

“But if perception is thus a function of movement, then what we perceive must, at least in part, depend on how we move. Locomotion, not cognition, must be the starting point for the study of perceptual activity. Or more strictly, cognition should not be set off from locomotion, along the lines of a division between head and heels, since walking is itself a form of circumambulatory knowing.”
― Tim Ingold

“what the effect would be of overturning prevailing assumptions and of adopting … a fundamental orientation towards the ground.”
― Tim Ingold

“Curiosity is a vice that has been stigmatized in turn by Christianity, by philosophy, and even by a certain conception of science. Curiosity is seen as futility. However, I like the word; it suggests something quite different to me. It evokes “care”; it evokes the care one takes of what exists and what might exist; a sharpened sense of reality, but one that is never immobilized before it; a readiness to find what surrounds us strange and odd; a certain determination to throw off familiar ways of thought and to look at the same things in a different way; a passion for seizing what is happening now and what is disappearing; a lack of respect for the traditional hierarchies of what is important and fundamental. I dream of a new age of curiosity.”
― Michel Foucault, Politics, Philosophy, Culture: Interviews and Other Writings, 1977-1984