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The City Is A State Of Mind.
“The city is a state of mind, a body of customs and traditions, and of organised attitudes & sentiments that inhere in this tradition. It is involved in the vital processes of the people who compose it, a product of nature and particularly of human nature.”
—
Robert E. Park, in The City: Human Behaviour in the Urban Environment
felt ⸌ spüren⸜
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We will be transformed
into automatons.
If we try to measure and count our feelings,
to explain and predict our motives and actions,
…without freedom, without beauty, without passion, and without dreams.
We will become mere phantoms of ourselves.
How do we usually speak about immediate experience about the inner experiences we have of feelings, sensations, and affects, and…
To reveal to us what kinds of assumptions find the way into our thinking when we do so.
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“…the past into a present which is already blending into the future.”
—
Henri Bergson
It grasps a succession which is not juxtaposition,
Of the past into a present which is already blending into the future.
From its being imbedded in the fabric of tradition.
The intuition we refer to then bears above all upon internal duration.
A growth from within, the uninterrupted prolongation,
The uniqueness of a work of art is inseparable,
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“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to Go on Creating Oneself Endlessly.”
—
Henri Bergson
One ought to remember that all cultures impose corrections upon raw reality, changing it from free-floating objects into units of knowledge. The problem is not that conversion takes place. It is perfectly natural for the human mind to resist the assault on it of untreated strangeness; therefore cultures have always been inclined to impose complete transformations on other cultures receiving these other cultures not as they are, but for the benefit of the receiver, as they ought to be.
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Edward Said, Orientalism | Cuba-Chicago-Los
SHADOWS ON THE WALL
“What has been forgotten.... is never something purely individual.”
- Walter Benjamin