‘Before becoming active, we must select and link together passions that increase our power of action. But such passions are related to images of objects that agree in nature with us […] if we consider their origin, common notions find in imagination the very condition of their formation […] thus these ideas may themselves in some respects be likened to images.’
Spinoza and Expressionism pp.294
‘SOMETIMES DOING SOMETHING POETIC CAN BECOME POLITICAL AND SOMETIMES DOING SOMETHING POLITICAL CAN BECOME POETIC.’
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‘I am not in space and time, nor do I conceive space and time; I belong to them, my body combines with them and includes them. The scope of this inclusion is the measure of that of my existence; but in any case it can never be all embracing. The space and time which I inhabit are always in their different ways indterminate horizons which contain other points of view. The synthesis of both time and space is a task that always has to be performed afresh.’
The Architectonic of Philosophy, Kavanaugh L, 2007:pp265
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‘Thus wrote the first philosopher of place, Archytas of Tarentum: To be at all is to be in (some) place.
Another Land, Nicky Coutts 2006, pp.22
Like the spider with its web, so every subject weaves relationships between itself and particular properties of objects; the many strands are then woven together and finally form the basis of the subjects very existence.
Jakob von Uexkull, Existence, Space, Architecture by Christian Norberg-Shulz:pp9
