From Bateson's “Pathologies of Epistemology”

suggests that art supplies something like what philosophy gives us: an argument. The metaphor of the work of art as an “argument,” with premises and entailments, has informed most criticism since.”

— Susan Sontag, “On Style”

From the world of the object, from some other thing than the subject. Illusion, like profusion, comes to us from the world.”

— Jean Baudrillard, Fragments: Cool Memories III

The deepest question is why. And it is a forbidden one. The very asking is in the nature of cosmic sabotage. And the penalty is — the afflictions of Job.”

— Henry Miller, Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch

This means that digitalized life lacks animacy. Digital temporality belongs to the undead.”

— Byung-chul Han, Psychopolitics