Craig Owens famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Representation, then, is not - nor can it be - neutral; it is an act - indeed the founding act - of power in our culture.
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Photographs are but one link in a potentially endless chain of reduplication; themselves duplicates (of both their objects and, in a sense, their negatives), they are also subject to further duplication, either through the procedures of printing or as objects of still other photographs.
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As an allegorical art, then, photography would represent our desire to fix the transitory, the ephemeral, in a stable and stabilizing image.
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The postmodernist critique of representation undermines the referential status of visual imagery, its claim to represent reality as it really is - either the appearance of things or some ideal order behind or beyond appearance.
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Music knows no barrier of age or culture. It isn’t about being politically correct or even making a statement. Music is what appeals to the ears and touches your soul.
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The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.
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Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.
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Moses is our true founding father.
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The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H.
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Forbes has championed entrepreneurism since its founding.
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I can't think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.
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All that once was directly lived has become mere representation.
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In my work, we're not looking at an icon, we're not looking at a sign, we're not looking at a representation. We're looking at something. I do have this feeling of trust that people can read it for themselves.
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The desire of representation exists only insofar as the original is always deferred. It is only in the absence of the original that representation can take place.
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