The Arcades Project - Operi

No. 12
Methodological
Dialectical images are wish symbols. Actualized in them, together with tbe
thing < Sache> itself, are its origin and its decliue.
What sort of perceptibility should the presentation of history possess? Neither
the cheap and easy visibility of bourgeois history books, nor the iusufficient
visibility of Marxist histories. What it has to fix perceptually are
the images deriving from the collective unconscious.
Tbe of the productive forces of a society is determined not
only by the raw materials and instruments at that society's disposal, but
also by its milieu and the experiences it has there.
Waiting as form of existence of the parasitic elements.
No. 13
Ne w 17,emes and Formulations
(With the expanded range of transportation, the informational merits of
paiutiug diminish. In reaction to photography it begins initially, over the
course of half a century, to stress the elements of color in the picture. As
Impressionism yields to Cubism, paintiug opens up a wider domaiu-one
into which photography, for the moment, cannot follow.)
(For a subjective point of view on the presentation of the new, as it appears at
rnidcentury in the society and its milieux, no one can take responsibility:
hence the lens .)
Waitiug and letting wait. Waiting as form of existence of the parasitic elements.
No. 14
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