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An assemblage is a multiplicity which is made up of many heterogeneous terms and which establishes…

The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past.

When the memory of the primitive races began to be surcharged, when the load of tradition carried…

Each time humans create an instrument after their own idea, the instrument in turn and in its own…

Since we overcame the error of supposing that the forgetting we are familar with signified a…

I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the…

We seem at times overwhelmed by the oceanic feeling of a limitless archive, of which the city is…

Any elements, no matter where they are taken from, can be used to make new combinations. The…

They all journeyed to the Plain of Oblivion, there they camped at eventide by the River of…

I think the fragment is the only possible moment and the only possible place to understand.

By what then are montage and its embryo -the frame- characterized? By collisions. By the conflict…

We need sequences of space which arouse ones curiosity, give a sense of anticipation, beckon and…

Créer n'est pas déformer ou inventer des personnes ou des choses. C'est nouer entre des personnes…

One does not need to study Galbraith; personal experience is sufficient to show that, in our…

For we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

Leisure is discovered when the opportunity to freely choose how one will live, appart from work and…

I carried to my lips a spoonful of the tea in which I had let soften a piece of Madeleine. But at…

Passaic seems full of « holes » compared to New York City, which seems tightly packed and solid…

Il faut donc moins se souvenir conclut Pontalis, qu’associer, associer librement comme s’y…

Memories are like plants: there are those that need to be quickly eliminated in order to help the…

Memory is not like a private chamber within the individual consciousness but is more of a process…

Early in Greek history (10th-8th centuries BC), free-born citizens would gather in the agora for…

The point of Herodotus’s equation of freedom with no-rule was that the ruler himself was not free…

Public squares are used in our times not so much for great popular festivals or for the daily needs…

In the common realm, crafted by communities in movement, people find room to compare their dreams…

The multitude is a multiplicity of singularities that produce and are produced in the biopolitical…

Common spaces emerge as threshold spaces, spaces which are not demarcated by defining a perimeter.

Communities in movement create common space, space used under conditions decided on by communities…

Living in a courtyard house provides a physical–cultural context in which neighbors become aware of…

This sequence thus demonstrates two significant functions of the central courtyard as a…

Men in the plural, that is, men in so far as they live and move and act in this world, can…

Consider the most lethargic men: even those endowed with singular idleness always have both mind…

In Synantia, interaction is unavoidable. The city allows navigation through a series of passages…

The polis is the space of the many, the space that exists in between individuals or groups of…