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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is…

CITIZENS IMPRESSION … After “information theory” came to be, so did “information overload,”…

ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS … The human mind does not work that way. It operated by association. With one…

THE CITIZEN … The Wikipedians consider themselves as the Great Library’s heirs, their mission the…

THE CITY … A “wiki,” from a Hawaiian word for “quick,” was a website that could be not just viewed…

In a society where an individual’s only contract is with himself, the artificial time conception…

I can feel at home even where I’m a stranger, for example in a hotel. My real home is my habits…

A hundred profound solitudes together constitute the city of Venice. That is its charm. A model for…

IDIOMORPHIC … "having the proper form or shape", used of minerals whose crystalline growth has not…

I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.

. accumulation … . ecstasy … . saturation … . simulation

The Grid—or any other subdivision of the metropolitan territory into maximum increments of…

AUTONOMY … "autonomous condition, power or right of self-government," 1620s, of states, from Greek…

On a strict horizontal plane, stable or unstable flows of water constantly exchange places. Space…

INIFINITE + PERIODICAL … Infinite I have just written. I have not interpolated this adjective…

Suppose within every book there is another book, and within every letter on every page another…

Beyond the end, beyond all finality, we enter a paradoxical state—the state of too much reality…

VALUE OF MESSAGE … They don’t say, ‘What do I have to say? What is worthy of being offered, of…

When it was announced that the Library contained all books, the first reaction was unbounded joy.

The Wikipedians consider themselves as the Great Library’s heirs, their mission the gathering of…

The city conceives and constructs itself as an ordered and geometric clearing in the midst of a…

Although Proust knew exactly where he was heading when he put together his masterwork—he began with…

And they leap so looply, looply as they link to light. And they look so loovely, loovelit, noosed…

Twilight manifests what Andre Leroni-Ghorhan has called “itinerant space”…Such spaces and the…

Wagner proposes...to extend the melodic activity invested in aria to the entire composition...the…

...the matter is neither of explaining nor of defining but only of describing (in a nonexhaustive…

With Roland Barthes, the "and" takes on a radically different function. Instead of drawing together…

...in a multiplicity, what counts are not the terms or the elements, but what is ‘between’ them…

POLIS … “ancient Greek city-state" (1894), from Greek polis "citadel, fort, city, one's city; the…

Repetition generating difference is alteration. When invariable repetition is reduced to the…