Masha Tupitsyn Quotes

#1. True lovers are as rare as true rebels.

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#2. Quotes are a way of acting out not just a text, and not just thinking, but the making of a text. The construction of thinking.

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#3. You have to have an eye and a feeling for where things go. Writing visually, writing textually, writing sonically. Text is visual for me and images are textual. There is power in the way ideas are arranged, not just developed rhetorically. Form is everything.

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#4. The digital artwork is characterized not by the technology which delivers it, but by the "passage" itself.

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#5. I was never really satisfied with writing only text or with the way my texts looked when they were published. Most online journals have a pretty lame sense of typography - bad font, counter-intuitive margins and line spacing - that it makes me sour on my writing.

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#6. For me, the eye and the word go together. Even when I was working in word documents, I was always obsessed with fonts, size, margins - the look of words on a page. The way something looks or sounds is also what it means.

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#7. The digital age is for me in many ways about temporal wounding. It's really messed up our ontological clocks.

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#8. Not only is true love rare and true rebellion rare, real love is itself a radical form of rebellion - engagement, thinking, and being - and therefore happens in the context of a larger project of justice, liberation, and critical thinking.

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#9. One of the liberating things about having a blog is the total vision it allows.

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#10. At any moment I could give up, but I haven't because love for me is an indispensable structure for being.

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#11. Love has been the ontological pattern for me. And also the withholding pattern.

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#12. I still have faith in people. But that is getting increasingly harder to maintain. I just don't see many people today choosing love. I see people passing it up a lot. Foreclosing on it, deferring it, sabotaging, letting go.

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#13. Quotes are like prompts. A way of searching, connecting the dots.

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#14. Both cinematic culture and the culture at large have changed profoundly. We're now in post-cinematic digital culture, and the internet has obviously usurped movies, which are no longer central to our lives, at least not as a collective spectator experience.

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#15. Thinking through quotes, which to say scouring a range of texts for insight, is one way to outline the process of thinking/feeling through a subject.

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#16. I'm a discursive thinker, so quotation has played an active role in the structure and content of my books from the beginning.

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#17. Deep emotion in this age is a radical act.

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#18. In the digital economy, everything is archived, catalogued, readily available, and yet nothing really endures.

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#19. Love is an active construction, and choice, not just an encounter that happens by chance.

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#20. I am as much what I am because of what I still don't have as I am because of what I have had and what I might still have one day.

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