I am terribly interested in the paragraph: the paragraph as an object, the construction, and the possibilities of what a paragraph can do.
There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
To the extent that human spirits are made gentle by the social state, sensibility increases; as it increases, the severity of punishment must diminish if one wishes to maintain a constant relation between object and feeling.
The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
I think a way that feminist photographers work is turning what was the object into the subject and really making it our own.
The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion of treason as scheme and treason as language.
Sometimes I really need the money, really need to go straight to work. But if I had the absolute choice – money no object, my mortgage paid off – I’d really just work once or twice a year – but wouldn’t everybody! – or at least do a different job sometimes.
The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,… Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don’t want to do that and that’s their decision.
To become a celebrity, a name – and I’ve actually met some that speak of themselves in the third person – it’s scary. They become an object, not a human, complex, questioning thing where the cells are always changing.
Once a teen has been identified as part of the ‘target market,’ he knows he’s done for. The object of the game is to confound the marketers, and keep one’s own, authentic culture from showing up at the shopping mall as a prepackaged corporate product.
The object of the law of value is to elucidate the actual exchange relations of commodities.
On winter Sundays when I was a child, we waited for my father to return from his tennis game with bagels and sturgeon and for my mother to object when the 1 P.M. Giants game began.
Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
It’s this weird binary where I’m getting media images and narratives thrown at me all the time through something I hold in my hand, and that’s never happened to other generations. But also with this little object in my hand, I have the ability to document police brutality, or post about the Syrian conflict on Twitter.
What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.
