Gillels Deleuze, Cinema 2: "A Space Odyssey" by S. Kubrick

March 24, 2011
"In Kubrick, the world itself is a brain.  There is identity of brain and world, as in the great circular and luminuous table in Doctor Strangelove, the giant computer in 2001:  A Space Odyssey, and the Overlook Hotel in The Shining.  The black stone of 2001 presides over both cosmic states and cerebral stages.  It is the soul of the three bodies: earth, sun and moon, but also the seed of the three brains: animal, human , machine.  Kubrick is renewing the theme of the initiatory journey because every journey in the world is an exploration of the brain". 

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Hippocrates 5th century B.C>

March 21, 2011
"And men should know that from nothing else but from the brain comes joys, laughter and jests, and sorrows and grief, despondency and lamentations.  And by this, in an especial manner, we acquire wisdom and knowledhe, and see and hear and know what are foul and what are fair, what sweet and what unsavory...and by the same organ we become mad and delirious and fears and terrors assail us, some by day, and dreams and untimely wanderings, and cares that are not suitable and ignorance of present ...
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Richard Serra discusses his monumental Torqued Ellipses (1996).

March 21, 2011

"Space here has become a material for me.  I am trying to deal with the substance of space... These pieces aren't primarily predicated on your eye.  As much as the movevement of your body.  They're the least optical pieces I've ever made. They have very little to do with seeing something as a thing, as an object". 


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William Wordsworth, Preface to Tintern Abbey

March 20, 2011
"If the labours of men of science should ever create any material revolution, direct or indirect...the poet will sleep then no more than at present, but he will be ready to follow the steps of the man of science... he will be at his side, carrying sensation into the midst of the objects of the science itself".
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