“The…atmosphere of a place is where the mysteries of the trade become no mysteries, they are as it were in the air [and] children learn many of them unconsciously” [Alfred Marshall, ‘Principles of Economics’, 1890] and “the process…must necessarily remain continually unfinished and infinitely continuing.”

“…to turn belatedness into becomingness, to recoup failed visions in art, literature, philosophy and everyday life into possible scenarios of alternative kinds of social relations…”

– Hal Foster: ‘An Archival Impulse’, October #110, 2004

“I have said: To hell with culture; and to this consignment we might add another: To hell with the artists. Art as a separate profession is merely a consequence of culture as a separate entity, in a natural society there will be no precious or privileged being called artists: there will be only workers.”

– Herbert Read: ‘To Hell With Culture’, 1941

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21.05.2025