“L’art a un rôle essentiel à jouer. Non pas au titre de divertissement ou de distraction – ce n’est pas son rôle, Nietzsche et Ionesco le mentionnaient déjà – mais en tant que machine de guerre totale contre l’univocité du sens. Il ne s’agit plus de commenter ou de comprendre le réel : il s’agit de produire du réel ! C’est beaucoup plus important.
Ce qui tue aujourd’hui et avant tout, c’est notre manque d’imagination. Notre enlisement dans l’inertie. Nous avons bien davantage besoin d’artistes que d’ingénieurs face au désastre en cours : notre problème n’est pas technique, il est axiologique et ontologique.
L’art, la littérature, la poésie sont des armes de précision. Il va falloir les dégainer.”
Source: Il faut une révolution politique, poétique et philosophique: Entretien avec Carole Guilbaud
“don’t we all live in a mirage, that of our imagination, forever reaching for something that we can never attain – something that keeps temptingly eluding us and therefore spurs us on?”
Source: Safartu: Travels with my children
“Finch turned around. The slap of his bare feet on the bare floorboards as he walked to the door reminded me of the heartbeat of someone beaten down by life. Finch wasn’t beaten down yet, but his feet thought he was.”
Source: Orchard of Skeletons
“These skeletons are not like the ones in the bunker,” Macy said. “These are beautiful and not strange at all. Can we take one down and put it in the car with us? It would be good company. And probably talk to me more than you do.”
Source: Orchard of Skeletons
“Seafood Newburg is a dish with a history. Well, of course MOST dishes have some kind of “history,” but this particular dish is sort of a history celebrity. It all began around 1876 when an “epicurean” named Ben Wenberg (or Wenburg) demonstrated the dish at Delmonico’s restaurant in New York City. After some “tweaking” by the Delmonico chef, Charles Ranhofer, the dish was added to the menu under the name “Lobster Wenburg.” It proved to be very popular. But sometime later, Wenburg got involved in a dispute with the Delmonico’s management and the dish was subsequently removed from the menu. But customers still requested it. So, the name was changed to “Lobster Newburg” and reappeared to the delight of restaurant customers. So, that’s the story. Probably. One can never be sure about these origin myths.”
Source: The Kitchen and the Studio: A Memoir of Food and Art
“At every moment, we have the agency to do something different. Moving forward, by both choice and necessity, we must integrate increasingly imaginative activities.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume III - Beta Your Life: Existence in a Disruptive World
“Two of the most potent antidotes to relying entirely on assumptions are imagination and a small dose of humility.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty
“When new connections are made with a multiplicity of perspectives and diverging points of view, inspiration is unleashed.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty
“It is the outside actors who challenge assumptions and ask new questions that beat incumbents in imagining and innovating on what might come next.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty
“The lights came up as Dylan Raddeck walked nonchalantly into the room. As expected he stopped, staring at his killer …
Eyes fixed on her target, Bast hesitated as James Heron appeared behind him. For a fraction of a second too long, she wavered, unable to decide her target, then she snarled, and fired a series of the needles at Radeck, seeing them strike exactly at her aiming point. The only problem was that he didn’t go down. Nor did Heron. Instead they stepped nimbly aside and an armoured figure behind them got off an accurate shot. It wasn’t a killing shot. It was intended to disable and disarm her—Mr Brown was specific, he wanted her alive. Unfortunately the prosthetics she wore to disguise her anatomy absorbed most of the paralysing agent.
She screamed in frustration as she went down. With an effort, she turned her needle projector on herself, and fired.”
Source: First into the Fray