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At the peak of their development, the old horse tools were excellent. The coming of the tractor made it possible for a farmer to do more work, but not better. And there comes a point, as we know, when more begins to imply worse.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
As I slowly fill with the knowledge of this place, and sink into it, I come to the sense that my life here is inexhaustible, that its possibilities lie rich behind and ahead of me, that when I am dead it will not be used up.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
We're left with such a deterministic conception of production that the dynamic possibilities of randomness - aesthetic jihad, poetic terrorism, graffiti, the theatre of cruelty - are all lost: none can have an effect upon the field of power because all are low-level strata in the hierarchy, and can only affect themselves or other fields, such as the political.
Capitalism and Culture: Bourdieu's Field Theory
Dan O'Hara
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