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The body must be regarded as a site of social, political, cultural and geographical inscriptions, production or constitution. The body is not opposed to culture, a resistant throwback to a natural past; it is itself a

The body must be regarded as a site of social, political, cultural and geographical inscriptions, production or constitution. The body is not opposed to culture, a resistant throwback to a natural past; it is itself a cultural, the cultural product.

Elizabeth Grosz
Past, Political, Culture

History produces not only the forces of domination but also the forces of resistance that press up against and are often the objects of such domination. Which is another way of saying that history, the past, is larger than the present, and is the ever-growing and ongoing possibility of resistance to the present’s imposed values, the possibility of futures not unlike the present, futures that resist and transform what dominates the present.

Elizabeth Grosz
Past, Ongoing, Growing
Elizabeth Grosz (2004). “The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely”, p.254, Duke University Press

Art proper, in other words, emerges when sensation can detach itself and gain an autonomy from its creator and its perceiver when something of the chaos from which it is drawn can breathe and have a life of its own

Elizabeth Grosz
Art, Gains, Chaos
Elizabeth Grosz (2012). “Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth”, p.16, Columbia University Press

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