“I have been tripping on wires on stage and off stage for half a century of this now rapidly accelerating technological change in music instrumentation. The body is an instrument of choice for directly making music with voice, hands, feet, and body resonance.”
Oliveros, Pauline. "Tripping On Wires: The Wireless Body: Who Is Improvising?" Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études Critiques En Improvisation 1, no. 1 (2004). Accessed July 20, 2021. doi:10.21083/csieci.v1i1.9.
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“For living with the planet, sharing—while being respectful of true singularization—is our only choice. And the world, the globe, the universe, and all living things must constitute the base of our studies and investigations, in fact, of our consciousness itself.”
Miyoshi, Masao. "The University, the Universe, the World, and "Globalization"." The Global South 1, no. 1 (2007): 24-37. Accessed July 20, 2021.p. 34.
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“In order to maintain or bring about balance, the individual must have alternatives, a choice of possible directions, flexibility as well as stability, and focus within this multi-dimensional, dynamic process which is music.”
Oliveros, Pauline. Software for People: Collected Writings 1963-1980. Baltimore, MD: Smith Publications, 2015. p. 130
Monoskop
“The parade was thoroughly rehearsed and scripted, with the order of march and the choice of floats, slogans, and exercises reflecting the particular priorities of the year. As a result, spontaneity, one of sport's irreducible elements, was all but eliminated.”
Edelman, Robert. Serious Fun: A History of Spectator Sports in the USSR. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. p. 43.
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“Language not only reflects these controls but becomes itself an instrument of control even where it does not transmit orders but information; where it demands, not obedience but choice, not submission but freedom.
This language controls by reducing the linguistic forms and symbols of reflection, abstraction, development, contradiction; by substituting images for concepts.”
Marcuse, Herbert. One-Dimensional Man. London: Routledge, 2002. p. 106.
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Routledge
“The game of exclusions and preferences, the arrangement of the furniture, the choice of materials, the range of forms and colors, the light sources, the reflection of a mirror, an open book, a newspaper lying around, a racquet, ashtrays, order and disorder, visible and invisible, harmony and discord, austerity or elegance, care or negligence, the reign of convention, a few exotic touches, and even more so the manner of organizing the available space, however cramped it may be, and distributing throughout the different daily functions (meals, dressing, receiving guests, cleaning, study, leisure, rest)—all of this already composes a "life narrative" before the master of the house has said the slightest word.”
Certeau, Michel De., Pierre Mayol, and Luce Giard. The Practice of Everyday Life: Living and Cooking. Translated by Timothy J. Tomasik. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998. p. 146.
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University of California Press
“Children learned to negotiate the linguistic diversity that surrounded them in keeping with the central Puerto Rican norm of respeto (respect), which requires that children defer to their elders. They tried to honor their interlocutors’ choice of language by speaking what was spoken to them.”
Zentella A.C. (2003) “José, can you see?”. In: Sommer D. (eds) Bilingual Games. New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. p. 56.
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“Obviously we need an organism which can be sent in fairly large numbers, which could survive the long journey in space fairly well and which would have some chance of surviving both the act of delivery onto the surface of the planet and the environmental conditions it would find there. Put this way, we see that microorganisms similar to our bacteria would have been a good choice to be the colonists sent to start life in a distant place. What are bacteria like? The main division of the biological kingdom is not, as one might be tempted to believe, into animals and plants.”
Crick, Francis. Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature. New York: Touchstone, 1982. p. 122.
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“They are not professional martyrs: they prefer not to be beaten, not to go to jail, not to lose their job. But for them, this is not a question of choice; the protest and refusal are parts of their metabolism, and they extend to the power structure as a whole.”
Marcuse, Herbert. An Essay on Liberation. Boston, MA: Beacon, 1969. p. 46.
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“Every seat on the jet is equipped with monitors showing the earth below as the plane speeds over it. Choice of pictures in infrared, straight color, black-and-white; singly or in combination on various parts of the screen.”
Kaprow, Allan, and Jeff Kelley. “Education of the Un-Artist, Part I.” Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1993. p. 109.
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Monoskop
“As much as the good choice and care of a quill, the choice of paper was a tenet of good writing. Peter Bales, in his widely read Writing Schoolemaster of 1590, advised that ‘it maketh verie much to chuse paper or parchment of the best.’32 Poor choice leads to poor writing, and poor use of the instruments— whether they be playing with the pen or tearing the paper—leads to poor development.”
Lerer, Seth. "Devotion and Defacement: Reading Children's Marginalia." Representations 118, no. 1 (2012): 126-53. Accessed May 4, 2021. doi:10.1525/rep.2012.118.1.126.
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“Of course, conscious activities may also influence the decision mechanism (Pat's addition). Such a machine can attempt to explain to itself why it made a certain choice (by using introspection). Sometimes it may reach the correct conclusion. Sometimes it may reach the correct conclusion. At other times it will either not know or, more likely, will confabulate, beacuse it has no conscious knowlegde of the 'reason' for the choice.”
Crick, Francis. The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul. New York, NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1994. p. 266.
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“For the latter is mystified in its institutions and relationships, which make necessity into choice, and alienation into self-realization. Only in the ‘illusory world’ do things appear as what they are and what they can be.”
Marcuse, Herbert. The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1978. p. 54.
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Marginal Utility
“4. None of the above. Any such valuation can be interpreted as the infimum of
the supremum valuations over a decreasing sequence of closed discs with empty
intersection.
For any choice of A+ , the natural map M(A) → Spa(A, A+ ) is injective (see Remark 9.7). The points not in the image form a fifth type.”
Kedlaya, K.S. Reified Valuations and adic spectra. Res. number theory 1, 20 (2015). p. 37.
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“As the above list shows, the argument represented by the body and corresponding to specific features of the body can be associated with a variety of thematic roles: agent, patient, experiencer, recipient. However, the choice of the particular argument to be represented by the signer’s body is not random.”
Meir, Irit, Carol A. Padden, Mark Aronoff, and Wendy Sandler. "Body as Subject." Journal of Linguistics 43, no. 3 (2007):pg. 543. Accessed May 13, 2021.
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“Those who envision a possible future planet on which we continue that study, and where we live by the green and the sun, have no choice but to bring whatever science, imagination, strength, and political finesse they have to the support of the inhibitory people—natives and peasants of the world.”
Snyder, Gary. "Reinhabitation." Manoa 25, no. 1 (2013): 48. Accessed May 27, 2021.
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