willow: "on the other hand:"

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willowApr 5, 2025

"I have exaggerated the somber side, following the maxim that only exaggeration per se today can be the medium of truth." Theodor Adorno, Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords, pg. 99.

willowJan 12, 2025

> Is a vague concept really a concept at all? Is an indistinct photograph really at all a picture of a human being? Can one always replace an indistinct picture with a distinct one? Isn’t the indistinct one often just the one we need?

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on the other hand:

willowJan 12, 2025

It is easy to be merely obscure, but difficult to be productively obscure. It is not at all obvious that any given author is in the best position to assess her own obscurity.

April 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM

willowApr 5, 2025

i do love this tho (extremely willowcore statement) where's it from?