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“Conceptual Art reflects the forms of language and epistemological method; Earthworks duplicate ploughing and excavating techniques or patterns of wind on the sand; Activities replay the operations of organized labor—say, how a highway is made; noise music electronically reproduces the sound of radio static; videotaped examples of Bodyworks look like close-ups of underarm-deodorant commercials.”

Kaprow, Allan, and Jeff Kelley. “The Education of the Un-Artist, Part II.” Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1993. p. 110.

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University of California Press

“…I recognize it as a skyscraper by going mentally around the information given
It inclines its crown
Its walls come from a dune
Its shadow briefly falls like light upon the
patterns of motion of the mottled pigeons that flutter
in the gutter and like a photograph captures the feel-
ing of transience
Light the eye adds to the evidence falls on a scenes the scene outside its shadow
Lettered passersby pass by what history has for us…”

Hejinian, Lyn. Slowly. Willitis and Berkeley, CA: Tuumba Press, 2002. p. 10.

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“In dinoflagellates, bacteria, jellyfish, hydroids, and so forth, there appears to be no possible
utility; but in the higher forms, particularly those with specialized light organs capable of flashing under nervous control and arranged in definite patterns and even specific colors, utility seems clear. Light can have meaning in these instances only if eyes are developed to see it.”

Sverdrup, H. U., Martin W. Johnson, and Richard Howell Fleming. The Oceans: Their Physics, Chemistry, and General Biology. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1942. p. 834.

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University of California Press E-Books

“The whole canopy has that sinewy look of ancient trees. Their needles are distinctive tiny patterns against the sky—the Red Fir most strict and fine.

The forests of the Sierra Nevada, like those farther up the West Coast, date from that time when the earlier deciduous hardwood forests were beginning to fade away before the spreading success of the conifers.”

Snyder, Gary. The Practice of the Wild. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990. pp. 136-7.

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BeWild ReWild

“thus to name
it to raise stones
to wound the bark
with stones

to batter it with
stones the stones to
cut the bark to fester
in the bark

TREE OF OLD AGE

stone patterns: starting
from the roots they
reach the highest leaves

*

The next day gone with walking
Flutes were sounding in his ears”

Rothenberg, Jerome. Technicians of the Sacred a Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1969. p. 93. The Flight of Quetzalcoatl Translated by J.R. from Spanish prose translation by Angel Maria Garibay K., Epica Nahuatl (Biblioteca del Estudiante Universitario, Mexico, 1945), pp. 59-63. First publication in English by Unicorn Book Shop (Brighton, England, 1967).

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Internet Archive

“We know the patterns of totalitarianism— the single political party, the control of schools, press, radio, the arts, the sciences, and the church to support autocratic authority; these are the age-old patterns against which men have struggled for three thousand years.”

Eleanor Roosevelt, “The Struggle for Human Rights” Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, September 28, 1948, in Allida Black, The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: Vol. 1: The Human Rights Years, 1945-1948, 900-905.

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Columbian College of Arts & Sciences

“It isn’t black I said over the phone well I thought
it was she said, not being fanciful, and I
was in a motel in Colorado at the time. Whose head
was it really I repeat. For we never leave here
and nothing fossilizes but stonelike mossy
patterns might be made, colors transformed

walk to the hospital, everyone’s mad at me, who cares?”

Notley, Alice. "License." Poetry 206, no. 4 (2015): 402-03. Accessed June 2, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43592788.

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Poetry Foundation

“A handwritten note, in Marcuse's writing, on the themes of the project indicates that he and Neumann intended to analyze conflicting tendencies toward social change and social cohesion; forces of freedom and necessity in social change; subjective and objective factors that produce social change; patterns of social change, such as evolution and revolution; and the nature of social change, whether progressive, regressive, or cyclical.”

Marcuse, Herbert, and Douglas Kellner. One-Dimensional Man. London: Routledge, 2002. p. xx.

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Routledge

“I use the terms ‘biological’ and ‘biology’ not in the sense of the scientific discipline, but in order to designate the process and the dimension in which inclinations, behavior patterns, and aspirations become vital needs which, if not satisfied, would cause dysfunction of the organism.”

Marcuse, Herbert. An Essay on Liberation. Boston, MA: Beacon, 1969. p. 14.

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Beacon Press

“In this way, a society constantly recreates, this side of consciousness and ideology, patterns of behavior and aspiration as part of the ‘nature’ of its people, and unless the revolt reaches into this ‘second’ nature, into these ingrown patterns, social change will remain ‘incomplete,’ even self-defeating.”

Marcuse, Herbert. An Essay on Liberation. Boston, MA: Beacon, 1969. p. 14.

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Beacon Press