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#paraphlagiarism 0005

composer Roberto Doati
paraphlage "Honestly though, most of the time artists want their material to fit the form they have in mind but it just doesn’t respond that way."
(Roberto Doati & Michael Edwards)
original "Vero è che, come forma non s’accorda molte fïate a l’intenzion de l’arte, perch’a risponder la materia è sorda."
writer Dante Alighieri
source Alighieri, Dante. 1304-1321. La Divina Commedia (Paradiso, I, 127-129)
photographer Roberto Doati
audio track normal stereo: for loudspeakers or headphones
speaker Michael Edwards
released December 11 2025

#paraphlagiarism 0004

composer Johannes Winkler
paraphlage "Art doesn’t try to steamroll contradictions; it tosses 'em in yer kisser. Its truth embraces chaos and twists it into something that hits you right between the eyes. And it does so without playing by the rules—without logic, without proof."
(Johannes Winkler & Michael Edwards)
original "Wahr ist Kunst, soweit das aus ihr Redende und sie selber zwiespältig, unversöhnt ist, aber diese Wahrheit wird ihr zuteil, wenn sie das Gespaltene synthesiert und dadurch erst in ihrer Unversöhnlichkeit bestimmt. Paradox hat sie das Unversöhnte zu bezeugen und gleichwohl tendenziell zu versöhnen; möglich ist das nur ihrer nicht-diskursiven Sprache."
writer Theodor Adorno
source Adorno, Theodor W. 1970. Ästhetische Theorie. In: Gesammelte Schriften, Band 7. Herausgegeben von Gretel Adorno und Rolf Tiedemann. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, S. 251
photographer Johannes Winkler
audio track normal stereo: for loudspeakers or headphones
speaker Michael Edwards
released December 10 2025
comment Johannes Winkler (1984-) | Insta: @winkler.works

#paraphlagiarism 0003

composer Michael Edwards (1968-)
paraphlage "you've gotta be deranged when you're making art...any kind of artistic slog has gotta be nuts if it's gonna be worth your while"
(Michael Edwards)
original "If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensible: frenzy."
writer Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
source Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
photographer Evgeniy Grozev
audio track normal stereo: for loudspeakers or headphones
speaker Michael Edwards
released May 16 2025
comment thanks to dave murray-rust for nice recordings of donkeys eating with taxis in gambia

#paraphlagiarism 0002

composer Michael Edwards (1968-)
paraphlage "capitalism just stuffs its fat face with with all the youth, life, and beauty it can find, then craps out mindless drivel by the bucketload."
(Michael Edwards)
original "And what does the money machine eat to shit out? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty and above all it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits out quantity."
writer William S. Burroughs (1914-1997)
source The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs (1966) by Burroughs with Daniel Odier, p. 73; as quoted in Word cultures : radical theory and practice in William S. Burroughs' fiction (1987) by Robin Lydenberg, p. 146
photographer Lisa
audio track normal stereo: for loudspeakers or headphones
speaker Michael Edwards
released May 08 2025
comment young people: beware of the ending

#paraphlagiarism 0001

composer Michael Edwards (1968-)
paraphlage "to understand a work of art you've got to know its historical context...yes, but a counter-claim to that would be that it's the work of art itself that gives us the context to understand a given historical situation."
(Michael Edwards)
original "One often hears that to understand a work of art one needs to know its historical context. Against this historicist commonplace, a Deleuzian counter-claim would be not only that too much of a historical context can blur the proper contact with a work of art (i.e., that to enact this contact one should abstract from the work’s context), but also that it is, rather, the work of art itself that provides a context enabling us to understand properly a given historical situation."
writer Slavoj Žižek (1949-)
source Žižek, Slavoj. 2012. Organs without Bodies: On Deleuze and Consequences (New York: Routledge, 2004; repr. Abingdon, UK: Routledge)
photographer Florent Bertiaux
audio track normal stereo: for loudspeakers or headphones
speaker Michael Edwards
released May 07 2025