| 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 |