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"They used theory for prestige, to block speculation. That is why so many artists used to resent theory. You would get these lame pieces, somebody trying to apply Heidegger to Parliament-Funkadelic because they had seen the word "ontology" on a cover, instead of taking Parliament to read Heidegger. They always did it the other way round. Theory wasn't being used to pluralize, to see that there was theory everywhere you looked, and everywhere you listened."

"The sense that all these sonic life forms are crossing from the world of the records into the world of your head."

"They did not footnote their work and refused to contextualize their work."

"Phase one was criticizing everything. Phase two was writing, being the hermit. Hiding away, refusing the phone calls, the trips, the jobs. Phase three is now, travelling, the network, when you realize that a book will never bring you any money. It is all about the communication vectors which a book makes possible."

"Ballard said that the writer should access inconceivable alienations. People do not know what they want until they are presented with it. Nobody knows what they desire. There is a machine, but it takes the form of book. You know books are boring. Still, when you open my book it says at the top: "Discontents". The writer is admitting right upfront his irritation, impatience and restlessness."

"Though the hermit position is not always a voluntarily one."

"Sonic evolutions happen when people give up on things."

"That's what the readme! anthology of nettime looks like."