Object International


Edition 1
EOI 2018 ++
  1. Ursula K Le Guin
  2. Walter Pater
  3. Thomas Kuhn
  4. Loren Eiseley
  5. Italo Calvino
  6. Giordano Bruno
  7. John Ashbery
  8. Philip Ball
  9. Trumbull Stickney
  10. G.W.F. Hegel


Edition 2
EOI 2019 ++
  1. Douglas Adams
  2. Terence McKenna
  3. P.B. Shelley
  4. Bruno Schulz
  5. Nicola Tesla
  6. Olaf Stapledon
  7. G.M. Hopkins
  8. Buckminster Fuller
  9. James Joyce
  10. Richard Feynman


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  1. A rock is a perfect metaphor, an allegory in volume. When placed its sculptural limits beget a kind of artistic proposition — and when considered with reduced anthropomorphism and ungeologically — produce a ready-made analog to the causation and bounds of our attempts at the understanding of all things.

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7. John Ashbery




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From The Double Dream of Spring, 1970
All kinds of things exist, and, what is more, Specimens of these things, which do not make themselves known. / I am speaking of the laugh of the squire and the spur / Which are like a hole in the armor of the day. / It’s annoying and then it's so natural 

That we experience almost no feeling / Except a certain lightness which matches / The recent closed ambiance which is, besides, / Full of attentions for us. Thus, lightness and wealth. 

But the existence of all these things and especially / The amazing fullness of their number must be / For us a source of unforgettable questions: / Such as: whence does all this come? and again: / Shall I some day be a part of all this fullness? 

…Everything is a landscape




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