Philosophy
Mutual Madness
Ist letter to Christa Assad – July 32, 2002
As a former professor who was always an institutional heretic and trouble maker, I was always far more interested in intellectual engagement over conventional academic work. They are not the same thing. The sterile accumulation of inert information - the professor as the passive docent of the objective fact - the transfer of this mountain of academic sludge to the institutional inmates through tactics that require feats of faithful memorization -this never suited my temperament or purpose.
8th letter to Christa Assad – November 10, 2002
...Conformity as a human trait is rarely self discovered, only those who refuse to conform are aware that it exists. A cultural renegade requires not only courage, that comes later, but first the supreme critical consciousness to surface the embedded notions that govern those around her, and then summon the courage to overthrow them in public.
11th letter to Christa Assad - January 10, 2003
Pottery stands still. The motor is missing. It does not change. It does not even visibly age. It does not perform. It becomes an active appliance only when it is picked up by the human hand....
16th letter to Christa Assad – June 23, 2003
Originality is not only being the first one to do something, it is doing it better than anyone else has ever done it. The excellence of the individual result provide it particular uniqueness.
