Marlies De Munck

To Touch and Be Touched

Fragility

taylor miles hopkins

But if I live too long in a protective shelter, no-one will enter. The world cannot touch me, but neither can I touch the world.

As a consumer, I feel both powerful and powerless.

An algorithm refuses to read between the lines. It is unable to differentiate between nudity and pornography. So how could it understand a human being?

Franz Kafka warned way back: 'Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live'

What kind of idea will young people get if they are constantly asked to assess others?

Living language, conveying affection, enthusiasm and subjectivity such language is now known as methodological sacrilege. 

Perhaps that is why quite a few people in the humanities decide they see better opportunities in neurology, technology and digital humanities. Not ‘I think, therefore I am, but I count, because I am counted.’

The whole BARE chapter is very eloquently put.

the confrontation with what is disparate enables you to adjust and reinforce your own ideas. There is also healing in exposure.

Knowledge on its own does not constitute a voice of its own. Education that presents the canon as an absolute fact actually limits true creativity and so authenticity as well.

I must learn to appreciate what I have never before heard, seen or read. To understand why my taste differs from that of others. Why it differs from a collectively supported canon. It is just as important to keep a culture alive as to remain creative myself.

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