QUOTABLES 1 (Modernism vs. Postmodernism)

"There is no reality, only perception" — Dr. Phil

From Andrew Boyd's Life's Little Deconstruction Book

#1 Talk about anything in the context of anything else

#2 Implicate yourself in every interpretation

#80 Pursue multiple narratives that neither explain nor unify

#102 Remember: there are no facts, only interpretation

#122 Blur the boundary between high and low

#135 Displace the canon with attitude

QUOTABLES 2 (Appropriation)

#4 Sample

#7 Post

#34 Reformat

#36 Maneuver between pastiche and mishmash

#41 Supplant the original

#53 Repurpose symbols of power

#67 Rework what others have exhausted

#98 Be ad hoc

#103 Edit the images you inhabit

#104 Reinscribe what you can't surpass

#106 Live in a building that quotes other buildings

#129 Hack

#132 To change what things mean, redescribe them

#169 Borrow at will

#172 Treat history as a continuum of portable accessories

#173 Treat history as an endless reserve of equal events

#174 Treat history as a resource bank of images for casual reuse

#186 Cut and paste

#233 Rehash

#234 Rehash

#252 Cannibalize

#262 Parody it all

#267 Put everything in quotes

#285 Plagiarize yourself

#314 Bullshit

#324 Replicate

QUOTABLES 3. (Conceptual Art)

#6 Expose depth as another surface

#9 Read the text as you desire

#15 Fashion reason

#20 Dissolve truth into a patchwork of language games

#28 Confuse art and advertising

#29 Replace your models *of* reality with models *as* reality

#35 Speak to be spoken—language composes you

#38 Regard conversation with the prestige once reserved for inquiry

#44 Write more about less

#48 Reduce meaning to a hodgepodge of signifiers

#134 Beware: every decoding is another encoding

#142 With clipped slogans and depthless images, diminish the world

#149 Affirm that some truth is still possible though a final truth is not

#151 Redeploy the images that oppose you

#156 Reject ideal meanings—even the purest ideas betray the impurities of language

#157 Market anti-establishment postures

#168 Mass produce difference

#191 Use the word *deconstruction* without being quite sure whether it is a rigorous strategy for reversing the classic hierarchies of Western philosophy or a trendy academic parlor trick.

#208 Write texts your readers can rewrite

#221 In the attempt to demystify, further obscure

#231 Watch your fiercest critique become the latest rage

#249 Write in the margins

#250 Read between the lines

#251 Enjoy the confusion

#280 Don't write to say the last word

#291 Use puns to subvert the claims of seamless meaning

#298 Negotiate truth

#311 Use one text to read another

#328 Read classics and comics the same way

#334 Play language games—your identity depends on it

#364 Continue to think and write even though reason is dead, history is over, the self is fractured, and knowledge is hopelessly enmeshed in oppressive relations of power.

#365 Practice one-liners