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"Every idea, these days, seems to have passed its critical phase. It is a generally accepted fact that abstract notions about mankind have all been eroded imperceptibly by the investigations they have undergone, that human light has infiltrated its rays everywhere and that, as a result, nothing has escaped this universal process which is subject, at most, to revision. So we have the spectacle of the world's philosophers incapable of tackling the smallest problem without first going through the routine of recapitulating and refuting everything that predecessors have had to say on the subject. And by that very fact their every thought is inevitably the function of some previous error, based upon it and inheriting some of its features.

-Luis Aragon, Paris Peasant

The text inspired a method of resampling and layering degraded copies of open source footage into a sixty-second movie clip. Manipulating formal elements of resolution, scale and tempo creates a mesmerizing, visual reinterpretation of the text.

Figure Studies