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You get lost out of a desire to be lost. But in the place called lost strange things are found.

You get lost out of a desire to be lost. But in the place called lost strange things are found.

Rebecca Solnit
Desire, Strange, Lost
Rebecca Solnit (2010). “A Field Guide To Getting Lost”, p.30, Canongate Books

The new architecture and urban design of segregation could be called Calvinist: they reflect a desire to live in a world of predestination rather than chance, to strip the world of its wide-open possibilities and replace them with freedom of choice in the marketplace.

Rebecca Solnit
Choices, Design, Desire
Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.194, Penguin

It turns out that we're actually capable of something other than neoliberalism and actually we're really capable of enjoying ourselves more than we do under neoliberalism. It feels that if neoliberalism is first about privatizing desire and imagination before the economy, then we're in this process of publicizing it again.

Rebecca Solnit
Imagination, Desire, Neoliberalism
Source: www.guernicamag.com

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