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"The philosopher Gilles Deleuze got anorexia right (his wife was one) by noting that it isn’t anything to do with ‘lack’.[...] Anorexia is not evasion of a social-gender role; it’s not regression. It is an active stance: the rejection of the cynicism that this culture hands us through its food, the creation of an involuted body."

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"The Gilbreths created a pictogrammatic language for orchestrating the workers’ bodies in the assembly line of the factory. A choreography designed for optimising productivity, it signalled the birth of social engineering and developed a new tool for enforcing early capitalistic American ideology. Working with architects, Lillian Gilbreth then shaped these designs into architectural spaces, and, shifting the optimisation strategy from the industrial space of the factory to the domestic space of the kitchen, she introduced time management into the body and space of the home. Prior to Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky’s "Frankfurt kitchen", a benchmark of architecture and social engineering of a utopian modernist leftist angle, Lillian Gilbreth’s "Kitchen Practical" was the product of a right-wing perspective which was shaped by the first ideas of industrial capitalism. It was the moment that industrial capitalism entered private space, moving the factory to the home."

"The software and computer industry, the internet platform economy, all of it is designed to provide ephemeral, short-term access that is quickly obsoleted by technological changes. So, if you want to have a persistent digital cultural footprint over time, you need to work against that. Part of our practice is doing the research that allows for ongoing access to digital culture, like solving problems around server containerization, software emulation, knowledge management, and dynamic web archiving. Those are four areas we've spent a lot of time and energy working on."