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...utter immediacy is key. For Delay, simply making music that resembles house isn’t enough. Here he does away with the sublteties of Vocalcity altogether, bringing every single element into the foreground. The vocalists hover in front of the speakers; the textures glisten with superhuman perfection; the percussion bangs harder and the low-end feels like being hugged tightly. Listening to The Present Lover is an hour-long rush up the spine, with eyes wide open...
...there, and during his tumultuous few months of living and working with Vincent van Gogh in Arles, that he developed the elements of his mature style--firmly modeled foreground figures against flat ranges of background color. The pigments are abruptly juxtaposed in the Impressionist manner. Landscape in Gauguin is likely to be a furious collision of hot pink against blue and chrome yellow against vermilion. But he would put behind him the short fluttering brushstrokes that the Impressionists had made their sign of the fleeting moment. Gauguin distilled and abstracted, producing an emotional impression, not an optical one, in which...
...that’s what I mean when I say that we are multitasking our lives into insignificance. When we stop treating each activity as a part of the foreground and instead push them into the background, they become nothing more than noise. Can you really taste your eggs when you’re also trying to read Max Weber as you masticate...
Wenders writes, “No matter how far the horizon, it was the things in the foreground, every rock and every shrub, that became important to me... In the course of taking these pictures I, the photographer, became totally transparent as a subject...
...core, Kavulla’s critique seems to be that the work in women’s studies is somehow biased or unintellectual because of its focus on gender. Kavulla omits an analysis of the ways in which all approaches have agendas, all analytical lenses serve to foreground particular ideas, and all professors advance arguments which are, in some way, politicized. That particular knowledge is somehow neutral or objective and other knowledge is political or biased is simply a fallacy...