“There is now a postmodernism cobbled together from these antecedents that hangs over contemporary culture.”

“These terms—‘What do we own?’; ‘What is the same?’—were among the modes of address floating around at the time and seemed to fit.”

“Where’s the anti-aesthetic? The critique of practice is gone.”

“The new tools ended up in the same old hands.”

“I think the hardest thing as an artist is to find form for your questions.”

“Activism can be, and often has been, about bringing dignity to life and death.”

“Critical theory, not art or architecture, was the avant-garde of that time.”

“Why should I be reading something that isn’t going to change or influence me to have a new feeling?”