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Gertrude Stein

Look at me now and here I am writings and lectures 1911-1945

'No matter how well you know the end of the stage story it is nevertheless not within your control as the memory of an exciting thing is or as the written story of an exciting thing is. And what is the reason for this difference and what does it do to the stage? It makes for nervousness of course, and the cause of nervousness is the fact that the emotion of the one seeing the play is always ahead or behind the play.'
(p.61.48)

I can't easily say why I like the theories and writings of Gertrude Stein so much ... perhaps it's because she so closely observes her own reactions and out of them, the tiny thought-events which are normally disregarded, is able to reconstruct literature, or theatre, or anything? This is close to 'designing' as I know it and a way to enter 'human mind' as she calls it, the losing of oneself in one's work.

Hannah Arendt

Edwin Schlossberg

Marshall McLuhan

Walt Whitman

Joseph Beuys