Apparatus for Forgetting...


"Is it not at the moment when the human being disintegrates into cruelty that his humanity comes to light? Human rights can only be affirmed in the places and times when they are held up to ridicule. We would not bear the captivating succession of famines, earthquakes, wars and hostage-taking that we see in the media everyday if it did not show the awakening of a human quality at the very moment when it seems to be fainting in the face of these horrors. And cultures, like intelligence and beauty, never appear more dazzling than on the day of their ruin. In all of this, humanness finds its beginnings."
(Francois Roustang)








