Intersection
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| - | {{Template}}The junction of two (or more) paths, [[street]]s, highways, or other thoroughfares.{{GFDL}} | + | {| class="toccolours" style="float: left; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 2em; font-size: 85%; background:#c6dbf7; color:black; width:30em; max-width: 40%;" cellspacing="5" |
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| + | “In the [[illusion|illusory]] [[babel]]s of language, an [[artist]] might [[avant-garde|advance]] specifically to get [[lost]], and to [[drugs|intoxicate]] himself in dizzying syntaxes, seeking odd [[intersection]]s of [[meaning]], [[strange]] corridors of history, [[unexpected]] echoes, [[unknown]] humors, or [[void]]s of [[knowledge…]] but this quest is [[risky]], full of bottomless [[fiction]]s and [[endless]] architectures and counter-architectures… at the end, if there is an end, are perhaps only [[meaningless]] reverberations.” --"[[A Museum of Language in the Vicinity of Art]]" (1968) by Robert Smithson | ||
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| + | An '''intersection''' is a [[junction]] of two (or more) [[path]]s, [[street]]s, highways, or other thoroughfares. Also used metaphorically as in: | ||
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| + | :[[Susan Sontag]] frequently wrote about the [[intersection]] of [[high culture]] and [[low culture]]. | ||
| + | ==See also== | ||
| + | *[[Crossroads]] | ||
| + | *[[Intersectionality]] | ||
| + | *[[Venn diagram ]] | ||
| + | *[[Mix]] | ||
| + | *[[Nobrow]] | ||
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“In the illusory babels of language, an artist might advance specifically to get lost, and to intoxicate himself in dizzying syntaxes, seeking odd intersections of meaning, strange corridors of history, unexpected echoes, unknown humors, or voids of knowledge… but this quest is risky, full of bottomless fictions and endless architectures and counter-architectures… at the end, if there is an end, are perhaps only meaningless reverberations.” --"A Museum of Language in the Vicinity of Art" (1968) by Robert Smithson |
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An intersection is a junction of two (or more) paths, streets, highways, or other thoroughfares. Also used metaphorically as in:
- Susan Sontag frequently wrote about the intersection of high culture and low culture.
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