Peter Lemmens’ work paraphrases Jay McInnerney when it mentions
“Mine is not an autonomous imagination”.
Peter Lemmens’ work paraphrases Roland Barthes when it mentions
“a frequent image: that of the ship Argo (luminous and white), each piece of which the Argonauts gradually replaced, so that they ended with an entirely new ship, without having to alter either its name or its form”.
Peter Lemmens’ work paraphrases Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt when it mentions
“art cannot be dissociated from the conditions of its production and distribution”.
Peter Lemmens’ work paraphrases Pierre Huyghe when it mentions
“this is the time of the storyteller rather than the historian”.
Peter Lemmens’ work paraphrases Julietta Aranda when it mentions
“circulationism is not about the art of making an image, but of postproducing, launching, and accelerating it. It is about the public relations of images across social networks, about advertisement and alienation”.
Peter Lemmens’ works paraphrase Yuk Hui when it mentions
“conventional notions of originality, authenticity, objecthood, narrative, and style were supplanted by appropriation, duplication, distribution, juxtaposition, and randomness”.
Peter Lemmens’ work paraphrases Jacques Rancière when it mentions
“the relationship between art and politics is not a passage from fiction to reality, but a relationship between two ways of making a fiction”.
Peter Lemmens’ work paraphrases Fabrice Grinda when it mentions
“a long tail model may lead to improvement in a society’s level of culture”.
Peter Lemmens’ work paraphrases somebody he can’t remember when it mentions
“the horror of Groundhog Day is not being stuck in today, but knowing the future is set”.
Peter Lemmens’ work paraphrases Max Haiven when it mentions
“the appearance of ‘creativity’ as the partner of destruction here is no accident”.
Peter Lemmens’ work paraphrases Lisa Gitelman when it mentions
“how are [raw] data variously “cooked” within the varied circumstances of their collection, storage, and transmission?”.
Peter Lemmens’ work paraphrases Marcel Broodthaers when it mentions
“the definition of artistic activity occurs, first of all, in the field of distribution”.
Peter Lemmens’ work paraphrases Max Haiven when it mentions
“wealth is generated not by seeing the greater narrative in the market, but by spinning out new metaphors and abandoning them once they have done their work. The system is held together not by internal coherence, but by sheer momentum”.
Peter Lemmens’ work paraphrases Peter Lamarque and Stein Hauom Olsen when it mentions
“the structures of narrative impose some kind of barrier between language and fact; rather than being directly ‘mirrored’, the facts, as represented in narrative, are filtered through layers of linguistic artifice”.
Peter Lemmens’ work paraphrases Miriam Rasch when it mentions
“when you believe that the future emerges mechanically from the past… the idea that the world is a conglomerate of predictable algorithms… allows no deviating options”.