Coffee & Waffles

is anything not a social construct

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Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood.

Susan Sontag - On Photography

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To collect photographs is to collect the world.

Susan Sontag - On Photography

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Social reality exists, so to speak, twice, in things and in minds, in fields and in habitus, outside and inside social agents. And when habitus encounters a social world of which it is the product, it is like a "fish in water"; it does not feel the weight of the water and takes the world about itself for granted.

Bourdieu and Wacquant 2002:127 in Lawler, Steph 2011 "Habitus"

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His life is but one long sacrifice to this science of bruising, to which he has given everything and which has given him back so little and so much at the same time.

Loïc Wacquant, Body and Soul, p. 236

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The fighter has mastered his emotions to the extent that he can conceal and control them. Fear is an asset to a fighter. It makes him move faster, be quicker and more alert. Heroes and cowards feel exactly the same fear. Heroes react to it differently.

Cus D'Amato in Wacquant 2004, p.93 (Body and Soul:notebooks of an apprentice boxer)

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I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant

Henri Cartier-Bresson (via iphonephotography)

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The individual may have many friends, a rich variety among them, and opportunity to engage many of them daily only if people do not get uncomfortably tangled in one another’s lives. Friends can be numerous and often met only if they may easily join and depart one another’s company. This otherwise obvious fact of social life is often obscured by the seeming contradiction that surrounds it—we need a good deal of immunity from those whose company we like best. Or, as the sociologist Richard Sennett put it, “people can be sociable only when they have some protection from each other.”

Clarke 2010:52