Lisa Robertson at Suddenly
Lisa Robertson: The imperative to clearly and transparently express a positive intentionality is itself a kind of money. […] I believe it’s often the margin of opacity within a representation, within a presented object, which carries unintentional agency, which is able to include an edge of perception, a dissolving of intention, a dissolving of meaning receivable as a transparent transaction. I believe that it is that part of what we make that we cannot actually account for which is what is already shaping social relations and public dreaming and political structure. And that’s a kind of immodesty that I really would like to claim, an immodesty of opacity, of not insisting on a transparent transaction of intentionality as being the center of what art does. That’s what money does.
October 5, 2008 at Reed College, Portland, Ore.
