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infra-ordinary

Everyday/Everything/Everyone/Everywhere

what we do when we do nothing, what we hear when we hear nothing, what happens when nothing happens. Outside of the city nothingness can perhaps exist [ ... ] but it certainly does not exist in the city. In the city there is never a void. There is always background noise, there is always a symptom, a sign, a scent. So we were interested precisely in those things which are the opposite of the extraordinary yet which are not the ordinary either - things which are 'infra'.

[Paul Virillo, On Georges Perec]

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