Just Because

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"No-one can imagine the modern. How is it to be thought, but with concepts from the past? How is it to be named, but with words of the past? How is it to be imagined but with images taken from experience? The very words ‘project’ and ‘modern’ contradict one another. ‘Pro-ject’, from ‘pro-‘ meaning ‘in front of’ and ‘jacere’, ‘to throw’, is a throwing forward, a proposing…For something to be thrown forward, both the thrower and the object must be in back of the point towards which the object is thrown. All projects, then, come from behind, from the background, as messengers from the past. There is not and cannot be such a thing as a modern project." -Josep Quetglas

Narration by: Danny Taylor-Homfeld