"Every passion borders on chaos, that of the collector on the chaos of memory," the philosopher and critic Walter Benjamin wrote, in 1931.
Like his architect son, Ernst, his grandson Lucian and now thoroughly modern Bella, Freud worked with patterns and forms, creating order from the emotional chaos of memory and desire.
Taking as its inspiration Walter Benjamin's dictum that a collector's passion borders on "the chaos of memory," this curiously moving history argues that collecting is driven by the desire to control that chaos.
The philosopher Walter Benjamin wrote: "Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories".
As its protagonist stares on New Year's Eve through an open window, the falling pages of a calendar bring a "chaos of memories, ghosts, relatives, wars, defeats, lusts, desires", Barghouti says, "and he's left with this attack of time on his heart and mind and solitary body.
I am living in my little chaos of memories and inspirations of the last collections.
English, an evolving language, can accommodate a new, standard, non-gendered personal pronoun, and is capable of settling on one after a period of experimental usage, as it did with "Ms". But to accept anyone's requested vanity pronoun is to invite chaos, strain the limits of memory and elevate narcissism above consensus communication.
S. S. Kalb, E. G. Tolkacheva, D. G. Schaeffer, D. J. Gauthier, and W. Krassowska, 'Restitution in Mapping Models with an Arbitrary Amount of Memory,' Chaos 15, 023701 (2005).
Writing is an essential step in telling one's story, because writing enables us to create order out of memory's chaos.
Now, 13 months later, many again fled the gunshots and chaos of a mass shooting, with memories of the first terrifying experience guiding their actions in another scene of carnage.
Sara Fattahi's "Chaos" does more than elicit its participants' memories of the war; it addresses the very subject of memory.
