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Roberto Salazar and His Retraining of Ideas Through the Reduction of Forms

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Roberto Salazar and His Retraining of Ideas Through the Reduction of Forms

While in withdrawal from Benzodiazepine, Roberto Salazar found his brain was glitching. He turned to reductionism that formulated new forms as a way of creating a way out and into something timeless.

Douglas Crets
Jul 13, 2022
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Roberto Salazar and His Retraining of Ideas Through the Reduction of Forms

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There are many spectacular answers to the philosophical question, “Why art?”

One instructive answer can be found in a reaction to this moment’s pervasiveness of information: “Because, by making new forms, we can adopt new formats of self.”

That’s meant to be more than a fancy word play. It’s my attempt to describe the philosophical structure of Mexican p…

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