Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.”
D. H. Lawrence

“In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.”
Guy Debord

“New York… is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.”
Roland Barthes

“Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.”
H. G. Wells

„The latin word inventario means both invention and inventory. In my inventory you will find not only Trisha Brown but also thousands of people relating to the work of Trisha Brown. And then there’s the video documentation of Trisha Brown and photos of Trisha Brown, and thousands of videos and pictures of people that relate to Trisha Brown. By remixing Trisha Brown, I suppose one could say that I am remixing other people’s remixes of her. Or at least that I am remixing the medium through which she has reached me. Where is Trisha in this jungle of duplicates? In this accumulation of quotations on the theme of Trisha Brown? Maybe she is everywhere. Maybe she has dissolved into bites and pixels, thoughts and movements, into my body and yours”.
Ramona Nagabczyńska