Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?

  • -- Newt Gingrich 纽特金里奇

你有没有听过某个国家的人物告诉你,最近发生的所有危机都不是经济危机,而是文化危机?

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The apparent pointlessness of fashion may be just what makes it so strong as a zeitgeist sensor. Even I, a designer, do not know why a certain proportion feels dated or why another one feels exciting at a given moment. I leave that to the cultural historians and theorists.

时尚明显的无意义也许正是它作为时代精神传感器如此强大的原因。即使是我,一个设计师,也不知道为什么一定比例的人觉得过时,或者为什么另一个人在某一特定时刻感到兴奋。我把这个问题留给文化历史学家和理论家。

In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of formal strategies, both of which, ultimately, refer back to historical precedent.

在我最近的弦乐三重奏中,我试图将两套截然不同的形式策略叠加在一起,最终,这两套策略都可以追溯到历史先例。

I'm a feminist. The women in my books in recent years have been powerful characters and I love to see a woman with a cute bottom walking past.

我是一个女权主义者。近年来我书中的女性都是很有影响力的角色,我喜欢看到一个屁股很可爱的女人走过。

We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated.

我们的存在只取决于我们如何看待自己的存在。也就是说,每一种文化发展都是虚构的,而且是可以虚构的。