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Here I Am Human
Here I Choose to Shop
After being asked to write something for an exhibition in which the distortion of those oft-quoted lines from Goethe’s Easter Walk is meant to occupy a visible moment, I find myself desperately trying to come up with my own counter-variations and leaving Post-its all over my apartment.
One of them, stuck onto the toilet lid, reads:
Here I am human
Here I shit within
I am despairing over the linguistically—and bodily—intuitive, childhood-familiar variation of Goethe’s verse (long before this child first read Faust I) in the DM slogan, and in my own fecal rewritings (which ground my being in the unstoppable processes of my metabolism) I search for protest—protest against the assertion that my dignity, my very existence as a human being, must prove itself through purchasing power.…
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Here I Am Human
Here I Choose to Shop
After being asked to write something for an exhibition in which the distortion of those oft-quoted lines from Goethe’s Easter Walk is meant to occupy a visible moment, I find myself desperately trying to come up with my own counter-variations and leaving Post-its all over my apartment.
One of them, stuck onto the toilet lid, reads:
Here I am human
Here I shit within
I am despairing over the linguistically—and bodily—intuitive, childhood-familiar variation of Goethe’s verse (long before this child first read Faust I) in the DM slogan, and in my own fecal rewritings (which ground my being in the unstoppable processes of my metabolism) I search for protest—protest against the assertion that my dignity, my very existence as a human being, must prove itself through purchasing power.…
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