Roel van Herpt

Strategy in the Arts, Creative Industries, Sciences & Society | Co-founder of Agency Agency | |

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“A therapist who has their client in therapy forever obviously isn’t a very good therapist.” @MazzucatoM — https://t.co/CJZv25f4c3

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@arnonyy "Give me peace — and I'll give you God'

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“She says when she’s not here any more, she doesn’t care if nothing is here any more,” Joffe says with the hint of a sigh. “She is highly unusual.” She looks at me, and smiles. https://t.co/UeVJg0ws3C

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"Falling means ruin and demise as well as love and abandon, passion and surrender, decline and catastrophe." — Hito Steyerl's 2011 thought experiment on free fall — https://t.co/6PgYdO4Fvn

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Kaljulaid urged leaders to consider a transient population.May told her people after Brexit “If you believe you’re a citizen of the world,you’re a citizen of nowhere.”With May in the audience,Kaljulaid stated the opposite:“Our citizens will be global soon"—https://t.co/n82Hegycf2

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“There are things that you know must be said, that are necessary, even though you don’t know why. And only later will the necessity and the significance of those statements become clear. Because you grow into them, or they grow into you. Or both.” — https://t.co/VcbOuSrR1v

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"art’s duty: make itself available rather than be locked away gaining in value" https://t.co/yENnnRz5St

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"It’s not black nihilism, but something more universal, that is sitting at the top of the charts." – https://t.co/SJUfitgou6

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"US+UK had no revolution in 20th c. The longer a country is stable, the more complacent. Only the paranoid survive." https://t.co/3OrViJCtyU

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"A self-proclaimed caretaker of global capitalism, Silicon Valley is much more likely to end up as its undertaker" – https://t.co/Y6C1vMUWJh

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"I try to keep an open mind. I remember that those speculative forecasts on unregulated growth are just speculation"—https://t.co/MvvhDgQ3gb

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"Informed [digital] voting is the gateway to more active civic engagement and a more informed electorate" – https://t.co/BJlrxU5ddd

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"An invisible conversation between now and art before 1650" – https://t.co/zcxeyFkiQx

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"Those who are truly contemporary are those who neither perfectly coincide wth their time nor adapt to its demands"– https://t.co/zcxeyFkiQx

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“Rejecting globalisation was like rejecting the sunrise.” – https://t.co/zewr7VQUxy

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NO EXIT "an algorithmically coded opera on isolationism, populism & panic in a political Union no one can exit from" https://t.co/rnYaUWrjTj

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"What should we do instead? – Shake hands with a hedgehog and disco.” – Timothy Morton @the_eco_thought https://t.co/HQc8byEImt

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"The Surpreme Leader had been more mediocre than even he had dared hope" – https://t.co/uT3L9hy6UW

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My plea (in Dutch) to invest revenues from inner city tourism in neighborhoods outside Amsterdam center @NPORadio1 https://t.co/JO3fuqHhrL

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"Silence has to be a part of our progress. We have to put silence at the centre of politics today." – https://t.co/107bdMXrSZ