“As a friend of Maya Deren’s, I envision her raucous laughter and angry shaking of Haitian beads upon discovering that all her life she had not just been making films and writing about them, but had been ‘articulating’ and ‘authoring’ and ‘delineating,’ had amassed an ‘oeuvre’ and ‘thematics that were informed’ by ‘the coexistence of interior and exterior worlds’ (Tableux!). My opposition is not merely to the unnecessary escalation of previously simple terms into private codes for the initiated, but to their sudden, pandemic, fashionable use by those who believe that words can substitute for understanding.”

::Amos Vogel:from “A Reader’s Digest of the Avant-Garde (III)”