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Gabriel Orozco, interview with Benjamin Buchloh, in Clinton Is Innocent (Paris: Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1998), p. 69. John Ronald Ruel Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Part III : The Return of the King (1854–1855; New York: Ballantine Books, 1973), pp. 349, 350, 348, 361, 373, 373. Louis Kahn in My Architect: A Son’s Journey, directed by Nathaniel Kahn (2003, New Yorker Films). Ibid. W. J. T. Mitchell, What Do Pictures Want? (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005). W. J. T. Mitchell, “Interview,” Iconic Turn Lecture Series, Burda Academy of the Third Millennium, March 12, 2004. Available online at http://www.iconicturn.de/article.php?story=2004120710458297. My emphasis.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “The Essay on the Origin of Languages,” cited in Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology (1967; Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), p. 294. Derrida, Of Grammatology, p. 290. For details see David Markus, “Akkadian,” in Beyond Babel, ed. John Kaltner and Steven L. McKenzie (Atlanta, Georgia: Society of Biblical Literature, 2002), pp. 22–23. Clarisse Herrenschmidt, “Consonant Alphabets, the Greek Alphabet, and Old Persian Cuneiform,” in Ancestor of the West: Writing, Reasoning, and Religion in Mesopotamia, Elam and Greece, trans. Teresa Lavendar Fagan (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), p. 95. Derrida, Of Grammatology, p. 300. “Hammurabi’s Code of Laws,” trans. L.W. King. Available online at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/hamcode.html. Ibid. Ibid. The relationship between events and when they were written down in Exodus and Deuteronomy can be found in Boadt, Reading the Old Testament, pp. 89–108.
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