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鈥淩ejoice! Our times are intolerable. Take courage, for the worst is a harbinger of the best. Only dire circumstance can precipitate the overthrow of oppressors. The old and corrupt must be laid to waste before the just can triumph. Opposition identifies and isolates the enemy. Conflict of interest must be seen for what it is. Do not support palliative gestures; they confuse the people and delay the inevitable confrontation for it jeopardizes the well-being of the majority. Contradiction will be heightened. The reckoning will be hastened by the staging of seed disturbances. The apocalypse will blossom.鈥� 鈥� Jenny Holzer 鈥淚nflammatory Essays鈥�

At first no one even knew, who plastered those colorful square posters around New York City鈥檚 neighborhoods. Posters with 100 words in 20 lines, that asserted highly contradictive content, while matching their surrounding of choice. Later, you would find out, that these essays contained voices from extremely right to left winged ideology 鈥� to mention only a few. Jenny Holzer, who assembled these scraps in 鈥淚nflammatory Essays鈥�, deliberately hid the authors鈥� names, as she found, 鈥溾�檞hen things are categorized, they tend to be dismissed.鈥欌�漑1] Rather, her essays turned into seeds of expressions and claims, scattered through the city, that might have left the reader more likely with a question than an answer.