The only legitimate interpretation of the concept of the "public" is that it's a highly heterogeneous group of … - Wang Jianwei

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The physical life of an individual person is limited, but the life of the masses united as an independent social-political organism is immortal. . . . Only when an individual becomes a member of this community can he acquire the immortal social-political life.

Wang Jianwei

The only legitimate interpretation of the concept of the "public" is that it's a highly heterogeneous group of people, and I cannot imagine who has the right to speak on their behalf using a "public" voice. If the multiplicity of the environment is its true nature, then my works defend this truthfulness. The greatest fairness in society is to defend the difference between each individual - the fairness and truthfulness of their inconsistency and differentiation.

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When you are a part of a world that is within an enclosed system, the biggest threat is that the loss of contact with any voice from the outside - a point of reference that is different from you - becomes habitual. The loss of this reference makes the enclosed system seem perfect. I can still feel this kind of threat today, the voice that gives legitimacy to various kinds of enclosure.

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