‘How much more effective and more accurate it would be, [Jorges Luis Borges] mused, to say “it thinks” rather than “I think”. Stress would then no longer be laid on man as the cause and effect, he would then be considered more an instrument responsive to external events.’
- Jasia Reichardt, ‘A Meeting with Borges’, Jorge Luis Borges: My Work In Prose, A Lecture Given in London, May 6, 1971 (London: Obscure Publications, 1971) p.iv.
Only just got hold of this booklet over the weekend, so hadn’t seen this when developing the ‘I:ts’ idea in Masked Media. Wish I had. Would have made a great epigraph.
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/masked-media/