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actualising problems

Simon Taylor

Simon Taylor

01 Mar 2014

“Oblique Strategies evolved from me being in a number of working situations when the panic of the situation—particularly in studios—tended to make me quickly forget that there were other ways of working and that there were tangential ways of attacking problems that were in many senses more interesting than the direct head-on approach.”

– Brian Eno

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