‘I am happy about this perplexity. I used to suppress it for a long time because it is associated with uneasiness, which is a totally wrong approach – one should rather try tot disengage one from the other and come to appreciate perplexity for what it is. Doubt and its semantic cousin, perplexity, which are both equally important to me, are unsightly states of mind we’d rather keep under lock and key because we associate them with uneasiness, with a failure of values. But wouldn’t it be more accurate to claim the opposite, that certainty in the sense of brazen, untenable affirmation is much more pathetic? It is simple it’s association with notions of well-being that gives affirmation its current status. What needs to be done is to sever the association between affirmation and well-being.’

Carsten Höller in Parkett 77, 2006