“Appearance and reality […] are not separated like oil and water in a vessel, but rather amalgamated like water and wine. To separate them, we must analyse them in the most 'classic' sense of the word: the elements of the mixture must be isolated.”

— Henri Lefebvre

From Critique of Everyday Life: Volume 1 (1947/1991)

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