Oblique Strategies

Apr 17, 2025

by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt (copyright Eno & Schmidt)

An Oblique Strategy…

 

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If you’re in a panic, you tend to take the head-on approach because it seems to be the one that’s going to yield the best results. Of course, that often isn’t the case – it’s just the most obvious and–apparently–reliable method. The function of the Oblique Strategies was, initially, to serve as a series of prompts which said, “Don’t forget that you could adopt *this* attitude,” or “Don’t forget you could adopt *that* attitude.”
— Eno & Schmidt

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