This annotation has been constructed by WWA from ‘A Conversation with Kenneth Frampton: Kenneth Frampton, Stan Allen and Hal Foster’ published in the journal October (vol. 106 (Autumn, 2003), pp. 35-58, this reference p.42 and 43):

Frampton: … Somehow we’ve reached this point in our conversation without mentioning Hannah Arendt, who was also a key figure in politicizing me. The Human Condition (1958) was and still is an important reference for my work. It’s not a Marxist thesis, but certainly a political one […] My first essay in Oppositions is patently influenced by Arendt: it opens with the Cartesian split between appearance and being as a basis of the scientific method – by also as the precursor or a great cultural predicament.

Allen: It seems useful here to differentiate your thinking from Tafuri’s. You’re working from some of the same sources, such as Benjamin and Adorno, but there are important differences. The reference to Arendt is one thing that distinguishes you.

Frampton: […] my interest in Arendt does distinguish us…”