Simon Taylor
field recordings 2013:07:15 14:43:55 – 2013:07:18 10:35:12 Ruapehu
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the purchase of fascism on fractals and the beautiful power seen in the microfascisms of issue-based social aggregators or the missing beauty in the socially indifferent generational products of the Crisis of Value
[Timothy Snyder:] … I wonder if fascism doesn’t depend … on a certain level of technological development, where people can be moved easily but information less so? …
[Tony Judt:] We’re at exactly the point [the 1930s] when societies of Europe are entering the age of the masses. People can read
the meaning of Israel; the mnemonic ethics of Europe (… perhaps as it has been with Nature, the answer is to monetarize the Holocaust: how much is it really worth, excuse for bad behavour or not?)
[Timothy Snyder:] Today’s Europe the Jews have served in the role of something like a collective messiah: for a long time they were a considerable irritant – they caused a lot of trouble, they introduced a lot of troublesome revolutionary or liberal ideas. But when they died – were exterminated en
no risks = no capitalism => the present corpocratic form of totalitarianism relies on the popular delusion that it is still capitalism (hence also a bureaucracy engaged in planned capitalism preaching the perfectability of the market system and continuing
… there is no deep epistemological chasm separating socialism (or at least social democracy) from liberalism. Both, however, are quite distinct from a public policy based obsessively upon mathematically calculated planning devices. The latter justify themselves to the extent that they can claim perfect or near-perfect knowledge of future outcomes (not