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Simon Taylor

Simon Taylor

https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6687-4647

OCCUPYING THE PLACE LEFT RIGHT AFTER THE COUNTER-REVOLUTION

what if Adam Curtis is right? [here] that the failure of the Left has more to do with the Right stealing all its best ideas than with anything intrinsically wrong with the Left itself. The Right showed that those ideas could work. Look at the success of the network! And

network critical: immanent effects

Albert-László Barabási has written two beautiful books dealing with network theory. It is in the second, however, that what was only latent in the first becomes clear. It is brought out in three ways: in this book Barabási shows that he is a writer; Bursts deals with network effects in

on αὐτοκρατία: offered in the spirit of recession:

In “The Spirit of Recession” Paul Chan invokes three cycles: 1. the ineluctability of the cycle of history – a war, a banking crisis, or scandal, a recession, repeated from father to son, Bush by Bush 2. the ineluctability of the cycle of domination – whereby disarmament is a high calling (note

good advice and lots of it

B U S I N E S S M U S T B E P R O P I T I A T E D

Mark Fisher of k-punk on SOCIAL IMAGINATION amongst other essential things, like the intensification of neoliberalism in extremis

Paul Chan: decoupling life from the living decoupling the expansion of productivity from the producers it is not natural it is not even human it is religious

God lives on in the sacrament of exchange relations the nature of spirit: music torture at Guantanamo Bay power recedes – a church without authority is blessed indeed the spirit is a bone, … eschatalogical art – art of the recessional: it is about last things and a hymn: it is the last

Son Excellence Moncef Marzouki, رئيس الجمهورية التونسية

Life is much more important than justice. – Moncef Marzouki, Tunisian President, on his offer of asylum to President Bashar al-Assad and his family: the “price” of stopping the killing of 100 people a day in Syria