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Simon Taylor

Simon Taylor

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

a statement on the Simulacrum & the Sensorium, of all things, inspired by & two unrelated sources gleaned from the discussion this month in <> soft_skinned_space

Brian Holmes’s “Three proposals for a real democracy – Information-Sharing to a Different Tune” [here] Michel Bauwens’s “Scope, not scale: What do medieval monks, Cuban socialists and Wikipedia have in common?” [here] The following was solicited by Johannes Birringer’s (of Alien Nation [here])question, a question in turn

“The true poet, he said, should abandon the coffeehouse and take the part of ‘the sharpshooters, the lonesome cowboys… the spat-upon supermarket shoppers in their massive individual collective disjunctives’ – the cunning, the lonely, the unnoticed and des

– from Natasha Wimmer’s “Afterword,” to Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives, trans. Natasha Wimmer, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2009, p. 579 for five days we swam at the beach, read in the shade on the porch in hammocks that hung from nails and gave way little by

He wahine, he whenua, e ngaro ai te tangata – or – What with one thing and another

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