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Mark Fisher of k-punk on SOCIAL IMAGINATION amongst other essential things, like the intensification of neoliberalism in extremis
Simon Taylor
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
not so much that perception proceeds from resemblance as that resemblance precedes perception – but the force exerted by perception possesses all the attraction of the Idea
the perceived resembles something that it forces us to reflect on – Deleuze on Leibniz
habitus
theatre of the world wide web becomes skinner box [here]
little objects of self-love
Alex Monea’s paper “Guattari’s on Facebook?! Affects, Refrains and the Digital Cloud” [here & here] made me think what perhaps I have not been thinking because I’ve been doing. It made me think about the possibility for thinking about what I have been doing. Whether I can.