Simon Taylor
Deleuze|Guattari studies conference Tokyo 2019
say, fear…
… is underestimated as a political risk. As soon as afraid, for loss of position, simple social advantage, or political status, the most primitive opportunistic intuition sets in–as if the limit condition for responsibility, in individual, social or political dealings, was accident aversion.
Safety culture is then symptomatic of a
from EF who wrote a book on LR’s TRANSFORMER LP to JC & an alternative FEAR from the one on that LP
evening prayer aka justice
from David Berman to Wallfacers
In a very abstract frame today, I tried continuing with my writing and realised I would rather be talking to you. Whoever you are … wherever you are …
I have a lot of tabs (1, 2, 3 …) open I’ve been meaning to close once I wrote something about David Berman,
the unassuming brilliance of novelist Enrique Vila-Matas. But this is not it, neither, that is, evidence, nor representation. On the contrary. It is exactly the non-assumption, or, the other’s assumption.
…as Nathalie Sarraute once said–writing really is an attempt to find out what we would write if we wrote.
— Enrique Vila-Matas, Mac’s Problem, Trans. Margaret Jull Costa & Sophie Hughes, (New York, NY: New Directions, 2019), 4.
It was a time when children seemed very old, and the