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To Think Pure Quality and the stupid. A note

To Think Pure Quality and the stupid. A note

What does it mean to think pure quality? It would mean thinking outside quantity. Outside of any quantity and of all processes of quantification. It would not mean to think better. I don't want to puff up thought any more than it already is. And mine not at
Simon Taylor 30 Jun 2025
Ryunosuke Koiko, sharpen your awareness by focusing on impermanence

Ryunosuke Koiko, sharpen your awareness by focusing on impermanence

Look out of the window and notice the wind. You probably haven't done that because you've been tuned in to the sounds around you. Once you focus on the subtle sound of the wind, you may be surprised to learn that it can stimulate your mind
Simon Taylor 26 Jun 2025
bomb > {?} < book

bomb > {?} < book

There is a middle term between bomb, gun & book: its excuse is public safety, it is for private profit—and soon everything is going to have something that does it, that harvests your data (and turns it into cash), whether you like it or not. And that thing is
Simon Taylor 12 Jun 2025
Stranger than Fiction: taking 20th C. novel to the gleaners

Stranger than Fiction: taking 20th C. novel to the gleaners

Edwin Frank writes: "Trembling instability" describes the mobile perspective of Lawrence's novels (if they were films, the camera would be handheld). Lawrence writes, as I have said, with an almost somatic immediacy from the point of view of his characters. He also and equally writes from
Simon Taylor 10 Jun 2025
Abe Kōbō - the (market form(ation) of the) state

Abe Kōbō - the (market form(ation) of the) state

… in feudal society, a phenomenon that was strictly unique to Japan and Europe could be seen in the fact that cities were places of confinement. People did not flee to the city; rather, they were trapped there. For example, Jews were strictly denied the right to buy land. They were
Simon Taylor 04 Jun 2025
Slavoj Žižek & Mr. Kežiž

Slavoj Žižek & Mr. Kežiž

fragment {Feb 22, 2013} Slavoj Žižek's idea revolves around the negative disavowal. His thought turns on the negative disavowal. You say, Sometimes I feel life is going on somewhere else without me; I think that life is elsewhere. Slavoj Žižek says, Life is not elsewhere; life is not
Simon Taylor 04 Apr 2025

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