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of the end of the end [politics after {the end (of politics)}]

in an excellently titled early section, “I hate myself and I want to buy,” quoting Hobsbawm: the “short twentieth century” “ended in a global disorder whose nature was unclear, and without an obvious mechanism for either ending it or keeping it under control.” This impotence was not, however, only due
Simon Taylor 21 Sep 2022

velvet & vomit

Since you asked (my little joke), my writing is going a lot better, thank you, more smoothly. Foucault required of his writing style that it feel like velvet, that it have a velvet surface. This velvet-surfaced prose for some reason, perhaps because of the expression velvet-tongued, makes me think of
Simon Taylor 09 Sep 2022

E S S E N T I A L _ V I E W I N G : Bo Burnham: Inside, (Netflix) 2021

Simon Taylor 29 Aug 2022

“the past is a fire that eats up the present”

“Our vast imaginations pull in the opposite direction from our small, frail bodies.” – from here Consciousness covers itself. Consciousness covers itself with abstractions, with the abstract, as much with materialities, in the pragmatics of everyday life. In the pragmatics of everyday life, the “social absolute”–Seitaro Yamazki’s fossils of
Simon Taylor 22 Aug 2022

ancestory

ancestors were onto something or on something one way cul de sac unrolling or creeping the surprise of mistaken identity rude not to notice or to kill them again who took who gave their lives who furnished nation who in a thankless nation someone’s darling served a cold dish
Simon Taylor 21 Aug 2022

the significance of dissolving sugar: or, the earth has lost its centre

The image appears in Bergson’s Creative Evolution of mixing sugar and water. In some readings it is either a lump or a spoonful of sugar. The quantity is unimportant. What is important, Bergson says, is that I must wait until the sugar melts. “This little fact is big with
Simon Taylor 20 Aug 2022

TikTok war?

this because of this [TikTok]
Simon Taylor 09 Aug 2022

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