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enjoy your resurrection, day 17, into day 18

Once resurrected then what? And what bits will be and which won’t? What will society lose? the weakest and most vulnerable? …or the sense that they are… having lost the sense of their welfare being our responsibility and of our meaning society. There may never have been any society
Simon Taylor 12 Apr 2020

what does Rona (thanks M.) tell us about mor(t)ality? days 14, 15, 16

I just read that Hal Willner–genius of collaboration–died of symptoms consistent with C-19 (as M. relates, Rona, in Oz). See this, since we are in one: And this: And: It is also shocking to read that named celebrities are being COVID-ed, coveted, and their deaths converted to the
Simon Taylor 11 Apr 2020

we must in a world we cannot, days 10, 11 & 12, 13

I have moved some of my comments onto the <<empyre>> listserv this past several days, named a soft_skinned_space by Melinda Rackham its founder, in Melbourne, 2002, now based at Cornell. I was moved to pass on Levi Bryant’s article “A World is Ending,
Simon Taylor 08 Apr 2020

day 8 or the impossible – goes into day 9 or CANNOT

Dear reader, As you will by now already be aware, approximately 2 billion of earth’s human inhabitants have found themselves under voluntary or enforced, and everything along the continuum, home arrest, otherwise called ‘self isolation.’ These have also had foisted upon them a physical noncontact zone called ‘social distancing.
Simon Taylor 03 Apr 2020

Day 7+

…the difficulty of taking on Chomsky’s warnings about the threat to democracy is that it has already been given away because of the threat posed to it by authoritarian takeover, most latterly shown to insist in populism. …the social order henceforth and the market are coincident. No coherent political
Simon Taylor 01 Apr 2020

Day 6 & 7

Mike sent me this from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Thanks! So… …at least it’s… AIDS / HIV is said to have claimed 25 – 35 million victims since 1981 no recent pandemic compares, except the Spanish flu the giant remains the bubonic plague but there’s something quick, nasty and
Simon Taylor 01 Apr 2020

Day 5

Raymond Ruyer’s book Neofinalism begins, after the death of God the question is not What is true? but What makes sense? The question is not whether this or that truly exists but whether its existence makes sense. Its existence, Ruyer is quick to point out, implies ours: does yours
Simon Taylor 30 Mar 2020

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