destroyed wisdom
dear diary, today I like this phrase “romantic materialism.” today I ordered Elizabeth Grosz’s The Incorporeal and John M. Harrison’s Viriconium. …today I am nervous. today I am suspended between two ideas: one is, against immaterial labour and semiocapitalism, the idea of the place of care, care of
… on the beach
He goes to find a sun lounger. “Can I have one that’s more pretentious?” Tomas asks an attendant. “Of course, Sir, but only on condition that you make yourself ridiculous.” — James Palumbo, Tomas, Quartet Books, London, 2009.
Empty Life – Vandana Shiva on the plunder blunder
It seems that the Western powers are still driven by the colonizing impulse to discover, conquer, own, and possess everything, every society, every culture. The colonies have now been extended to the interior spaces, the “genetic codes” of life-forms from microbes and plants to animals, including humans.
John Moore, a
mellow waves
a subjective position is a way out
A world is only constituted on condition of being inhabited by an umbilical point of deconstruction, of detotalization, of deterritorialization, starting from which a taking of subjective position is incarnated.
– Guattari, The Schizo Chaosmosis (1991), in The Guattari Effect, 2011, p. 19
…do you see what you’ve been missing?