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speech grille or language grater or pipe?

for Badiou as for Heidegger, poetry is the experience/articulation of the limits of the potency of language, of the limits of what we can force through and with language. – Slavoj Zizek (OwB, p. 107)

for Badiou as for Heidegger, poetry is the experience/articulation of the limits of the potency of language, of the limits of what we can force through and with language.

– Slavoj Zizek (OwB, p. 107)

Thiel, Master Database of every US citizen, and the kiwi connection

It's simple really. DOGE has already gained access to masses of data on US citizens and is being enabled by the administration to consolidate that data into a single database, it will run on software owned by Palantir, Thiel's company, Thiel who had only previously spent

The views and opinions, o pin onions, expressed by Alan Moore's Jerusalem do not necessarily reflect the light outside

I know I am a text. I know that you are reading me. This is the biggest difference between us: you do not know you are a text. You don't know that you're reading yourself. What you believe to be the self-determined life you are passing

Democracy, More And Less

David Autor, writing for Noēma Magazine (online here), 12 February 2024, quotes Marc Andreessen on the democratisation of knowledge and information brought about by the internet and the flattening of economic hierarchies that was supposed to follow it. Then, in a move recalling Adam Curtis's laying-out and swiftly

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