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hearing Orhan Pamuk talking to Robert Harrison (link to audio) – Pamuk, the Nobel Laureate, self-confessedly conservative and superficial – superficial enough that winning the Nobel makes him happy – conservative in wanting to keep the language of Turkey ‘as it is’ – the ‘dictionary of the streets’ – and not turkify or alter it

The prayers

– Julien Spianti, 2013, oil on canvas, 210 x 140 cm

thrownness into the world including the i ching – unseasonal snaps

“a peculiar co-ordination of self to world” where political change is the answer – unless we are too stupid to notice: Karen Houle on Paul Patton’s Deleuze and the Political (2000)

The general task of the political, then, is a: “patient and meticulous practice of genealogy” (63) modelled by Deleuze according to which, we may limn, and contest: “the quality of the forces present and their affinity with one or other character of the will to power … the dynamic aspects of

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the dark precursor relates differences externally and produces a ‘shadow identity’ – a prefiguration which conceals internal difference in representation and therefore is critically and analytically essential

A moiré is an interference pattern that emerges when two fabrics or grids are brought together and superimposed, one on top of the other. The pattern that emerges is the difference between the two patterns. For Deleuze, differenciation occurs when two series are brought together in such a way that

Linus Torvalds nods his head (“shakes”?) while saying No to the question: Have you ever been approached by the U.S. government to insert a backdoor into Linux?

Foreground & Background on the Leader of the Free World How Linus Torvalds became benevolent dictator of Planet Linux, the biggest collaborative project in history.