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on αὐτοκρατία: offered in the spirit of recession:

In “The Spirit of Recession” Paul Chan invokes three cycles: 1. the ineluctability of the cycle of history – a war, a banking crisis, or scandal, a recession, repeated from father to son, Bush by Bush 2. the ineluctability of the cycle of domination – whereby disarmament is a high calling (note

good advice and lots of it

B U S I N E S S M U S T B E P R O P I T I A T E D

Mark Fisher of k-punk on SOCIAL IMAGINATION amongst other essential things, like the intensification of neoliberalism in extremis

Paul Chan: decoupling life from the living decoupling the expansion of productivity from the producers it is not natural it is not even human it is religious

God lives on in the sacrament of exchange relations the nature of spirit: music torture at Guantanamo Bay power recedes – a church without authority is blessed indeed the spirit is a bone, … eschatalogical art – art of the recessional: it is about last things and a hymn: it is the last

Son Excellence Moncef Marzouki, رئيس الجمهورية التونسية

Life is much more important than justice. – Moncef Marzouki, Tunisian President, on his offer of asylum to President Bashar al-Assad and his family: the “price” of stopping the killing of 100 people a day in Syria

not so much that perception proceeds from resemblance as that resemblance precedes perception – but the force exerted by perception possesses all the attraction of the Idea

the perceived resembles something that it forces us to reflect on – Deleuze on Leibniz

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theatre of the world wide web becomes skinner box [here]