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Jed’s father recalls Fourier between bouts of self-pity over the artificial anus, excerpted from Michel Houellebecq, with pictures by Henry Darger

We’ve mainly remembered the sexual theories of Fourier, and it’s true that they’re quite burlesque. It’s difficult to read Fourier with a straight face, with his stories of whirlwinds, fakiresses and fairies of the Rhine Army. It’s hard to believe he had any disciples, people

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ΑΝΤΙΦΑΣΙΣΜΟΣ ΑΝΤΙΦΑΣΙΣΜΟΣ ΑΝΤΙΦΑΣΙΣΜΟΣ ΑΝΤΙΦΑΣΙΣΜΟΣ ΑΝΤΙΦΑΣΙΣΜΟΣ ΑΝΤΙΦΑΣΙΣΜΟΣ ΑΝΤΙΦΑΣΙΣΜΟΣ

betrayal is the slow unfolding of every secret:

the secret of the void is there is no void; the secret of the will to power is there is no will.

the cure is worse than the disease

going to the theatre is like visiting a good friend who is very ill. I am always afraid of what I will find when I get there. What new ritual of humiliation will she have been subjected to in the name of making her better? And usually there he is,

will to power as young changeling

tyranny of light

tyranny of light wherein hallucinations are clearly and distinctly seen, and being seen are recognised, and recognised are understood, and understood are taken as held in common; and in this light all individual consciousness corresponds, as if the clear part of every monad coincided, and to this tyranny each individual

freedom & laziness

For example, I hesitate between staying home and working or going out to a nightclub: these are not two separable ‘objects,’ but two orientations, each of which carries a sum of possible or even hallucinatory perceptions (not only of drinking, but the noise and smoke of the bar; not only