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Adam Shatz’s review of Dosse’s double biography of Deleuze and Guattari led to a question I had not thought until now to ask:

What has capitalism to do to survive? Shatz represents the argument Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus presents, the first volume of Capitalism and Schizophrenia, to be dealing with what capitalism has to do to survive because “at its most extreme,” he writes, “capitalism encourages a kind of generalised schizophrenia, a

have you heard the one about … : kinda a follow-on from the yobbism post

With serendipitous timing Adam Shatz’s Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination (Verso, 2023) arrived today, serendipitous because of what I left out of said yobbism post. I had Oliver Bottini say it instead. There it came down to no longer belonging to a community of whatever sort

the yobbism of the given

The tenets of civilisation are now being written by the authors of the gravest barbarity. Times have changed since Walter Benjamin’s day. I’m informed I’m up to 1,990 posts and 298 pages. My father before he died said, Life is too short to read square white

>>>…|||>>>|>?… Pop, Geekdom & MAFS

in an interview with Simon Denny, Quinn Slobodian identifies 2 of what Denny calls sub-art worlds, of people “programming at big cultural institutions, and museums especially, rather than galleries”: 1. “culturally engaged art plugging directly into marginalised identities and oppressed groups”… 2. another genre which “delves into the intersection of

the types of moving image, from surface detail – a quote, quoted for its eventual use in the series about cinematic time, that starts with “Enduring Dreams”

So, make your mind up. Real space view with potential scariness, or some screen; gentle feel-good, wistful comedy, razor-sharp witterage, outright slapstick hilarity, engrossing human drama, historical epic, educational documentary, ambient meanderance, pure art appreciation, porn, horror, sport or news? Real space view, thanks. [for what I am referring to

me too, a visionary activism restoring the political imagination

The global challenges we face today provide an unprecedented invitation for collective transformation. There is an opportunity to remember how to listen, see, and sense clearly from the heart. There are hidden powers within us that we have forgotten that await us in the presence of darkness. True vision is

chain(links) & magic(realism): US prisons ban fantasy and scifi

the first link lays it out: “it’s especially cruel that U.S. prisons ban magical literature.” — Moira Marquis, “Censoring Imagination: Why Prisons Ban Fantasy and Science Fiction,” LITHUB, December 7, 2023 — Francesco Queirolo, Disinganno, 1753 … to be free of illusion …? [the title of the sculpture can be given as…