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Biomimicry: the totalising potential of the analogon

There is an image of nature in the analogon of biomimicry. Nature is passive. Meekly it inherits corporate interest. Where yesterday industry adopted models, today the technocracy imports biological fieldwork. We are to have a social ecology and, in the sympathetic magic of association, sustainably grow interests. The corpse totalises.

EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS WILL HAPPEN TODAY

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on the dialogical nature of left-wing cant

The discourse of the Whigs is cloven like a devil’s hoof. – Neal Stephenson, The System of the World,Vol. III of The Baroque Cycle, Harper Perennial, New York, 2005, p. 203

The Band Rotunda in Needle Park

a million muscles: aphorisms and aperçus and excerpts from Declan Donnellan’s The Actor and The Target with a few notes

You cannot explain why acting is alive, because you cannot explain life. In fact, if you can explain it it’s dead. But block is mostly dead structure, as dead as any old ideology, and that is why it can be mostly explained. … None of us can ever be sure

Paddy wagon, Popetoun St., Paddington