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Like all of nature, I have failed. – Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet, p. 250 I wonder what I was thinking. Because whatever it was it has gone. Should I make an effort to reconstruct? Or make it new? I could return to my sources. There’s Olkowski’s Ruin

That’s how prophecies work … They’re not about what makes sense; they’re about what will be. – China Miéville, Un Lun Dun, Del Rey Books, NY, 2008, p. 105 – illustration by China Miéville

“Socialist commerce” was a contradiction in terms, just like “socialist philosophy.” The ancient trade that kept people and goods moving implied individual will, initiative, and intelligence. State commerce, on the other hand, since all businesses belonged to the state and operated on a strictly planned basis, required only bureaucracy, regular

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.