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Houellebecq’s Annihilation: excerpts, including space—a social construction, and the aesthetic superiority, to the cultural production of the elite, of popular cultural production: Or, Houellebecq, in whose hands Realism becomes a genre superior to either

Could a politician really influence the course of things? It seemed questionable. Developments in technology could do that without a doubt; and so, perhaps, to some degree, could economic power relations—even though Bruno [based on Bruno Le Maire, France’s Finance Minister] still tended to some degree to see

excerpt from the penultimate in the Culture series in which world-building proves space is a social construction

Roughly ten percent of the land area of Golter was autonomous state; countries in the accepted sense. The rest was technically Free Land in the form of city states, beltland, commercial and industrial parks, farming collectives, ecclesiastical dependencies, bank franchises, sept reservations, leased and freeheld familial estates, Antiquarian societies’ digs,

St. DONALD

by Eliot Weinberger DONALD (Scotland, 8th century) He lived a devout life with his daughters, the Nine Virgins, after his wife’s death, but his obscurity makes his popularity as a name for boys puzzling.

another post about Levrero, “jumping up and down like an excited dog,” that’s me not him

Strange to think at the time I was born Levrero was writing feverishly in Piriápolis. He was 26, says the TRANSLATOR’S AFTERWORD. Annie McDermott, the translator, adds that he later looked back on that time with wonder, as his ‘imaginative’ period. Imagination, she writes, is for Levrero very different

pure movement | the American Ideology [& a link]

is and I found this: see here and here and here and here

the sacred (wild) shot

. . . the sacred—the cut off (etymology: sacer, “the power, being, or realm understood by religious persons to be at the core of existence” that is cut off, set off or apart, restricted . . . “to have a transformative effect on their lives and destinies.” [source]) . . . the sacred shot = the mystery of the

things I love, not people—too obvious

1. Mario Levrero 2. Bodhi Linux 3. while we’re on the subject of books (Levrero), Michel Houellebecq’s Annihilation . . . hang on, why “too obvious”? 1. because you can tell it from the outside 2. see? from the bodies mine is in proximity to, 3. how close I am . . . however,