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Abe Kōbō - the (market form(ation) of the) state

Abe Kōbō - the (market form(ation) of the) state

… in feudal society, a phenomenon that was strictly unique to Japan and Europe could be seen in the fact that cities were places of confinement. People did not flee to the city; rather, they were trapped there. For example, Jews were strictly denied the right to buy land. They were

Slavoj Žižek & Mr. Kežiž

Slavoj Žižek & Mr. Kežiž

fragment {Feb 22, 2013} Slavoj Žižek's idea revolves around the negative disavowal. His thought turns on the negative disavowal. You say, Sometimes I feel life is going on somewhere else without me; I think that life is elsewhere. Slavoj Žižek says, Life is not elsewhere; life is not

QLIPPHOTH

QLIPPHOTH

This is the realm of husks and shells, the domain of cliches. Isaac Luria bears testimony to the light breaking on the auratic matrix into an infinite number of pixels. The screen is full of light. All lights that are—souls and parts of a soul. {Dec 12, 2006 at

bookmarked (Ig, NY: 2017): things forgotten because at the time perfectly usual

bookmarked (Ig, NY: 2017): things forgotten because at the time perfectly usual

Hotel lobbies and bars late at night, things you did and for a time forgot because at the time these things were perfectly usual. — David Ryan, Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, 135 I studied Under the Volcano for Chris Ackerley's English class at Otago University in

I am outside light on a square white world

I am outside light on a square white world

(see @ outside light for information about this site.) thanks to the mighty concierging services of ghost (thanks, Nick), my weblog project squarewhiteworld, 2006 - 2025, hosted by kitt@version, has completed its migration. Please enjoy You can sponsor outside light by setting up a paid subscription (see subscribe button) or

excerpting The Subplot, Megan Walsh’s report on China’s literature, 2022

Literature is perhaps the art form most able to resist the kind of oversimplification required by polarized political debate. While it can be tied with social, political, and economic ideas, it also stands as what literary critic Cai Xiang says is an “independent system” that builds “a structure of feeling.

2 excerpts, from books to return to 🅰 “I’m not that into theater” 🅱 “feverish selfishness, and shit.”

I’m not that into theater. I think its prevalence is just a way of opposing the advance of technology. However, I’ve always thought that covering and uncovering the stage with a curtain is an unbeatable innovation. It’s the trembling of the cloth from the light touch of