January 2010
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clothedinsky:
thecentaur:
“A gigantic cultural revolution is underway. Free expression and the joy of bodies, the autonomy, hybridisation and the reconstruction of languages, the creation of new singular and mobile modes of production – all this emerges, everywhere and continually.” - Toni Negri
“Associating the Enlightenment with abstract reasoning runs smack up against what...”
– David Brin
Defending the Enlightenment
(via wildcat2030)
myserendipities:
“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and...
the lying poem by Aad De Gids
“Im on my cell now. Could you let me know this post showed up by posting on my wall letting me know you saw this. Thanks.” ja Twin men on stilts, the stilts actually are subdivided Into still further stilts…. aa two things seem important here. what is a metaphor? and the accomplished description of this “state”:shifting topics, shifting meaning,shifting audience,shifting degree of...
“The centrifugal forces do not flee the center forever, but approach it once again, only to retreat from it yet again; such is the nature of the violent oscillations that overwhelm an individual so long as he sees only his own center and is incapable of seeing the circle of which he himself is part of…”
“There is no Nietzsche-the-self, professor of philology, who suddenly...
The Cybernetic Delirium of Norbert Weiner by...
“The command, control, and communicative possibilities of cybernetics are rooted in the repeated sacrifice of other ways of being in and communicating about the worlds “we” are in. This makes cybernetics a restrictive economic practice.8 It sacrificially banishes other possible worlds for the purpose of provisionally fixing, stabilizing, and communicatively controlling the...
I cite: The art of shrinking heads →
towerofsleep:
jenniferanne:
The postmodern subject is evolving towards a subjective condition defined by a borderline neurotic-psychotic state. This subject is increasingly trapped between a latent melancholy (the depression we hear so much about), the impossibility of speaking in the first person, the illusion of omnipotence, and the temptation to adopt a false self, a borrowed personality or...
Nu Decadence Is Sexy!
“This NU DECADENCE subverts the dominant media forms while at the same time constructing an emancipatory alternative. It consciously exploits unfulfilled expectations by elaborating existing representational (including abstract) tradition to the point of apparent dissolution. It is heresy within the faith. It is elaborate, heady, intricately composed, grotesque and artificial. Unlike the art...
