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"Niciodată dominația nu a găsit un cuvînt de ordine mai nevinovat. Menținerea Eului într-o stare de semidegradare permanentă, într-o semiînfrîngere cronică, e secretul cel mai bine păzit al ordinii actuale a lucrurilor. Eul slab, deprimat, autocritic și virtual e prin esență acest subiect adaptabil la infinit, cerut de producția fondată pe inovație, pe desuetudinea accelerată a tehnologiilor, pe bulversarea constantă a normelor sociale, pe flexibilitatea generalizată. E atît consumatorul cel mai vorace, cît și, paradoxal, Eul cel mai productiv, cel care se va năpusti cu cea mai mare energie și aviditate asupra celui mai mic proiect, pentru a reveni mai tîrziu la starea lui larvară de origine.”
Comitetul invizibil - Insurecția ce vine
Comitetul invizibil - Insurecția ce vine
50 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2017
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Sebastian Big
12 books5 followersHaving received a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy at the Cluj University, with mentors such as Adrian T. Sîrbu and the guys from the social-critique magazine Philosophy & Stuff (Alexandru Polgár in particular), Big went on to obtain an MA at the Strasbourg University, where he attended the courses of Jean-Luc Nancy and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe.
He is currently a member of the speculative visual research collective Colonia-Colonia, along with Dan Beudean, Matei Țigăreanu, Cristian Tușinean, and Sasha Bandi, amongst others.
He is also Fractalia’s Renewable Energy Collection coordinator. Together with Ștefan Tiron, Big founded the bio-speculative and advanced research-group at the Aloe Vera Cultural Institute (ic-av.ro).
He is the translator of Jean Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation in Romanian.
He is currently a member of the speculative visual research collective Colonia-Colonia, along with Dan Beudean, Matei Țigăreanu, Cristian Tușinean, and Sasha Bandi, amongst others.
He is also Fractalia’s Renewable Energy Collection coordinator. Together with Ștefan Tiron, Big founded the bio-speculative and advanced research-group at the Aloe Vera Cultural Institute (ic-av.ro).
He is the translator of Jean Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation in Romanian.
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June 18, 2018
You can also check out this book (in English!)as a mix & Text-to-Speech robotic improvement mantra https://soundcloud.com/sebastianbig/t...
How is one to be led astray by mentally reading the poetry of #stimming the putty slime of "I" that brings forth myriads of rules, tips, advice overtures, motivational pamphlets, instant success recipes, ways-to, plastering the wailing wall with colored post-its?
If one is pressed to answer how can there be poetry after Barbara Ehrenreich's scathing & poignant 2009 book Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking has Undermined America, then here's a start. There's your answer in the title of this thin, pocket size booklet (almost the size that can fit in the back of your tablet or phablet sleeve): optimal solutions as the endpoint of evolution.
To banish something that has been undermining the US for so long, longer and much more insidiously than the so-called meddling of Russian troll armies, longer and more vicious than the pervasive culture of bullying (see Roddy Reid "Confronting Political Intimidation & Public Bullying: A citizen Handbook for the Trumpf Era and Beyond") makes no sense.
Sebastian Bigs little collection of empowering debilitating listicles - on how to call everyday a forgotten friend, how to externalize & eliminate bad thoughts, how to dedust dusty shoes, how to close and open doors is almost a guide to a methodical, app-driven road to living hell. It is a collection of perfectly reasonable, common sensical, impossible, improbable doings. All this optimisation is written with suffocating poise and unsuspecting poésie. Compared to this, being reprogrammed inside the Gulag Archipelago is a sweet remembrance of a mosquito buzz in a mid-summer taiga breeze.
Working the I, Building the I, Sweating the I heralds the 21st Century of the Self, where in the unplanned economy, every planning is done for you, pitifully subtracting or adding calories or fertility days from your calendar and organic meals.
William James was one of the first to endow habit with a new resolve. In his (public domain) Habit booklet from 1887, a treatise that makes habit almost a natural force, unseen & unremarkable behaviour patterns sculpt & weather the hillocks and valleys of personality and what was 19 c dusty notion of "character" (certainly today personality cult is more alive than ever). W James identifies living organisms as 'bundles of habit' with habits bridging over the mind and body divide, offloading the thinking, making non intentional decisions processes possible. It's an incredible piece which I urge you to read with renewed interest while reciting aloud S Bigs looping verse.
W James has 3 maxims about the successful formation of new habits, training us for the effort to grab and reinforce them at every opportunity. In the end we have a new self-fashioned man, a covert, homemade ascetic warrior. Williams last precious maxim is worth quoting:
"Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test."~W James, Habit
By singling out the unimportant, the fickle, we enter the cavities of the I.
It is these minute heroics that become an unbearable and eager participant of our own mental labor camps. The omnipresent mindfulness & permanent offloading of decisions is the anthem of our time and Sebastian Big's booklet lets them both wreck havoc at a scale unimaginable before - where the only way to counter full automation is to recognize our kinship to and will to compute the ordinary.
When Leon Trotsky was writing in perhaps the first advice tract of the October Revolution, he mentioned the importance of being careful to detail, of changing small habits, of overcoming the old in terms of - polishing your shoes, not spitting in public space, how to properly dispose cigarette buts. Planning today on a personal and group level is becoming more an more of an impossibility even as we have entered a sort of Gosplan era of Google and other Silicon Valley behemoths pulling every data bit tracking everything in an immense overhaul of central planning & scheduling not for the common but for profits sake. Stefano Harney has picked up on this issue (fugitive planning) as a growing difficulty to actually perform simple tasks & make any (angling?) plans ahead, as we're forced to relinquish everything to suggested searches & task enforcers. The burden and responsibility has been offloaded from institutions to selves, from hated & condemned outer bureaucracies to inner, devious and subtle bureaucracies of the I.
S Big assembles the various non choices that have been presented as choices: how to choose on being either shot or hanged by our positive thoughts.
This is one small book by co-depedent no repetent Bucharest Romanian publishing home Fractalia keen to break to the other side of poetry(from "language of skaldic poetry" by Flavia Teoc to naturist Brautigamesque "sundial" by Bogdan Tiutiu, to tantric puppetry of Wishing Light Bogdan Lypkhan to Iulia Militaru "Co. nfiscating the beast, a post-research and many more).
How is one to be led astray by mentally reading the poetry of #stimming the putty slime of "I" that brings forth myriads of rules, tips, advice overtures, motivational pamphlets, instant success recipes, ways-to, plastering the wailing wall with colored post-its?
If one is pressed to answer how can there be poetry after Barbara Ehrenreich's scathing & poignant 2009 book Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking has Undermined America, then here's a start. There's your answer in the title of this thin, pocket size booklet (almost the size that can fit in the back of your tablet or phablet sleeve): optimal solutions as the endpoint of evolution.
To banish something that has been undermining the US for so long, longer and much more insidiously than the so-called meddling of Russian troll armies, longer and more vicious than the pervasive culture of bullying (see Roddy Reid "Confronting Political Intimidation & Public Bullying: A citizen Handbook for the Trumpf Era and Beyond") makes no sense.
Sebastian Bigs little collection of empowering debilitating listicles - on how to call everyday a forgotten friend, how to externalize & eliminate bad thoughts, how to dedust dusty shoes, how to close and open doors is almost a guide to a methodical, app-driven road to living hell. It is a collection of perfectly reasonable, common sensical, impossible, improbable doings. All this optimisation is written with suffocating poise and unsuspecting poésie. Compared to this, being reprogrammed inside the Gulag Archipelago is a sweet remembrance of a mosquito buzz in a mid-summer taiga breeze.
Working the I, Building the I, Sweating the I heralds the 21st Century of the Self, where in the unplanned economy, every planning is done for you, pitifully subtracting or adding calories or fertility days from your calendar and organic meals.
William James was one of the first to endow habit with a new resolve. In his (public domain) Habit booklet from 1887, a treatise that makes habit almost a natural force, unseen & unremarkable behaviour patterns sculpt & weather the hillocks and valleys of personality and what was 19 c dusty notion of "character" (certainly today personality cult is more alive than ever). W James identifies living organisms as 'bundles of habit' with habits bridging over the mind and body divide, offloading the thinking, making non intentional decisions processes possible. It's an incredible piece which I urge you to read with renewed interest while reciting aloud S Bigs looping verse.
W James has 3 maxims about the successful formation of new habits, training us for the effort to grab and reinforce them at every opportunity. In the end we have a new self-fashioned man, a covert, homemade ascetic warrior. Williams last precious maxim is worth quoting:
"Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test."~W James, Habit
By singling out the unimportant, the fickle, we enter the cavities of the I.
It is these minute heroics that become an unbearable and eager participant of our own mental labor camps. The omnipresent mindfulness & permanent offloading of decisions is the anthem of our time and Sebastian Big's booklet lets them both wreck havoc at a scale unimaginable before - where the only way to counter full automation is to recognize our kinship to and will to compute the ordinary.
When Leon Trotsky was writing in perhaps the first advice tract of the October Revolution, he mentioned the importance of being careful to detail, of changing small habits, of overcoming the old in terms of - polishing your shoes, not spitting in public space, how to properly dispose cigarette buts. Planning today on a personal and group level is becoming more an more of an impossibility even as we have entered a sort of Gosplan era of Google and other Silicon Valley behemoths pulling every data bit tracking everything in an immense overhaul of central planning & scheduling not for the common but for profits sake. Stefano Harney has picked up on this issue (fugitive planning) as a growing difficulty to actually perform simple tasks & make any (angling?) plans ahead, as we're forced to relinquish everything to suggested searches & task enforcers. The burden and responsibility has been offloaded from institutions to selves, from hated & condemned outer bureaucracies to inner, devious and subtle bureaucracies of the I.
S Big assembles the various non choices that have been presented as choices: how to choose on being either shot or hanged by our positive thoughts.
This is one small book by co-depedent no repetent Bucharest Romanian publishing home Fractalia keen to break to the other side of poetry(from "language of skaldic poetry" by Flavia Teoc to naturist Brautigamesque "sundial" by Bogdan Tiutiu, to tantric puppetry of Wishing Light Bogdan Lypkhan to Iulia Militaru "Co. nfiscating the beast, a post-research and many more).
December 29, 2018
Poetici motivaţionale/psihologie poetică + substraturi de ironie
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