Liz

“Capital demands that we always look busy, even if there's no work to do. If neoliberalism's magical voluntarism is to be believed, there are always opportunities to be chased or created; any time not spent hustling and hassling is time wasted. The whole city is forced into a gigantic simulation of activity, a fanaticism of productivism in which nothing much is actually produced, an economy made out of hot air and bland delirium.”
― Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures

“In darkness, we are naked. Our truest selves. Night is when fear comes to us at our fullest, when we have no way to fight it”, Ead continued. It will do everything it can to seep inside of you. Sometimes it may succeed - but never think that you are the night.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“Everything comes back as an advertising campaign. It isn’t just that the alternatives are written over, or out, it is that they return as their own simulacra”
― Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures

“And, to my suppressed dismay, I found that this stance was considered acceptable by most of my colleagues who seemed, in their attempt to become “scientific”, to think of personality in terms of variables.”
― Ram Dass, Be Here Now