Samuel Posner

“Now, under the neoliberal regime of auto-exploitation, people are turning their aggression against themselves. This auto-aggressivity means that the exploited are not inclined to revolution so much as depression”
― Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

“Americans believe in facts, but not in facticity. They do not know that facts are
factitious, as their name suggests.”
― Jean Baudrillard, America

“Witness, for instance, the establishment of settled ‘alternative’ or ‘independent’ cultural zones, which endlessly repeat older gestures of rebellion and contestation as if for the first time. ‘Alternative’ and ‘independent’ don’t designate something outside mainstream culture; rather, they are styles, in fact the dominant styles, within the mainstream.”
― Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

“Incontinent the void. The zenith. Evening again. When not night it will be evening. Death again of deathless day. On one hand embers. On the other ashes. Day without end won and lost. Unseen.”
― Samuel Beckett, Ill Seen Ill Said