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“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.”
― Ill Seen Ill Said
― Ill Seen Ill Said
“The equipment-free aspect of reality here has become the height of artifice; the sight of immediate reality has become an orchid in the land of technology.”
― Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
― Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
“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”
― Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
― Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
“One actually finds most people uninteresting, I thought, all the time—almost all the people we meet are uninteresting, having nothing to offer us but their collective mediocrity and their collective imbecility, with which they bore us on every occasion, and so naturally we have no time for them.”
― Woodcutters
― Woodcutters
“Americans believe in facts, but not in facticity. They do not know that facts are
factitious, as their name suggests.”
― America
factitious, as their name suggests.”
― America
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