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"Mark Fisher might be one of my favorite theorists rn. This shit is amazing and just hits so hard" — Nov 01, 2023 09:17AM
"Mark Fisher might be one of my favorite theorists rn. This shit is amazing and just hits so hard" — Nov 01, 2023 09:17AM
“emancipatory politics must always destroy the appearance of a ‘natural order’, must reveal what is presented as necessary and inevitable to be a mere contingency, just as it must make what was previously deemed to be impossible seem attainable.”
― Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
― Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
“Fragments of a vessel which are to be glued together must match one another in the smallest details, although they need not be like one another. In the same way a translation, instead of resembling the meaning of the original, must lovingly and in detail incorporate the original's mode of signification, thus making both the original and the translation recognizable as fragments of a greater language, just as fragments are part of a vessel.”
― Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
― Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
― The Pale King
― The Pale King
“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
― Neuromancer
― Neuromancer
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it. The character of the voters is not staked. I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but I am not vitally concerned that that right should prevail. I am willing to leave it to the majority. Its obligation, therefore, never exceeds that of expediency. Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.”
― On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
― On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
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