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Dense with allusive references to early Christian thinkers and theologians (think Augustine, Origen, Tertullian, and Irenaeus), "The Kingdom and the Glory" by Giorgio Agamben is a rigorous, hugely ambitious outlining, mostly within the confines of Ch
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"We are living at a time when one age is dying and the new age is not yet born. We cannot doubt this as we look about us to see the radical changes in sexual mores, in marriage styles, in family structures, in education, in religion, technology, and
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“Our leaders know we’re turning into a giant ghetto and they are taking every last hubcap they can get their hands on before the rest of us wake up and realize what’s happened.”
― Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America
― Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America
“On the way from mythology to logistics thought has lost the element of self-reflection and today machinery disables men even as it nurtures them.”
― Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
― Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
“In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.”
― Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America
― Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America
“She is standing on my lids
And her hair is in my hair
She has the colour of my eye
She has the body of my hand
In my shade she is engulfed
As a stone against the sky
She will never close her eyes
And she does not let me sleep
And her dreams in the bright day
Make the suns evaporate
And me laugh cry and laugh
Speak when I have nothing to say”
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And her hair is in my hair
She has the colour of my eye
She has the body of my hand
In my shade she is engulfed
As a stone against the sky
She will never close her eyes
And she does not let me sleep
And her dreams in the bright day
Make the suns evaporate
And me laugh cry and laugh
Speak when I have nothing to say”
―
“To walk is to lack a place. It is the indefinite process of being absent and in search of a proper. The moving about that the city mutliplies and concentrates makes the city itself an immense social experience of lacking a place -- an experience that is, to be sure, broken up into countless tiny deportations (displacements and walks), compensated for by the relationships and intersections of these exoduses that intertwine and create an urban fabric, and placed under the sign of what ought to be, ultimately, the place but is only a name, the City...a universe of rented spaces haunted by a nowhere or by dreamed-of places.”
― The Practice of Everyday Life
― The Practice of Everyday Life
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