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Book cover for The Outward Mindset: Seeing Beyond Ourselves
They 1. see the needs, objectives, and challenges of others 2. adjust their efforts to be more helpful to others 3. measure and hold themselves accountable for the impact of their work on others
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Richard Seymour
“We prefer the machine when human relationships have become disappointing.”
Richard Seymour, The Twittering Machine

Mark Fisher
“Culture, and the analysis of culture, is valuable insofar as it allows an escape from ourselves.”
Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures

Mark Fisher
“From a situation in which nothing can happen, suddenly anything is possible again.”
Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

Karl Wiggins
“Go to the community and the locations that have set a sparkle in your psyche. That's how you find your Tribe”
Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

Mark Fisher
“The catastrophe in Children of Men is neither waiting down the road, nor has it already happened. Rather, it is being lived through. There is no punctual moment of disaster; the world doesn't end with a bang, it winks out, unravels, gradually falls apart. What caused the catastrophe to occur, who knows; its cause lies long in the past, so absolutely detached from the present as to seem like the caprice of a malign being: a negative miracle, a malediction which no penitence can ameliorate. Such a blight can only be eased by an intervention that can no more be anticipated than was the onset of the curse in the first place. Action is pointless; only senseless hope makes sense. Superstition and religion, the first resorts of the helpless, proliferate.

But what of the catastrophe itself? It is evident that the theme of sterility must be read metaphorically, as the displacement of another kind of anxiety. I want to argue this anxiety cries out to be read in cultural terms, and the question the film poses is: how long can a culture persist without the new? What happens if the young are no longer capable of producing surprises?”
Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

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