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Jack Limebear
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world. One of the greatest and most abiding of all these works is Close to the Knives, an autobiography-cum-essay collection first published in America in 1991. A memoir of disintegration, he called it, alluding both to its chopped-up,
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“One of the operations by which capitalism
perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat from a garden centre or even a
chocolate bar, when we turn on a light switch or a tap, when we flush a toilet or purchase a sofa from Ikea, we are persuaded believe that these things have arisen spontaneously, naturally...”
― The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat from a garden centre or even a
chocolate bar, when we turn on a light switch or a tap, when we flush a toilet or purchase a sofa from Ikea, we are persuaded believe that these things have arisen spontaneously, naturally...”
― The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
Jack’s 2025 Year in Books
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