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Matthew Lowery
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The point of doing nothing, as I define it, isn’t to return to work refreshed and ready to be more productive, but rather to question what we currently perceive as productive.
This is the trap of Capitalism. Adorno pointed to this many decades earlier in his essay on "Free Time" - it isn't really 'free' at all, it's still measured and optimised in terms of productivity, specifically how productive it can help you be when you clock into work again on Monday morning. All this perhaps gets worse in a post-COVID19 society of control (as Deleuze calls it) in which work becomes both more flexible and, for that reason, more deeply penetrates into every moment of our waking lives.
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“I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.”
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“You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.”
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“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
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“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ”
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“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
― Supernatural Horror in Literature
― Supernatural Horror in Literature
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