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“I know where the past leads,” his mother would reply. “It’s a sad place. Why would I want to know it better? Does knowing make you happy?” “It ain’t about happy. It’s about being whole. You have a right to that. You have a duty to that.”
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“When he landed the police department hovercar on the roof of the Rosen Association Building in Seattle, he found a young woman waiting for him. Black-haired and slender, wearing the new huge dust-filtering glasses, she approached his car, her hands deep in the pockets of her brightly striped long coat.”
― Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
― Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
“Negation is the ability to take a distance from what-is, which increasingly becomes more difficult, given that the whole logic of our society is based on an ideology which insists that only what-is exists, or is possible, and that there is no place for anything outside of what already exists.”
― Mimesis, Expression, Construction: Fredric Jameson's Seminar on Aesthetic Theory
― Mimesis, Expression, Construction: Fredric Jameson's Seminar on Aesthetic Theory
“If being in revolt against a corrupt society constitutes being immature, then Philip Marlowe is extremely immature” (Chandler, 1951).”
― The Annotated Big Sleep
― The Annotated Big Sleep
“he picked up his desk vidphone and said to Miss Marsten, “Get me the Happy Dog Pet Shop on Sutter Street.”
― Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
― Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
“Well, little by little that’s gonna mean that you can’t imagine a future that’s different from this one, and finally that there is no real place for negativity, for imagination, fantasy, and so forth. Therefore, one of the great… [Cough in the audience] laments of the Frankfurt School — as the postwar went on into the 1960s, and so forth — is that this society of late capitalism is removing all the possible spaces from which any negation of it could be achieved.”
― Mimesis, Expression, Construction: Fredric Jameson's Seminar on Aesthetic Theory
― Mimesis, Expression, Construction: Fredric Jameson's Seminar on Aesthetic Theory
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