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“How do we memorialize an event that is still ongoing?”
― Christina Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being

“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me;
For now hath time made me his numbering clock:
My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs they jar
Their watches on unto mine eyes, the outward watch,
Whereto my finger, like a dial's point,
Is pointing still, in cleansing them from tears.
Now sir, the sound that tells what hour it is
Are clamorous groans, which strike upon my heart,
Which is the bell: so sighs and tears and groans
Show minutes, times, and hours.”
― William Shakespeare, Richard II

“And the abolition of this state of things is called by the bourgeois, abolition of individuality and freedom! And rightly so. The abolition of bourgeois individuality, bourgeois independence, and bourgeois freedom is undoubtedly aimed at.

By freedom is meant, under the present bourgeois conditions of production, free trade, free selling and buying.

But if selling and buying disappears, free selling and buying disappears also. This talk about free selling and buying, and all the other “brave words” of our bourgeois about freedom in general, have a meaning, if any, only in contrast with restricted selling and buying, with the fettered traders of the Middle Ages, but have no meaning when opposed to the Communistic abolition of buying and selling, of the bourgeois conditions of production, and of the bourgeoisie itself.”
― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

“Political change entails not simply asking for better work, better living conditions, and so on but also widening one’s field of experience. Many problems of subjectivity related to work are precisely connected to this idea of expanding experience. So the crisis we are living in today is not just an economic crisis but also a crisis of the production of subjectivity.”
― Maurizio Lazzarato, Videophilosophy: The Perception of Time in Post-Fordism