Jake

“More than a doctrine, preemption has taken on a life of its own. It launches into operation wherever threat is felt. In today’s multidimensional “threat environment,” that is everywhere.”
― Brian Massumi, Ontopower: War, Powers, and the State of Perception

“Across the land, the semaphore towers stood deathly still.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Terminal World

“let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves”
― Martin Heidegger, Being and Time