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The use of space, the segmentation of time, and the culling of data are elaborated here -- the important follow up to Marx's analysis of the working day and the precursor to Deleuze's concept of the control society. Foucault shows that the military p
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“In conclusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time.”
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“Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.”
― Society of the Spectacle
― Society of the Spectacle
“It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music,
sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to
produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae
to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any
more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself.
Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make
things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's
formulae.”
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sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to
produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae
to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any
more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself.
Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make
things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's
formulae.”
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“You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative”
― Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
― Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
“Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.”
― The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs
― The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs
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