Nils Brandsma

“Everything comes back as an advertising campaign. It isn’t just that the alternatives are written over, or out, it is that they return as their own simulacra”
― Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures

“What we will criticize 'modern' eroticism for is its lack of genuine sensuality, a sensuality which implies beauty or charm, passion or modesty, power over the object of desire, and fulfilment.”
― Henri Lefebvre, Critique of Everyday Life, Volume 1

“Our thesis is that the idea of a self-adjusting market implied a stark utopia. Such an institution could not exist for any length of time without annihilating the human and natural substance of society; it would have physically destroyed man and transformed his surroundings into a wilderness.”
― Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time

“I would like, then, to end by putting in a good word for the non-industrious poor. At least they aren’t hurting anyone. Insofar as the time they are taking time off from work is being spent with friends and family, enjoying and caring for those they love, they’re probably improving the world more than we acknowledge.”
― David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years