Jaron

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Jaron is Currently Reading

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Infinite Jest

by David Foster Wallace

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Apr 20, 2026 01:56PM

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Dhalgren

by Samuel R. Delany

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Apr 03, 2026 04:10AM

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Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials (Anomaly)

by Reza Negarestani

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Mar 13, 2026 07:09AM

Jaron’s Quotes

“The wind is rising! . . . We must try to live!”
― Paul Valéry

tags: le-cimetière-marin, life, the-graveyard-by-the-sea, the-wind-is-rising, wind

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“Only prisoners have time to read, and if you want to engage in a twenty-year long research project funded by the state, you will have to kill someone.”
― Mark Fisher

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“Humanity’s self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.”
― Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media

tags: alienation, art, humanity

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“The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the ‘state of emergency’ in which we live is not the exception but the rule. We must attain to a conception of history that is in keeping with this insight.”
― Walter Benjamin, On the Concept of History

tags: fascism, history, politics, state-of-emergency

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“emancipatory politics must always destroy the appearance of a ‘natural order’, must reveal what is presented as necessary and inevitable to be a mere contingency, just as it must make what was previously deemed to be impossible seem attainable.”
― Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

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