to-read
(732)
currently-reading (1)
read (39)
did-not-finish (0)
modernity (55)
business (31)
islam (19)
myth (18)
political-philosophy (17)
american-history (13)
currently-reading (1)
read (39)
did-not-finish (0)
modernity (55)
business (31)
islam (19)
myth (18)
political-philosophy (17)
american-history (13)
europe
(13)
christianity (12)
judaism (11)
prehistory (10)
statecraft (10)
technology (8)
ai (7)
china (7)
travel (7)
middle-east (4)
christianity (12)
judaism (11)
prehistory (10)
statecraft (10)
technology (8)
ai (7)
china (7)
travel (7)
middle-east (4)
“Men desire novelty to such an extent that those who are doing well wish for a change as much as those who are doing badly.”
―
―
“The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist”—Charles Baudelaire
“The second greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he is the good guy”—Ken Ammi”
―
“The second greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he is the good guy”—Ken Ammi”
―
“This world, as it now is, wants to die, it wants to perish, and it will! “And what will become of us then?” I asked. “Us? Oh, maybe we’ll perish, too.”
― Demian
― Demian
“Russell's books should be bound in two colours, those dealing with mathematical logic in red — and all students of philosophy should read them; those dealing with ethics and politics in blue — and no one should be allowed to read them.”
―
―
“Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors, and we have our images.
We believe that we bend the world to our will by means of technology. In fact it is the world that imposes its will upon us with the aid of technology, and the surprise occasioned by this turning of the tables is considerable.
You think you are photographing a scene for the pleasure of it, but in fact it is the scene that demands to be photographed, and you are merely part of the decor in the pictorial order it dictates. The subject is no more than the funnel through which things in their irony make their appearance. The image is the ideal medium for the vast self-promotion campaign undertaken by the world and by objects - forcing our imagination into self-effacement, our passions into extraversion, and shattering the mirror which we hold out (hypocritically, moreover) in order to capture them.
The miraculous thing about the present period is that appearances, so long reduced to a voluntary servitude, have now become sovereign, and turned back towards (and against) us by means of the very technology from which we had earlier evicted them. Today they come from elsewhere, from their own place, from the heart of their banality, of their objectality: they surge forth on all sides, multiplying of their own accord, and joyfully. (The joy of taking photographs is an objective joy, and anyone who has never felt the objective transports of the image, some morning, in some town or desert, will never understand the pataphysical delicacy of the world.)”
― The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena
We believe that we bend the world to our will by means of technology. In fact it is the world that imposes its will upon us with the aid of technology, and the surprise occasioned by this turning of the tables is considerable.
You think you are photographing a scene for the pleasure of it, but in fact it is the scene that demands to be photographed, and you are merely part of the decor in the pictorial order it dictates. The subject is no more than the funnel through which things in their irony make their appearance. The image is the ideal medium for the vast self-promotion campaign undertaken by the world and by objects - forcing our imagination into self-effacement, our passions into extraversion, and shattering the mirror which we hold out (hypocritically, moreover) in order to capture them.
The miraculous thing about the present period is that appearances, so long reduced to a voluntary servitude, have now become sovereign, and turned back towards (and against) us by means of the very technology from which we had earlier evicted them. Today they come from elsewhere, from their own place, from the heart of their banality, of their objectality: they surge forth on all sides, multiplying of their own accord, and joyfully. (The joy of taking photographs is an objective joy, and anyone who has never felt the objective transports of the image, some morning, in some town or desert, will never understand the pataphysical delicacy of the world.)”
― The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena
/leftypol/'s Books for the Bunker
— 84 members
— last activity Jun 20, 2017 09:20AM
We are a small group of leftist politically-minded and politically incorrect discontents learning theory in our bunker. It'll be /cozy/. ...more
Subhan’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Subhan’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
More friends…
Polls voted on by Subhan
Lists liked by Subhan



































