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"What needs to be kept in mind is both that capitalism is a hyper-abstract impersonal structure and that it would be nothing without our cooperation... Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie-maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is ours, and the zombies it makes are us."

To understand the history of capitalism, however, we have to begin by realizing that the picture we have in our heads, of workers who dutifully punch the clock at 8:00 a.m. and receive regular remuneration every Friday, on the basis of a contract that either party is free to break off, began as a utopian vision and has never, at any point, been the main way of organizing production for the market, ever, anywhere.

A large horsefly accidentally flies directly into her oral cavity

Very intrigued by: “while most of us can imagine what we owe to our parents as a kind of debt, few of us can imagine being able to actually pay it-or even that such a debt ever should be paid. Yet if it can't be paid, in what sense is it a "debt" at all? And if it is not a debt, what is it? “

Relating to this Pan guy

Maybe I’m not comprehending this bc it’s in French but I too would need a coffee and a cigarette if I was in mourning

Anything dead coming back to life hurts

Time is beginning this morning in June

Talking is existing

dream man: “He was thirty-nine at the time, single, physically and morally unattractive, and a business failure.”

“a regular Beelzebub of a bowl, bone dry and insatiable…”