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Nora and I are continuing the sad adventures of the Baudelaire orphans.

“Today’s hypercommunication suppresses the free spaces of silence and solitude without which it would have been impossible to say things that were truly worth saying. It suppresses language, of which silence is an essential part. It rises from a silence; without that, it is already noise.”

“We live today in the neoliberal system, which breaks down temporally stable structures, fragments living-time and permits the disintegration of what binds us together in the interests of increasing productivity […] This isolation, which goes hand in hand with the elimination of solidarity and total competition, produces anxiety. The diabolical logic of neoliberalism is this: anxiety increases productivity.”

“The terror of the Same affects all areas of life today. One travels everywhere, yet does not experience anything. One catches sight of everything, yet reaches no insight. One accumulates information and data, yet does not attain knowledge. One lusts after adventures and stimulation, but always remains the same. One accumulates online ‘friends’ and ‘followers’, yet never encounters another person.”

Exploring this with Nora.

Enjoyed this series as a kid, so Nora and I are reading this together.

Reading aloud with Jess.

Curious about this as a potential book to teach with if I ever get a chance to do a theory course.

For fun with the subreddit reading group.