“The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past.” Joan Didion "Thus, the task of defining liberty becomes still harder. It is not so easy after all to establish even a contemporary definition of liberty. Not only has the intellectual already had to decide to change bourgeois social relations, but he must now find out the laws of motion of society, and fit social relations into a causal scheme. It is not enough to want to be free; it is also necessary to know." Christopher Caudwell (1938) “...we have an impression of a state in which an individual’s separate emotion and personal intellectual act are too weak to come to anything by themselves and … [Read more...]
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Behind The Nightmare
March 7, 2017 by 3 Comments
"Even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he wins." Walter Benjamin "Within the universe of Bay Area startup culture, the Elon Musks are the heroes. They seem to have a broad, sweeping vision of the future. But their true pedigree is measured how they manage to amass massivewealth behind their ideas — their ability to do. They believe they have the necessary tools to game reality. Their thinking is built on top of a hyper-commodified religious devotion to the transformative powers of scientific rationalism and a faith in the sanctity of numbers." Liz Ryerson "Those that Buy and Sell Land, and are landlords, have got it either by Oppression, or Murther, or Theft." Gerrard … [Read more...]
