“I’M REALLY SCARED WHEN I KILL IN MY DREAMS” (FROM A LYRIC BY GLENN BRANCA)
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“I’M REALLY SCARED WHEN I KILL IN MY DREAMS” (FROM A LYRIC BY GLENN BRANCA)
His work is one of the great literary accounts of the psychic costs of reification, of what he calls “a peculiar malign abstractness” within the culture of mid-twentieth-century capitalism.
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
John Cage said, “I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.”
Hell_Yeah_or_No • Sivers
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Keely Adler added
you should read the word “I” as a name for a sort of collective of people that meets up in me. I try to keep that in mind all the time.
Alara and added
the affects that predominate in late capitalism are fear and cynicism. These emotions do not inspire bold thinking or entrepreneurial leaps, they breed conformity and the cult of the minimal variation, the turning out of products which very closely resemble those that are already successful.
Mark Fisher • Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative?
“Our self-alienation,” he said, “has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.”
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
“Our self-alienation,” he said, “has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.”
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
“Our self-alienation,” he said, “has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.”