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For him, the 1990s opened onto a hyper-industrial era, not a post-industrial one, in which a logic of mass production was suddenly aligned with techniques that, in unprecedented ways, combine fabrication, distribution, and subjectivation on a planetary scale.
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
space of flows,”
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
As Harold Bloom has shown, the real American religion is “to be free of other selves.”
Jonathan Crary • 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
Yoko Tawada’s Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel , translated by Susan Bernofsky, set in post-lockdown Berlin, is an absurd, dark, dreamlike narrative that meditates on warfare, religion, memory, migration, and belonging through the strange consciousness of a literary researcher, Patrik. A Celan scholar who self-identifies as “the patient,” Pat... See more
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“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
As the foremost spokesperson for the view that abrupt climate change will result in near-term human extinction (NTHE), he was the Dark Prince of Climate.