Julianna Noelle
@wonderandwait
Julianna Noelle
an information regime that works not through repression but through seduction. It takes on a smart form. It does not operate through imperatives or prohibitions. It does not silence us. Rather, this smart form of domination constantly asks us to communicate our opinions, needs and preferences, to tell our lives, to post, share and like messages.
Byung-Chul Han • The Crisis of Narration
The aura is narrative because it is impregnated by distance.
Byung-Chul Han • The Crisis of Narration
People who listen carefully are oblivious to themselves; they immerse themselves in what they hear: ‘The more self-forgetful the listener is, the more deeply what he listens to is impressed upon his memory.’14 We are increasingly losing the gift to listen carefully. We play to the gallery; we eavesdrop on each other instead of forgetting ourselves
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community and
we are nothing more than cups destined to shatter endlessly through time until there is nothing left to break.
Drew M Dalton • Reality is evil
I remember damage.
Station Eleven
It is effective only for a moment. Bits of information are like specks of dust, not seeds of grain. They lack germinal force. Once they are registered, they immediately sink into oblivion,
Byung-Chul Han • The Crisis of Narration
The aura is appearance of a distance, however close the thing that calls it forth.’
Byung-Chul Han • The Crisis of Narration
If being complicit in the destructive flow of the Universe is evil, then goodness might be redefined as that which resists the nature and structure of reality, however futilely. Goodness could consist in any act that seeks, however briefly, to bend the entropic thrust of existence back upon itself – holding it at bay, even if only momentarily.
Drew M Dalton • Reality is evil
“Sometimes, with the vast aching heartbreak, the great, badly contained intentions of creation, the poignant searching longings of adolescence overwhelmed her, and shocked by her own capacity for creation, she held herself tight and unyielding, crying out silently something that might only be phrased as, ‘Let me take, let me create’”. Shirley
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