Julianna Noelle
@wonderandwait
Julianna Noelle
@wonderandwait
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.
The aura is narrative because it is impregnated by distance.
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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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,
The aura is appearance of a distance, however close the thing that calls it forth.’
“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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