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  2. - Your Highlight on Location 890-892 | Added on Thursday, September 24, 2015 9:51:36 PM
  3.  
  4. Why not gain political sovereignty of small town communities? If you come out here, you realize that the average age is 50 or 60 years old and people are actually excited about the idea of change and passing on the torch to another generation. They’re sad to see their rural communities age out and be abandoned by their youth.
  5. ==========
  6. Instapaper: Tuesday, Sep. 22nd (Instapaper)
  7. - Your Note on Location 912 | Added on Thursday, September 24, 2015 9:54:45 PM
  8.  
  9. what the fuck
  10. ==========
  11. Instapaper: Tuesday, Sep. 22nd (Instapaper)
  12. - Your Highlight on Location 910-912 | Added on Thursday, September 24, 2015 9:54:45 PM
  13.  
  14. When you think about how in the ’20s and ’30s and even before, there were blacks who went to places like Oklahoma and Florida and tried to start their communities. The only reason they did not succeed is because they were torn down by white supremacy. So there’s a model that could be reused without that kind of state-sanctioned white supremacist reaction that occurred then.
  15. ==========
  16. Instapaper: Tuesday, Sep. 22nd (Instapaper)
  17. - Your Note on Location 915 | Added on Thursday, September 24, 2015 9:55:46 PM
  18.  
  19. fash
  20. ==========
  21. Instapaper: Tuesday, Sep. 22nd (Instapaper)
  22. - Your Highlight on Location 915-915 | Added on Thursday, September 24, 2015 9:55:46 PM
  23.  
  24. Five Star Movement.
  25. ==========
  26. maskmag201509TheHackerIssueunfinished (bmumford@gmail.com)
  27. - Your Highlight on Location 1897-1898 | Added on Sunday, September 27, 2015 1:48:40 AM
  28.  
  29. It was bizarre, this gilded display of sorority – it felt like we were playing house with feminist solidarity, desperately echoing an image of sisterhood so that all the boys could take note.
  30. ==========
  31. maskmag201509TheHackerIssueunfinished (bmumford@gmail.com)
  32. - Your Highlight on Location 232-234 | Added on Sunday, September 27, 2015 2:00:37 AM
  33.  
  34. The most valuable commoditity today is data. And by convincing us to produce it willingly and without compensation, we come to confuse our production for consumption, and so the workplace becomes both everywhere and nowhere, our lives become both worthless and incredibly valuable.
  35. ==========
  36. maskmag201509TheHackerIssueunfinished (bmumford@gmail.com)
  37. - Your Highlight on Location 412-412 | Added on Sunday, September 27, 2015 6:31:12 AM
  38.  
  39. cops are 300 times more likely to commit suicide than be shot and killed by someone else
  40. ==========
  41. Matters To No One - Miyo Vestrini.pdf
  42. - Your Highlight on page 5-5 | Added on Tuesday, September 29, 2015 12:28:30 AM
  43.  
  44. THE POWERFUL
  45. ==========
  46. To Our Friends (Invisible Committee)
  47. - Your Highlight on Location 41-43 | Added on Friday, October 2, 2015 2:12:37 AM
  48.  
  49. In places, France for example, the nonexistence of revolutionary forces with enough confidence in themselves clears the way for those whose profession is precisely to feign self-confidence, and offer it up as a spectacle: the fascists.
  50. ==========
  51. To Our Friends (Invisible Committee)
  52. - Your Highlight on Location 57-58 | Added on Friday, October 2, 2015 2:17:43 AM
  53.  
  54. We are not contemporaneous with scattered revolts, but with an unparalleled global wave of uprisings that intercommunicate imperceptibly.
  55. ==========
  56. To Our Friends (Invisible Committee)
  57. - Your Highlight on Location 64-69 | Added on Friday, October 2, 2015 2:22:20 AM
  58.  
  59. However localized it may be, every insurrection gestures beyond itself; it contains something global from the outset. It raises us together to the level of the epoch. But the epoch is also what we find deep within us, that is, when we’re willing to descend that far, when we immerse ourselves in what we’re experiencing, seeing, feeling, perceiving. There’s a way of knowledge in this, and a code of action; there’s also what explains the underground connection between the pure intensity of street combat and the unalloyed self-presence of the loner. The epoch must be sought deep within each situation and deep within each person. That is where “we” meet up, where real friends are found, scattered over the globe, but walking the road together.
  60. ==========
  61. To Our Friends (Invisible Committee)
  62. - Your Highlight on Location 69-70 | Added on Friday, October 2, 2015 2:22:42 AM
  63.  
  64. The conspiracy theorists are counterrevolutionary in one respect at least; they reserve the privilege of conspiracy exclusively for the power elite.
  65. ==========
  66. To Our Friends (Invisible Committee)
  67. - Your Note on Location 79 | Added on Friday, October 2, 2015 2:25:16 AM
  68.  
  69. !
  70. ==========
  71. To Our Friends (Invisible Committee)
  72. - Your Highlight on Location 87-87 | Added on Friday, October 2, 2015 2:27:22 AM
  73.  
  74. Organizing is acting in accordance with a common perception, at whatever level that may be.
  75. ==========
  76. To Our Friends (Invisible Committee)
  77. - Your Highlight on Location 89-90 | Added on Friday, October 2, 2015 2:27:34 AM
  78.  
  79. What we lack is a shared perception of the situation. Without this binding agent, gestures dissolve without a trace into nothingness, lives have the texture of dreams, and uprisings end up in schoolbooks.
  80. ==========
  81. To Our Friends (Invisible Committee)
  82. - Your Highlight on Location 93-96 | Added on Friday, October 2, 2015 2:29:38 AM
  83.  
  84. By adopting crisis management as a technique of government, capital has not simply replaced the cult of progress with the blackmail of threatened catastrophe; it has arrogated the strategic intelligence of the present, the general assessment of the operations that are under way. This move must be countered. As far as strategy is concerned, it’s a matter of getting two steps ahead of global governance. There’s not a crisis that we would need to get out of, there’s a war that we have to win.
  85. ==========
  86. To Our Friends (Invisible Committee)
  87. - Your Highlight on Location 134-138 | Added on Friday, October 2, 2015 2:37:47 AM
  88.  
  89. the discourse of crisis intervenes as a political method for managing populations. The continuous restructuring of everything—social welfare and organigrams, companies and urban districts—is the only way to ensure the non-existence of the opposing party, through a constant disruption of the conditions of existence. The rhetoric of change is used to dismantle every custom, to break all ties, to unsettle every certainty, to discourage every solidarity, to maintain a chronic existential insecurity.
  90. ==========
  91. To Our Friends (Invisible Committee)
  92. - Your Highlight on Location 139-140 | Added on Friday, October 2, 2015 2:39:43 AM
  93.  
  94. well-known counter-insurgency practice of “destabilizing in order to stabilize,” which, for the authorities, consists in deliberately producing chaos so as to make order more desirable than revolution.
  95. ==========
  96. To Our Friends (Invisible Committee)
  97. - Your Highlight on Location 143-148 | Added on Friday, October 2, 2015 2:42:22 AM
  98.  
  99. If some commentators made fools of themselves by hastily proclaiming the “death of neoliberalism” with the explosion of the subprime swindle, it’s because they failed to understand that the “crisis” was not an economic phenomenon but a political technique of government. We’re not experiencing a crisis of capitalism but rather the triumph of crisis capitalism. “Crisis” means: government is growing. Crisis has become the ultima ratio of the powers that be. Modernity measured everything in relation to the past backwardness it claimed to be rescuing us from; now everything is measured in relation to its impending collapse. When the salaries of Greek civil servants are reduced by half, it’s while pointing out that one could just as well no longer pay them at all.
  100. ==========
  101. To Our Friends (Invisible Committee)
  102. - Your Highlight on Location 159-159 | Added on Friday, October 2, 2015 2:45:19 AM
  103.  
  104. A text from 1972 such as Giogio Cesarono’s Apocalypse and Revolution already analyzes it lucidly.
  105. ==========
  106. To Our Friends (Invisible Committee)
  107. - Your Highlight on Location 160-167 | Added on Friday, October 2, 2015 5:10:47 AM
  108.  
  109. At the end of 2012, the highly official American Centers for Disease Control circulated a graphic novel for a change. Its title: Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse. The idea is simple: the population must be prepared for any eventuality, a nuclear or natural catastrophe, a general breakdown of the system or an insurrection. The document concludes by saying: “If you’re ready for a zombie apocalypse then you’re ready for any emergency.” The zombie figure comes from Haitian voodoo culture. In American films, masses of rebellious zombies chronically function as an allegory of the threat of a generalized insurrection by the black proletariat. So that is clearly what people must be prepared for. Now that there’s no longer any Soviet threat to Wield as a way to ensure the psychotic cohesion of the citizens, anything will do to make sure the population is ready to defend itself—that is, defend the system.
  110. ==========
  111. To Our Friends (Invisible Committee)
  112. - Your Highlight on Location 248-250 | Added on Friday, October 2, 2015 5:35:04 AM
  113.  
  114. The reporters were reduced to talking about themselves, about their pointless wait, their boredom and the fact that nothing was happening. Caught in their own trap, they revealed the true face of the end-of-the-world: journalists, waiting, and events that refuse to happen.
  115. ==========
  116. To Our Friends (Invisible Committee)
  117. - Your Highlight on Location 324-325 | Added on Friday, October 2, 2015 5:49:43 AM
  118.  
  119. It’s not the people that produce an uprising, it’s the uprising that produces its people, by re-engendering the shared experience and understanding, the human fabric and the real-life language that had disappeared.
  120. ==========
  121. To Our Friends (Invisible Committee)
  122. - Your Highlight on Location 331-335 | Added on Friday, October 2, 2015 6:14:59 AM
  123.  
  124. This is how insurrections continue, in a molecular fashion, imperceptibly, in the life of neighborhoods, collectives, squats, “social centers,” and singular beings, in Brazil as in Spain, in Chile as in Greece. Not because they implement a political program but because they trigger revolutionary becomings. Because what was lived through shines with such a glow that those who had the experience have to be faithful to it, not separating off but constructing what was missing from their lives before.
  125. ==========
  126. To Our Friends (Invisible Committee)
  127. - Your Highlight on Location 347-349 | Added on Friday, October 2, 2015 6:17:30 AM
  128.  
  129. Far from serving to describe the world, language helps us rather to construct a world. Ethical truths are thus not truths about the world, but truths on the basis of which we dwell therein. These are truths, affirmations, stated or not, that are felt but not proved.
  130. ==========
  131. My Trials - Louise Michel
  132. - Your Bookmark on page 18 | Added on Saturday, October 3, 2015 12:12:31 AM
  133.  
  134.  
  135. ==========
  136. Between Hegel and Spinoza - Hasana Sharp.pdf
  137. - Your Bookmark on page 2 | Added on Thursday, October 8, 2015 10:32:46 AM
  138.  
  139.  
  140. ==========
  141. Between Hegel and Spinoza - Hasana Sharp.pdf
  142. - Your Highlight on page 7-7 | Added on Friday, October 9, 2015 9:35:01 AM
  143.  
  144. The immanent causality of substance is, therefore, not to be conceived or represented as a linear series of causes but to be conceived as an “infinite network of singular modulations,
  145. ==========
  146. Strange Victories (Midnight Notes)
  147. - Your Highlight on Location 10-15 | Added on Friday, October 9, 2015 1:01:21 PM
  148.  
  149. The permissive State, although it still uses dissuasion (in the form of police and army), is tending towards dialogue, allowing a certain amount of freedom of movement and self-regulation so that everyone becomes controllable at all levels. In this way the counter-revolutionary role of so-called dissent is fundamental to maintaining order and continuing exploitation. Both the bosses and their servants are depending more and more on these forms of recuperation in preference to pure repression by armed forces-although the latter continue to remain the ultimate element in convincing and repressing.
  150. ==========
  151. Strange Victories (Midnight Notes)
  152. - Your Highlight on Location 43-45 | Added on Friday, October 9, 2015 1:08:39 PM
  153.  
  154. We can consider all forms of strictly formal dissent and all attempts to divide the class conflict into a multitude of sectors, as being functional to power. This is exactly what the couple capital State want to happen.
  155. ==========
  156. Strange Victories (Midnight Notes)
  157. - Your Highlight on Location 95-99 | Added on Friday, October 9, 2015 1:19:17 PM
  158.  
  159. there is a risk that it could be used against poor urban people. As long as the anti-nuclear movement does not clearly attack the price-policies of the energy companies and does not link the ‘health’ and ‘money’ issues, it cannot be understood by people who are struggling for daily survival In such a situation capital can play the anti-nuclear movement against the poor or vice versa. For example, the energy companies and the State (the government) can blame the anti-nuclear movement for the higher electric bills; or they can try to impose solar energy and higher energy prices.
  160. ==========
  161. Strange Victories (Midnight Notes)
  162. - Your Highlight on Location 108-111 | Added on Friday, October 9, 2015 1:21:19 PM
  163.  
  164. There is no such thing as an independent ‘technological and scientific progress’ occurring outside class struggle. ‘Progress’ has become another word for ‘more effective exploitation’ and has nothing to do with our needs and wishes. The present capitalist technology has been shaped for exploitation and control over our lives. It is not a neutral means that can be used in a different class context.
  165. ==========
  166. Midnight Notes I vol.1 - Strange Victories (EOM) (Midnight Notes)
  167. - Your Highlight on page 9 | Location 134-136 | Added on Friday, October 9, 2015 7:52:23 PM
  168.  
  169. By the term reproduction we mean all the work that has to be done in order to keep us in shape so that we are able to work: eating, clothing, relaxation, medical care, emotional ‘services’, discipline, education, entertainment, cleaning, procreation, etc. Sometimes what we call ‘life’ is, in reality, only reproduction for capitalist exploitation.
  170. ==========
  171. Midnight Notes I vol.1 - Strange Victories (EOM) (Midnight Notes)
  172. - Your Highlight on page 14 | Location 208-209 | Added on Saturday, October 10, 2015 5:06:46 AM
  173.  
  174. without any assets in the case of the poor (their labour-power is not very valuable or is even worthless for capital because little money has been invested in their reproduction).
  175. ==========
  176. Midnight Notes I vol.1 - Strange Victories (EOM) (Midnight Notes)
  177. - Your Bookmark on page 16 | Location 241 | Added on Saturday, October 10, 2015 5:19:50 AM
  178.  
  179.  
  180. ==========
  181. Resenting Hipsters (jacobinmag.com)
  182. - Your Highlight on Location 25-27 | Added on Saturday, October 10, 2015 10:33:11 AM
  183.  
  184. This resentment is also at the heart of a lot of hating on “hipsters.” People see others whom they perceive to have lives that are easier, cooler, or more fun than theirs, and instead of questioning the society that gave them their lot, they demand conformity and misery out of others.
  185. ==========
  186. Resenting Hipsters (jacobinmag.com)
  187. - Your Note on Location 57 | Added on Saturday, October 10, 2015 10:39:38 AM
  188.  
  189. kautsky on lumpen
  190. ==========
  191. Resenting Hipsters (jacobinmag.com)
  192. - Your Highlight on Location 56-57 | Added on Saturday, October 10, 2015 10:39:38 AM
  193.  
  194. Producerism is hostile both to parasitic elites at the top of society and to the allegedly unproductive indigents at the bottom, hence its relationship to the political left and right is ambiguous.
  195. ==========
  196. Resenting Hipsters (jacobinmag.com)
  197. - Your Note on Location 75 | Added on Saturday, October 10, 2015 10:48:58 AM
  198.  
  199. UNWAGED
  200. ==========
  201. Resenting Hipsters (jacobinmag.com)
  202. - Your Highlight on Location 73-75 | Added on Saturday, October 10, 2015 10:48:58 AM
  203.  
  204. Note, moreover, that the commenter’s defense of her worth was based on her temp jobs and refusal of public assistance, and not on one of the few activities that is widely agreed to be valuable and necessary human labor — raising children.
  205. ==========
  206. Resenting Hipsters (jacobinmag.com)
  207. - Your Note on Location 90 | Added on Saturday, October 10, 2015 10:52:05 AM
  208.  
  209. eh fucked equivalence
  210. ==========
  211. Resenting Hipsters (jacobinmag.com)
  212. - Your Highlight on Location 90-91 | Added on Saturday, October 10, 2015 10:52:05 AM
  213.  
  214. whether the demonized group is welfare queens in the nineties or hipsters on food stamps today.
  215. ==========
  216. Midnight Notes I vol.1 - Strange Victories (EOM) (Midnight Notes)
  217. - Your Highlight on page 16 | Location 245-247 | Added on Saturday, October 10, 2015 12:58:17 PM
  218.  
  219. We mention ‘ecofascism’, a right-wing ideology which intends to impose austerity, lower wages and longer working hours, old-style family life, etc, while struggling against new technologies. This tendency had some impact in Europe, but obviously not in the US where the Ku Klux Klan supports the construction of nuclear plants.
  220. ==========
  221. Midnight Notes I vol.1 - Strange Victories (EOM) (Midnight Notes)
  222. - Your Highlight on page 17 | Location 260-261 | Added on Saturday, October 10, 2015 1:45:16 PM
  223.  
  224. intellectual workers whose function is to plan for the general development of capital-including the working class-and to sell these plans to us all.
  225. ==========
  226. Midnight Notes I vol.1 - Strange Victories (EOM) (Midnight Notes)
  227. - Your Highlight on page 18 | Location 268-270 | Added on Saturday, October 10, 2015 1:47:03 PM
  228.  
  229. The struggle among the anti-planners of ‘our’ future is the struggle about the qualifications of future intellectual workers, for the ability to find alternative futures is exactly the function of intellectual workers (on a ‘lower’ level called management, on a ‘higher’ level, philosophy).
  230. ==========
  231. Midnight Notes I vol.1 - Strange Victories (EOM) (Midnight Notes)
  232. - Your Highlight on page 19 | Location 288-290 | Added on Saturday, October 10, 2015 1:53:52 PM
  233.  
  234. One of the instruments of this surplus-value transfer is the hike of energy and food prices. In order to pay their bills, the energy companies make us work more and more in small shops, as salesmen, typists, clerks, drivers, etc. The capitalist System forms a unity: exploitation in one place can result in profits in another place.
  235. ==========
  236. Midnight Notes I vol.1 - Strange Victories (EOM) (Midnight Notes)
  237. - Your Highlight on page 22 | Location 325-326 | Added on Saturday, October 10, 2015 6:01:52 PM
  238.  
  239. a counter-attack of capital to create new centres of reliability against the marsh of obscure wishes and desires.
  240. ==========
  241. Midnight Notes I vol.1 - Strange Victories (EOM) (Midnight Notes)
  242. - Your Highlight on page 24 | Location 366-371 | Added on Saturday, October 10, 2015 6:13:52 PM
  243.  
  244. The exclusion of physical violence is more than compensated by the sophisticated use of psychological and intellectual pressure and the use of time against people who are less skilled and have less time. Consensus can be used as a means of blackmailing, for it imposes the responsibility for the whole group on each member, thus becoming an additional source of ideological and psychological pressure. Theoretically, it could only work in a non-totalitarian way if all members had the same class-status, the same skills, and the same level of reproduction. Otherwise, it becomes the instrument of an elite which forces other people into ‘withdrawing from the group’.
  245. ==========
  246. Midnight Notes I vol.1 - Strange Victories (EOM) (Midnight Notes)
  247. - Your Highlight on page 27 | Location 400-401 | Added on Saturday, October 10, 2015 6:18:29 PM
  248.  
  249. This was the case of the legal rally of June 1978 and the cancellation of a demonstration in November 1978 when the Ku Klux Klan announced a counter-demonstration at Seabrook.
  250. ==========
  251. Midnight Notes I vol.1 - Strange Victories (EOM) (Midnight Notes)
  252. - Your Highlight on page 27 | Location 406-408 | Added on Saturday, October 10, 2015 6:19:24 PM
  253.  
  254. If there are leaders (which might be justified and effective) they must not be allowed to hide behind democratic smoke-screens, but must be forced to operate in their real function and submit to the control and criticism of the movement. It is better to have an open dialectics of leaders and masses than paralysing illusions.
  255. ==========
  256. Encoding_decoding_ - Stuart Hall.pdf
  257. - Your Highlight on page 1 | Added on Sunday, October 11, 2015 8:30:27 PM
  258.  
  259. modality
  260. ==========
  261. Encoding_decoding_ - Stuart Hall.pdf
  262. - Your Highlight on page 1-1 | Added on Sunday, October 11, 2015 8:34:18 PM
  263.  
  264. passage o f forms
  265. ==========
  266. Encoding_decoding_ - Stuart Hall.pdf
  267. - Your Highlight on page 1 | Added on Sunday, October 11, 2015 8:42:34 PM
  268.  
  269. syntagmatic
  270. ==========
  271. Encoding_decoding_ - Stuart Hall.pdf
  272. - Your Highlight on page 1-1 | Added on Sunday, October 11, 2015 8:54:10 PM
  273.  
  274. the discourse must then be translated - transformed, again - i n t o social practices if the circuit is to be both completed and effective. If n o ‘meaning’ is taken, there can be n o ‘consumption’. If the meaning is not articulated in practice, i t has no effect
  275. ==========
  276. Encoding_decoding_ - Stuart Hall.pdf
  277. - Your Highlight on page 2 | Added on Sunday, October 11, 2015 8:57:01 PM
  278.  
  279. derenninare
  280. ==========
  281. Encoding_decoding_ - Stuart Hall.pdf
  282. - Your Highlight on page 2-2 | Added on Sunday, October 11, 2015 8:57:50 PM
  283.  
  284. passes under the sign
  285. ==========
  286. Encoding_decoding_ - Stuart Hall.pdf
  287. - Your Note on page 2 | Added on Sunday, October 11, 2015 8:58:10 PM
  288.  
  289. ??
  290. ==========
  291. Encoding_decoding_ - Stuart Hall.pdf
  292. - Your Highlight on page 2-2 | Added on Sunday, October 11, 2015 8:58:10 PM
  293.  
  294. all the complex formal ‘rules’ by which language signifies
  295. ==========
  296. Encoding_decoding_ - Stuart Hall.pdf
  297. - Your Highlight on page 2-2 | Added on Sunday, October 11, 2015 9:05:48 PM
  298.  
  299. the transposition into and o u t of the ‘message form’ (or the mode of symbolic exchange) is not a random ‘moment’, which we can take u p or ignore a t our convenience
  300. ==========
  301. Encoding_decoding_ - Stuart Hall.pdf
  302. - Your Highlight on page 4-4 | Added on Monday, October 12, 2015 12:57:29 AM
  303.  
  304. representations of violence on the TV screen ‘are n o t violence but messages about v i ~ l e n c e ’ : ~ b u t we have continued to research the question of violence, for example, as if we were unable to comprehend this epistemological distinction.
  305. ==========
  306. Encoding_decoding_ - Stuart Hall.pdf
  307. - Your Highlight on page 4-4 | Added on Monday, October 12, 2015 12:59:39 AM
  308.  
  309. Reality exists outside language, b u t i t is constantly mediated by and through language: and what we can know and say has to be produced in and through discourse. Discursive ‘knowledge’ is the product n o t of the transparent representation of the ‘real’ in language b u t of the articulation of language on real relations and con- ditions. Thus there is no intelligible discourse without the operation of a code
  310. ==========
  311. Encoding_decoding_ - Stuart Hall.pdf
  312. - Your Highlight on page 5-5 | Added on Monday, October 12, 2015 1:01:00 AM
  313.  
  314. There is n o degree zero in language. Naturalism and ‘realism’ - the apparent fidelity of the representation t o the thing or concept represented - is the.result, the effect, of a certain specific articulation of language on the ‘real’. It is the result o f a discursive practice
  315. ==========
  316. Encoding_decoding_ - Stuart Hall.pdf
  317. - Your Highlight on page 5-5 | Added on Monday, October 12, 2015 1:04:56 AM
  318.  
  319. The operation of naturalized codes reveals not the transparency and ‘naturalness’ o f language b u t the depth, the habituation and the near-universality of t h e codes in use. They produce apparently ‘natural’ recognitions. This has t h e (ideological) effect of concealing the practices of coding which are present. But we must not be fooled by appearances. Actually, what naturalized codes demonstrate is the degree o f habituation produced when there is a fundamental alignment and reciprocity - an achieved equivalence - between the encoding and decoding sides of an exchange of meanings
  320. ==========
  321. “Cremation of senses in friendly fire”: on sound and biopolitics (via KMFDM & World War Z) (soundstudiesblog.com)
  322. - Your Highlight on Location 31-33 | Added on Tuesday, October 13, 2015 10:10:45 AM
  323.  
  324. biopolitics promotes and administers life by generalizing and naturalizing what Foucault calls “the relationship of war: ‘In order to live, you must destroy your enemies’” (Society 256).
  325. ==========
  326. “Cremation of senses in friendly fire”: on sound and biopolitics (via KMFDM & World War Z) (soundstudiesblog.com)
  327. - Your Highlight on Location 22-23 | Added on Tuesday, October 13, 2015 10:10:57 AM
  328.  
  329. biopolitics’ “basic function is to improve life, to prolong its duration, to improve its chances, to avoid accidents, and to compensate for failings”
  330. ==========
  331. “Cremation of senses in friendly fire”: on sound and biopolitics (via KMFDM & World War Z) (soundstudiesblog.com)
  332. - Your Highlight on Location 46-48 | Added on Tuesday, October 13, 2015 10:13:59 AM
  333.  
  334. As Ronald Bogue explains in Deleuze’s Wake, blast drumming is a “tactic of accelerating meters to the point of collapse,” produced through the “cut-time alteration of downbeat kick drum and offbeat snare, the accent being heard on the offbeat but felt on the downbeat” (99).
  335. ==========
  336. “Cremation of senses in friendly fire”: on sound and biopolitics (via KMFDM & World War Z) (soundstudiesblog.com)
  337. - Your Highlight on Location 112-113 | Added on Tuesday, October 13, 2015 10:24:34 AM
  338.  
  339. In WWZ, the zombie virus is a eugenic tool that weeds out insufficiently “sonic” life, life that is too static to respond to capitalist and biopolitical mandates for calculable motion, variation, and change.
  340. ==========
  341. The Victorious Ones - Chris Nealon.pdf
  342. - Your Highlight on page 10 | Added on Saturday, October 17, 2015 8:12:29 AM
  343.  
  344. kenosis
  345. ==========
  346. Midnight Notes I vol.1 - Strange Victories (EOM) (Midnight Notes)
  347. - Your Highlight on page 29 | Location 431-435 | Added on Saturday, October 17, 2015 8:33:01 AM
  348.  
  349. Non-violent civil disobedience is a potentially very effective strategy as long as the value of the labour force involved (eg in the case of intellectual workers, especially in New England) is high. It can be used by its proprietors to blackmail single capitals (eg the nuclear industry or a single utility company) from the outside, mobilising the interests of ‘general capital’ (the ‘general public’, the State, etc.) against such a single capital. As long as they are non-violent, the value of their own labour-power protects the militants from being attacked, for their expensive human capital could be damaged.
  350. ==========
  351. Midnight Notes I vol.1 - Strange Victories (EOM) (Midnight Notes)
  352. - Your Highlight on page 31 | Location 467-470 | Added on Saturday, October 17, 2015 1:11:58 PM
  353.  
  354. Watching your friends being dragged away by the hair requires additional reproductive work, elaborate ideological motivations (non-violence ideologies, historical justifications, religious and moral support), physical compensation activities to get rid of accumulated anger and frustration (body politics, acting out therapies), psychological work (love, verbalisation-techniques, art), which, in general, are not available to less valuable, less qualified workers.
  355. ==========
  356. Midnight Notes I vol.1 - Strange Victories (EOM) (Midnight Notes)
  357. - Your Highlight on page 36 | Location 545-551 | Added on Sunday, October 18, 2015 5:01:12 AM
  358.  
  359. Legalism always means disarming and paralysing the real social movement (direct action, ‘subversive’ behaviours, autonomous organisation) in order to get a broad representation on the level of anonymous, formalised, hierarchically controlled institutions (bourgeois democracy, media, unions). On this level, it is possible to get a representation which goes beyond limited class sectors. Capital allows the ‘breakdown’ of all class-divisions within the working class if this process is controlled by the State, ie, by its own institutions. Referendums, elections, legal rallies, for example, ‘overcome’ such class-divisions as those between intellectual workers and local residents. But the price paid is that the movement no longer acts as a social movement. In reality, it is not acting at all but is only symbolically present.
  360. ==========
  361. Midnight Notes I vol.1 - Strange Victories (EOM) (Midnight Notes)
  362. - Your Highlight on page 33 | Location 501-502 | Added on Sunday, October 18, 2015 5:01:47 AM
  363.  
  364. the job’ of the State is to impose work on the rest of us and this lob’ can only be done if the State has the power to kill or torture us when we refuse to work: this is the brutality of the State.
  365. ==========
  366. Midnight Notes I vol.1 - Strange Victories (EOM) (Midnight Notes)
  367. - Your Note on page 33 | Location 501 | Added on Sunday, October 18, 2015 5:02:04 AM
  368.  
  369. sp
  370. ==========
  371. Midnight Notes I vol.1 - Strange Victories (EOM) (Midnight Notes)
  372. - Your Note on page 36 | Location 544 | Added on Sunday, October 18, 2015 5:02:53 AM
  373.  
  374. sp
  375. ==========
  376. Midnight Notes I vol.1 - Strange Victories (EOM) (Midnight Notes)
  377. - Your Highlight on page 36 | Location 544-544 | Added on Sunday, October 18, 2015 5:02:53 AM
  378.  
  379. not
  380. ==========
  381. Midnight Notes I vol.1 - Strange Victories (EOM) (Midnight Notes)
  382. - Your Highlight on page 36 | Location 552-554 | Added on Sunday, October 18, 2015 5:04:57 AM
  383.  
  384. Totally legal gatherings demonstrate not the strength of the movement but the strength of State-control over it. It shows the that the State can allow such huge accumulations of people without any practical consequences-unless the rally ‘gets out of control’.
  385. ==========
  386. Midnight Notes I vol.1 - Strange Victories (EOM) (Midnight Notes)
  387. - Your Note on page 41 | Location 615 | Added on Sunday, October 18, 2015 5:19:28 AM
  388.  
  389. sp
  390. ==========
  391. Midnight Notes I vol.1 - Strange Victories (EOM) (Midnight Notes)
  392. - Your Highlight on page 41 | Location 615-615 | Added on Sunday, October 18, 2015 5:19:28 AM
  393.  
  394. flew
  395. ==========
  396. Instapaper: Saturday, Oct. 17th (Instapaper)
  397. - Your Highlight on Location 76-77 | Added on Sunday, October 18, 2015 9:31:30 AM
  398.  
  399. great podcast series The CIA and Hollywood,
  400. ==========
  401. Instapaper: Saturday, Oct. 17th (Instapaper)
  402. - Your Highlight on Location 138-139 | Added on Sunday, October 18, 2015 10:03:54 AM
  403.  
  404. Like the President, these characters demonstrate that anything is morally defensible if the enemy is pure evil and if one professes grief.
  405. ==========
  406. Instapaper: Saturday, Oct. 17th (Instapaper)
  407. - Your Highlight on Location 165-168 | Added on Sunday, October 18, 2015 10:07:44 AM
  408.  
  409. Of course, Villeneuve can’t bring himself to actually say that he wishes for authoritarian state death squads to protect him—he ever-so-diplomatically doesn’t “have the answer.” But he not only has the answer, he provides the answer, right up there on the screen. If you’ve ever thought the saying “scratch a liberal, find a fascist” is too harsh, this is where it comes from.
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  411. Instapaper: Saturday, Oct. 17th (Instapaper)
  412. - Your Highlight on Location 267-268 | Added on Sunday, October 18, 2015 10:22:49 AM
  413.  
  414. The reality of keeping you safe is ugly, the film says, and it may even look immoral. But the alternative is too horrible to comprehend.
  415. ==========
  416. maskmag20151010TheAsylumIssueunfinished (bmumford@gmail.com)
  417. - Your Highlight on Location 290-292 | Added on Monday, October 26, 2015 7:56:29 PM
  418.  
  419. NASA thought it would get some revenge humor in at the last minute by declassifying hundreds of photos taken during the Apollo moon landing missions
  420. ==========
  421. Instapaper: Monday, Oct. 26th (Instapaper)
  422. - Your Highlight on Location 317-319 | Added on Monday, October 26, 2015 8:13:58 PM
  423.  
  424. In 2007, I offered a descriptive profile of fascism based on four core features: radical break with the established order, totalitarian mass politics, twisted anti-elitism, and autonomy from business control.
  425. ==========
  426. Instapaper: Monday, Oct. 26th (Instapaper)
  427. - Your Highlight on Location 321-322 | Added on Monday, October 26, 2015 8:14:36 PM
  428.  
  429. Fascism is a revolutionary form of right-wing populism, inspired by a totalitarian vision of collective rebirth, that challenges capitalist political and cultural power while bolstering economic and social hierarchy.
  430. ==========
  431. Instapaper: Monday, Oct. 26th (Instapaper)
  432. - Your Highlight on Location 324-328 | Added on Monday, October 26, 2015 8:15:29 PM
  433.  
  434. In the context of the United States today, I use the term "far right" to mean political forces that (a) regard human inequality as natural or inevitable and (b) reject the legitimacy of the established political system. That covers some (but not all) white nationalists, the theocratic branch of the Christian right, the hardline wing of the Patriot movement, and a few other currents. In other words, I see the far right as cutting across standard political categories, because I think the emergence of a truly oppositional right -- which doesn’t want to just take over the U.S. political system, but bring it down -- is ultimately more significant than ideological differences about race, religion, or other factors.
  435. ==========
  436. Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
  437. - Your Bookmark on page 2 | Location 20 | Added on Monday, October 26, 2015 11:49:24 PM
  438.  
  439.  
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  441. Instapaper: Monday, Oct. 26th (Instapaper)
  442. - Your Highlight on Location 665-666 | Added on Tuesday, October 27, 2015 2:10:21 PM
  443.  
  444. “Most people live paycheck to paycheck,” he says. “So how come I need 10 years of living expenses set aside and you don’t? That doesn’t make any sense. Having to depend on modest pay is not a bad thing. It will help me stay focused.”
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  446. Instapaper: Monday, Oct. 26th (Instapaper)
  447. - Your Note on Location 666 | Added on Tuesday, October 27, 2015 2:10:45 PM
  448.  
  449. no
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  451. Instapaper: Monday, Oct. 26th (Instapaper)
  452. - Your Highlight on Location 887-888 | Added on Tuesday, October 27, 2015 2:48:42 PM
  453.  
  454. Perhaps the “victory” within the Cold War was truly a Pyrrhic one, and the Bolshevik ghost shall have the last laugh after all.
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  456. Instapaper: Monday, Oct. 26th (Instapaper)
  457. - Your Highlight on Location 1059-1062 | Added on Tuesday, October 27, 2015 5:08:58 PM
  458.  
  459. Political understanding is just political understanding because its thought does not transcend the limits of politics. The sharper and livelier it is, the more incapable is it of comprehending social problems. The classical period of political understanding is the French Revolution. Far from identifying the principle of the state as the source of social ills, the heroes of the French Revolution held social ills to be the source of political problems.”
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  461. Instapaper: Monday, Oct. 26th (Instapaper)
  462. - Your Highlight on Location 1063-1065 | Added on Tuesday, October 27, 2015 5:09:51 PM
  463.  
  464. “The principle of politics is the will. The more one-sided – i.e., the more prefect – political understanding is, the more completely it puts its faith in the omnipotence of the will the blinder it is towards the natural and spiritual limitations of the will, the more incapable it becomes of discovering the real source of the evils of society.”
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  466. Instapaper: Monday, Oct. 26th (Instapaper)
  467. - Your Highlight on Location 1065-1069 | Added on Tuesday, October 27, 2015 5:11:15 PM
  468.  
  469. This same theoretical blindness flows, in Marx’s view from a self-serving externalization of the causes of social ills that is found among all modern regimes regardless of their affiliation, from the oligarchy of Britain to the Revolutionary French republic  Instead of the organization of society itself being the source of social misery, the laws of nature, the evils of human nature, or the counter-revolutionary opinions of the rich are identified as the obstinate impediments which frustrate rational social policy. This results, at “best”, in ultimately futile uses of coercion against persons, at worst in a retreat into mere moralism.
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  471. Instapaper: Monday, Oct. 26th (Instapaper)
  472. - Your Highlight on Location 1065-1071 | Added on Tuesday, October 27, 2015 5:11:44 PM
  473.  
  474. a self-serving externalization of the causes of social ills that is found among all modern regimes regardless of their affiliation, from the oligarchy of Britain to the Revolutionary French republic  Instead of the organization of society itself being the source of social misery, the laws of nature, the evils of human nature, or the counter-revolutionary opinions of the rich are identified as the obstinate impediments which frustrate rational social policy. This results, at “best”, in ultimately futile uses of coercion against persons, at worst in a retreat into mere moralism. “England punishes the poor, the Kings of Prussia exhorts the rich and the Convention beheads the proprietors,” but the problem of pauperism endures, nevertheless.
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  476. Instapaper: Monday, Oct. 26th (Instapaper)
  477. - Your Highlight on Location 1071-1073 | Added on Tuesday, October 27, 2015 5:13:38 PM
  478.  
  479. Marx’s argument here is not that the modern state is iniquitous because it is oppressively strong, but on the contrary because, out of an interested blindness to its own nature, it is too weak. By not making wage-slavery of modern civil society the direct target of its action, it can only confront social problems in ad hoc manner.
  480. ==========
  481. Instapaper: Monday, Oct. 26th (Instapaper)
  482. - Your Highlight on Location 1073-1080 | Added on Tuesday, October 27, 2015 5:15:21 PM
  483.  
  484. though Marx mocked the illusions of characteristic politics, he did not intend to merely reject it. He certainly did not deny significance in the emancipatory significance of the French Revolution, in all of its phrases. Nor does his life-time of enthusiastic involvement in partisan agitation and organization indicate someone who has quietisically withdrawn into economic fatalism. What Marx does do, however, is relativize the domain of politics by pointing out its limits, and locating these limits as being bound up with it’s essence. This in turn sketches out the state with a paradoxical mission: The achievement of its aims can only be bought about, “contrary to nature”, by its own death: “If the modern state desired to abolish the impotence of its administration, it would have to abolish contemporary private life. And to abolish private life, it would have to abolish itself, since it exists only as the antithesis of private life.”
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  486. Instapaper: Monday, Oct. 26th (Instapaper)
  487. - Your Highlight on Location 1097-1100 | Added on Tuesday, October 27, 2015 5:21:53 PM
  488.  
  489. “All Socialists are agreed that the political state, and with it political authority, will disappear as a result of the coming social revolution, that is, that public  functions will lose their political character and will be transformed into the simple administrative functions of watching over the true interests of society.”
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  491. Instapaper: Monday, Oct. 26th (Instapaper)
  492. - Your Highlight on Location 1100-1101 | Added on Tuesday, October 27, 2015 5:21:59 PM
  493.  
  494. transition from the “government of persons” to “the administration of things.”
  495. ==========
  496. Instapaper: Monday, Oct. 26th (Instapaper)
  497. - Your Highlight on Location 1102-1109 | Added on Tuesday, October 27, 2015 5:23:01 PM
  498.  
  499. Marx defined administration simply as “the organizing agency of the state” and treated its failures as symptomatic of the failures of politics in general. Now it is forgiven its weakness, on the condition that it becomes the auxiliary to social processes instead tyrannizing over them.Thus, “administrative”  authority is positively compared with “political” government. The latter formation is based on class interests that are passing away, not general needs. The former, by contrast denotes hierarchical functions of command and obedience that are not accidental passing feature of capitalist society, but an enduring feature of all conceivable societies: “We have thus seen that, on the one hand, a certain authority, no matter how delegated, and, on the other hand, a certain subordination, are things which, independently of all social organization, are imposed upon us together with the material conditions under which we produce and make products circulate.”
  500. ==========
  501. Instapaper: Monday, Oct. 26th (Instapaper)
  502. - Your Highlight on Location 1182-1192 | Added on Wednesday, October 28, 2015 10:27:49 PM
  503.  
  504. chief to Marx and Engels’ confidence in the eventual substitution of the ‘government of persons’ with the ‘administration of things’ was the belief that capitalism, and the movement towards socialism, would tend to eliminate, not multiply, differences among human beings, leaving the state with only purely economic questions to attend to. However, the past century of wars, revolutions, and counter-revolutions has shown, the ‘globalization’ and homogenization of the means of production has been accompanied by the proliferation of heterogeneity. New social differences have been created, while old ones have been given new life.  At the same time, civic and political democracy, instead of creating a host of liberated Freubachian individuals happy to be joined in a recovered species being, results instead in a seemingly endless multiplication of divided, unhappy subjectivities—the predictable products of highly compartmentalized societies in a constant state of conflict over incommensurable values. Instead of labor becoming “not only a means of life but life’s prime want”, the poiesis of identity-expression has been democratized in all directions, leading to complicated social games of recognition that resist being assimilated into a unitary culture, ‘proletarian’ or otherwise.
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  506. Instapaper: Monday, Oct. 26th (Instapaper)
  507. - Your Highlight on Location 1196-1197 | Added on Wednesday, October 28, 2015 10:29:01 PM
  508.  
  509. “The only way to settle questions of an ideological nature or controversial issues among the people is by the democratic method, the method of discussion, criticism, persuasion and education, and not by the method of coercion or repression.”
  510. ==========
  511. Instapaper: Monday, Oct. 26th (Instapaper)
  512. - Your Highlight on Location 1196-1197 | Added on Wednesday, October 28, 2015 10:29:28 PM
  513.  
  514. As Mao said: “The only way to settle questions of an ideological nature or controversial issues among the people is by the democratic method, the method of discussion, criticism, persuasion and education, and not by the method of coercion or repression.”
  515. ==========
  516. Instapaper: Monday, Oct. 26th (Instapaper)
  517. - Your Highlight on Location 1198-1208 | Added on Wednesday, October 28, 2015 10:32:03 PM
  518.  
  519. Instead of top-down instruction by a single pedagogue, the work of administration could become the work of all, not in the sense of a universal clerkdom, but in the sense of each person becoming, in the Socratic sense, the midwife to the soul of the other. That process that has been called variously Paideia, Bildung, and Metanoia would unfold freely, liberated from the taint of both class privilege and the bullying of the police. Any authority of persons over persons would be the product not of bit and bridle but the moral magic exercised by knowledge and character. This is speculation that oversteps the present by a wide margin, not a set prescriptions by which one could impose by some private decree on any actually existing society. As was said before, the social realities that perpetuate the political state have not gone away. And history has repeatedly shown that unity is the precondition for division, and that power must be first concentrated before it can be relaxed. Communicative action cannot create the conditions of its own existence. However, by bearing always in mind the superiority of persuasion to coercion, and that government exists for society, not society for government, we may be preserved from forgetting the “natural and spiritual limitations of the will.” Or, since we perhaps cannot but be caught up again and again in the frenzy of political voluntarism, we may at least learn not to be seduced into mistaking its tyranny for truth. 
  520. ==========
  521. Liberalism_ A Counter History - Domenico Losurdo
  522. - Your Highlight on page 3-3 | Added on Sunday, November 1, 2015 8:49:49 PM
  523.  
  524. in Calhoun the theorization of black slavery as a ‘positive good’ went hand in hand with warnings against a con centration of power that risked transforming ‘the governed’ into ‘the slaves of the rulers
  525. ==========
  526. Liberalism_ A Counter History - Domenico Losurdo
  527. - Your Highlight on page 7-7 | Added on Sunday, November 1, 2015 9:05:11 PM
  528.  
  529. soi disant
  530. ==========
  531. Liberalism_ A Counter History - Domenico Losurdo
  532. - Your Highlight on page 12-12 | Added on Monday, November 2, 2015 2:04:53 PM
  533.  
  534. Virginia played a central role in the American Revolution. Forty per cent of the country’s slaves were to be found there, but a majority of the authors of the rebellion unleashed in the name of liberty also came from there. For thirty two of the United States’ first thirty six years of existence, slave owners from Virginia occupied the post of president
  535. ==========
  536. Liberalism_ A Counter History - Domenico Losurdo
  537. - Your Highlight on page 15-15 | Added on Monday, November 2, 2015 2:22:51 PM
  538.  
  539. Locke was a shareholder in the Royal African Company
  540. ==========
  541. Liberalism_ A Counter History - Domenico Losurdo
  542. - Your Highlight on page 17-17 | Added on Monday, November 2, 2015 2:29:54 PM
  543.  
  544. For a long time, like that of the blacks, the Indians’ fate had not in the slightest unsettled the deep conviction of the English on either side of the Atlantic that they were the chosen people of liberty. In both cases, they appealed to Locke, for whom (as we shall see) the natives of the New World approximated to ‘wild beasts’. But with the eruption of the conflict between colonies and mother country, the exchange of accusations also encompassed the problem of the relationship with the redskins.England, Paine proclaimed in 1776, was ‘that barbarous and hellish power, which hath stirred up the Indians and the Negroes to destroy us’ or ‘to cut the throats of the freemen of America’. 77 Similarly, the Declaration of Independence berated George III for having not only ‘excited domestic insurrections amongst us’ by black slaves, but also ‘endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruc tion of all ages, sexes and conditions
  545. ==========
  546. A Civil War: A History Of The Italian Resistance (Claudio Pavone, Foreword by Stanislao Puligese, Translated by Peter Levy)
  547. - Your Highlight on page 11 | Location 117-119 | Added on Monday, November 2, 2015 3:28:19 PM
  548.  
  549. Pavone also offers a sophisticated and ambitious chapter on the moral and political nature of violence, carefully delineating a profound difference between Fascist violence and partisan violence, thereby avoiding any moral equivalency between the two.
  550. ==========
  551. A Civil War: A History Of The Italian Resistance (Claudio Pavone, Foreword by Stanislao Puligese, Translated by Peter Levy)
  552. - Your Highlight on page 16 | Location 189-189 | Added on Monday, November 2, 2015 3:41:35 PM
  553.  
  554. term fuorusciti (literally: those who have gone outside, outlaws) came to encompass the entire spectrum of anti-Fascism abroad.
  555. ==========
  556. A Civil War: A History Of The Italian Resistance (Claudio Pavone, Foreword by Stanislao Puligese, Translated by Peter Levy)
  557. - Your Highlight on page 29 | Location 380-382 | Added on Tuesday, November 3, 2015 6:50:41 AM
  558.  
  559. great and exceptional events render problematic that which usually appears obvious. This simultaneously promotes the drive towards clear-cut choices and judgments and the love of ambiguity that allow us to comprehend others when they resonate in us.
  560. ==========
  561. A Civil War: A History Of The Italian Resistance (Claudio Pavone, Foreword by Stanislao Puligese, Translated by Peter Levy)
  562. - Your Highlight on page 38 | Location 478-482 | Added on Tuesday, November 3, 2015 6:55:26 AM
  563.  
  564. On what grounds did people base their actions, when institutions – within the frame of which they had been accustomed to operate – vacillated or vanished, to then reassemble themselves and demand new and different loyalties? To this question, years of terrorism added yet another question, illustrated with particular dramatic force: if, how, and why is violence justified when it must be carried out without a clear, institutional legitimacy? In other words: when the state is no longer capable of exercising its monopoly of violence with any certainty?
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  566. Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
  567. - Your Highlight on page 20 | Location 293-294 | Added on Wednesday, November 4, 2015 8:31:12 AM
  568.  
  569. The jet's movement and trail seem incisionish, as if white meat behind the blue were exposed and widening in the wake of the blade.
  570. ==========
  571. Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
  572. - Your Highlight on page 43 | Location 654-654 | Added on Wednesday, November 4, 2015 4:10:05 PM
  573.  
  574. ad valorem.
  575. ==========
  576. Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
  577. - Your Highlight on page 54 | Location 826-829 | Added on Wednesday, November 4, 2015 4:35:02 PM
  578.  
  579. 'Don't cry, Booboo. Remember the flag only halfway up the pole? Booboo, there are two ways to lower a flag to half-mast. Are you listening? Because no shit I really have to sleep here in a second. So listen — one way to lower the flag to half-mast is just to lower the flag. There's another way though. You can also just raise the pole. You can raise the pole to like twice its original height. You get me? You understand what I mean, Mario?’
  580. ==========
  581. Cruel Optimism - Lauren Berlant
  582. - Your Highlight on page 32-32 | Added on Wednesday, November 4, 2015 4:40:10 PM
  583.  
  584. When we talk about an object o f de sire, we are really t a lking a b o u t a c lus t e r o f promi s e s we want s ome o n e or s o m e ­ thing to make to u s and make p o s s i b l e for u s . Thi
  585. ==========
  586. Cruel Optimism - Lauren Berlant
  587. - Your Highlight on page 32-32 | Added on Wednesday, November 4, 2015 4:41:27 PM
  588.  
  589. To p h r a s e " the obj e c t of de sire" a s a c lus t e r of promi s e s i s to a l low u s to e n c o u n ter what's i n cohe r ent or enig­ matic i n o u r attachment s , not a s confirma t ion of o u r i rrationality b u t a s an explanation o f o u r s ens e of o u r endurance i n the o bj ect, i n s o far a s proximi t y to the obje c t me ans prox imi t y to the c lus t e r o f things tha t the obj e c t promi s e
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  591. Cruel Optimism - Lauren Berlant
  592. - Your Bookmark on page 279 | Added on Wednesday, November 4, 2015 4:48:16 PM
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  596. Cruel Optimism - Lauren Berlant
  597. - Your Highlight on page 34-34 | Added on Wednesday, November 4, 2015 4:59:51 PM
  598.  
  599. the very v i t a l i z ing or a n ima t ing pot enc y of an obj e c t f s c ene of d e s i re cont ri b ­ u t e s to t h e attrition of t h e very thriving t h a t i s s uppos ed to be m a d e p o s s i b l e i n the wo r k of attachme n t i n the fir s t pl a c e
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  601. Cruel Optimism - Lauren Berlant
  602. - Your Highlight on page 34-34 | Added on Wednesday, November 4, 2015 5:01:11 PM
  603.  
  604. One makes a ffective bar­ gai n s about the cos t l ine s s of one's attac hme n t s , u sua l l y u n c o n s c i o u s one s , mo s t of whi ch keep one in prox imi t y to the s c ene of de sire/attrit i o n
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  606. Cruel Optimism - Lauren Berlant
  607. - Your Note on page 35 | Added on Wednesday, November 4, 2015 5:11:59 PM
  608.  
  609. also : masturbation ?
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  611. Cruel Optimism - Lauren Berlant
  612. - Your Highlight on page 35-35 | Added on Wednesday, November 4, 2015 5:11:59 PM
  613.  
  614. Apos t rophe i s t h u s an i n direct, u n s t a b l e , physically i m p o s s i b l e b u t p h e ­ nomenologically vitali z ing mov ement o f rhetorical a n ima t ion t h a t pe rmi t s s u bj ects to suspend themselves in the opt imi sm of a pot ent i a l oc cupa t ion of the s ame ps yc h i c spa c e o f others , the obj e c t s of d e s i re who make you pos s ibl e (by ha v ing s ome promi s i n g qua l i t i e s , b u t a l s o by n o t be ing there
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  616. Cruel Optimism - Lauren Berlant
  617. - Your Bookmark on page 35 | Added on Wednesday, November 4, 2015 5:12:29 PM
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  626. Cruel Optimism - Lauren Berlant
  627. - Your Bookmark on page 36 | Added on Wednesday, November 4, 2015 5:20:25 PM
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  631. Cruel Optimism - Lauren Berlant
  632. - Your Highlight on page 36-36 | Added on Wednesday, November 4, 2015 5:27:46 PM
  633.  
  634. the q u e s t i o n o f who can b e a r to l o s e the wo r l d ( t h e " l i bidina l p os i t ion" ) , wh a t h a p p e n s when t h e l o s s of wh a t ' s not working i s m o r e u nbearable t h a n t h e h aving o f i t , a n d v i c e vers
  635. ==========
  636. Cruel Optimism - Lauren Berlant
  637. - Your Bookmark on page 38 | Added on Wednesday, November 4, 2015 5:36:24 PM
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  657. - Your Bookmark on page 41 | Added on Thursday, November 5, 2015 9:57:43 AM
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  662. - Your Highlight on page 282-282 | Added on Thursday, November 5, 2015 9:58:24 AM
  663.  
  664. be s e i z e d b y the event i s to be come a s u b j ect orga n i z e d by fide l i ty to t h e u n ­ knowns released i n t o the fi e l d of p o s s i b i l i t y by the e v e n t ' s t r u t h proce s s e s . Alain B a d i o u l i n ks the t ruth pot ent ial s i n the love e n c o u n te r to l e s s pe r sonal s e i z u re s o f a ffe c t , inc luding revolut ionary activity
  665. ==========
  666. Cruel Optimism - Lauren Berlant
  667. - Your Highlight on page 44-44 | Added on Friday, November 6, 2015 10:38:01 AM
  668.  
  669. Even if be ing t h e obj e c t i s more s e c u re than ha v ing one and risking di s appointment
  670. ==========
  671. Cruel Optimism - Lauren Berlant
  672. - Your Highlight on page 46-46 | Added on Friday, November 6, 2015 11:29:17 AM
  673.  
  674. Why d o s ome peopl e h a v e the c h o p s for imp rovising the s tate of be ing u n knowing wh i l e o t h e r s run o u t o f breath, not h u m m i ng b u t hoarding
  675. ==========
  676. Cruel Optimism - Lauren Berlant
  677. - Your Bookmark on page 46 | Added on Friday, November 6, 2015 11:30:03 AM
  678.  
  679.  
  680. ==========
  681. Cruel Optimism - Lauren Berlant
  682. - Your Highlight on page 49-49 | Added on Friday, November 6, 2015 11:52:21 AM
  683.  
  684. ot e r ' s s e n s e s , awakened t o the promi s e s c l u stered a ro u n d t h i ngs, have truly become theoretici a n s . Exchange value i s not i d e ntical to the price of things, but marks a de t e rmina t ion of what else a thing c an get exchanged for , a s though money were not i nvolve d , exactly, i n the medi a ti o n s . You r coat for a pi ano. You r mo n ey for your l i f
  685. ==========
  686. Cruel Optimism - Lauren Berlant
  687. - Your Highlight on page 50-50 | Added on Friday, November 6, 2015 11:55:50 AM
  688.  
  689. you work your s e l f to death, or coa s t to none x i s t enc e ; or, wi th the ballast o f capital, you hoa rd aga i n s t death, de ferring l i fe , u nt i l you d i
  690. ==========
  691. Cruel Optimism - Lauren Berlant
  692. - Your Highlight on page 51-51 | Added on Friday, November 6, 2015 12:44:26 PM
  693.  
  694. a z y fro m the a ctivity o f ma int a in i ng s t ruc tura l cont radicti o n
  695. ==========
  696. Cruel Optimism - Lauren Berlant
  697. - Your Highlight on page 51-51 | Added on Friday, November 6, 2015 12:51:18 PM
  698.  
  699. f c o n s ump t i o n promi s e s s a t i s fa c t ion i n s u b s t i t u t i o n a n d t h e n deni e s i t be c aus e a l l o b j e c t s are r e s t s tops amid the p r o c e s s of remaining uns a t i sfied that counts for be ing alive under c api ta l is m , i n the imp a s s e of desire, then hoarding seems l i ke a s o l u t i o n to s ome t h i ng. Hoarding c o n trols the prom­ i s e of value aga i n s t e xpendi tur e , as i t pe r forms the enjoyment o f an i n fi n i te pr e s ent of holding p u re pot ent
  700. ==========
  701. Cruel Optimism - Lauren Berlant
  702. - Your Highlight on page 52-52 | Added on Friday, November 6, 2015 12:54:38 PM
  703.  
  704. a walking contradi c t ion, a be ing who ha s what everyone want s a n d yet who reveal s tha t the want that had saturated the fant a s y of the whol e i mag­ inable world i s wanting, be c aus e sovereignty, while ide a l, i s a nightma r i sh b u rd e n , a ps y chot i c lone l ine ss , and jus t t a int ed
  705. ==========
  706. Cruel Optimism - Lauren Berlant
  707. - Your Highlight on page 52-52 | Added on Friday, November 6, 2015 12:57:04 PM
  708.  
  709. In c i r cul a t ion one be come s happy in an ordi ­ nary, often lovely, way, be c aus e the weight o f be ing in the wor ld i s be ing di s ­ tributed into spa c e , t ime , n o i s e , and othe r be ings . When one ' s sovereignty i s de l ivered b a c k into one ' s h a n d s , t h o u g h , i t s formerly d i s tr ibuted weight b e ­ c ome s appare n t , and the s u bj e c t b e c ome s s t i l l e d i n a perverse mime s i s of i t s enormi ty
  710. ==========
  711. endnotes 1.01 Bring out your dead (Endnotes)
  712. - Your Highlight on page 8 | Location 103-105 | Added on Saturday, November 7, 2015 11:20:21 AM
  713.  
  714. capitalism is not a mode of management but a mode of production, in which “managers” of any sort (capitalists, bureaucrats, or even workers) are merely the functionaries through which the law of value is articulated.
  715. ==========
  716. endnotes 1.01 Bring out your dead (Endnotes)
  717. - Your Highlight on page 8 | Location 105-106 | Added on Saturday, November 7, 2015 11:38:05 AM
  718.  
  719. such a preoccupation with form over content effectively replaces the communist goal of the destruction of the economy with a mere opposition to its management by the bourgeoisie.
  720. ==========
  721. endnotes 1.01 Bring out your dead (Endnotes)
  722. - Your Note on page 12 | Location 158 | Added on Saturday, November 7, 2015 11:47:57 AM
  723.  
  724. fuck off alex
  725. ==========
  726. endnotes 1.01 Bring out your dead (Endnotes)
  727. - Your Highlight on page 12 | Location 156-158 | Added on Saturday, November 7, 2015 11:47:57 AM
  728.  
  729. the understanding of communisation differed between different groups, but it essentially meant the application of communist measures within the revolution — as the condition of its survival and its principle weapon against capital.
  730. ==========
  731. endnotes 1.02 When Insurrections Die (Gilles Dauvé)
  732. - Your Highlight on page 2 | Location 13-14 | Added on Saturday, November 7, 2015 11:59:53 AM
  733.  
  734. A few months later, returning to civilian life with the war’s end, these same proletarians confronted the alliance of the official workers’ movement and the Freikorps.
  735. ==========
  736. endnotes 1.02 When Insurrections Die (Gilles Dauvé)
  737. - Your Highlight on page 4 | Location 40-41 | Added on Saturday, November 7, 2015 12:57:40 PM
  738.  
  739. An essential aspect of fascism is its birth in the streets, its use of disorder to impose order, its mobilisation of the old middle classes crazed by their own decline, and its regeneration, from without, of a state unable to deal with the crisis of capitalism.
  740. ==========
  741. Gotterdammerung Family BBQ - Jasper Bernes
  742. - Your Bookmark on page 5 | Added on Saturday, November 7, 2015 1:00:36 PM
  743.  
  744.  
  745. ==========
  746. Gotterdammerung Family BBQ - Jasper Bernes
  747. - Your Highlight on page 6-6 | Added on Saturday, November 7, 2015 1:02:50 PM
  748.  
  749. Emancipation Of the Sun
  750. ==========
  751. Gotterdammerung Family BBQ - Jasper Bernes
  752. - Your Highlight on page 9-9 | Added on Saturday, November 7, 2015 1:07:26 PM
  753.  
  754. by “everyone” we mean arbitrageurs, and always have
  755. ==========
  756. CAPITAL Vol. I (Karl Marx)
  757. - Your Highlight on page 47 | Location 709-710 | Added on Saturday, November 7, 2015 1:26:10 PM
  758.  
  759. The progress of our investigation will show that exchange value is the only form in which the value of commodities can manifest itself or be expressed.
  760. ==========
  761. CAPITAL Vol. I (Karl Marx)
  762. - Your Highlight on page 47 | Location 711-714 | Added on Saturday, November 7, 2015 1:26:38 PM
  763.  
  764. A use value, or useful article, therefore, has value only because human labour in the abstract has been embodied or materialised in it. How, then, is the magnitude of this value to be measured? Plainly, by the quantity of the value-creating substance, the labour, contained in the article. The quantity of labour, however, is measured by its duration, and labour time in its turn finds its standard in weeks, days, and hours.
  765. ==========
  766. CAPITAL Vol. I (Karl Marx)
  767. - Your Highlight on page 49 | Location 742-745 | Added on Saturday, November 7, 2015 1:32:50 PM
  768.  
  769. In general, the greater the productiveness of labour, the less is the labour time required for the production of an article, the less is the amount of labour crystallised in that article, and the less is its value; and vice versâ, the less the productiveness of labour, the greater is the labour time required for the production of an article, and the greater is its value. The value of a commodity, therefore, varies directly as the quantity, and inversely as the productiveness, of the labour incorporated in it.
  770. ==========
  771. CAPITAL Vol. I (Karl Marx)
  772. - Your Highlight on page 50 | Location 753-754 | Added on Saturday, November 7, 2015 1:35:07 PM
  773.  
  774. Lastly nothing can have value, without being an object of utility. If the thing is useless, so is the labour contained in it; the labour does not count as labour, and therefore creates no value.
  775. ==========
  776. CAPITAL Vol. I (Karl Marx)
  777. - Your Bookmark on page 49 | Location 751 | Added on Saturday, November 7, 2015 1:35:30 PM
  778.  
  779.  
  780. ==========
  781. Cruel Optimism - Lauren Berlant
  782. - Your Bookmark on page 55 | Added on Saturday, November 7, 2015 2:02:43 PM
  783.  
  784.  
  785. ==========
  786. Cruel Optimism - Lauren Berlant
  787. - Your Bookmark on page 55 | Added on Saturday, November 7, 2015 2:04:27 PM
  788.  
  789.  
  790. ==========
  791. Cruel Optimism - Lauren Berlant
  792. - Your Bookmark on page 57 | Added on Sunday, November 8, 2015 1:50:40 AM
  793.  
  794.  
  795. ==========
  796. Cruel Optimism - Lauren Berlant
  797. - Your Highlight on page 57-57 | Added on Sunday, November 8, 2015 8:39:14 AM
  798.  
  799. Wha t i s a M inor Literature ? " De l euz e and G uattari exhort peopl e to be come mi n o r i n exactly that way, to deterritorialize from the normal by d igging a hole i n s e n s e l i ke a dog or a mo l e . 3 ° C re a t ing an imp a s s e , a spa c e of i n te rna l d ispl a c ement , i n t h i s view, s h a tters the normal hi e r a rc h i e s , claritie s , tyra n n i e s , a n d con­ fus i o n s o f compl i anc e with a u t o n omo u s i n d iv idua lity
  800. ==========
  801. Cruel Optimism - Lauren Berlant
  802. - Your Bookmark on page 61 | Added on Sunday, November 8, 2015 8:45:18 AM
  803.  
  804.  
  805. ==========
  806. Cruel Optimism - Lauren Berlant
  807. - Your Bookmark on page 283 | Added on Sunday, November 8, 2015 8:45:38 AM
  808.  
  809.  
  810. ==========
  811. Cruel Optimism - Lauren Berlant
  812. - Your Highlight on page 61-61 | Added on Sunday, November 8, 2015 8:48:36 AM
  813.  
  814. l e a s t s inc e Al th u s s er, ideology theor y has be en the place to whi ch criti­ cal theor y ha s gone for explanat ions o f affective real i s m , of how peopl e ' s de s i r e s b e c ome mediated through attac hme n t s to mo d e s o f l i fe to whi ch they r a r e l y r emembe r c o n s e n t i ng, a t l e a s t ini
  815. ==========
  816. Cruel Optimism - Lauren Berlant
  817. - Your Highlight on page 61-61 | Added on Sunday, November 8, 2015 11:09:24 AM
  818.  
  819. r e p i s temological s e l f- atta chment i s a l l bound u p with l iteracy i n norma t ivity, and the i r rela­ t ion cons t i tut e s the c ommo n s e n s e me a sure of t rus t i n the world ' s ongoing­ ness and our compe t enc e at b e i ng h uma n s . Our s e n s e of reciprocity with the world a s i t appears, o u r s e n s e of what a pe r son s h o u l d do and expect, o u r s ens e o f w h o w e a re a s a cont in u o u s s c e n e o f a c t ion , s h a p e w h a t be come s our v i s c e ral intui t ion about how to manage l i v ing
  820. ==========
  821. Cruel Optimism - Lauren Berlant
  822. - Your Bookmark on page 62 | Added on Sunday, November 8, 2015 11:12:21 AM
  823.  
  824.  
  825. ==========
  826. Cruel Optimism - Lauren Berlant
  827. - Your Highlight on page 63-63 | Added on Sunday, November 8, 2015 11:23:04 AM
  828.  
  829. a ta s t rophe s force their t a l ent s into both ope r a t ion and cri s i s . Already hypervigil ant , the pro­ tagon i s t s then s e ek to relearn the pr e s ent , and in s o d oing, s h i ft the i r af­ fective a n d pol i t i c a l practices in relation to intui t ions of the pr e s ent and of the place of fantasy i n i t . F o rc ed o u t o f the i r com fort zone s , they a l s o aban­ don rehabi tua t ion and leap i n t o the impa s s e of a p o s t i n t u itive c o n s c i o u s ­ ne s s t h a t refus e s a r e t u r n to the o r d i n a r y tha t had r equi red them to dedicate the i r gifts to predi c t abi
  830. ==========
  831. Cruel Optimism - Lauren Berlant
  832. - Your Bookmark on page 69 | Added on Sunday, November 8, 2015 11:48:02 AM
  833.  
  834.  
  835. ==========
  836. Cruel Optimism - Lauren Berlant
  837. - Your Highlight on page 72-72 | Added on Sunday, November 8, 2015 12:05:32 PM
  838.  
  839. Habi t pro d u c e s a free d om for thought beyond i m m e ­ di acy
  840. ==========
  841. Cruel Optimism - Lauren Berlant
  842. - Your Bookmark on page 72 | Added on Sunday, November 8, 2015 12:05:56 PM
  843.  
  844.  
  845. ==========
  846. Cruel Optimism - Lauren Berlant
  847. - Your Bookmark on page 284 | Added on Sunday, November 8, 2015 12:06:15 PM
  848.  
  849.  
  850. ==========
  851. Cruel Optimism - Lauren Berlant
  852. - Your Bookmark on page 73 | Added on Sunday, November 8, 2015 12:11:16 PM
  853.  
  854.  
  855. ==========
  856. CAPITAL Vol. I (Karl Marx)
  857. - Your Bookmark on page 56 | Location 845 | Added on Sunday, November 8, 2015 1:19:01 PM
  858.  
  859.  
  860. ==========
  861. Instapaper: Wednesday, Nov. 11th (Instapaper)
  862. - Your Highlight on Location 840-840 | Added on Thursday, November 12, 2015 2:10:01 PM
  863.  
  864. challenges forms of oppression
  865. ==========
  866. Catching Fire (Suzanne Collins)
  867. - Your Highlight on Location 2127-2130 | Added on Monday, November 16, 2015 10:51:29 PM
  868.  
  869. I sit on the bed, knowing I will never write those letters. They will be like the speech I tried to write to honor Rue and Thresh in District 11. Things seemed clear in my head and even when I talked before the crowd, but the words never came out of the pen right. Besides, they were meant to go with embraces and kisses and a stroke of Prim's hair, a caress of Gale's face, a squeeze of Madge's hand. They cannot be delivered with a wooden box containing my cold, stiff body.
  870. ==========
  871. Catching Fire (Suzanne Collins)
  872. - Your Note on Location 2130 | Added on Monday, November 16, 2015 10:51:57 PM
  873.  
  874. affect
  875. ==========
  876. Catching Fire (Suzanne Collins)
  877. - Your Highlight on Location 2127-2130 | Added on Monday, November 16, 2015 10:51:57 PM
  878.  
  879. I sit on the bed, knowing I will never write those letters. They will be like the speech I tried to write to honor Rue and Thresh in District 11. Things seemed clear in my head and even when I talked before the crowd, but the words never came out of the pen right. Besides, they were meant to go with embraces and kisses and a stroke of Prim's hair, a caress of Gale's face, a squeeze of Madge's hand. They cannot be delivered with a wooden box containing my cold, stiff body.
  880. ==========
  881. Mockingjay (Suzanne Collins)
  882. - Your Bookmark on Location 735 | Added on Wednesday, November 18, 2015 10:46:40 AM
  883.  
  884.  
  885. ==========
  886. Instapaper: Tuesday, Nov. 17th (Instapaper)
  887. - Your Highlight on Location 945-949 | Added on Thursday, November 19, 2015 12:00:34 AM
  888.  
  889. Identify and build the coincidence between an anti-fascist response to the Paris attacks and solidarity with black struggles against the American university. On the one hand: the Paris attacks are obviously the work of a fascist ideology. Identifying it as fascism usefully illustrates the inadequacy of national responses, as they share the common cause of ethnic chauvinism. Digging deeper, it also reveals the hidden aporia of humanism, which harbors the liberal fascism of recognizing only those who believe in the project of univeralism as part of the universal.
  890. ==========
  891. Instapaper: Tuesday, Nov. 17th (Instapaper)
  892. - Your Highlight on Location 945-952 | Added on Thursday, November 19, 2015 12:01:36 AM
  893.  
  894. Identify and build the coincidence between an anti-fascist response to the Paris attacks and solidarity with black struggles against the American university. On the one hand: the Paris attacks are obviously the work of a fascist ideology. Identifying it as fascism usefully illustrates the inadequacy of national responses, as they share the common cause of ethnic chauvinism. Digging deeper, it also reveals the hidden aporia of humanism, which harbors the liberal fascism of recognizing only those who believe in the project of univeralism as part of the universal. On the other: black students are in open conflict with the institutional form of the American university. They are exercising the “right to revolt” as a key mechanism for undermining the self-miraculating nature of constitutional power – that dangerous form of authority that claims that the people authorizes its right to rule while simultaneously using liberal proceduralism to wage a silent civil war against its own population. How do we unify the two perspectives, build their coincidence, and expand their power?
  895. ==========
  896. Mockingjay (Suzanne Collins)
  897. - Your Bookmark on Location 2488 | Added on Thursday, November 19, 2015 3:34:45 AM
  898.  
  899.  
  900. ==========
  901. Mockingjay (Suzanne Collins)
  902. - Your Highlight on Location 2815-2816 | Added on Thursday, November 19, 2015 4:06:29 AM
  903.  
  904. “That’s the one thing I think my head doctor might be right about. There’s no going back. So we might as well get on with things.”
  905. ==========
  906. Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
  907. - Your Highlight on page 1391 | Location 21319-21323 | Added on Friday, November 20, 2015 10:02:05 AM
  908.  
  909. The figure of Death (Heath) presides over the front entrance of a carnival sideshow whose spectators watch performers undergo unspeakable degradations so grotesquely compelling that the spectators' eyes become larger and larger until the spectators themselves are transformed into gigantic eyeballs in chairs, while on the other side of the sideshow tent the figure of Life (Heaven) uses a megaphone to invite fairgoers to an exhibition in which, if the fairgoers consent to undergo unspeakable degradations, they can witness ordinary persons gradually turn into gigantic eyeballs.
  910. ==========
  911. Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
  912. - Your Bookmark on page 1397 | Location 21409 | Added on Friday, November 20, 2015 10:11:06 AM
  913.  
  914.  
  915. ==========
  916. Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
  917. - Your Bookmark on page 85 | Location 1296 | Added on Friday, November 20, 2015 10:12:01 AM
  918.  
  919.  
  920. ==========
  921. Instapaper: Friday, Nov. 20th (Instapaper)
  922. - Your Highlight on Location 145-148 | Added on Saturday, November 21, 2015 5:45:34 AM
  923.  
  924. in most western economies the moral and ethical dimensions of work re-emerge reinforced within this strangely “enlightened” discourse on personal growth and self-realization. As the nature of what we actually produce and for what exact value becomes – for a huge cross-section of the workforce – increasingly nebulous and indeterminate, the work ethic is being systematically reorganized into an act of unconditional self-love, focused solely towards the positive realization of your true potential.
  925. ==========
  926. Instapaper: Friday, Nov. 20th (Instapaper)
  927. - Your Highlight on Location 178-184 | Added on Saturday, November 21, 2015 5:54:46 AM
  928.  
  929. the ‘worker becomes a self-entrepreneurial virtuoso because she or he must perform their exploitable self in multiple social relations before the eyes of others…the realization of this self, reduced to labour, requires performance in public.’ It’s a kind of dull, monotonous flattening that’s also wildly disorientating, and potentially traumatic. So then the imagined coherence sold to us today is that of being flexible, able to morph smoothly and make cool transitions, but remaining solid in the middle, happy and of course, employable. It’s madness. You’re perpetually on call, speeding wildly through various fields of expectation and initiation, dragging yourself through life lost in a scattered mess of co-ordinates that were plotted by somebody else.
  930. ==========
  931. Instapaper: Friday, Nov. 20th (Instapaper)
  932. - Your Highlight on Location 490-493 | Added on Saturday, November 21, 2015 6:04:19 AM
  933.  
  934. as Eugene Holland argues, “what Althusser actually describes is not the ideological constitution of the Subject, but only of the citizen” (“Schizoanalytic Critique”). The consequence of my argument is that rhetoricians explaining subjectivity through interpellation limited their focus to the State and relations of obedience/disobedience.
  935. ==========
  936. Instapaper: Friday, Nov. 20th (Instapaper)
  937. - Your Highlight on Location 497-498 | Added on Saturday, November 21, 2015 6:49:25 AM
  938.  
  939. I do not celebrate affects as a challenge to abusive power; rather, I follow in the footsteps of Frédéric Lordon, who argues in Willing Slaves of Capital that joyous affects are the very means of our contemporary exploitation.
  940. ==========
  941. Instapaper: Friday, Nov. 20th (Instapaper)
  942. - Your Note on Location 524 | Added on Saturday, November 21, 2015 6:57:35 AM
  943.  
  944. what if they are the same thing
  945. ==========
  946. Instapaper: Friday, Nov. 20th (Instapaper)
  947. - Your Highlight on Location 523-524 | Added on Saturday, November 21, 2015 6:57:35 AM
  948.  
  949. is the production of subjectivity limited to interactions with the state? What about other types of power, namely capitalism?
  950. ==========
  951. To make many lines, to form many bonds_ th - FLOC.pdf
  952. - Your Bookmark on page floc 6.jpeg | Added on Monday, November 23, 2015 7:58:01 PM
  953.  
  954.  
  955. ==========
  956. Instapaper: Sunday, Nov. 22nd (Instapaper)
  957. - Your Highlight on Location 750-755 | Added on Wednesday, November 25, 2015 11:53:00 AM
  958.  
  959. the dystopian sci-fi genre is always inherently reactionary, however outwardly progressive any example of the genre claims to be. The present world might be rotting and empty, but our reality becomes a paradise when compared with the bad future, even if that future is just a caricature of what we already have. Dystopia lets the present off the hook: it takes all the worst things about actually existing society and displaces them into the future; horrors that really do press on us from all sides instead become an imaginative fantasy. The trouble with pessimism about the future is that, in the end, it just isn’t pessimistic enough; it refuses to smell the corpses.
  960. ==========
  961. 2666 (Roberto Bolaño)
  962. - Your Highlight on page 29 | Location 443-447 | Added on Thursday, November 26, 2015 4:04:06 PM
  963.  
  964. This art critic was a friend, but we'd never discussed Grosz. Once, however, I mentioned the effect Grosz had on me. At first he refused to believe me. Then he started to shake his head. Then he looked me up and down as if he'd never laid eyes on me before. I thought he'd gone mad. That was the end of our friendship. A while ago I was told that he still says I know nothing about Grosz and I have the aesthetic sense of a cow. Well, as far as I'm concerned he can say whatever he likes.
  965. ==========
  966. Trumpism Pt. 2: The Making of an American Fascist - IT'S GOING DOWN (itsgoingdown.org)
  967. - Your Highlight on Location 27-28 | Added on Saturday, November 28, 2015 10:45:26 AM
  968.  
  969. the Klan had heavy cross over with the American Legion, the leader of which announced in 1923, “Do not forget that the Fascisti are to Italy what the American Legion is to the United States”
  970. ==========
  971. Instapaper: Sunday, Nov. 29th (Instapaper)
  972. - Your Highlight on Location 648-650 | Added on Sunday, November 29, 2015 3:49:50 PM
  973.  
  974. If THE AUDIENCE laughs at this line, the MEN IN PIG MASKS turn to them and gesture angrily for silence. If THE AUDIENCE does not laugh at this line, the MEN IN PIG MASKS pantomime slapping their knees, grabbing their bellies and throwing back their shoulders, and laughing wildly.
  975. ==========
  976. Instapaper: Sunday, Nov. 29th (Instapaper)
  977. - Your Highlight on Location 676-680 | Added on Sunday, November 29, 2015 3:52:13 PM
  978.  
  979. It’s a collective work of imagination made real through ritual. The Roman Catholic Church is an egregore. The limited liability corporation is an egregore… or was. The Fourth International… well, you need a critical mass, you see, if you want people to believe as they do at Mass. An egregore is an occult concept that some Surrealists used to use as an excuse not to build the party. Capitalism was this amorphous, totalising thing, so the only way to destroy it was to disrupt its ritual by running through the streets in dumb costumes. [sneers] Surrealists were so fucking playful.
  980. ==========
  981. Scenes of Subjection_ Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America - Saidiya Hartman
  982. - Your Bookmark on page 13 | Added on Monday, November 30, 2015 11:24:26 PM
  983.  
  984.  
  985. ==========
  986. 2666 (Roberto Bolaño)
  987. - Your Bookmark on page 108 | Location 1654 | Added on Wednesday, December 2, 2015 10:53:38 AM
  988.  
  989.  
  990. ==========
  991. Smear Campaigns, Part 1 – A Blog About Toxic and Non-Toxic People (lightshouse.org)
  992. - Your Highlight on Location 8-12 | Added on Wednesday, December 2, 2015 2:56:15 PM
  993.  
  994. As a smeared person, what you are most likely “guilty” of is saying no to someone who is, in some way, failing to respect your boundaries, refusing to follow the same rules as everyone else, or someone who is spreading toxicity and manipulating. Someone entitled. Someone sneaky and vindictive. Someone who is hurting you or taking too much. While standing up for yourself is the right thing to do, toxic people simply don’t believe you have any right to refuse their mistreatment, and they will set out to “punish” you for having any opinions that differ from theirs.
  995. ==========
  996. Several Shades of Smeared (letmereach.com)
  997. - Your Highlight on Location 38-46 | Added on Thursday, December 3, 2015 12:42:21 AM
  998.  
  999. There’s really no telling what the Narcissist is saying about you. It’s better to not think about it. If you reach out to someone and they try to chomp your hand off down to the wrist, just write them off. They have shown that the relationship is over. No point in trying to defend yourself because it’s likely to make you look guilty, even though you haven’t done anything. It’s painful, it’s humiliating…but there really isn’t much more you can do than keep on being yourself. And that’s all that you should focus on. If someone you’ve been “friends” with sides with the Narcissist, just know that they, too, will likely walk in your shoes one day (and they will suffer a similar fate). It never fails. Narcissists may have one or two “friends” at arm’s length, but most of their relationships end in a nasty way. As for you, the comrades you have remaining are true friends. Nurture those connections, as well as yourself. Live in spite of what the Narcissist is doing. People will eventually see their true colors…but don’t waste your life waiting around for the Karma bus to show up.
  1000. ==========
  1001. Sanctuary for the Abused: Smear Campaigns (abusesanctuary.blogspot.com)
  1002. - Your Highlight on Location 10-14 | Added on Thursday, December 3, 2015 12:43:08 AM
  1003.  
  1004. Lies will be sprinkled in to try making their audience fear, prejudge and rebuke you for the ‘supposed evil’ you’ve perpetrated against this innocent lamb (or a vulnerable, well-respected person). You didn’t ask for your boundaries to be respected — you are a vicious animal who attacked them, and you’ve supposedly attacked others, so everyone needs to “be careful” of you if they want to be “safe”. Everyone should stand up on behalf of this good person by shutting you out and standing up against your “abuse”.
  1005. ==========
  1006. Sanctuary for the Abused: Smear Campaigns (abusesanctuary.blogspot.com)
  1007. - Your Highlight on Location 27-29 | Added on Thursday, December 3, 2015 12:43:50 AM
  1008.  
  1009. Popular lies of the smear campaigner include statements and insinuations that you are mentally ill, incompetent, untrustworthy or unreasonable. The smear campaigner does this so that if your legitimate upset shows, the observer will attribute it to irrationality, ill intent or instability, and not to your normal upset at having been badly mistreated.
  1010. ==========
  1011. The Smear Campaign. (manysmallvoices.wordpress.com)
  1012. - Your Highlight on Location 31-33 | Added on Thursday, December 3, 2015 12:50:25 AM
  1013.  
  1014. Be prepared for the onslaught. You will lose ‘friends’, but remember, if they were true friends, wouldn’t blindly believe such stories about you. Let them go. They aren’t your friends. Keep your support network with your real friends and family strong, let them support you, you do not have to do this alone.
  1015. ==========
  1016. The Smear Campaign. (manysmallvoices.wordpress.com)
  1017. - Your Highlight on Location 38-42 | Added on Thursday, December 3, 2015 12:52:01 AM
  1018.  
  1019. You will make mistakes, everyone does, it is impossible not to under such pressure. Your mistakes will be blown up out of all proportion by the abuser to draw attention away from their own unacceptable behaviour. Try to ignore it. Conversations face to face, by phone, text or email with an abusive person, as we know only too well, only goes round and around in circles. They don’t care about truth, they care about only themselves. Go no contact as much as possible, go and live your life however it makes you happy to do so.
  1020. ==========
  1021. The Smear Campaign. (manysmallvoices.wordpress.com)
  1022. - Your Highlight on Location 19-20 | Added on Thursday, December 3, 2015 12:54:05 AM
  1023.  
  1024. The smear campaign is supposed to make them look like the better person. They know they have abused you, they know that they are at fault, but their fragile ego cannot accept it, and they absolutely cannot be exposed to others as abusive…
  1025. ==========
  1026. SMEAR - The Eternal Victim (theeternalvictim.com)
  1027. - Your Highlight on Location 9-11 | Added on Thursday, December 3, 2015 12:56:51 AM
  1028.  
  1029. The isolation that occurs as a result of his efforts, makes it much more difficult when the relationship is over to speak up for yourself or to cultivate support for yourself, when he has told everyone you both know, how “crazy”, “unstable” and “mental” you are.
  1030. ==========
  1031. The Narcissist's Smear Campaign (echorecovery.blogspot.com)
  1032. - Your Highlight on Location 46-48 | Added on Thursday, December 3, 2015 8:28:49 AM
  1033.  
  1034. Thomas Sheridan, author of Puzzling People: The Labyrinth of the Psychopath, shares his insight into the smear campaigns of psychopaths in the political arena and the workplace.
  1035. ==========
  1036. The Narcissist's Smear Campaign (echorecovery.blogspot.com)
  1037. - Your Highlight on Location 96-98 | Added on Thursday, December 3, 2015 8:43:25 AM
  1038.  
  1039. If you maintain contact with the narcissist, at the least stop sharing the intimate details of your life and thoughts. In my experience, having a heart-to-heart with a narcissist only results in the information being used against you, often twisted for inclusion in the smear campaign.
  1040. ==========
  1041. Instapaper: Tuesday, Dec. 1st (Instapaper)
  1042. - Your Highlight on Location 1247-1250 | Added on Thursday, December 3, 2015 8:59:25 AM
  1043.  
  1044. the 13/11 Paris attacks are already giving rise to a brave new phase in that perpetual war: a new age of Constant Vigilance, in which citizens are vital accessories to the police state, enacted in the name of defending a democracy eroded by the very act of defending it through Constant Vigilance”. Many observers have noted the way that all of this falls neatly into the pattern of the Strategy of Tension in Italy in the 1970s and 1980s.
  1045. ==========
  1046. Instapaper: Tuesday, Dec. 1st (Instapaper)
  1047. - Your Highlight on Location 1250-1252 | Added on Thursday, December 3, 2015 9:04:57 AM
  1048.  
  1049. is now a matter of record that the Italian state, and NATO, were involved in facilitating acts of shock-and-awe terrorism targeting the general population. The goal was to frighten the people into the arms of the state and to thus extinguish the fires of growing left-wing rebellion.
  1050. ==========
  1051. Instapaper: Tuesday, Dec. 1st (Instapaper)
  1052. - Your Highlight on Location 1284-1286 | Added on Thursday, December 3, 2015 9:39:37 AM
  1053.  
  1054. It was the testimony of imprisoned fascist terrorist Vincenzo Vinciguerra that did much to lift the lid on the Gladio false flag terror network – it was clearly a mistake to allow him to live to tell the tale, as Lee Harvey Oswald might agree.
  1055. ==========
  1056. Instapaper: Tuesday, Dec. 1st (Instapaper)
  1057. - Your Highlight on Location 1305-1307 | Added on Thursday, December 3, 2015 9:39:58 AM
  1058.  
  1059. “The worrying lack of knowledge and understanding, even in radical circles, of the extent to which terrorism was secretly deployed by the capitalist system from the 1940s to the 1980s sadly means that there is little to stop it using the same techniques again today”.
  1060. ==========
  1061. Instapaper: Wednesday, Dec. 9th (Instapaper)
  1062. - Your Highlight on Location 1049-1052 | Added on Wednesday, December 9, 2015 11:57:06 PM
  1063.  
  1064. The typical role of male talent in straight porn is to act as a surrogate for the straight male consumer in the mediation of the sexual labor of the women in porn—women who these consumers might in another context pay to see as strippers or escorts. It is in this sense that the male porn star in the heterosexual scene is a “prop,” an anonymized figure with whom the viewer can identify.
  1065. ==========
  1066. Instapaper: Wednesday, Dec. 9th (Instapaper)
  1067. - Your Highlight on Location 1054-1060 | Added on Wednesday, December 9, 2015 11:57:29 PM
  1068.  
  1069. It follows that straight male performers in porn have less earnings potential than gay porn performers or women. They aren’t “sex workers;” they don’t perform the same kind of sexual labor. Straight male porn stars simply consume sexual labor on camera to facilitate the home viewer’s experience of enjoying said labor vicariously—mediated through digital content. This economic reality is reflected in the language James Deen uses in his Twitter bio: “my name is james i am a simple guy who likes to eat sleep and watch tv… oh ya i also bang chicks for a living :-)” That he describes, with intended humor, his occupation as “bang[ing] chicks for a living” (which, in and of itself, is sexually objectifying) and lists it alongside activities like eating, sleeping and watching TV indicates that he thinks of his work as another form of consumption or leisure.
  1070. ==========
  1071. Instapaper: Wednesday, Dec. 9th (Instapaper)
  1072. - Your Highlight on Location 1205-1206 | Added on Thursday, December 10, 2015 1:12:15 AM
  1073.  
  1074. Oppose all imperialist aggression, alongside implacable opposition to dictatorships and counter-revolutionary regimes.
  1075. ==========
  1076. viewpointmag5SocialReproduction (bmumford@gmail.com)
  1077. - Your Highlight on Location 133-136 | Added on Thursday, December 10, 2015 10:18:40 PM
  1078.  
  1079. Since social democracy’s theoretical problematic was founded on the imagined experience of waged work, which was in reality always marginal to the vast majority of toilers, it obscured the complicated political calculations that were required in its practice. In recoding a contingent decision into an invariant philosophy of history, the strategic, historically specific considerations behind these decisions have been lost. They now haunt us as tradition.
  1080. ==========
  1081. viewpointmag5SocialReproduction (bmumford@gmail.com)
  1082. - Your Bookmark on Location 190 | Added on Thursday, December 10, 2015 10:31:46 PM
  1083.  
  1084.  
  1085. ==========
  1086. Prison Slave as Hegemony's (Silent) Scandal, The - Frank B Wilderson III & Ill Will Editions
  1087. - Your Note on page 9 | Added on Saturday, December 12, 2015 5:02:44 AM
  1088.  
  1089. special usage ?
  1090. ==========
  1091. Prison Slave as Hegemony's (Silent) Scandal, The - Frank B Wilderson III & Ill Will Editions
  1092. - Your Highlight on page 9 | Added on Saturday, December 12, 2015 5:02:44 AM
  1093.  
  1094. contingency
  1095. ==========
  1096. Prison Slave as Hegemony's (Silent) Scandal, The - Frank B Wilderson III & Ill Will Editions
  1097. - Your Highlight on page 9-9 | Added on Saturday, December 12, 2015 5:04:15 AM
  1098.  
  1099. The dichotomy between white ethics [the discourse of civil society] and its irrelevance to the violence of police profiling is not dialectical; the two are incommensurable whenever one attempts to speak about the paradigm of policing, one is forced back into a discussion of particular events—high-profile homicides and their related courtroom battles, for instance
  1100. ==========
  1101. Prison Slave as Hegemony's (Silent) Scandal, The - Frank B Wilderson III & Ill Will Editions
  1102. - Your Highlight on page 9-9 | Added on Saturday, December 12, 2015 5:07:35 AM
  1103.  
  1104. It makes no difference that in the U.S. the “Kasbah” and the “European” zone are laid one on top of the other. What is being asserted here is an isomorphic schematic relation-the schematic interchangeability-between Fanon’s settler society and Martinot and Sexton’s policing paradigm
  1105. ==========
  1106. Prison Slave as Hegemony's (Silent) Scandal, The - Frank B Wilderson III & Ill Will Editions
  1107. - Your Highlight on page 9-9 | Added on Saturday, December 12, 2015 5:09:56 AM
  1108.  
  1109. It makes no difference that in the U.S. the “Kasbah” and the “European” zone are laid one on top of the other. What is being asserted here is an isomorphic schematic relation-the schematic interchangeability-between Fanon’s settler society and Martinot and Sexton’s policing paradigm. For Fanon, it is the policeman and soldier (not the discursive, or hegemonic, agents} of colonialism that make one town white and the other Black. For Martinot and Sexton, this Manichean delirium manifests itself by way o f the U.S. paradigm o f policing that (re)produces, repetitively, the inside/outside, the civil society/Black world, by virtue of the difference between those bodies that do not magnetize bullets and those that do.“Police impunity serves to distinguish between the racial itself and the elsewhere that mandate sit... the distinction between those whose human being is put permanently in question and those for whom it goes without saying” (Ibid. : 8). In such a paradigm, white people are, ipso facto, deputized in the face of Black people, whether they know it (consciously) or not.Whiteness, then, and by extension civil society, cannot be solely “represented” as some monumentalized coherence of phallic signifiers, but must first be understood as a social formation of contemporaries who do not magnetize bullets. This is the essence of their construction through an asignifying absence; their signifying presence is manifested by the fact that they are, if only by default, deputized against those who do magnetize bullets. In short, white people are not simply “protected” by the police, they are—in their very corporeality—the police9
  1110. ==========
  1111. Prison Slave as Hegemony's (Silent) Scandal, The - Frank B Wilderson III & Ill Will Editions
  1112. - Your Highlight on page 9-9 | Added on Saturday, December 12, 2015 5:12:01 AM
  1113.  
  1114. It makes no difference that in the U.S. the “Kasbah” and the “European” zone are laid one on top of the other. What is being asserted here is an isomorphic schematic relation-the schematic interchangeability-between Fanon’s settler society and Martinot and Sexton’s policing paradigm. For Fanon, it is the policeman and soldier (not the discursive, or hegemonic, agents} of colonialism that make one town white and the other Black. For Martinot and Sexton, this Manichean delirium manifests itself by way o f the U.S. paradigm o f policing that (re)produces, repetitively, the inside/outside, the civil society/Black world, by virtue of the difference between those bodies that do not magnetize bullets and those that do
  1115. ==========
  1116. Prison Slave as Hegemony's (Silent) Scandal, The - Frank B Wilderson III & Ill Will Editions
  1117. - Your Highlight on page 9-9 | Added on Saturday, December 12, 2015 5:12:18 AM
  1118.  
  1119. Whiteness, then, and by extension civil society, cannot be solely “represented” as some monumentalized coherence of phallic signifiers, but must first be understood as a social formation of contemporaries who do not magnetize bullets
  1120. ==========
  1121. Prison Slave as Hegemony's (Silent) Scandal, The - Frank B Wilderson III & Ill Will Editions
  1122. - Your Highlight on page 10-10 | Added on Saturday, December 12, 2015 5:18:03 AM
  1123.  
  1124. How is the production and accumulation of junior partner social capital dependent upon on an anti-Black rhetorical structure and a decomposed Black body
  1125. ==========
  1126. Prison Slave as Hegemony's (Silent) Scandal, The - Frank B Wilderson III & Ill Will Editions
  1127. - Your Highlight on page 10-10 | Added on Saturday, December 12, 2015 5:21:43 AM
  1128.  
  1129. Any serious musing on the question of antagonistic identity formation - a formation, the mass mobilization of which can precipitate a crisis in the institutions and assumptive logic that undergird the United State of America — must come to grips with the contradictions between the political demands of radical social movements, such as the large prison abolition movement, which seeks to abolish the prison-industrial complex, and the ideological structure that underwrites its political desire. I contend that the positionality of Black subjectivity is at the heart of those contradictions and that this unspoken desire is bound up with the political limitations of several naturalized and uncritically accepted categories that have their genesis mainly in the works of Antonio Gramsci, namely, work or labor, the wage, exploitation, hegemony, and civil society
  1130. ==========
  1131. Prison Slave as Hegemony's (Silent) Scandal, The - Frank B Wilderson III & Ill Will Editions
  1132. - Your Bookmark on page 11 | Added on Saturday, December 12, 2015 5:27:16 AM
  1133.  
  1134.  
  1135. ==========
  1136. Prison Slave as Hegemony's (Silent) Scandal, The - Frank B Wilderson III & Ill Will Editions
  1137. - Your Bookmark on page 2 | Added on Saturday, December 12, 2015 5:28:18 AM
  1138.  
  1139.  
  1140. ==========
  1141. Prison Slave as Hegemony's (Silent) Scandal, The - Frank B Wilderson III & Ill Will Editions
  1142. - Your Highlight on page 11-11 | Added on Saturday, December 12, 2015 5:30:08 AM
  1143.  
  1144. The Black subject reveals the inability of social movements grounded in Gramscian discourse to think of white supremacy (rather than capitalism) as the base and thereby calls into question their claim to elaborate a comprehensive and decisive antagonism
  1145. ==========
  1146. Prison Slave as Hegemony's (Silent) Scandal, The - Frank B Wilderson III & Ill Will Editions
  1147. - Your Highlight on page 11-11 | Added on Saturday, December 12, 2015 5:33:34 AM
  1148.  
  1149. variable capital
  1150. ==========
  1151. Prison Slave as Hegemony's (Silent) Scandal, The - Frank B Wilderson III & Ill Will Editions
  1152. - Your Highlight on page 11-11 | Added on Saturday, December 12, 2015 5:34:19 AM
  1153.  
  1154. Mar xism suf f ers f rom a kind of concept ual anxiet y. There is a desire for socialism on the other side of crisis, a society that does away not with the category of worker, but with the imposition workers suffer under the approach of variable capital. In other words, the mark of its conceptual anxiety is in its desire to democratize work and thus help to keep in place and insure the coherence of Reformation and Enlightenment foundational values of productivity and progress. This scenario crowds out other postrevolutionary possibilities, i.e. , idleness
  1155. ==========
  1156. Prison Slave as Hegemony's (Silent) Scandal, The - Frank B Wilderson III & Ill Will Editions
  1157. - Your Highlight on page 13-13 | Added on Saturday, December 12, 2015 6:03:50 AM
  1158.  
  1159. A metaphor comes into being through a violence that kills the thing such that the concept might live
  1160. ==========
  1161. 2666 (Roberto Bolaño)
  1162. - Your Bookmark on page 117 | Location 1787 | Added on Saturday, December 12, 2015 8:47:42 AM
  1163.  
  1164.  
  1165. ==========
  1166. Prison Slave as Hegemony's (Silent) Scandal, The - Frank B Wilderson III & Ill Will Editions
  1167. - Your Highlight on page 17-17 | Added on Sunday, December 13, 2015 8:33:44 PM
  1168.  
  1169. Whereas the positionality of the worker (whether a factory worker demanding a monetary wage, an immigrant, or a white woman demanding a social wage) gestures toward the reconfiguration of civil society, the positionality of the Black subject (whether a prison-slave or a prison-slave-in-waiting) gestures toward the disconfiguration of civil society. From the coherence of civil society, the Black subject beckons with the incoherence of civil war, a war that reclaims Blackness not as a positive value, but as a politically enabling site, to quote Fanon, of “absolute dereliction. ” It is a “scandal” that rends civil society asunder. Civil war, then, becomes the unthought, but never forgotten, understudy of hegemony. It is a Black specter waiting in the wings, an endless antagonism that cannot be satisfied (via reform or reparation), but must nonetheless be pursued to the death
  1170. ==========
  1171. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1172. - Your Highlight on page xiii-xiii | Added on Monday, December 14, 2015 12:29:48 PM
  1173.  
  1174. The Chr i s tian moral i s t s s o ught out the tra c e s of the fles h lodged d e e p within t h e s o u l. De l euze a n d Guattari, for the i r part, pur sue the s lightes t tra c e s of fasci sm i n the b o d y.
  1175. ==========
  1176. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1177. - Your Highlight on page xiii-xiii | Added on Monday, December 14, 2015 12:31:33 PM
  1178.  
  1179. Do n o t think that one h a s to be sad in orde r to b e mi l i tant, e v e n though the thing o n e i s fighting i s abominable
  1180. ==========
  1181. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1182. - Your Highlight on page xv-xv | Added on Monday, December 14, 2015 12:34:57 PM
  1183.  
  1184. We must die as egos and be born again in the swarm. not separate and self-hypnotized. but individual and related." -Henry Miller. Sexus
  1185. ==========
  1186. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1187. - Your Bookmark on page xvii | Added on Monday, December 14, 2015 12:41:32 PM
  1188.  
  1189.  
  1190. ==========
  1191. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1192. - Your Bookmark on page 383 | Added on Monday, December 14, 2015 12:42:14 PM
  1193.  
  1194.  
  1195. ==========
  1196. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1197. - Your Highlight on page xvii-xvii | Added on Monday, December 14, 2015 12:44:47 PM
  1198.  
  1199. Agains t the O e d ipal and o e dipalized t e rritoriali t i e s (Fami ly, Church, School, Nati o n, Party) , a n d e s pe c ial ly the t e r r i tor ial i ty o f the individual, A nti-Oedipus s e eks to di scove r the "deterritorialized " fl ows of d e s ire , the fl ows that have not be en r educed t o the Oe d ipal code s a n d the neurot icized territorialities , the desiring­ machines that e s c ap e s u c h c o d e s as lines of escape l eading e l s ewhere
  1200. ==========
  1201. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1202. - Your Highlight on page xviii-xviii | Added on Monday, December 14, 2015 12:47:00 PM
  1203.  
  1204. flows and productions of d esire wi l l s imp l y be viewed a s the unconscious of the s o c ial productions
  1205. ==========
  1206. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1207. - Your Highlight on page xviii-xviii | Added on Monday, December 14, 2015 12:48:33 PM
  1208.  
  1209. the flows of d esire, the fears and the anxieties , the loves and t h e d espairs that trave r s e the s ocial fie ld as inte n s iv e notes f rom the underground (Le . , libidinal economy
  1210. ==========
  1211. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1212. - Your Highlight on page xviii-xviii | Added on Monday, December 14, 2015 12:48:50 PM
  1213.  
  1214. sychoanal y s i s i s of no help, r educing a s i t does eve ry s o c ial manifestation of d e s ir e t o the fam ilial complex
  1215. ==========
  1216. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1217. - Your Highlight on page xviii-xviii | Added on Monday, December 14, 2015 12:49:30 PM
  1218.  
  1219. What Nietzsche teache s , as a compl ement to M arx's theory of alienatio n , is how the h i s tory of mankind is the history of a becoming-reactive
  1220. ==========
  1221. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1222. - Your Highlight on page xx-xx | Added on Monday, December 14, 2015 12:58:44 PM
  1223.  
  1224. Eve rybody has b e e n o e dipal ized and neurot icized a t hom e, at s c h o o l, a t w or k . Everybody want s to b e a fasci st . De l euze and Guattari want to know how t h e s e be l i e f s s u c c e e d in taking hold o f a bod y , the r eby s i l e ncing the productive ma c h i n e s of the l ibid o . They a l s o w ant to k n o w h ow t h e o p p o site s ituation i s brought about, w h e r e a body s u c c e ss ful ly wards off the effect s o f powe r .
  1225. ==========
  1226. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1227. - Your Highlight on page xxi-xxi | Added on Monday, December 14, 2015 1:00:06 PM
  1228.  
  1229. the n e u r o tic i s the o n e o n w h o m t h e Oedipal imp r i nt s take , wh e r e a s t h e p sy c h otic i s t h e o n e i n c a p a b l e of being o e d ip a l i ze d , e v e n and e s pe c i a l l y b y p sychoanal y s i s . The fi r s t t a s k of the r e v o l u t i o n ar y, t h e y add , is to l e a r n from the p s yc h o t i c h ow t o s hake off the Oe d i p al y o k e and the effe c t s of p o w e r , i n o r d e r to ini t iat e a radical p o l i t i c s o f d e s ire free d f rom al l b e l i e f s . S u c h a p o l i t i c s d i s s ol v e s the m y s tificat ions of p o w e r through the kindl ing, on a l l l e v e ls , o f ant i -o e d i p a l forces-the s c hizzes -flows-fo r c e s t h a t e s cape coding, scramble t h e c o de s , and fl e e i n al l d i r e c tio n s : orpha n s (no d a d d y- m o m m y - m e ) , a theists (no b e l i e f s ) , a n d n omads (no habits , n o ter r i tor ies )
  1230. ==========
  1231. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1232. - Your Highlight on page xxi-xxi | Added on Monday, December 14, 2015 1:01:46 PM
  1233.  
  1234. woman. The h e a le r , o r the analys t , i f you l i k e , is only a s u p er -neurot ic . .. . To b e cured we m u s t r i s e from our grav e s and throw o ff the c e r e m e n t s of the d e a d . No b o d y can do i t for a n o t h e r-i t is a p rivate affair w h i c h i s b e s t d o n e c o l l e c tivel y .
  1235. ==========
  1236. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1237. - Your Highlight on page xxi-xxi | Added on Monday, December 14, 2015 1:02:10 PM
  1238.  
  1239. To b e cured we m u s t r i s e from our grav e s and throw o ff the c e r e m e n t s of the d e a d . No b o d y can do i t for a n o t h e r-i t is a p rivate affair w h i c h i s b e s t d o n e c o l l e c tivel y . "
  1240. ==========
  1241. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1242. - Your Highlight on page xxi-xxi | Added on Monday, December 14, 2015 1:02:36 PM
  1243.  
  1244. Once w e forget about our egos a non-neurotic form of p o l i t i c s b e c o m e s p o s s i bl e , wh e r e s ingularity and c o l l ectivity are n o l o nger at o d d s with e a c h o t he r , and wh e r e c o l l ect ive e xpres s io n s of d es i re are p o ss i b l e
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  1246. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1247. - Your Highlight on page xxii-xxii | Added on Monday, December 14, 2015 1:05:40 PM
  1248.  
  1249. The ultimate a n swe r to neurotic d e p e n d e n c i e s o n profes sional s i s mutual self- care
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  1251. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1252. - Your Highlight on page xxii-xxii | Added on Monday, December 14, 2015 1:07:03 PM
  1253.  
  1254. o r to b e bogged d o w n i n arrangeme n t s from which e s cape i s p o s s ib l e i s to b e neurotic, s e eing an irres o lvable cri s i s where alternat ive s in fact exi s t
  1255. ==========
  1256. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1257. - Your Bookmark on page 2 | Added on Tuesday, December 15, 2015 10:10:41 AM
  1258.  
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  1261. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1262. - Your Bookmark on page 384 | Added on Tuesday, December 15, 2015 10:10:58 AM
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  1266. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1267. - Your Bookmark on page 3 | Added on Tuesday, December 15, 2015 10:13:39 AM
  1268.  
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  1272. - Your Highlight on page 3-3 | Added on Tuesday, December 15, 2015 10:18:21 AM
  1273.  
  1274. A t t h e end o f Malone Di e s , Lady Pedal takes t h e schizophren i c s o u t for a r i d e in a v a n a n d a rowboat, and o n a p i c ni c in the m i d s t of nature : an i nfernal ma c h i n e is b e i n g a s s e mb l e d. "Under the s k i n the b o d y is a n over -heated facto r y, 1 a n d o u t s i d e , 1 t h e inval id s h i ne s , 1 g l ow s , 1 f rom e v e r y bu r s t p o r e ."3
  1275. ==========
  1276. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1277. - Your Bookmark on page 4 | Added on Tuesday, December 15, 2015 10:20:10 AM
  1278.  
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  1280. ==========
  1281. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1282. - Your Highlight on page 5-5 | Added on Tuesday, December 15, 2015 10:50:31 AM
  1283.  
  1284. there i s a l w a y s a flow-producing machine , a n d another machine connected to i t that interru p t s o r draws off part of t h i s flow (the bre a s t-the m outh
  1285. ==========
  1286. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1287. - Your Bookmark on page 7 | Added on Tuesday, December 15, 2015 10:56:03 AM
  1288.  
  1289.  
  1290. ==========
  1291. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1292. - Your Highlight on page 7 | Added on Tuesday, December 15, 2015 10:59:14 AM
  1293.  
  1294. bricoleur
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  1296. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1297. - Your Highlight on page 7-7 | Added on Tuesday, December 15, 2015 11:00:01 AM
  1298.  
  1299. The 'bricoleur' i s adept at performing a large number of diver se tasks ; but unlike t h e engineer, h e does n o t subordinate each of them to the availability o f raw materials and tool s c o n c e i v e d and procured for t h e p u r p o s e of the project . Hi s u n i v e r s e of i n s t r ume n t s i s closed and the rules of h i s g ame are a lwa y s to make d o with 'whatever i s at hand, ' that i s to say with a s e t of tools and mater ial s which i s always fini te and i s al so heterogeneous because what i t contains bears n o relat ion to the cur rent project , o r indeed to any particular project , but i s the contingent resul t of all the occas ions there have b e e n to renew or enrich the stock o r to maintain i t with the remains of previous constructions o r destructions
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  1301. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1302. - Your Highlight on page 7-7 | Added on Tuesday, December 15, 2015 11:01:23 AM
  1303.  
  1304. The rule of c o ntinually producing production, of grafting producing onto the product, i s a characteristic of d e siring­ machines o r of pr imary productio n : the product ion of product io n .
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  1306. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1307. - Your Highlight on page 7-7 | Added on Tuesday, December 15, 2015 11:03:59 AM
  1308.  
  1309. d uc i ng, a p r o d u c t : a p ro d ucing/p r o d u c t identit y. I t i s thi s ident i ty that c o nstitutes a third term i n the l inear s er ie s : a n enormous undifferent iated obj e c t . Everything s t o p s d e a d for a moment , everything free z e s i n place-and then the whole p r o c es s wi l l begin all over again . From a cer tain p o i n t o f view i t would b e mu c h bet ter i f nothing worke d , if nothing funct ione d . N ev e r being bor n , e scaping t h e wh e e l of c ontinual birth and rebirth, n o mouth t o suck with, n o anus to shit through
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  1311. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1312. - Your Bookmark on page 8 | Added on Tuesday, December 15, 2015 11:08:03 AM
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  1316. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1317. - Your Highlight on page 8-8 | Added on Tuesday, December 15, 2015 11:10:35 AM
  1318.  
  1319. s iring-machines w o r k o n l y w h e n they break d own , a n d b y c o ntinually break ing down
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  1321. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1322. - Your Bookmark on page 9 | Added on Tuesday, December 15, 2015 11:10:45 AM
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  1326. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1327. - Your Highlight on page 10-10 | Added on Thursday, December 17, 2015 12:22:35 AM
  1328.  
  1329. the socius a s a full body forms a s urface wh e r e all product ion i s record e d , wh e r e u p o n the e ntire p r o c es s appears to e manate from this recording surfac e . S o c i e t y c o n­ s tr u c t s i t s o w n d e l ir i um b y r e c o r d i ng the p r o c es s of product io n ; but it i s n o t a c o n s c i o u s d e l i ri um, o r r a t h e r i s a t r u e c o n s c i o u s ne s s of a fals e mo v eme n t , a t r u e p e r c e p t i o n of a n apparent o b j e c tive m o v e m e nt , a true p e r c e p t i o n ,of the m o v e m e nt that i s p r o d u c e d on the r e c o r d i ng s u rface .
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  1331. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1332. - Your Highlight on page 11-11 | Added on Thursday, December 17, 2015 12:42:50 AM
  1333.  
  1334. A s M arx o b s e r v es , in the beginn ing c a p i tali s t s a r e nec e s s ar i l y c o n s c i o u s of t h e o p p o s it i o n b e tw e e n capi tal and labor, and o f t h e u s e o f c ap ital a s a m e a n s of e x tor t ing s u r p l u s labor. Bu t a p e r v e r te d , b ewi t c h e d wor ld q u i c k l y c ome s i n t o being, a s c a p i t a l i n c r e a s i ngly p l a y s the role o f a r ec o r d i ng sur face that fal l s back o n (se rabat sur) al l of p r o d u c t io n .
  1335. ==========
  1336. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1337. - Your Bookmark on page 13 | Added on Thursday, December 17, 2015 10:00:54 AM
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  1341. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1342. - Your Bookmark on page 14 | Added on Thursday, December 17, 2015 10:03:46 AM
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  1347. - Your Highlight on page 14-14 | Added on Thursday, December 17, 2015 10:06:26 AM
  1348.  
  1349. s Artaud p u t i t : 1 d o n 'f believe i n father i n mother, got no papamummy D e si r i ng-production forms a binary-linear s y s te m . The full body i s i n tro d u c e d as a third term i n t h e s e r ie s , without d e s troying, howev e r, the e s sent ial b inary-linear nature of thi s s e r ie s : 2, 1 , 2 , 1 .... The series is c omp l e t e l y refractory to a tra n s cription that would transform and mold 1 4 I A NT I -O E D I PU S
  1350. ==========
  1351. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1352. - Your Highlight on page 14-14 | Added on Thursday, December 17, 2015 10:06:45 AM
  1353.  
  1354. A s Artaud p u t i t : 1 d o n 'f believe i n father i n mother, got no papamummy
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  1356. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1357. - Your Highlight on page 15-15 | Added on Thursday, December 17, 2015 10:19:52 AM
  1358.  
  1359. The s chizo has his own s ys tem of co-ordinates for s i tuating h ims e l f a t his d i s p o s al, becau s e , fi r s t of al l, he has at his d i s p o s al his very own recording code , which does not coincide wi t h the s o c i al cod e , or coincides wi th i t o n l y i n order t o parody it. The c o d e of del i r ium or of d e s ire proves t o have a n extraordinary fl u i d i
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  1361. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1362. - Your Highlight on page 15-15 | Added on Thursday, December 17, 2015 10:24:09 AM
  1363.  
  1364. Agent s of product ion likewi se ali gh t o n S chrebe r ' s b o d y a n d cl ing to it-the s u nbeams , for ins tance, t h a t he attract s, which contain tho u s a n d s of tiny s permatozoids
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  1366. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1367. - Your Highlight on page 16-16 | Added on Thursday, December 17, 2015 10:32:26 AM
  1368.  
  1369. the production o f r ecording i t s e l f i s p r o d u c e d b y the production of productio n . S imilarl y , r e c o r d i ng i s f o l l owe d b y consumpt io n , but the product ion of c o n sump­ tion i s produced i n and through the production of r ecording . This i s becaus e s o me t hing o n the o r d e r of a s u bject can be d i s ce r n e d o n t h e r ecording surfac e. It i s a s trange s u bj e c t , howeve r , wi th no fi x e d identit y, wandering about o v e r the body wi t h o u t organ s , but a lwa y s r emaining pe r iphe ral to the d e si r ing-machines , being d e fi ne d b y the s hare of the product it takes f o r i t s e l f , garnering he r e, the r e , and e v e r ywh e r e a r eward in the form o f a becoming o r an avatar, be ing born of the s tates that i t consume s and being reborn with each new s tate . "I t ' s m e, and s o i t 's mine . . . . " Even suffe r ing , a s Marx s ay s , i s a form o f s elf-enjo yme n t . Doubtl e s s a l l d e siring-production i s , in and o f i t s e l f , i m m ediat e ly c o n sumpt ion and c o n s ummation , a n d therefore , "s ensual p l e a s u re
  1370. ==========
  1371. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1372. - Your Note on page 16 | Added on Thursday, December 17, 2015 10:38:54 AM
  1373.  
  1374. this sounds like misogyny
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  1376. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1377. - Your Highlight on page 16-16 | Added on Thursday, December 17, 2015 10:38:54 AM
  1378.  
  1379. the rate o f c o s m ic s exual p l e a sur e r emains c o nstant, s o that Go d wi l l find a way of taking hi s pl easur e with Schr ebe r , e v e n if in orde r t o do s o S c hr ebe r mus t trans form hims e l f into a woman. Bu t Schreber e xp e r i e n c e s only a r e sidual s hare of thi s p l e a s ure , as a r e c omp e n s e for h i s suffering o r as a r eward f o r h i s becoming-woma n
  1380. ==========
  1381. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1382. - Your Bookmark on page 17 | Added on Thursday, December 17, 2015 10:43:10 AM
  1383.  
  1384.  
  1385. ==========
  1386. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1387. - Your Highlight on page 18-18 | Added on Thursday, December 17, 2015 10:58:18 AM
  1388.  
  1389. n s iv e q uant i t ies . There is a s chizophrenic e x p e r i e n c e of i n t e n s i v e q u a n t i t i e s i n t h e i r p u r e state , to a p o i n t that i s a lmo s t unbearable-a c e libate m i s e ry and glory e xp e r i e n c e d to the f u l l es t , l i k e a cry s u sp e nd e d b e t w e e n l i f e and d e ath, an inten s e f e e l i n g o f trans i t
  1390. ==========
  1391. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1392. - Your Highlight on page 18-18 | Added on Thursday, December 17, 2015 10:58:47 AM
  1393.  
  1394. n s iv e q uant i t ies . There is a s chizophrenic e x p e r i e n c e of i n t e n s i v e q u a n t i t i e s i n t h e i r p u r e state , to a p o i n t that i s a lmo s t unbearable-a c e libate m i s e ry and glory e xp e r i e n c e d to the f u l l es t , l i k e a cry s u sp e nd e d b e t w e e n l i f e and d e ath, an inten s e f e e l i n g o f trans i t io n , s t a t e s o f p u r e , nake d i n t e n s i t y s t r ipped o f all s hape and form. Thes e are of ten d e scr ibed a s hal lucinat ions and d e l iriu m, but the b a s i c phenomenon of h a l l u cinat ion (1 see, 1 hear) and the b a s i c p h e n omenon of d e l ir ium (1 think . . . ) p r e s u p p o s e an 1 feel at an e v e n d e e p e r l e v e l , w h i c h giv e s hal lucinat io n s t h e i r o b j e c t a n d thought d e l irium i t s c o n t e n t-an " I fee l t h a t I a m b e c omi ng a woma n , " "that I a m b e c oming a god, " and s o o n , w h i c h i s n e i t h e r d e l ir i o u s nor h a l l u c i nato r y , but wi l l proje c t the halluci­ nat ion o r internal ize the d e l i r ium
  1395. ==========
  1396. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1397. - Your Highlight on page 19-19 | Added on Thursday, December 17, 2015 11:17:48 AM
  1398.  
  1399. Where do the s e p u r e inten s it i e s c ome f rom? They c ome f r o m t h e t w o p r e c e ding forces , r e p u l s i o n and attrac ti o n , and f rom the o p p os i t ion of thes e two f o rc es . It m u s t not b e thought that the inten sities the ms e l v e s are in o p p os i t ion to o n e anothe r , arriving at a state of balance around a neutral s tat e. On the c ontrar y, they are a l l p o sitive i n relationship to the ze ro int ensity that d e s ignates the f u l l body without o rg an s . And they unde rgo relative r i s e s o r f a l l s d e p e nd ing o n the c omp l e x r e lat ionship be tw e e n t h e m and the variati o n s i n the r e lat ive strength o f attraction and r epuls i o n a s d e ter­ m i n ing factors . I n a word , the o p p o s it ion of the forces o f attraction and r epul s ion p r o d u c e s an o p e n s e r i e s of int ens ive e l e m e nt s , al l o f them p o s itive, that ar e n e v e r an expre ss i o n of the fi nal e q ui l ibr ium o f a s y s t em, but cons i s t , rather , of an unl imi t ed numbe r of s tationar y , me tas table s tat e s through w h i c h a s ubje c t p a s s
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  1401. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1402. - Your Highlight on page 19-19 | Added on Thursday, December 17, 2015 12:27:51 PM
  1403.  
  1404. Nothing but bands of int ensity, p o te ntials , thres h o l ds , and gradi­ e nt s . A harrowing , e m o tional ly ove rwhe lming expe r i enc e , which brings the s chizo as c l o s e a s p o s s ible t o mat te r , to a burning, l iving center of mat te r : " . . . this e mot ion, s ituated o u t s i d e o f the particular p oint where the mind i s s earching f o r it . . . o n e ' s e ntire soul flows into this e m o tion that make s the m i n d awar e o f the t e r r ibly d i s turbing s o u n d of matte r , a n d p a s s e s through i t s whi t e -hot flam
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  1406. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1407. - Your Bookmark on page 19 | Added on Thursday, December 17, 2015 12:27:56 PM
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  1411. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1412. - Your Highlight on page 20-20 | Added on Thursday, December 17, 2015 12:36:16 PM
  1413.  
  1414. the point s of d i s junct ion on t h e b o d y w i t h o u t o r g a n s form ci rcle s t h a t c o n v e rge o n t h e d e si r ing­ ma c h i n es ; then the s u b j e c t-prod u c e d a s a r e s i d u um a l o n g s i d e the mac h i n e , a s a n app e n d i x, o r a s a spare part adjacent to the machine­ p a ss e s through al l the degre e s of the c ir c l e , and pas s e s f rom o n e ci rcle to another . Thi s s u b j e c t itself is not a t the c e n te r , which i s occupied b y the ma c h i n e , but on t h e p e r i p h er y, with n o fixed ident i ty, forev e r d e c e n­ t e re d , defi n ed b y the s tates through which it p a ss e s . Thus the circl e s tra c e d b y B ec k e t t ' s Unnamabl e : "a s u c c e s s i o n of irregular l o op s , now s h ar p a n d s ho r t a s i n the waltz, now of a parabol ic swe ep ,"
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  1416. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1417. - Your Bookmark on page 21 | Added on Thursday, December 17, 2015 12:43:03 PM
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  1422. - Your Bookmark on page 385 | Added on Thursday, December 17, 2015 12:43:32 PM
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  1426. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1427. - Your Bookmark on page 22 | Added on Friday, December 18, 2015 5:49:56 PM
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  1431. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1432. - Your Note on page 24 | Added on Friday, December 18, 2015 6:04:55 PM
  1433.  
  1434. as an abstract product
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  1437. - Your Highlight on page 24-24 | Added on Friday, December 18, 2015 6:04:55 PM
  1438.  
  1439. The schizophr enic appears all the mo re s p e c ific and r ecogniza­ ble a s a d i s tinct p e r s o nality if the p roce s s i s halte d , or if it i s made a n e n d a n d a goal in i ts e l f , o r i f it i s a l l o w e d t o g o o n a n d o n e n dl e s s l y i n a void , so as to provoke that "horror of . . . e xtrem ity whe r e in the s o u l and body ul t imat e ly pe r i sh
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  1441. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1442. - Your Highlight on page 24-24 | Added on Friday, December 18, 2015 6:05:42 PM
  1443.  
  1444. the m o m e n t that one d escr ibe s , on the c ontrary, the mat e r ial p ro c e s s o f product io n , the s p ecificity of the product t e n d s to e vaporat e , whi l e at the s ame time the p o s s i b i l i t y of anothe r outcome , anothe r e n d r e s u l t of the p r oc e s s appear
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  1446. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1447. - Your Bookmark on page 26 | Added on Friday, December 18, 2015 6:10:55 PM
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  1452. - Your Highlight on Location 149-150 | Added on Saturday, December 19, 2015 5:59:01 AM
  1453.  
  1454. I’m glad publishers and bookstores exist, especially small ones (that operate more like concerns than companies),
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  1456. Instapaper: Saturday, Dec. 19th (Instapaper)
  1457. - Your Highlight on Location 529-532 | Added on Saturday, December 19, 2015 6:44:45 AM
  1458.  
  1459. Anaximander, the first Greek philosopher to write his thoughts down, handed posterity only a single fragment: Whence things have their origin, Thence also their destruction happens, According to necessity; For they give to each other dike [justice, jointure] and recompense for their adikia [injustice, disjointure] In conformity with the ordinance of Time. The apeiron, or the infinite, is this whence and this thence:
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  1461. Instapaper: Saturday, Dec. 19th (Instapaper)
  1462. - Your Highlight on Location 557-558 | Added on Saturday, December 19, 2015 6:52:25 AM
  1463.  
  1464. Mass awakening, as opposed to mass consciousness, is a notion with unavoidable fascist overtones.
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  1466. Instapaper: Friday, Dec. 18th (Instapaper)
  1467. - Your Highlight on Location 396-401 | Added on Sunday, December 20, 2015 9:56:06 AM
  1468.  
  1469. The concept of decadence is tainted on the Marxist Left by association not only with moralist Stalinist kitsch, but with economic teleology. But what if decadence isn’t a prelude to its own inevitable end? In the absence of a project that can overthrow it, what might follow but more of it and its monstrosities? Monstrosities: not, or not simply, pathologies. The sadism of capitalism is a deep grammar, and it is always functional. And/but it is never only functional. With the jouissance comes the surplus, what Bataille might call its accursed share. In neoliberalism’s decadence, social sadism is entering a febrile new stage.
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  1472. - Your Highlight on Location 408-413 | Added on Sunday, December 20, 2015 9:58:30 AM
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  1474. The banality of the banality of evil, the eagerness with which official liberal culture has adopted this description, should arouse Red suspicion (as should the obvious class sneer of it, of the middle-class intellectual’s favourite caricature, the vulgarian petty bourgeois – the architect of the Final Solution recast as a variant of that awful little jobsworth councillor who refused planning permission for the conservatory). Becoming a radical critic of capitalism involves a process of disenchantment, the dying of surprise at the system’s depredations; but being one, a long-term witness to those depredations, is to repeatedly discover that we can be shocked by what no longer surprises us.
  1475. ==========
  1476. Instapaper: Friday, Dec. 18th (Instapaper)
  1477. - Your Highlight on Location 420-422 | Added on Sunday, December 20, 2015 10:08:05 AM
  1478.  
  1479. Evil may indeed often be the most banal Eichmann. Perhaps sometimes it comes instead with Mephistophelean splendour. But very often it’s a party-goer; boisterous; braying; a frat alumnus; a bully who loves being a bully; a successful professional, lip-smacking at the misery of those s/he hurts; and one who is increasingly happy to cop to that enjoyment, to proclaim it, to perform it.
  1480. ==========
  1481. Instapaper: Friday, Dec. 18th (Instapaper)
  1482. - Your Highlight on Location 457-460 | Added on Sunday, December 20, 2015 10:39:05 AM
  1483.  
  1484. The US Supreme court may have ruled against imprisonment for failure to pay legal fees, but that hasn’t stopped defendants in several US states being jailed, says the American Civil Liberties Union, ‘at increasingly alarming rates for failing to pay legal debts they can never hope to afford’. In Arkansas tenants are jailed for failing to pay rent on time. A mentally ill teenager in Georgia is prosecuted for stealing school supplies, released only when her mother can pay the $4,000 cost of her incarceration – ransom.
  1485. ==========
  1486. Instapaper: Friday, Dec. 18th (Instapaper)
  1487. - Your Highlight on Location 463-463 | Added on Sunday, December 20, 2015 10:39:58 AM
  1488.  
  1489. atlanticism,
  1490. ==========
  1491. Instapaper: Friday, Dec. 18th (Instapaper)
  1492. - Your Highlight on Location 481-483 | Added on Sunday, December 20, 2015 10:44:10 AM
  1493.  
  1494. Sadism is not for everyone, not even for every neoliberal. Some just don’t have what it takes. ‘Mr Clinton’, Kissinger once famously (and rather unfairly) muttered into a cocktail, ‘does not have the strength of character to be a war criminal.’
  1495. ==========
  1496. Instapaper: Friday, Dec. 18th (Instapaper)
  1497. - Your Highlight on Location 513-515 | Added on Sunday, December 20, 2015 10:50:45 AM
  1498.  
  1499. The Enlightenment was always a dark enlightenment. Viciousness and brutality in their most unmediated forms were still – and are – deemed appropriate for the colonies. Today, our everyday and surplus sadisms are inextricable from capitalism’s history of racist violence.
  1500. ==========
  1501. Instapaper: Friday, Dec. 18th (Instapaper)
  1502. - Your Highlight on Location 531-532 | Added on Sunday, December 20, 2015 10:56:29 AM
  1503.  
  1504. Colonial sadism is not a result of racism; racism, rather, is created by that sadism – viciousness justifying itself post-facto. The agonies inflicted by the metropole’s torturers are the ‘civilising process’.
  1505. ==========
  1506. Instapaper: Friday, Dec. 18th (Instapaper)
  1507. - Your Highlight on Location 563-568 | Added on Sunday, December 20, 2015 11:04:17 AM
  1508.  
  1509. When Moussa Khebaïli , like so many North Africans, was taken by the police in Paris to the torture room in 1958, he was told, ‘C’est le régime des flics qui commence’ – ‘The reign of the cops is beginning.’ It’s still the reign of the cops, and – as the Chicago police’s Homan Square black site, uncovered by the Guardian, makes clear – they still have their torture rooms. But they are also doing their business out in plain sight, in the glare of social media, not retreating but doubling down on the sadism of the acts and their justifications.
  1510. ==========
  1511. Instapaper: Friday, Dec. 18th (Instapaper)
  1512. - Your Highlight on Location 573-575 | Added on Sunday, December 20, 2015 11:05:31 AM
  1513.  
  1514. Torture is even recast as politically progressive – sadism as the salvation of civilisation. One of the most acclaimed attorneys in the US, Alan Dershowitz, among many others, proposes not only that it should be legalised, but that the ‘torture warrant’ would be a restraint, minimising ‘excesses’.
  1515. ==========
  1516. Instapaper: Friday, Dec. 18th (Instapaper)
  1517. - Your Highlight on Location 583-586 | Added on Sunday, December 20, 2015 11:07:52 AM
  1518.  
  1519. to viciously punish the ‘criminal’ is, literally in hundreds of thousands of cases, and synecdochically in general, to be invested in the torments of the black subject. It’s particularly vividly in carceral history that the ‘civilising process’ – the phrase remains useful, if spoken with a sneer – is visible. As is, increasingly, the countervailing tendency, the neoliberal trend towards its unravelling.
  1520. ==========
  1521. Instapaper: Friday, Dec. 18th (Instapaper)
  1522. - Your Highlight on Location 591-595 | Added on Sunday, December 20, 2015 11:09:42 AM
  1523.  
  1524. The chain gang, pioneered in the southern states, was phased out by 1955. In 1995, Alabama was the first state to reintroduce it: it still exists in Arizona. In Georgia, under a program called ‘Tier Step Down’, inmates are deliberately malnourished, receiving half-rations, are denied access to medical and educational opportunities – and are unable to flush their toilets. This is widely understood to be collective punishment for a series of strikes and hunger strikes in 2010 and 2012 against degrading conditions, the aftermath of the first of which saw one inmate, Kelvin Stevenson, brutally beaten by guards, on film, with a hammer.
  1525. ==========
  1526. Instapaper: Friday, Dec. 18th (Instapaper)
  1527. - Your Highlight on Location 668-671 | Added on Sunday, December 20, 2015 12:07:42 PM
  1528.  
  1529. That the government offered to take a risible 20,000 Syrian refugees by 2020 was thus signalled as a kind of ethical superprofit. An ingenious ideological move. ‘British compassion’ is inflated, while the brief, grotesquely inadequate opening of the door is flagged as, literally, surplus: it can be closed at any moment, ‘extra’ compassion withdrawn, without any ethical deficit.
  1530. ==========
  1531. Instapaper: Friday, Dec. 18th (Instapaper)
  1532. - Your Highlight on Location 668-672 | Added on Sunday, December 20, 2015 12:08:54 PM
  1533.  
  1534. That the government offered to take a risible 20,000 Syrian refugees by 2020 was thus signalled as a kind of ethical superprofit. An ingenious ideological move. ‘British compassion’ is inflated, while the brief, grotesquely inadequate opening of the door is flagged as, literally, surplus: it can be closed at any moment, ‘extra’ compassion withdrawn, without any ethical deficit. As with compassion, so with sadism: the bookkeeping heuristic is an absurdity that the system strives to make true. And which, because capitalism is dynamic, is functional, excess and all.
  1535. ==========
  1536. Instapaper: Friday, Dec. 18th (Instapaper)
  1537. - Your Highlight on Location 693-695 | Added on Sunday, December 20, 2015 12:17:33 PM
  1538.  
  1539. The constitutive, superpositionally avowed and disavowed supersadisms of capitalism test, inform and shape politics by breaching its limits. Even decried. In this decadence, essence and excrescence are inextricable – in the first issue of Salvage, we termed this an excr/essential capitalism. This is its secret: it is a system that can instrumentalise its own decadent excess.
  1540. ==========
  1541. Instapaper: Friday, Dec. 18th (Instapaper)
  1542. - Your Highlight on Location 703-705 | Added on Sunday, December 20, 2015 12:19:16 PM
  1543.  
  1544. What remains more steadfastly inexcusable, capitalism deploys negatively, to legitimate new debasement of norms on the grounds that the debasement is not as bad as it might have been. ‘What they’re saying is obviously unacceptable: we, by contrast, propose only this.’
  1545. ==========
  1546. Instapaper: Friday, Dec. 18th (Instapaper)
  1547. - Your Highlight on Location 705-713 | Added on Sunday, December 20, 2015 12:20:49 PM
  1548.  
  1549. In 2000, hard-right provocateur Ann Coulter glossed Genesis 1:28 by declaring that ‘[t]he ethic of conservation is the explicit abnegation of man’s dominion over the Earth. … God said so: Go forth, be fruitful, multiply, and rape the planet — it’s yours.’ Like a five-year-old who has learnt a swear-word, she was to repeat the sentiment more than once. Despite the best efforts of Time journalist John Cloud, in his 2005 cover-piece gush about her, to advocate rape, even of Gaia, remains almost unrecuperable – as Coulter, neither a fool nor a person who gains her energy from being liked, must have known. The phrase remained shocking. But its work was done, an agenda stretched. It looms, an unacknowledged parent, over the Republican slogan born in 2008, and given later prominence by Sarah Palin: ‘Drill Baby Drill!’ Not only in its enthusiastic scorn for any environmental concerns but in the grotesque and ostentatious sexualisation of the image. Wink wink: this is the symbolic rape you can get away with, the sadism you can speak to push your politics of remorselessness, and it relies on the excess that proceeded it.
  1550. ==========
  1551. Instapaper: Friday, Dec. 18th (Instapaper)
  1552. - Your Highlight on Location 717-729 | Added on Sunday, December 20, 2015 12:24:42 PM
  1553.  
  1554. Can you fight sadism with its opposite? What even would that be? We have, astoundingly, a Labour Party leader of the principled socialist left, who has declared for a ‘kinder politics’. And because of who Corbyn is, this does not sound like the kind of lie-turd we’re used to hearing drop from politicians’ mouths. Should Reds overcome traditional hippyphobia on this issue? What is the potential in a revolutionary strategy of political kindness? Kindness is – here cautiously – worth celebrating. Both for its own sake, and because, particularly in excr/essential capitalism, it does embed a utopian dissenting kernel. But always with that caution. The injunction to kindness can usher in a pro-kindness sadism, a ruthless positivity, hunting infractions. Open up: it’s the tone police. Still, the jouissance sadism taps can become autotelic, can shock consciences far wider than the hard Left. There are dangers in any strategy which relies on provoking opponents’ outrage. In a milieu of generalised cruelty and encouraged sadism, unlikely, seemingly ‘pre-political’ qualities of empathy – courtesy, decency, good neighbourliness – might even be nascent solidarity, recruitable to radical opposition. The liberal is often the most outraged and vociferous chanter on the demonstration. Richard Seymour once made the indispensable distinction between those who are liberals out of fidelity to liberal ideas, and those who are liberals out of fidelity to the liberal state. The latter will never be on the side of emancipation. The former, to the extent that such ideas embed ethical politics predicated, however fallaciously and ideologically, on certain supposedly liberatory and universal claims, may be.
  1555. ==========
  1556. Instapaper: Friday, Dec. 18th (Instapaper)
  1557. - Your Highlight on Location 800-801 | Added on Sunday, December 20, 2015 8:55:52 PM
  1558.  
  1559. the perpetrator is performing and perhaps relishing what they know to be a transgression: sadism being an empathic function, a curdled one.
  1560. ==========
  1561. Instapaper: Friday, Dec. 18th (Instapaper)
  1562. - Your Highlight on Location 800-803 | Added on Sunday, December 20, 2015 8:57:44 PM
  1563.  
  1564. the perpetrator is performing and perhaps relishing what they know to be a transgression: sadism being an empathic function, a curdled one. Self-loathing is a cliché, but it is real. In social sadism, it is in part made functional for rule by disavowal and projection. And in a culture of shame, most especially of those at the bottom, for their ‘failure’, for being despised by the culture they inhabit, it’s no surprise that this is often effective.
  1565. ==========
  1566. Instapaper: Sunday, Dec. 20th (Instapaper)
  1567. - Your Highlight on Location 467-467 | Added on Monday, December 21, 2015 9:35:25 AM
  1568.  
  1569. JUDY BUDNITZ
  1570. ==========
  1571. Instapaper: Sunday, Dec. 20th (Instapaper)
  1572. - Your Highlight on Location 468-468 | Added on Monday, December 21, 2015 9:35:34 AM
  1573.  
  1574. The man in the dog suit whines outside the door.
  1575. ==========
  1576. Instapaper: Sunday, Dec. 20th (Instapaper)
  1577. - Your Highlight on Location 668-670 | Added on Monday, December 21, 2015 9:45:31 AM
  1578.  
  1579. In the recently published The Book of Human Emotions, the cultural historian Tiffany Watt Smith collected emotion words like these from around the world.
  1580. ==========
  1581. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1582. - Your Bookmark on page 28 | Added on Monday, December 21, 2015 10:42:10 AM
  1583.  
  1584.  
  1585. ==========
  1586. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1587. - Your Highlight on page 28-28 | Added on Monday, December 21, 2015 10:46:44 AM
  1588.  
  1589. Lack (manque ) * i s create d , planned , and organized i n and through s ocial product io n . It i s c o u nterpro d u c e d as a r e s u l t of the pre s s ure of a nt iproducti o n ; the latter fall s back on (se rab a t s ur) the f o r c e s of product ion a n d appropriates them . I t i s n e v e r pr imar y; product ion is n e v e r organized on the b a s i s of a pre-existing need o r l a c k (ma n q ue) . It i s lack t h a t infiltrates i t sel f, creates e m pty s p ac e s o r vacuol es , and propagat e s i t sel f i n accordance with the organizatio n of an already e x i sting organization of p ro d u ction . t The d el iberate creat ion of l a c k a s a function o{ market economy i s the art of a d o minant c l a ss . Thi s i n v o l v es d e l iberately organizing wants and n e e d s (ma n que) ami d a n abundance of product ion ; making al l o f d e s ire teeter and f a l l vict im t o the g r e a t f e a r of n o t h a v i ng one 's n e e d s sat i sfied ; a n d making the o b j e c t d e p en d e n t u p o n a real product ion that i s suppos e d l y e xterior to d e s ire (the d e m a n d s of rationality), while at the same time the product ion of d e s ire is categorized a s fantasy and nothing but fanta s y .
  1590. ==========
  1591. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1592. - Your Highlight on page 29-29 | Added on Monday, December 21, 2015 11:42:25 AM
  1593.  
  1594. There is only desire a n d the s ocial, a n d n o thing else
  1595. ==========
  1596. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1597. - Your Highlight on page 29-29 | Added on Tuesday, December 22, 2015 1:58:48 AM
  1598.  
  1599. Reich i s a t hi s profoundes t a s a thinker wh e n h e refu s e s t o accept ignorance o r i l l u s i o n o n the p art of the m a s s e s a s an e x p lanation o f f a s c i sm, and d e m a n d s an e xplanat ion t h a t w il l t a k e thei r d es i r e s i n t o account, an e xp lanation formulated i n terms of d e si re : no, t h e m a s s e s w e r e not innocent dupe s ; a t a c ertain p o i n t, under a c e rtain s e t o f condi t io n s , they w a nted fascis m , a n d i t i s t h i s perver s ion o f the d e s ire of the m a s s e s that n e e d s to b e a c c o u nted for
  1600. ==========
  1601. Instapaper: Tuesday, Dec. 22nd (Instapaper)
  1602. - Your Highlight on Location 156-160 | Added on Wednesday, December 23, 2015 2:18:05 AM
  1603.  
  1604. These efforts were about empowering more marginalized people, based on the idea that radical, revolutionary organizing needs to center on those most oppressed within society. But the evidence suggests that activists who highlighted this—like anarcha-feminists—received daily harassment that escalated into outright violence. This repression can be viewed as retaliation for highlighting the micro-aggressions and abuse carried out by influential anarchists in the community. I believe this retaliation would not have been possible without the complicity or willful ignorance of activists with a great deal of social capital in Eugene.
  1605. ==========
  1606. Instapaper: Tuesday, Dec. 22nd (Instapaper)
  1607. - Your Highlight on Location 289-294 | Added on Wednesday, December 23, 2015 8:31:30 AM
  1608.  
  1609. We might think of these misogynists as inadvertent agents of the state. Regardless of whether they are actually informants or not, the work that they do supports the state’s ongoing campaign of terror against social movements and the people who create them. When queer organizers are humiliated and their political struggles sidelined, that is part of an ongoing state project of violence against radicals. When women are knowingly given STIs, physically abused, dismissed in meetings, pushed aside, and forced out of radical organizing spaces while our allies defend known misogynists, organizers collude in the state’s efforts to destroy us.
  1610. ==========
  1611. Instapaper: Wednesday, Dec. 23rd (Instapaper)
  1612. - Your Highlight on Location 1170-1176 | Added on Wednesday, December 23, 2015 5:25:46 PM
  1613.  
  1614. “And there is something more: the destruction of traditional family-based rural patriarchy brings with it a powerful reactionary male political backlash. “Millions of men are losing ‘their’ women, and ‘their’ jobs, and it’s driving them crazy. Today, the main opposition to capitalist globalization comes not from the weakened anti-imperialist Left, or — yet — from working-class women, but rather from militant right-wing men. The anger of male dispossession fuels reactionary populist, fundamentalist and fascist trends in every part of the world.” These dispossessed right-wing men “are increasingly resorting to radical and violent measures to ‘defend’ and ‘reclaim’ their patriarchal birthright, or at least grab a piece of the action in a new male order.”
  1615. ==========
  1616. Instapaper: Wednesday, Dec. 23rd (Instapaper)
  1617. - Your Highlight on Location 1632-1639 | Added on Thursday, December 24, 2015 9:45:24 AM
  1618.  
  1619. “James Wise” (a former Oath Keeper in Florida who used an alias) pointed to the inconsistency of Oath Keepers’ willingness to confront police at the Bundy ranch but not in Ferguson. As Wise, who is Cuban American, put it: “Unwilling to confront the cops. What the hell are we here for then? Who is going to violate the rights of the people? The Boy Scouts? If you plan on keeping your oath, you had better be willing to confront cops….You know race isn’t a huge issue here, but I have to believe that an organization that is OK with a bunch of white guys pointing guns at cops in Nevada over grazing rights shouldn’t turn into complete [multiple expletives deleted] [cowards] at the thought of blacks just holding guns in a march protesting people getting beaten and killed by cops. You know there’s something wrong there…” A related issue, Andrews said, is that the new Oath Keepers’ board is made up almost entirely of retired police. He, most of his tactical team members, and Wise are all former military special forces.
  1620. ==========
  1621. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1622. - Your Highlight on page 31-31 | Added on Saturday, December 26, 2015 2:40:40 PM
  1623.  
  1624. technical m achines obvio u s l y wo r k only if they are n o t out of o rd e r ; t h e y ordinar i ly s top w orking n o t b e c a u s e they break d o w n but b e c a u s e t h e y we a r out . Marx makes u s e of t h i s s i m p l e pr inciple t o s h o w t h a t t h e regime of technical ma c h i n e s i s c haracter ized b y a s trict d is t i n c t i o n b e twe e n the means of product ion and the produc t ; thanks t o t h i s d i s tinctio n, t h e machine trans m i t s v a l u e to t h e product, but o n l y the value that the ma c h i ne i t s e lf l o s e s as it we a r s o u t . D e s iring-machines , o n the c o n trary, c ontinuall y bre a k d own as they r u n, I and in fact run only wh e n they are not funct ioning p r o p e rl y : the product i s a l w a y s a n offshoot o f p roduc ti o n , i m p lant ing i t s e l f u p o n i t l ike a graf t , and at the s ame t ime the p a r t s of the ma c h i n e a r e t h e f u e l t h a t ma k e s it run .
  1625. ==========
  1626. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1627. - Your Highlight on page 31-31 | Added on Saturday, December 26, 2015 2:41:50 PM
  1628.  
  1629. Ar t often takes advantage o f thi s p r o p e rty o f d e si r ing-machines b y creat ing veritable group fanta s i e s i n which d e s i ring-product ion i s u s e d to s h o rt-circuit s o c ia l product io n , and to interfere with the reproductive funct ion o f technical ma c h i n e s by int ro d u ci n g an element of d ysfunc­ tio n . A r m a n ' s charred v i o l in s , for i n s tance , o r C e s a r ' s c o m p re s sed car b o d i es . Mo r e general ly , Dali's me t h o d o f cr i t ical paranoia a ss u r e s the e x p l o s i o n of a d e siring-machine within an o b j e c t of s ocial product io n . B u t e v e n ear li e r , R a v e l prefer red to throw h i s i n v e n t i o n s ent i rely o u t o f g e a r rather than l e t them s i m p l y run dow n , and c h o s e to end h i s c ompo s it i o n s w ith abrupt break s , h e si tat ions , tre m o lo s , d i s cordant note s , and unres o l v e d chord s
  1630. ==========
  1631. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1632. - Your Highlight on page 32-32 | Added on Saturday, December 26, 2015 2:42:57 PM
  1633.  
  1634. The ar t i s t is the mas ter of o bj e c t s ; he put s before u s s h attered , burne d , broken-down o bj e c t s , c o n v e rting them to the regime of d e si r ing-ma c h i n es , breaking down i s par t of t h e very funct ioning o f d e s i ring-machines ; the artist p re se n t s paranoiac ma c h i ne s , m iraculating-ma c h i ne s , and c e l ibate ma­ c h i n e s as s o many t e c h n ical ma c h i ne s , s o a s to cause d e siring-ma c h i n e s to u n d e rmi n e t e c h n i c a l ma c h i ne s . E v e n more imp o rtan t , t h e work of a r t i s i t s e l f a d e siring-ma c h i n e . Th e artis t s t o r e s up h i s t re a s u res s o a s t o create a n imme d iate e x p l o s i o n, a n d t h a t i s w h y , t o h i s wa y of t h inking, d e s tr u c t i o n s c a n n e v e r take p lace as r a p i d l y as they ought to.
  1635. ==========
  1636. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1637. - Your Highlight on page 32-32 | Added on Saturday, December 26, 2015 2:46:17 PM
  1638.  
  1639. e c h n i c a l ma c h i n e s are n o t a n e c o n omi c category , and a lwa y s r e f e r b a c k to a s o c i u s or a s ocial ma c h i n e t h a t i s quite d i s tinct f rom t h e s e ma c h i ne s , and that c o n d i t i o n s this reproduct io n . A technical machine i s therefore not a cause but me r e l y an i n d e x o f a general form o f s o c ial p r o d u c t io n : thus t h e r e are manual m a c h i nes and p r imi t i v e s o c i e t ie s , hydraul ic machines and "As i a ti c " forms o f s o c i e t y , indus t r ial ma c hines a n d capital is m
  1640. ==========
  1641. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1642. - Your Bookmark on page 32 | Added on Saturday, December 26, 2015 2:48:20 PM
  1643.  
  1644.  
  1645. ==========
  1646. Instapaper: Sunday, Dec. 13th (Instapaper)
  1647. - Your Highlight on Location 685-686 | Added on Sunday, December 27, 2015 1:15:00 AM
  1648.  
  1649. Trumpism, Pt. 3 Propaganda of the Deal
  1650. ==========
  1651. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1652. - Your Highlight on page 33-33 | Added on Sunday, December 27, 2015 8:59:34 PM
  1653.  
  1654. t h e b o d y wi t h o u t organs i s t h e ul t imate r e siduum o f a d e ter r i tor ial ized s o c iu
  1655. ==========
  1656. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1657. - Your Highlight on page 33-33 | Added on Sunday, December 27, 2015 9:03:20 PM
  1658.  
  1659. The p r ime funct ion incumbent u p o n the s o c i u s, has a lwa y s been t o c o d ify the fl o w s of d e s ire , to i n s c ribe the m, to r e c o r d t h em, t o s e e t o i t that n o flow e x i s t s that i s not p r o p e r l y d amme d u p, channe l e d , regulated
  1660. ==========
  1661. Anti-Oedipus_ capitalism and schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze.pdf
  1662. - Your Highlight on page 33-33 | Added on Sunday, December 27, 2015 9:11:45 PM
  1663.  
  1664. Capital­ ism tends toward a thres h o l d of d e c o d ing that wi l l d es t r o y the s o c i u s i n o r d e r t o make i t a b o d y wi t h o u t organs and u n l e a s h the fl o w s of d e s ire on thi s b o d y as a deter r i tor ial ized fi e l d . I s i t cor rect to s a y that i n t h i s s e n s e s c hizophrenia i s the p r o d u c t o f the capitali s t machine , as manic­ depre s si o n and paranoia are the product of the d e spot ic machine , and hysteria the p r o d u c t o f the territorial machine ? *
  1665. ==========
  1666. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1667. - Your Highlight on Location 68-73 | Added on Wednesday, December 30, 2015 3:35:29 PM
  1668.  
  1669. Economy is a paradoxical process of simultaneous complexification and organization, the expansion of network connections and the constitution of these new alliances as part of objective social facts. It involves pragmatic ordering, the reconfiguration of patterns and the constitution of the new assemblage as an identity that we can relate to efficiently. In other words, economization is productive: it involves the organization of connectivity rather than disintegration. Appreciating this constructive aspect is crucial, as it is all too easy to caricature this process as nothing more than fetishism (“first you create something, and then you attribute an independent reality to it”).
  1670. ==========
  1671. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1672. - Your Highlight on Location 74-78 | Added on Wednesday, December 30, 2015 3:36:39 PM
  1673.  
  1674. the acquisition of skills, the ability to grasp a complex network of connections as a coherent entity, without having to retrace all the details of its historical emergence every time we encounter it. The process of “forgetting” at work here does not involve the actual loss of memory or growing disconnect, but the kind of forgetfulness that often attends intimate familiarity. We do not end up believing that the object is an external thing-in-itself or a god, commanding natural or transcendent powers; it’s just that we take it for granted.
  1675. ==========
  1676. Instapaper: Friday, Jan. 1st (Instapaper)
  1677. - Your Highlight on Location 325-326 | Added on Saturday, January 2, 2016 10:19:57 AM
  1678.  
  1679. comrades coming from a background of activism or labor organizing struggled to understand our critique of demand-centered organizing.
  1680. ==========
  1681. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1682. - Your Bookmark on Location 90 | Added on Friday, January 15, 2016 12:33:15 AM
  1683.  
  1684.  
  1685. ==========
  1686. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1687. - Your Highlight on Location 56-57 | Added on Friday, January 15, 2016 12:36:16 AM
  1688.  
  1689. Far from being characterized by a growing externality of economy and sociality, capitalism operates through their imbrication: morality, faith, power, and emotion, the distinctive qualities of human association, are interiorized into the logic of the economy.
  1690. ==========
  1691. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1692. - Your Bookmark on Location 103 | Added on Friday, January 15, 2016 8:36:08 PM
  1693.  
  1694.  
  1695. ==========
  1696. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1697. - Your Highlight on Location 62-65 | Added on Sunday, January 17, 2016 8:36:52 PM
  1698.  
  1699. The depiction of economy as a corrosive, fragmentational force means that it has little eye for the social and moral content of economy itself; the “dis-embedding” metaphor encourages us to conceive of the autonomization of money in terms of disarticulation, the rise of possessive individualism and instrumental rationality at the expense of substantive associational logics.
  1700. ==========
  1701. Instapaper: Monday, Jan. 18th (Instapaper)
  1702. - Your Highlight on Location 882-890 | Added on Tuesday, January 19, 2016 1:31:53 AM
  1703.  
  1704. Yet there is clearly more to the despair of the working class than empty wallets and purses. Patches of the social fabric that once supported them, in good times and bad, have frayed. When asked in national surveys about the people with whom they discussed “important matters” in the past six months, those with just a high-school education or less are likelier to say no one (this percentage has risen over the years for college graduates, too). This trend is troubling, given that social isolation is linked to depression and, in turn, suicide and substance abuse.
  1705. ==========
  1706. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1707. - Your Highlight on Location 86-90 | Added on Tuesday, January 19, 2016 12:14:27 PM
  1708.  
  1709. We experience money as possessing “iconic” characteristics: we just “get” its meaning, even though this meaning remains conceptually elusive and we may not know exactly what it is that we grasp so easily or how we do so. An icon is a sign that has the curious capacity to signify metonymically, to express a constellation of which it is a mere part, deploying patterns of connectedness to express the character of the whole. “To be iconically conscious is to understand without knowing”
  1710. ==========
  1711. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1712. - Your Highlight on Location 131-132 | Added on Tuesday, January 19, 2016 1:27:45 PM
  1713.  
  1714. it is precisely in a Protestant ethos that is hyperaware of the danger in idolizing graven images that money assumes a tremendous degree of symbolic density, affective force, and organizing power.
  1715. ==========
  1716. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1717. - Your Highlight on Location 141-143 | Added on Friday, January 22, 2016 4:21:21 PM
  1718.  
  1719. It is not so much the case that “Christianity in the time of the Reformation . . . encourage[d] the emergence of capitalism,” as Weber might have put it, “but rather [that it] changed itself into capitalism” (Benjamin 2005 [1921], 261) by lodging the structure of iconoclastic faith and its paradoxical affective force at the heart of this system.
  1720. ==========
  1721. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1722. - Your Highlight on Location 156-158 | Added on Friday, January 22, 2016 4:24:48 PM
  1723.  
  1724. The modern subject often employs its reflexive capacities not to transform its own relation to the iconic sign but to build up a fantasy of a corrupted other that prevents the sign from operating in the proper way and delivering on its redemptive promises.
  1725. ==========
  1726. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1727. - Your Highlight on Location 235-237 | Added on Monday, January 25, 2016 2:57:35 PM
  1728.  
  1729. What often eludes progressive commentary is not only the paradoxical way in which the malfunctioning of capitalist economy triggers emotional responses that serve to affirm and restore its key signs; but also how this iconophilia is driven by an iconoclastic spirit that levels its harsh charges of idolatry at the progressive project itself.
  1730. ==========
  1731. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1732. - Your Highlight on Location 244-248 | Added on Monday, January 25, 2016 2:59:30 PM
  1733.  
  1734. It is here that we should situate the significance of the extraordinary rise to prominence of the Polanyian image of the double movement: it fully sanitizes the progressive self-image, recasting a bankrupt political project as a model of history. The rise of the Polanyian image of the double movement, then, needs to be read as a defensive response triggered by the growing political salience of phenomena on which progressive discourses furnish no conceptual leverage; as the anxious theoretical assertion of the autonomy of sociality, moral sentiment, and authority at a time when these have become interiorized into the logic of economy to a historically unprecedented extent.
  1735. ==========
  1736. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1737. - Your Highlight on Location 365-366 | Added on Tuesday, January 26, 2016 6:43:59 AM
  1738.  
  1739. In contemporary capitalism, money simply means social power; denying this is not so much a meaningful personal belief or a potentially effective attempt to resist the lure of a fetish, but rather the inability or reluctance to recognize a social fact.
  1740. ==========
  1741. Laughing at the Futility of it All_ An Interview with Aragorn! - Hostis & Aragorn!
  1742. - Your Highlight on page 2-2 | Added on Tuesday, January 26, 2016 7:15:52 AM
  1743.  
  1744. there are many individuals who espouse radical politics only as a tonic for their bourgeois guilt or as a means to moralize against friends and enemies alike
  1745. ==========
  1746. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1747. - Your Highlight on Location 507-511 | Added on Tuesday, January 26, 2016 1:37:12 PM
  1748.  
  1749. For Agamben, the points of articulation between practice and power are constructed around “bare life”—zoe, a form of life that is governed by biological functions and imperatives, stripped of distinctively human qualities. The institution of a symbolic order permits us to develop forms of life (bios) that transcend bare biological life; but bare life, the negation of bios, always remains the foundation of that order. Order is founded on the fact that sovereignty can take away the life that it gives. In this sense, modern power is founded on the possibility of excepting itself from and raising itself above the symbolic law (e.g., Agamben 1998, 17; 2005, 3).
  1750. ==========
  1751. Male Fantasies vol 1_ women, floods, bodies, history - Klaus Theweleit
  1752. - Your Bookmark on page 208 | Added on Wednesday, January 27, 2016 1:57:11 AM
  1753.  
  1754.  
  1755. ==========
  1756. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1757. - Your Note on Location 595 | Added on Wednesday, January 27, 2016 8:44:25 PM
  1758.  
  1759. cruel optimism
  1760. ==========
  1761. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1762. - Your Highlight on Location 593-595 | Added on Wednesday, January 27, 2016 8:44:25 PM
  1763.  
  1764. When I experience a discontent in life that I can rationally understand to be bound up, in some way or another, with the extent to which I have focused my mental energies on academic objectives and criteria, often enough the most readily available way to reduce the resulting anxiety is to seek renewed validation from those very criteria by stepping up my commitment to them.
  1765. ==========
  1766. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1767. - Your Highlight on Location 623-625 | Added on Wednesday, January 27, 2016 8:48:56 PM
  1768.  
  1769. anxiety is a pervasive feature of modern social interaction. Most of us encounter the limits of our standard repertoire of roles on a daily basis, and in that sense modern life is a concatenation of traumatic events that become occasions for the renewed and intensified engagement with iconic signs.
  1770. ==========
  1771. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1772. - Your Highlight on Location 632-637 | Added on Wednesday, January 27, 2016 8:50:37 PM
  1773.  
  1774. Modern subjects get “networked” into power: through role-taking, we build up a set of connections and affinities that, as they are relied on routinely, come to constitute an intuitively plausible chain of associations, a set of tacit skills and implicit beliefs that become part of our identity. Norms “sink in,” gather affective power through the ways they are constitutively connected to issues of personal significance. Social norms and internal psychic life become more fully imbricated than in traditional societies, and as a consequence our attachment to the symbols and norms of modern power is no longer one of mere public performance, but deeply emotionally charged. The connection between self and power becomes libidinal in nature.
  1775. ==========
  1776. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1777. - Your Highlight on Location 651-654 | Added on Wednesday, January 27, 2016 8:54:16 PM
  1778.  
  1779. The extension of biopolitical power has not reduced but increased the reach of sovereignty, rendered it fully effective and actual rather than merely formal and notional. The diffuse nature of modern power refers not to a process whereby it is leveled out and operates across a flat social field, but to a more paradoxical movement of simultaneous decentralization and centralization whereby power becomes diffused in ways that organically generate points of symbolic concentration.
  1780. ==========
  1781. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1782. - Your Highlight on Location 698-706 | Added on Friday, January 29, 2016 4:20:58 PM
  1783.  
  1784. A nomos is not a formal rule or law (Singer 1958, 37), but rather the wider set of practices that ensure the contextualized application of a principle. It transforms the rigor of a formal principle into a usable set of habits and customs that make the oikos governable and inhabitable. An oikos referred to the estate of a propertied citizen, which included land and slaves and whose boundaries with the polis were fluid, shifting, and contested (Roy 1999). The meaning of economy broadened over time to encompass the interaction of the constituent parts of the polis, in the process taking on strong religious connotations. It increasingly referred to the proper relationship between the whole and its parts in abstract terms (Singer 1958, 53): economy “came to denote ordering of well-constituted wholes in general, including the cosmos” (55). Although economy thus certainly included issues of scarcity and the prudent allocation of resources, activities exclusively oriented to moneymaking—without consideration of what political or moral purpose it served—were emphatically not considered economic in nature. They came under the heading of chrematistics, the centrifugal effects of which were seen to be antithetical to the possibility of achieving economy (Watson 2005).
  1785. ==========
  1786. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1787. - Your Highlight on Location 724-729 | Added on Friday, January 29, 2016 4:24:43 PM
  1788.  
  1789. whereas an idol pretends to depict or emulate holiness and so denies its sublime qualities, an icon draws our gaze into a sphere beyond the visible, directs our attention to something that remains beyond all human comprehension (Fritz 2009, 426–427; Marion 2004, 70; Mondzain 2005, 96). The icon signifies by marking an absence, a lack in the here-and-now (Pentcheva 2006, 631), indexing the very fact that the invisible dimension cannot be rendered visible (cf. Belting 2005, 312). Its force derives from its status as a break within the realm of the visible: it is emphatically a “mere symbol,” its humility and nothingness serving as reminders of the insufficiency of human discourse and earthly life
  1790. ==========
  1791. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1792. - Your Highlight on Location 731-732 | Added on Friday, January 29, 2016 4:25:30 PM
  1793.  
  1794. The experience of the icon is affective: once it is perceived, it draws in the entirety of human experience (651), setting in motion bodily embedded rituals of veneration.
  1795. ==========
  1796. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1797. - Your Note on Location 734 | Added on Friday, January 29, 2016 4:26:20 PM
  1798.  
  1799. ?
  1800. ==========
  1801. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1802. - Your Highlight on Location 734-734 | Added on Friday, January 29, 2016 4:26:20 PM
  1803.  
  1804. through the paradoxical logic of the economy,
  1805. ==========
  1806. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1807. - Your Highlight on Location 739-742 | Added on Friday, January 29, 2016 4:32:17 PM
  1808.  
  1809. the modern sign has evolved through an engagement with the ever-present accusation of idolatry. Iconoclasm has been the motor behind a process of semiotic rationalization that served to attenuate the association of images with magic and so recast the transcendent moment as a virtual moment, produced through mundane technologies but nonetheless capable of inducing a sublime, out-of-the-ordinary experience.
  1810. ==========
  1811. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1812. - Your Note on Location 742 | Added on Friday, January 29, 2016 4:34:09 PM
  1813.  
  1814. like christ
  1815. ==========
  1816. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1817. - Your Highlight on Location 742-742 | Added on Friday, January 29, 2016 4:34:09 PM
  1818.  
  1819. Brought down to earth,
  1820. ==========
  1821. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1822. - Your Highlight on Location 743-744 | Added on Friday, January 29, 2016 4:34:46 PM
  1823.  
  1824. The paradoxical effect of the sharpened ontological distinction between divinity and humanity was the intensified regulation of human affairs through human-made symbols, the institution of a form of government that revolved around signs indicating the absence of the divine.
  1825. ==========
  1826. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1827. - Your Note on Location 750 | Added on Friday, January 29, 2016 4:36:29 PM
  1828.  
  1829. the hidden iconography of the iconoclast as described earlier
  1830. ==========
  1831. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1832. - Your Highlight on Location 748-750 | Added on Friday, January 29, 2016 4:36:29 PM
  1833.  
  1834. The possibility of dissociating the church’s symbolism from idolatry was a precondition for its ability to continue accusing others of that very sin. The veneration of any sign that was not an integral part of the church’s symbolic infrastructure could attract the charge of idolatry.
  1835. ==========
  1836. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1837. - Your Note on Location 756 | Added on Friday, January 29, 2016 4:37:51 PM
  1838.  
  1839. ?
  1840. ==========
  1841. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1842. - Your Highlight on Location 755-756 | Added on Friday, January 29, 2016 4:37:51 PM
  1843.  
  1844. The church’s stance on usury was strongly motivated by an awareness that the spread of moneylending practices tended to erode its pastoral economy, its government through sacred signs and laws
  1845. ==========
  1846. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1847. - Your Highlight on Location 762-762 | Added on Friday, January 29, 2016 4:39:01 PM
  1848.  
  1849. chrematistics
  1850. ==========
  1851. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1852. - Your Note on Location 766 | Added on Friday, January 29, 2016 4:40:19 PM
  1853.  
  1854. narcissism of small difference i.e. terrorism
  1855. ==========
  1856. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1857. - Your Highlight on Location 765-766 | Added on Friday, January 29, 2016 4:40:19 PM
  1858.  
  1859. Despite all the contorted justifications offered by the church’s theologians, it was clear that the church worshipped profane objects.
  1860. ==========
  1861. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1862. - Your Highlight on Location 803-805 | Added on Friday, January 29, 2016 6:00:52 PM
  1863.  
  1864. It is precisely because money is nothing, an ordinary, human-made sign that lacks divine qualities, that believers could prove their faithfulness by approaching it in a spirit of austerity—not engaging in irrational, superstitious worship or hoping for magic but assuming personal responsibility for the proper operation of economy.
  1865. ==========
  1866. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1867. - Your Highlight on Location 819-821 | Added on Friday, January 29, 2016 6:05:02 PM
  1868.  
  1869. Iconoclasm never annihilates the economy and its signs but rather forces a transformation of our relationship to them, a practically consequential acknowledgment of their status as human constructs. And in this way they become ever more deeply embedded in the practices of everyday life, accruing associations and gathering semiotic density.
  1870. ==========
  1871. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1872. - Your Highlight on Location 824-825 | Added on Friday, January 29, 2016 6:05:33 PM
  1873.  
  1874. In capitalist society, redemption is not “a final transcendence but a threshold of renewal”
  1875. ==========
  1876. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1877. - Your Highlight on Location 838-843 | Added on Friday, January 29, 2016 6:07:48 PM
  1878.  
  1879. We may draw a contrast here with Agamben’s political theology, which emphasizes that liberal institutions are built on a faith that is at its core theological. It counters the decline-of-religion thesis by insisting that traditional belief has never eroded and essentially rejects the idea that belief has undergone consequential transformations. But what this cannot account for is the specific character of modern ritual, the distinctive way in which moderns relate to their symbols. Our secular age may still be theological, but the structure of our faith differs from that of traditional believers (Taylor 1991, 2002). Far from being simple idolatry, modern faith has evolved through a long history of rejecting idolatrous belief.
  1880. ==========
  1881. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1882. - Your Note on Location 565 | Added on Friday, January 29, 2016 9:42:15 PM
  1883.  
  1884. reread this section
  1885. ==========
  1886. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1887. - Your Highlight on Location 565-565 | Added on Friday, January 29, 2016 9:42:15 PM
  1888.  
  1889. It has proven difficult, however, to elaborate these points in a way that provides a distinctive purchase on historical processes
  1890. ==========
  1891. Instapaper: Wednesday, Feb. 3rd (Instapaper)
  1892. - Your Highlight on Location 720-720 | Added on Friday, February 5, 2016 6:02:02 AM
  1893.  
  1894. A lokshahir is a people’s poet, a master of the tamasha folk form.
  1895. ==========
  1896. Instapaper: Wednesday, Feb. 3rd (Instapaper)
  1897. - Your Highlight on Location 753-755 | Added on Friday, February 5, 2016 6:07:59 AM
  1898.  
  1899. Tamhane, who was introduced to the culture of lokshahiri with a performance by the famous Telugu balladeer and Naxalite activist Gaddar nine years ago, wanted his protagonist to have his own personality. The inspirations, thus, have been many, including Dalit Marathi poet and activist Namdeo Dhasal.
  1900. ==========
  1901. Instapaper: Wednesday, Feb. 3rd (Instapaper)
  1902. - Your Highlight on Location 850-851 | Added on Friday, February 5, 2016 8:35:15 AM
  1903.  
  1904. Communist folk poet and member of the Lalhawata Kalapathak (Red Flag Cultural Squad),whose
  1905. ==========
  1906. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1907. - Your Highlight on Location 869-875 | Added on Friday, February 5, 2016 12:40:53 PM
  1908.  
  1909. Semiotic perspectives, which are closely interwoven with the pragmatist tradition of thought, view meaning not as established through an arbitrary fix but as emerging through ongoing, pragmatically driven use that continuously generates new terms. The establishment of a connection between two terms generates a third one, a new sign that registers the transformation wrought by the new fact of the association. The new connection leaves a trace: it is recorded, encoded in a new sign. The point of signification is to produce an interpretant, a subjectively experienced effect that makes a difference in the way subjects relate to the world. Without an interpretant, a sign would remain arbitrary, incapable of generating new habits or beliefs. In this picture of semiosis, there is no outside act that produces meaning: it is fully immanent to the social field (Moxey 1991).
  1910. ==========
  1911. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1912. - Your Highlight on Location 898-900 | Added on Friday, February 5, 2016 3:40:44 PM
  1913.  
  1914. Understanding the operation of metaphor requires letting go of the idea that we start out with an original sign that is not itself a complex relational construction, an atom that cannot be broken down into its constituent elements; that there are things that are not themselves societies, in Gabriel Tarde’s words (cited in Latour 2002, 120).
  1915. ==========
  1916. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1917. - Your Highlight on Location 940-941 | Added on Friday, February 5, 2016 4:05:01 PM
  1918.  
  1919. Actors employ metaphors instrumentally, in order to selectively transplant meaning and so to extend their control and leverage their capacity for affecting.
  1920. ==========
  1921. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1922. - Your Highlight on Location 955-956 | Added on Friday, February 5, 2016 4:15:49 PM
  1923.  
  1924. Communication seems possible because it is anchored in and can invoke the symbolic authority of iconic signs.
  1925. ==========
  1926. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1927. - Your Note on Location 960 | Added on Friday, February 5, 2016 4:17:11 PM
  1928.  
  1929. roosh v
  1930. ==========
  1931. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1932. - Your Highlight on Location 958-960 | Added on Friday, February 5, 2016 4:17:11 PM
  1933.  
  1934. Once a particular iconic sign has been established, the most readily available way to claim authority for one’s position and gain discursive traction is to link up to it (Galloway and Thacker 2007; Grewal 2008): metaphors work best when they invoke solidly institutionalized patterns of authority, familiar sentiments, and sedimented habits.
  1935. ==========
  1936. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1937. - Your Bookmark on Location 954 | Added on Friday, February 5, 2016 4:19:37 PM
  1938.  
  1939.  
  1940. ==========
  1941. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1942. - Your Highlight on Location 2299-2300 | Added on Friday, February 5, 2016 4:20:25 PM
  1943.  
  1944. Mental networks do not become stale or stagnant, but rather work to organize progressively wider swathes of experience around the fortification of existing identities.
  1945. ==========
  1946. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1947. - Your Highlight on Location 1011-1012 | Added on Friday, February 5, 2016 5:18:51 PM
  1948.  
  1949. Moderns accordingly do not experience money as involving a dismal uniformity, but as offering unconditional, universal access to difference
  1950. ==========
  1951. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1952. - Your Highlight on Location 1034-1037 | Added on Friday, February 5, 2016 5:22:04 PM
  1953.  
  1954. When we experience the problematic aspects of our investments, we can shift to a scholastic perspective that allows for externalization: we do not just simply deny the existence of a problem, but locate its sources in others’ behavior, imagining a fetishistic irrationality to which we can contrast our own beliefs. In this way, our capacity for interactive role-taking becomes a means for selective learning, an ability to ward off challenges to existing conceptual frameworks by ignoring them.
  1955. ==========
  1956. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (Martijn Konings)
  1957. - Your Highlight on Location 1046-1047 | Added on Friday, February 5, 2016 5:23:43 PM
  1958.  
  1959. in the context of a more plastic environment of expanded possibilities, orderly conduct requires a heightened degree of intuitive sensitivity to iconic signs.
  1960. ==========
  1961. On Destroying What Destroys You_ An Interview with Thomas Nail - Hostis & Thomas Nail
  1962. - Your Highlight on page 3-3 | Added on Saturday, February 6, 2016 12:16:01 PM
  1963.  
  1964. As Guattari said, “In my view, this huge factory, this mighty capitalistic machine also produces what happens to us when we dream, when we daydream, when we fantasize, when we fall in love, and so on
  1965. ==========
  1966. Instapaper: Saturday, Feb. 6th (Instapaper)
  1967. - Your Highlight on Location 92-94 | Added on Saturday, February 6, 2016 2:28:24 PM
  1968.  
  1969. Identifying the distance between the proto-fascist militia movement and actual fascism as the absence of the singular leader, Neiwart has shown that, at least until 2015, the conservative movement slid into increasingly extreme and violent provocations, but lacked a leader to consolidate lone wolf acts of violence.
  1970. ==========
  1971. Instapaper: Saturday, Feb. 6th (Instapaper)
  1972. - Your Highlight on Location 287-289 | Added on Sunday, February 7, 2016 1:31:57 PM
  1973.  
  1974. The women who complained about their treatment were talking about their own lives, and how the insults and harassment had affected them. And so the debunkers, intentionally or not, sent the message that the really important thing here was not women’s experiences but rather how they might affect a man.
  1975. ==========
  1976. Instapaper: Saturday, Feb. 6th (Instapaper)
  1977. - Your Highlight on Location 923-927 | Added on Sunday, February 7, 2016 1:39:41 PM
  1978.  
  1979. Roosh V and his hypermasculine cohorts are just part of the larger neoreactionary movement that has blossomed in the past twenty years. Coalitions of Christian evangelicals, survivalist militiamen, and xenophobes organized by the GOP over the past 30 years have paved the way for an alternative rightwing intelligentsia to claim leadership over these foot soldiers. Just as anarchists and communists have a tenuous relationship with the liberal Left, the alt-Right view their Republican allies with contempt for being beholden to what they perceive as the “cultural Marxism” of mainstream politics.
  1980. ==========
  1981. Instapaper: Saturday, Feb. 6th (Instapaper)
  1982. - Your Highlight on Location 1116-1117 | Added on Sunday, February 7, 2016 1:51:31 PM
  1983.  
  1984. My favorite male bar patron stealth game is someone saying “I’m thinking about leaving soon,” and then trailing off with casual implication.
  1985. ==========
  1986. Instapaper: Saturday, Feb. 6th (Instapaper)
  1987. - Your Highlight on Location 954-958 | Added on Sunday, February 7, 2016 1:53:03 PM
  1988.  
  1989. Historically speaking, absolute overaccumulation of capital likely occurred about the time just before the outbreak of the inter-imperialist conflict over markets — pre-1914. While absolute accumulation of capital led to the rise of imperialism and division of the world market among the leading capitalist countries, it also led to another result that is even today little understood by most working people even though we have been living with the consequences for some 80 years: what Marx called “the breakdown of production on the basis of exchange value”.
  1990. ==========
  1991. ENDNOTES 4: Unity in Separation (Endnotes)
  1992. - Your Note on page 10 | Location 144 | Added on Monday, February 8, 2016 3:46:27 PM
  1993.  
  1994. ??
  1995. ==========
  1996. ENDNOTES 4: Unity in Separation (Endnotes)
  1997. - Your Highlight on page 10 | Location 143-144 | Added on Monday, February 8, 2016 3:46:27 PM
  1998.  
  1999. Later, the Ukraine’s Maidan protests, kicked off by pro-European liberals and nationalists, mutated into encampments of dispossessed workers.
  2000. ==========
  2001. ENDNOTES 4: Unity in Separation (Endnotes)
  2002. - Your Bookmark on page 10 | Location 141 | Added on Monday, February 8, 2016 3:46:41 PM
  2003.  
  2004.  
  2005. ==========
  2006. ENDNOTES 4: Unity in Separation (Endnotes)
  2007. - Your Bookmark on page 63 | Location 961 | Added on Monday, February 8, 2016 3:47:00 PM
  2008.  
  2009.  
  2010. ==========
  2011. ENDNOTES 4: Unity in Separation (Endnotes)
  2012. - Your Bookmark on page 63 | Location 965 | Added on Monday, February 8, 2016 3:49:27 PM
  2013.  
  2014.  
  2015. ==========
  2016. coming of The Coming Insurrection_ notes on a politics of neocommunism, The - Andy Merrifield
  2017. - Your Highlight on page 4-4 | Added on Wednesday, February 10, 2016 12:11:47 AM
  2018.  
  2019. anti-terrorism, contrary to what the term itself insinuates, is not a means of fighting against terrorism, but is the method by which one positively produces the political enemy as terrorist
  2020. ==========
  2021. coming of The Coming Insurrection_ notes on a politics of neocommunism, The - Andy Merrifield
  2022. - Your Highlight on page 5-5 | Added on Wednesday, February 10, 2016 12:41:35 AM
  2023.  
  2024. Cravan's equally short-lived Maintenant
  2025. ==========
  2026. No Selves To Abolish_ afropessimism, anti-politics, & the end of the world - K. Aarons
  2027. - Your Highlight on page 8-8 | Added on Saturday, February 13, 2016 1:17:12 PM
  2028.  
  2029. The slave relation, Patterson argued, is rather defined by a threefold condition: a) general dishonourment (or social death), b) natal alienation (i.e. the systematic rupture of familial and genealogical continuities), c) gratuitous or limitless violence
  2030. ==========
  2031. No Selves To Abolish_ afropessimism, anti-politics, & the end of the world - K. Aarons
  2032. - Your Highlight on page 9-9 | Added on Saturday, February 13, 2016 1:20:19 PM
  2033.  
  2034. ] he value of blackness resided in its metaphorical aptitude, whether literally understood as the fungibility of the commodity or understood as the imaginative surface upon which the master and the nation came to understand themselves.[…] [T]he fungibility of the commodity makes the captive body an abstract and empty vessel vulnerable to the projection of others’ feelings, ideas, desires, and values; and, as property, the dispossessed body of the enslaved is the surrogate for the master’s body since it guarantees his disembodied universality and acts as the sign of his power and dominion
  2035. ==========
  2036. No Selves To Abolish_ afropessimism, anti-politics, & the end of the world - K. Aarons
  2037. - Your Highlight on page 9-9 | Added on Saturday, February 13, 2016 1:21:19 PM
  2038.  
  2039. As Loic Wacquant has noted, the prison-slave is subjected to a three-fold civil closure. They are denied: cultural capital (university credentials, pell grants, education), social redistribution (access to welfare, unemployment, veteran’s benefits), and political participation (voting). See Wacquant, “From Slavery to Mass Incarceration
  2040. ==========
  2041. No Selves To Abolish_ afropessimism, anti-politics, & the end of the world - K. Aarons
  2042. - Your Highlight on page 9-9 | Added on Saturday, February 13, 2016 1:22:12 PM
  2043.  
  2044. At a symbolic level, these theorists argue that the racial abjection of the slave were transferred to an “epidermalized” racial construction of Blackness, which had the effect of inscribing the social death and relationless objecthood at the level of appearance itself: the slave relation now marks itself within the being-as-such of Blackness
  2045. ==========
  2046. No Selves To Abolish_ afropessimism, anti-politics, & the end of the world - K. Aarons
  2047. - Your Highlight on page 9-9 | Added on Saturday, February 13, 2016 1:23:06 PM
  2048.  
  2049. At a symbolic level, these theorists argue that the racial abjection of the slave were transferred to an “epidermalized” racial construction of Blackness, which had the effect of inscribing the social death and relationless objecthood at the level of appearance itself: the slave relation now marks itself within the being-as-such of Blackness
  2050. ==========
  2051. No Selves To Abolish_ afropessimism, anti-politics, & the end of the world - K. Aarons
  2052. - Your Note on page 9 | Added on Saturday, February 13, 2016 1:23:47 PM
  2053.  
  2054. how does this interact with Spectacle
  2055. ==========
  2056. No Selves To Abolish_ afropessimism, anti-politics, & the end of the world - K. Aarons
  2057. - Your Highlight on page 9-9 | Added on Saturday, February 13, 2016 1:23:47 PM
  2058.  
  2059. The visual field, ‘my own appearance,’ is the cut, the mechanism that elaborates the division between the non-n-[epithet]-ness and slavery, the difference between the living and the dead
  2060. ==========
  2061. No Selves To Abolish_ afropessimism, anti-politics, & the end of the world - K. Aarons
  2062. - Your Highlight on page 10-10 | Added on Saturday, February 13, 2016 1:27:12 PM
  2063.  
  2064. The physical violence marking Black bodies is continuous with the slave relation, in that it remains basically despotic and gratuitous, awaiting no legitimate cause or justification, open to limitless expression, and enjoying institutional impunity
  2065. ==========
  2066. No Selves To Abolish_ afropessimism, anti-politics, & the end of the world - K. Aarons
  2067. - Your Highlight on page 10-10 | Added on Saturday, February 13, 2016 1:28:28 PM
  2068.  
  2069. Modernity is therefore fundamentally organized around a “double register” 8 . On the one hand, those included within civil society are subjected to a “contingent, ideological exploitation by variable capital” (a regime of hegemony or exploitation). Yet this hegemonic exploitation nonetheless tends to preserve for the non-Black worker an existential commons which places symbolic limits on their degradation
  2070. ==========
  2071. No Selves To Abolish_ afropessimism, anti-politics, & the end of the world - K. Aarons
  2072. - Your Highlight on page 11-11 | Added on Saturday, February 13, 2016 1:34:30 PM
  2073.  
  2074. a symbolic space of belonging is safeguarded within White civil society through the social reinforcement of a racialized pathos of distance, whose axiomatic was distilled by Fanon into a simple phrase: “simple enough one has only not to be a n_____ [epithet]” This horizon below which non-Whites cannot sink without scandal is marked off by despotic direct force relations, which function as the existential border separating those who live in a de jure perpetual vulnerability to terroristic violence, and those for whom such violence could only be experienced under a de facto state of exception or subsequent to a transgression
  2075. ==========
  2076. No Selves To Abolish_ afropessimism, anti-politics, & the end of the world - K. Aarons
  2077. - Your Highlight on page 11-11 | Added on Saturday, February 13, 2016 1:35:20 PM
  2078.  
  2079. What Martinot and Sexton describe as the ‘ignorability’ of Black death and the impunity of police murder of Black bodies provides the constitutive background for the symbolic rationality of White democracy, and the symbolic currency of social capital within it. The incoherence of Black death, is the condition for the coherence of White common sense and hegemonic discourse. For this reason, the entire liberal discourse of ‘ethics’— inasmuch as it takes place within the White discourses framed by the ‘ignorability’ of police and carceral terror— renders it totally irrelevant to Black existence
  2080. ==========
  2081. No Selves To Abolish_ afropessimism, anti-politics, & the end of the world - K. Aarons
  2082. - Your Highlight on page 11-11 | Added on Saturday, February 13, 2016 1:36:45 PM
  2083.  
  2084. What Wilderson calls the “crisis of the existential commons” therefore describes the constitutive gulf across which any attempt to analogize and tether White visions of emancipation to Black life are bound to stumble. The product of asymmetrical regimes of force, it renders the project of what we could call an “affirmative identity politics” untenable for Black flesh
  2085. ==========
  2086. No Selves To Abolish_ afropessimism, anti-politics, & the end of the world - K. Aarons
  2087. - Your Highlight on page 13-13 | Added on Saturday, February 13, 2016 1:42:56 PM
  2088.  
  2089. Black and non-Black identity politicians who nonetheless continue to pursue a symbolic valorization of Black life (e.g. in certain currents of the “Black Lives Matter” movement) do so only provided they ‘structurally adjust’ or whiten the grammar of Black suffering to suit a Human grammar. In this way, rather than seeking a way out of the desert, they in fact only deepen
  2090. ==========
  2091. No Selves To Abolish_ afropessimism, anti-politics, & the end of the world - K. Aarons
  2092. - Your Highlight on page 13-13 | Added on Saturday, February 13, 2016 1:44:37 PM
  2093.  
  2094. recent struggles (particularly if one assumes a more global viewpoint) have increasingly taken place outside of identitarian coordinates, organizing themselves around perceptions of the intolerable that cut across diverse groups of people, carving out ethical rather than sociological lines of polarization
  2095. ==========
  2096. No Selves To Abolish_ afropessimism, anti-politics, & the end of the world - K. Aarons
  2097. - Your Highlight on page 13-13 | Added on Saturday, February 13, 2016 1:45:29 PM
  2098.  
  2099. autonomous organization around identity isn’t necessary for non-Blacks, so long as the ethical conflicts around which struggles are oriented tends paradigmatically toward self-abolition
  2100. ==========
  2101. No Selves To Abolish_ afropessimism, anti-politics, & the end of the world - K. Aarons
  2102. - Your Highlight on page 14-14 | Added on Saturday, February 13, 2016 1:46:20 PM
  2103.  
  2104. How can nonBlack persons who are struggling against the miserable lives they are offered do so in ways that do not, as Wilderson puts it, “fortify and extend the interlocutory life” of the anti-Black existential commons
  2105. ==========
  2106. No Selves To Abolish_ afropessimism, anti-politics, & the end of the world - K. Aarons
  2107. - Your Highlight on page 14-14 | Added on Saturday, February 13, 2016 1:48:20 PM
  2108.  
  2109. The legitimacy of ‘the people’, ‘the oppressed’, the ‘99%’ is the Trojan horse by which the constituent is smuggled back into insurrectionary destitution. This is the surest method for undoing an insurrection—one that doesn’t even require defeating it in the streets. To make the destitution irreversible, therefore, we must begin by abandoning our own legitimacy
  2110. ==========
  2111. ENDNOTES 4: Unity in Separation (Endnotes)
  2112. - Your Bookmark on page 11 | Location 160 | Added on Saturday, February 13, 2016 2:15:32 PM
  2113.  
  2114.  
  2115. ==========
  2116. Dad (bmumford@gmail.com)
  2117. - Your Highlight on Location 72-73 | Added on Saturday, February 13, 2016 2:50:25 PM
  2118.  
  2119. Already, it seemed, the world was pregnant with signs and portents. The far-flung images of my dad’s life were coming home to roost.
  2120. ==========
  2121. Dad (bmumford@gmail.com)
  2122. - Your Highlight on Location 130-133 | Added on Saturday, February 13, 2016 2:56:36 PM
  2123.  
  2124. Always, his conversational style was adamantly Socratic. As teenagers, my friends were usually pleased and honored to find an adult so interested in their thoughts, and if his interrogative method became a kind of habit eventually, a way possibly of withdrawing from actual, improvised conversational entanglements, it was no more a habit than other men’s un-hearing conversational tics. Some guys tell stories or dispense facts; my dad posed questions.
  2125. ==========
  2126. Dad (bmumford@gmail.com)
  2127. - Your Highlight on Location 269-269 | Added on Saturday, February 13, 2016 3:11:08 PM
  2128.  
  2129. Plus, they said, sunset was often a time for passing.
  2130. ==========
  2131. we-are-nothing-reading-version.pdf
  2132. - Your Highlight on page 3-3 | Added on Monday, February 15, 2016 10:45:55 AM
  2133.  
  2134. Accomplices, depleted plants, past the infiltration complexes and the leaning towers: the brain, a kind of trading floor, a land all borders without volume. That’s not an assertion so much as a ruthless misunderstandpoint loaded up with epistemological weaponry, fastened against the approach of nightfall’s legal claim on unregistered bodies singing along with the signal flags carving up the rump-state of Aristotelian physics— an arrangements of hastenings, finalities, backfooted claims releases.Oh, the sad life of the professional truth-proceduralist! Once the air goes out of the piety market, you’re just there all blacked out between the collector and the lecturer
  2135. ==========
  2136. Instapaper: Monday, Feb. 15th (Instapaper)
  2137. - Your Highlight on Location 395-405 | Added on Monday, February 15, 2016 1:04:37 PM
  2138.  
  2139. The late Randy Martin, dancer turned academic, and author of Financialization of Daily Life, has posited a “social logic of the derivative,” arguing that “[w]hat we call identity is certainly an attribute of self that gets bundled, valued and circulated beyond an individual person.” Here it is not the underlying asset/person being considered but our constituent elements. For Deleuze this relationship between (financialized) capital and social control is captured in the notion “dividuation” — instead of a singular identity, articulated through the process of individuation, Delueze sees a separation of the underlying individual and their various attributes, analogous to a financial derivative. The categories by which people are articulated are those attributes useful to capital — your Amazon book preferences, your credit score, etc. Dividuation “defines and measures an attribute of an individual, and exists discretely from the “underlying” individual from which it is derived … Dividuation serves the purpose of control by being measurably in categories that are functional for capital.” For Deleuze, increasingly we are simply constituted points of data mining searches and computer profiles, divorced from any unitary whole.
  2140. ==========
  2141. Instapaper: Monday, Feb. 15th (Instapaper)
  2142. - Your Highlight on Location 422-429 | Added on Monday, February 15, 2016 1:08:16 PM
  2143.  
  2144. The perverseness of the logic here is that the only way to have as much upside risk as possible (more potential good outcomes than bad) is to continually go back to the well. The idea of hedging so prevalent in financial rhetoric is apt here — to remove as much downside risk as possible, to open up the future to good outcomes solely. And so just like a foreign exchange futures trader you become implicated in a systemic logic that promotes the dismantling of things into their constituent elements, demands a calculative agenda of commensurability, and rewards the individual management of risk. Whose fault is it but yours if you fail at Internet dating? You must have done it wrong. Or maybe you put all your eggs in one basket. And so in our online pursuit of love we are unwittingly cast into what Bryan and Rafferty have dubbed, “capital’s risk project,” whereby “the incorporation of financial ways of thinking and acting — often without us knowing it — sees competition and the pricing of everything becoming normalized.”
  2145. ==========
  2146. Instapaper: Friday, Dec. 18th (Instapaper)
  2147. - Your Highlight on Location 378-380 | Added on Tuesday, February 16, 2016 3:45:02 PM
  2148.  
  2149. Trying to derive any social phenomenon from any supposed ‘fact’ of ‘human nature’ is useless, except to diagnose the politics of the deriver. Of course it’s vulgar Hobbesianism, the supposed ineluctability of human cruelty, that cuts with the grain of ruling ideology.
  2150. ==========
  2151. To Our Friends (Invisible Committee)
  2152. - Your Highlight on Location 174-176 | Added on Thursday, February 18, 2016 3:47:57 PM
  2153.  
  2154. Only universal destruction, the death of everything, comes close to giving the suburban employee the feeling he’s alive, since he’s the least alive of all the creatures. “To hell with it all” and “let’s pray that it lasts” are the two sighs heaved alternately by the same civilized distress.
  2155. ==========
  2156. To Our Friends (Invisible Committee)
  2157. - Your Highlight on Location 192-198 | Added on Thursday, February 18, 2016 3:52:02 PM
  2158.  
  2159. he become the master and possessor of nature—one only seeks to possess what one fears. It’s not for nothing that he has placed so many screens between himself and the world. By cutting himself off from what exists, Western man has made it into this desolate expanse, this dreary, hostile, mechanical, absurd nothingness which he must ceaselessly devastate, through his labor, his cancerous activism, his shallow hysterical agitation. Relentlessly driven from euphoria to stupor and from stupor to euphoria, he tries to remedy his absence from the world through a whole accumulation of expertise, prostheses, and relations, a whole technological hardware store that is ultimately disappointing. He’s more and more visibly that overequipped existentialist who can’t stop engineering everything, recreating everything, unable as he is to bear a reality that is completely beyond him.
  2160. ==========
  2161. To Our Friends (Invisible Committee)
  2162. - Your Highlight on Location 258-259 | Added on Thursday, February 18, 2016 6:00:30 PM
  2163.  
  2164. the purpose of prophecy is never to be right about the future, but to act upon the present: to impose a waiting mode, passivity, submission, here and now.
  2165. ==========
  2166. Instapaper: Friday, Feb. 19th (Instapaper)
  2167. - Your Note on Location 862 | Added on Sunday, February 21, 2016 11:02:41 AM
  2168.  
  2169. how does this interact with spectacle
  2170. ==========
  2171. Instapaper: Friday, Feb. 19th (Instapaper)
  2172. - Your Highlight on Location 859-862 | Added on Sunday, February 21, 2016 11:02:41 AM
  2173.  
  2174. Jamaican gangsters, for example, “worshipped the gunfighters in Hollywood westerns”; in Kingston there was a “time honored tradition of gunmen modeling themselves on Hollywood desperadoes.” There was a “secret symbiosis” between these Caribbean gunfighters cum “mercenaries” and “politicians”; this worked to the detriment of the working-class opposition led in the 1980s by the social democratic leader Michael Manley (Gunst 1995, xiv, 9, 74, 81).
  2175. ==========
  2176. Instapaper: Friday, Feb. 19th (Instapaper)
  2177. - Your Highlight on Location 862-866 | Added on Sunday, February 21, 2016 11:03:38 AM
  2178.  
  2179. As the example of Jamaica suggests, it did not escape the attention of many Blacks that others had amassed enormous wealth and improved their status as a group under capitalism by taking the route of the lumpen. Blacks in the United States perhaps most notably in South Los Angeles - have not been blind to developments in the neighboring area of Hollywood. This led to the creation of “gangsta rap” and music moguls with plans as audacious as their lumpen brethren of the 1930s; yet somehow, in typical U.S. fashion, the discourse on this latter-day phenomenon has avoided making this obvious connection.
  2180. ==========
  2181. Instapaper: Friday, Feb. 19th (Instapaper)
  2182. - Your Highlight on Location 874-879 | Added on Sunday, February 21, 2016 11:06:21 AM
  2183.  
  2184. Years ago Max Weber defined the state as the agency which held a monopoly of legitimate violence in the area under its control. However, even in the days of Weber, this was rarely true in the absolute sense, as various lumpen - from mercenaries to pirates to mobsters - regularly used violence, particularly against enemies of elites, such as the unions. The ability of these lumpen to deploy violence is just another example of a traditional goal of right-wing elites - diminishing the role of the state and increasing the role of nonstate actors. One would think that creating two, three, or many Somalias, where the state was eviscerated and the ability to survive was often dependent on the protection to be received by families - organized crime or otherwise - is the ultimate goal of these elites.
  2185. ==========
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