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2- Your Highlight on Location 314-321 | Added on Monday, March 2, 2015 11:07:26 AM
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4yes, ‘apathy’ needs to be tackled. There needs to be a serious effort to talk politics with our class, counter the racist myths, and build real working class unity instead of partitioning it and allowing class to be co-opted for race and nation (white working class, British working class, etc). But does this mean that we need to get people voting, specifically, or write them off as uncaring if they don’t? Of course not. Whether someone votes or not is incidental. Apathy isn’t defined by whether you put an X in a box every five years but by whether you care about the real issues assaulting our class. Most people do, but feel powerless to do anything about them. That powerlessness is what breeds real apathy, not the unwillingness to vote but the feeling that they can’t change anything. That makes the real challenge not getting out the vote but giving workers confidence in their own collective power to force change in the workplace and the community. For that, you have to think outside the ballot box.
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6Male Fantasies vol 1_ women, floods, bodies, history - Klaus Theweleit  
7- Your Highlight on page 105-105 | Added on Tuesday, March 3, 2015 5:17:10 AM
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9She is no longer to exist for herself or in relationship with others. She is to be only a heroic still life for her son: nature morte
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11Male Fantasies vol 1_ women, floods, bodies, history - Klaus Theweleit  
12- Your Highlight on page 108-108 | Added on Tuesday, March 3, 2015 1:13:20 PM
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14The kaiser should have died at the head of his capitulating army." This is the reproach on the tip of every tongue; often it is directly voiced. 20 The fact that he failed to do so (and that many older officers opportunistically declared themselves in favor of the republic) has completely destroyed the credibility of the patriarchs. Now it is the turn of the sons
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16Male Fantasies vol 1_ women, floods, bodies, history - Klaus Theweleit  
17- Your Bookmark on page 125 | Added on Wednesday, March 4, 2015 2:35:10 PM
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22- Your Highlight on Location 285-287 | Added on Thursday, March 5, 2015 8:00:03 AM
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24The wit and sharpness of Tim Burton is entirely missing in Nolan’s obtuse movie. Indeed, as Andrew Klavan wrote in reference to the The Dark Knight, Nolan’s trilogy ‘is a paean of praise to the fortitude and moral courage that has been shown by George W. Bush in this time of terror and war’.
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26Heroes (Franco "Bifo" Berardi)
27- Your Highlight on Location 306-315 | Added on Thursday, March 5, 2015 8:10:15 AM
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29The process of de-materialization of value is part of the general process of abstraction that is the general trend of capitalism. Marx’s theory of value is based on the concept of abstract labour: labour time is the source and the measure of value. This implies that, from the point of view of valorization, the concrete usefulness of the working activity is irrelevant. What counts is the abstract work–time, not the concrete contents of productive activity. In the sphere of the market, things are not considered according to their usefulness, but only in terms of their exchangeability. Similarly, in the sphere of language, words are exchanged and valued according to their performativity, that is, their pragmatic efficiency. It is not truth, but effectiveness, against which we measure value in the sphere of communication. Pragmatics, as opposed to hermeneutics, is the methodology of social communication, particularly in the age of pervasive media: when information flows are pervading every space of the public discourse and imagination, simulation takes the central place in the emanation of the shared hallucination we call the ‘world’. Signs are exchanged with signs, not with real things.
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32- Your Highlight on Location 323-324 | Added on Thursday, March 5, 2015 8:11:25 AM
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34Our entire precarious life is submitted to this one imperative: competition. All of our collective energies are enlisted to one goal: to fight against all others in order to survive.
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37- Your Highlight on Location 571-576 | Added on Thursday, March 5, 2015 10:35:50 AM
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39It is widely assumed that protracted exposure to highly violent video games may produce an effect of desensitization in the minds of young people like Eric and Dylan, but this superficial observation, in focusing on the content of video games, fails to take into account the cognitive and psychological mutation produced by prolonged immersion in a digital environment. It is not the content of the game, but the stimulation itself, that produces the effect of desensitization to the bodily experience of suffering and of pleasure. Clearly, not everybody becomes a mass murderer merely because they play video games or engage in digital stimulation. But the mass murderer is only an exceptional manifestation of a general trend in this general mutation of the human mind.
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42- Your Highlight on Location 581-584 | Added on Thursday, March 5, 2015 10:38:27 AM
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44The fact that human beings learn more vocabulary from a machine than from their mothers is undeniably leading to the development of a new kind of sensibility. The new forms of mass psychopathology of our time cannot be investigated without due consideration of the effects of this new environment, in particular the new process of language learning.
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47- Your Highlight on Location 584-585 | Added on Thursday, March 5, 2015 10:39:01 AM
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49Two main developments demand consideration: the first is the dissociation of language learning from the bodily affective experience; the second is the virtualization of the experience of the other.
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52- Your Highlight on Location 586-593 | Added on Thursday, March 5, 2015 10:41:01 AM
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54According to Luisa Muraro, an Italian writer whose work is mainly dedicated to elaborating a feminist philosophical perspective, access to language is fundamentally linked to the affective relation between the body of the learner and the body of the mother. The deep, emotional grasp on the double articulation of language, on the relation between signifier and signified in the linguistic sign, is something that is rooted in the trusted reliance on the affective body of the mother. When this process is reduced to an effect of the exchange between machine and human brain, the process of language learning is detached from the emotional effect of the bodily contact, and the relation between signifier and signified becomes merely operational. Words are not affectively grasping meaning, meaning is not rooted in the depth of the body, and communication is not perceived as affective relation between bodies, but as a working exchange of operating instructions.
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57- Your Highlight on Location 597-601 | Added on Thursday, March 5, 2015 10:51:45 AM
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59Sensibility is the faculty that allows human beings to understand those signs that are not verbalized, and that cannot be reduced to words. Sensibility (and sensitivity, which is the physical, erotic face of the non-verbal ability to understand and to exchange meaning) is the interpersonal film that makes possible the empathic perception of the other. Empathy (the ability to feel the pleasure and the sorrow of the other as part of our pleasure and sorrow) is not a natural emotion, but rather a psychological condition that is cultivated and refined, and which, in the absence of such cultivation, can wither and disappear.
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62- Your Highlight on Location 602-605 | Added on Thursday, March 5, 2015 10:53:15 AM
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64this mutation in the experience of communication is producing a pathology in the sphere of empathy (an autistic trend) and in the sphere of sensibility (desensitization to the presence of the other). And this mutation of the psychic and linguistic interaction may also be at the root of the contemporary precariousness of life. Precariousness is not only the condition of labour in the age of global deterritorialization, but it is also the fragmentation of the social body, the fracturing of self-perception and of the perception of time.
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67- Your Highlight on Location 605-610 | Added on Thursday, March 5, 2015 10:54:49 AM
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69Time no longer belongs to the individual, and the capitalist no longer buys the personal life of individuals; instead, people are erased from the space of work, and time is turned into a vortex of depersonalized, fragmentary substance that can be acquired by the capitalist and recombined by the network-machine. Cognitive labour in particular – the work of information and imagination – is particularly susceptible to the precariousness rule. Being immaterial and purely informational, this kind of work does not need to be localized in a physical space. It can be transferred, fragmented, fractured and finally recombined in the abstract space of the internet.
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71Heroes (Franco "Bifo" Berardi)
72- Your Highlight on Location 676-680 | Added on Thursday, March 5, 2015 11:10:38 AM
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74The person suffering from depression feels guilty because s/he is unable to compete and to win, in an environment saturated with incitements to act, to mobilize energies. A violent break from the thread of depressive paralysis can sometimes seem to be the only way out – an action separated from reflection, an action that does not imply any future, a visible sign of existence, of mobilization, of energy. A violent acting out, as disconnected from a conscious elaboration: just do it.
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77- Your Highlight on Location 800-801 | Added on Thursday, March 5, 2015 11:28:07 AM
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79paralysis of empathic relations, and an increasing fragility of the common ground of interpersonal understanding, are becoming common features in the psycho-scape of our time.
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82- Your Highlight on Location 838-840 | Added on Thursday, March 5, 2015 11:34:46 AM
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84The surrounding world, the daily life of those he is associated with, seem to him to constitute a noisy, violent, insensitive environment. And his rare attempts at interacting with this world are destined always to be inappropriate, as if almost necessarily lost in translation.
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87- Your Highlight on Location 850-852 | Added on Thursday, March 5, 2015 10:48:35 PM
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89Cho is an alien, a monster, a totally incomprehensible being, and a disturbing enigma for his colleagues, for that bunch of podgy smiling young men and women wearing the same Nike shoes and the same horrible sweatshirts taking Prozac and Ritalin and Xanax in order to hide their inner conformist hell.
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91Heroes (Franco "Bifo" Berardi)
92- Your Highlight on Location 920-922 | Added on Thursday, March 5, 2015 11:24:11 PM
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94In the post-Fordist transition, the relation between work-time and value is jeopardized, as immaterial production and cognitive work are difficult to properly gauge. But the random effect is not limited to the sphere of the economy, as it spreads both to the sphere of social relations and to that of ethics.
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97- Your Highlight on Location 1003-1011 | Added on Friday, March 6, 2015 9:19:51 AM
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99Over the last few years, Greg Smith’s former company earned huge profits, first from the expansion of the American mortgage bubble and the European bubble of sovereign debt, and then again from the – almost simultaneous – bursting of these bubbles on either side of the Atlantic. Subsequently, Goldman Sachs proceeded to secure influence over some of the key political positions in the Italian, Greek and Spanish governments, in order to predate further on these countries after having driven them to the brink of disaster. The role of Goldman Sachs as one of the principal architects of the crisis in Greece was particularly remarkable. As was revealed in 2010, not only they had helped the Greek government to conceal the true state of the country’s finances, but at the same time they had also bet against Greece’s sovereign debt, hoping for its default. As a consequence, in a matter of weeks millions of Greek people saw their livelihoods utterly disintegrate, while the country sank into a state of widespread humanitarian emergency, as industries closed, hospitals ran out of medicine, and the suicide rate sky-rocketed.
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101Heroes (Franco "Bifo" Berardi)
102- Your Highlight on Location 1060-1067 | Added on Friday, March 6, 2015 9:33:08 AM
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104Annihilating nihilism is a peculiar phenomenon – the product of financial capitalism. In the sphere of financial capitalism, destroying concrete wealth is the easiest way to accumulate abstract value. The credit default swap (CDS) is the best example of this transformation of life, resources and language into nihil. The CDS is a contract in which the buyer of the CDS makes a series of payments to the seller and, in exchange, receives a pay-off if an instrument – typically a bond or loan – goes into default (fails to pay). Less commonly, the credit event that triggers the pay-off can be the restructuring or bankruptcy of a company, or even simply the downgrading of its credit rating. If the financial game is based on the premise that the value of money invested will increase as things are annihilated (if factories are dismantled, jobs are destroyed, people die, cities crumble, and so on), this type of financial profiteering is essentially constructed upon a bet on the degradation of the world.
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106Instapaper: Friday, Mar. 6th (Instapaper)
107- Your Highlight on Location 245-249 | Added on Friday, March 6, 2015 10:03:21 AM
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109“All I could do is look down the barrel of the gun and think about my kids who were shot,” said Johnson, who filed a citizen’s complaint with the CHP in December. “I didn’t know he was a police (officer). Never once did he say he was or show a badge. All he said was, ‘get back,’ with his gun out.” In a response to Johnson’s complaint, a CHP captain wrote to Johnson: “The California Highway Patrol maintains the highest level of expectations from our employees. I hope that if you should have any future contact with a member of this department it will be under more favorable circumstances.”
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1117 Tired Phrases That Marginalize Trans People – And What to Use Instead (everydayfeminism.com)
112- Your Highlight on Location 63-64 | Added on Friday, March 6, 2015 5:23:23 PM
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114stop conflating issues cis women face as issues all women face, and issues that people who menstruate face as issues solely (and, by implication, only “true”) women deal with.
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1167 Tired Phrases That Marginalize Trans People – And What to Use Instead (everydayfeminism.com)
117- Your Highlight on Location 63-67 | Added on Friday, March 6, 2015 5:24:25 PM
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119stop conflating issues cis women face as issues all women face, and issues that people who menstruate face as issues solely (and, by implication, only “true”) women deal with. One version of that is talking about “women’s bodies” and “uterus power” as a source of reclaiming stereotypes about menstruation without recognizing that statements like these are inherently cissexist. Cis women can and should keep talking about issues related to sexism and their bodies; they simply need to stop doing it in a universalizing manner, and simultaneously combat transmisogyny.
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122- Your Bookmark on Location 1120 | Added on Saturday, March 7, 2015 12:38:30 AM
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127- Your Highlight on Location 1170-1174 | Added on Saturday, March 7, 2015 1:00:00 AM
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129The text of the murderer perfectly expresses the feelings and opinions of a large portion of the European people, not to mention Americans. These opinions are not the product of madness or of a crazy delirium, but the rational neo-conservative elaborations of a right-wing idiot who thinks that European identity is based on the Christian faith and that Islam is the worst enemy of Europe, which has to be confronted and rejected by any means necessary. What Breivik writes might be signed in full and almost without correction by the neo-conservative intellectuals and the Tea Party militants of the United States.
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132- Your Note on Location 1197 | Added on Saturday, March 7, 2015 1:14:52 AM
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137- Your Highlight on Location 1197-1197 | Added on Saturday, March 7, 2015 1:14:53 AM
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139relativism,
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141Heroes (Franco "Bifo" Berardi)
142- Your Highlight on Location 1244-1249 | Added on Saturday, March 7, 2015 1:27:08 AM
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144dynamics of identification and aggression can be better explored if we acknowledge the differences between the historical regimes of Italian Fascism and German Nazism, and relate them to what is happening in the current century. These differences are illuminated under consideration of the baroque Catholic cult of the inclusive community (il fascio, the bunch, the union of those who are part of the same ‘populus’ and of the same nation) and the Gothic racist cult of the exclusive Volk. Nazism is essentially based on the negation of the human nature of the other, while Fascism is based on the aggressive inclusion of the other, and the punishment and extermination of those who refuse to be included.
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147- Your Highlight on Location 1249-1255 | Added on Saturday, March 7, 2015 1:29:18 AM
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149Regarding the traces of extremism evident in the first decade of the twenty-first century, I would contend that Nazism is embodied by the social-Darwinist cult of competition and the subjugation of the human nature of those who perish as a result of the ‘natural selection’ of the market. Italian Fascism, on the other hand, is revived in the modern age by the resentful and vengeful spirit of the losers, those who are marginalized in the economic game of competition and who react under the banners of cultural identification. The present war between Western absolute capitalism and Islamic fundamentalism may be viewed as a war between Nazism and Fascism. This war is going to indelibly stain future decades, unless some – currently unimaginable – political invention will come to free us from this cultural killing field.
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152- Your Highlight on Location 1259-1261 | Added on Saturday, March 7, 2015 1:30:39 AM
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154Since one’s belonging can only be conclusively proved by an act of aggression against the other, the combined effect of deterritorialization in the sphere of financial capitalism and of re-territorialization in the realm of identity is leading to a state of permanent war.
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157- Your Highlight on Location 1292-1294 | Added on Saturday, March 7, 2015 11:37:36 AM
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159Anders Breivik is the standard-bearer of all the anticommunists of the world, all the fanatics of the capitalist Restoration, which is, first and foremost, the Restoration of the patriarchal law. But he is also very much troubled by the role of the Father(s).
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162- Your Highlight on Location 1403-1406 | Added on Sunday, March 8, 2015 7:23:40 AM
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164the combined effect of a pre-existing condition of psychic suffering and of an enormous investment of time and mental energy in virtual activity is likely to be, especially for young people, an intensification of the sense of alienation, together with a sort of unravelling of de-socialization, and an increasing misperception of the common space of physical and affective interaction.
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166Heroes (Franco "Bifo" Berardi)
167- Your Highlight on Location 1474-1477 | Added on Sunday, March 8, 2015 10:13:08 AM
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169Identity is not naturally ascribed; it is a cultural product: it is the effect of the hypostatization (fixation and naturalization) of the cultural difference, of the psychological, social and linguistic particularity. Identity is continuity and confirmation of the place and of the role of a speaker in the cycle of communication. In order to be understood, one must play one’s role in the game, and this role is surreptitiously identified as a mark of belonging.
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172- Your Highlight on Location 1477-1486 | Added on Sunday, March 8, 2015 1:42:48 PM
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174identity is continually searching for its roots, and the place from whence the enunciation comes is often mistaken as one of natural origins: primeval and therefore undeniably true. The community, which is a place of communication (a place of exchange of signs conventionally charged of meaning), is mistaken as a natural place of belonging, and transformed into the primeval source of meaning. The temporary and transitional convention that gives meaning to signs is strengthened and transformed into the natural mark or motivated relation between sign and meaning. Identity may be seen as the hardening of the inner map of orientation. Identity is the opposite of style, which is singularity and consciousness of the singularity, a map of orientation flexible and adaptable, retroactively changing. Style never has a normative feature, nor implies any kind of interdiction and punishment. Identity is a limitation (unconsciously realized) upon the possibility of comprehension and interaction. It is a useful limitation, of course, but it is dangerous to mistake it as a condition of authenticity and primeval belonging. It is the condition of mutual aggressiveness, of racism and violence, and fascism. Identity is based on a hypertrophic sense of the root, and it leads to the reclamation of belonging as criterion of truth and of selection.
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177- Your Highlight on Location 1490-1498 | Added on Sunday, March 8, 2015 1:47:53 PM
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179In their book Change: Principles of Problem Formation and Resolution, the psychoanalysts Watzlawick, Weakland and Fisch write that the repeated application of the same solution in drastically different conditions is a neurotic attitude which leads to pathological situations. Observed within the context of the current global dynamic of deterritorialization–re-territorialization, such neuroticism emerges as a constitutive component of today’s world order. On the one hand, globalization and the acceleration of cultural and economic exchanges have increased the need for the flexible adaptation of conceptual and linguistic maps. Yet at the same time, paradoxically, the deterritorialization that globalization entails hugely intensifies the need for an identitarian shelter, the need for the confirmation of belonging. Here lies the identitarian trap which is leading the world towards the proliferation of points of identitarian aggressiveness: the return of concepts such as the homeland, religion and family as aggressive forms of reassurance and self-confirmation.
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181Heroes (Franco "Bifo" Berardi)
182- Your Highlight on Location 1502-1510 | Added on Sunday, March 8, 2015 1:52:12 PM
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184According to Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, universal history can be viewed as a process of deterritorialization. Deterritorialization is the passage from a space whose code is known to a new space, where that code loses its meaning, so that things become unrecognizable for anyone attempting to use the code that was produced by the previous territory. The history of capitalism is continuously producing effects of deterritorialization. At the outset, capitalism destroyed the old relation between the individual and both the agricultural territory and the family. Subsequently, it jeopardized the national borders and created a global space of exchange and communication. Currently, it is jeopardizing the very relation between money and production, and opening the way to a new form of immaterial semiotization. As capitalism destroys all forms of identification, it frees the individuals from the limitations of identity, but simultaneously it provokes a sense of displacement, a sort of opacity that is attributable to the loss of previous meanings and emotional roots.
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187- Your Highlight on Location 1547-1548 | Added on Sunday, March 8, 2015 2:19:38 PM
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189much of their memory had been lost in the decades of persecution and dissimulation, and often, the interdiction of the persecutors appeared to be the only evidence of its previous existence.
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192- Your Highlight on Location 1559-1568 | Added on Sunday, March 8, 2015 11:43:11 PM
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194Internationalism is not abstract moral solidarity, mere political will. It is the effect of the condition of work without quality, the condition of abstract work. As a consequence of this condition of radical alienation, industrial workers have been able to create the cultural conditions of equality. Industrial workers know that they are equals in their loss of humanity, of life, of time, of difference. It is through this alienation that difference can be reconstructed as consciousness, not as memory, as a political process of solidarity, not as belonging to an imagined origin. Since the working class was defeated by precariousness and the globalization of the labour market, the Volk has returned, stupid and bloody as it is, bringing with it the curse of origins, the obsession with belonging. In his book La Défaite de la pensée, Alain Finkielkraut rightly laments the fading of universal reason as the foundation of law and social structure, and the the re-emergence of identitarian culture and belonging. When relativism becomes culturalism, when belonging is mistaken as the foundation of law (‘memory is right’), when workers’ internationalism is defeated, modern universalism dies, and Humanism dies with it. Only the global, idiotic proliferation of particularities remains: crime and suicide.
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197- Your Note on Location 1568 | Added on Sunday, March 8, 2015 11:43:11 PM
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201Heroes (Franco "Bifo" Berardi)
202- Your Bookmark on Location 1625 | Added on Monday, March 9, 2015 1:56:03 AM
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211Instapaper: Monday, Mar. 9th (Instapaper)
212- Your Highlight on Location 695-699 | Added on Monday, March 9, 2015 9:53:37 AM
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214Here is John Mbiti: What then is the individual and where is his place in the community? In traditional life, the individual does not and cannot exist alone except corporately. He owes his existence to other people, including those of past generations and his contemporaries… . The community must therefore make, create or produce the individual. … Whatever happens to the whole group happens to the individual. The individual can only say: ‘I am, because we are; and since we are, therefore I am.’ (African Religions & Philosophy).
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216Instapaper: Monday, Mar. 9th (Instapaper)
217- Your Highlight on Location 761-762 | Added on Monday, March 9, 2015 10:23:32 AM
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219Frottage is both revelation of traces without origin (Max Ernst), evidence of a past that can’t be fully known. And irritation.
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221#Misanthropocene 24 Theses - Joshua Clover  
222- Your Highlight on page 4-4 | Added on Monday, March 9, 2015 5:31:03 PM
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224everyone who lives in condos named after gardens. One day gardens will come to get you. If they don’t we will do it for them.
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226Hear No Evil: Portland’s Cultural Shift and What It Means for Music - Noise & Color PDX (noiseandcolorpdx.com)
227- Your Highlight on Location 18-22 | Added on Tuesday, March 10, 2015 12:35:53 AM
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229Displacement in North Portland happened at a staggering pace. From 2000 to 2010, nearly 10,000 people of color moved out of the Albina District, the only area the real estate industry would allow African-Americans to live in for decades. According to U.S. Census data, annual median incomes in the Killingsworth neighborhood have risen over $10,000 the last ten years. Meanwhile, the median net worth for black households was lower in 2011 than it was in 1984, according to a 2013 report. And between 2000 and 2012, the black homeownership rate in the city fell ten points to 29 percent.
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231Hear No Evil: Portland’s Cultural Shift and What It Means for Music - Noise & Color PDX (noiseandcolorpdx.com)
232- Your Highlight on Location 42-49 | Added on Tuesday, March 10, 2015 12:39:44 AM
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234The lack of affordable housing regulation allows rents to rise with little restriction, and Oregon law prohibits local governments from enacting almost all rent-control policies outside of special subsidized units. But regulation, like Portland’s famous urban growth boundary, has also enhanced the number of multi-unit buildings being constructed inside a limited zone to avoid suburban-like sprawl. Although Portland’s rental rates are not skyrocketing at the speed of San Francisco or even Seattle, the U.S. Census ranks Portland as having one of the tightest markets in the nation. Despite tax-abatement programs for luxury neighbors like the Pearl District and the South Waterfront supposedly tied to affordable-housing units, the city Housing Bureau says they won’t even meet 2003 goals, much less expand and continue programs. Meanwhile, the average condo price rose 41 percent last year and the average apartment rental has climbed at a steady pace of six percent in 2012 and again in 2013.
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236Instapaper: Wednesday, Mar. 11th (Instapaper)
237- Your Highlight on Location 289-294 | Added on Wednesday, March 11, 2015 2:20:56 PM
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239Lin­guists have a name for a state­ment with a seem­ingly inevitable des­ti­na­tion that ends up some­where else: a gar­den path sen­tence. It’s typ­i­cal in com­edy, as in a mil­lion Grou­cho Marx lines: “Out­side of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” This device is also called a “para­pros­dokian,” which means “con­trary to expec­ta­tion,” though there is some con­tro­versy over whether this is really a term from clas­si­cal rhetoric or a mod­ern neologism.
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241Instapaper: Wednesday, Mar. 11th (Instapaper)
242- Your Highlight on Location 294-302 | Added on Wednesday, March 11, 2015 2:22:54 PM
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244rhetor­i­cal gar­den paths are endemic to coun­try music, often tak­ing the form of decon­structed idiomatic expres­sions. In George Strait’s “You Look So Good in Love,” by Glen Bal­lard, Roury Michael Bourke, and Kerry Chater, the word “in” is a hinge, turn­ing from a phys­i­cal descrip­tor to a state of being. Liz Anderson’s “(My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers,” as sung by Merle Hag­gard, includes a line in which both the fig­u­ra­tive and lit­eral con­no­ta­tions of an idiom are simul­ta­ne­ously at play: “The only thing I can count on now is my fingers.” These phrases work by refus­ing to take a metaphor at face value. If a metaphor is a sub­sti­tu­tion of one thing for another, leav­ing the word itself absent in its own descrip­tion, the dou­ble enten­dres of coun­try songs are the return of the repressed.
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246Instapaper: Wednesday, Mar. 11th (Instapaper)
247- Your Highlight on Location 307-308 | Added on Wednesday, March 11, 2015 2:23:35 PM
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249What is ini­tially dis­placed by a famil­iar col­lo­qui­al­ism is exca­vated by a pun.
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251Instapaper: Wednesday, Mar. 11th (Instapaper)
252- Your Highlight on Location 377-381 | Added on Wednesday, March 11, 2015 4:17:15 PM
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254The juke­box is a com­mon sym­bol in coun­try music; it’s only nat­ural for such a self-reflexive rhetor­i­cal style to iden­tify the mate­r­ial cir­cum­stances of its exis­tence. Beneath the vul­gar­ity of its ves­sel, the juke­box is inscrutably com­plex: a source of tes­ti­mony, a pro­lif­er­a­tion of voices, a col­lec­tion of sensations—all avail­able for a price. The juke­box, like the songs within it, is a com­mod­ity suf­fused with a mess of mean­ing.
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257- Your Highlight on Location 1707-1712 | Added on Friday, March 13, 2015 3:48:59 AM
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259In the age of industrial labour, the mind was put to work as a repetitive automatism, the neurological director of muscular effort. While industrial work was essentially repetition of physical acts, mental work is continuously changing its object and its procedures. Thus, the subsumption of the mind in the process of capitalist valorization leads to a true mutation. The conscious and sensitive organism is subjected to a growing competitive pressure, to an acceleration of stimuli, to a constant exertion of his/her attention. As a consequence, the mental environment, the info-sphere in which the mind is formed and enters into relations with other minds, becomes a psychopathogenic environment.
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262- Your Highlight on Location 1747-1748 | Added on Friday, March 13, 2015 3:54:08 AM
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264As Maurizio Lazzarato explains in his book La fabrique de l’homme endetté, debt is a new form of social blackmail, the chain obliging people to accept any kind of employment, however precarious, ill-rewarded, harmful or humiliating.
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267- Your Highlight on Location 1993-1996 | Added on Friday, March 13, 2015 9:31:25 AM
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269According to the World Health Organization, in the last forty-five years, suicide rates have increased by 60 per cent worldwide. These figures do not include suicide attempts, which are up to twenty times more frequent than successful suicides. It is perhaps not coincidental that these have been the years of the comprehensive implementation of the capitalist model worldwide; the years of thorough submission of attention time to the rhythm of the economic machine.
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272- Your Highlight on Location 2009-2016 | Added on Friday, March 13, 2015 9:35:21 AM
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274The biopolitical effect of semiocapitalism (better said: the thanatological effect of semiocapitalism) is essentially the capture of cognitive activity, and the subjection of the faculty of expression of the linguistic animal to the sleepless, aggressive dynamics of the labour market. Language is captured by the networked machine and turned into an essentially productive activity. Herein lies the trap: people are encouraged to consider their linguistic competence as factors of economic competition, and to manage and invest in them as such. Creativity, expressiveness, affection, emotion – the human soul, in other words – are considered to be productive factors, and consequently, they are evaluated according to standards of productivity. Exploitation, competition, precariousness, redundancy are not perceived as the effects of a conflictual social relationship, but are internalized as deficiencies of the self, as personal inadequacies. The unceasing restructuring of the organization of work is perceived as humiliation and brutality.
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277- Your Highlight on Location 2016-2026 | Added on Friday, March 13, 2015 9:37:23 AM
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279Only non-involvement and the ability to remain extraneous, to refuse any identification with one’s job and with one’s working condition, only a radical rejection of the ethics of responsibility, might offer workers the possibility of navigating a way out from this productivity blackmail. Unfortunately, the ethics of responsibility, the phoney discourse on participation and collaboration, are prevailing in today’s political and cultural life. We invest our psychic energies and our expectations into work because our intellectual and affective life is poor, because we are depressed, anxious and insecure. So we are trapped. The industrial worker who was obliged to repeat the same gesture a thousand times every day had no reason to identify with her work – so she invested her psychological energies into solidarity with colleagues, and her mind was free to hate the assembly line, and to entertain thoughts that had nothing to do with her daily slavery. Conversely, cognitive workers have been lured into the trap of creativity: their expectations are submitted to the productivity blackmail because they are obliged to identify their soul (the linguistic and emotional core of their activity) with their work. Social conflicts and dissatisfaction are perceived as psychological failures whose effect is the destruction of self-esteem.
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281Instapaper: Friday, Mar. 13th (Instapaper)
282- Your Highlight on Location 572-576 | Added on Friday, March 13, 2015 10:01:09 PM
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284In Portland, OR, “Jackie,” a homeless former social worker with muscular dystrophy, was hit with a misdemeanor theft charge for charging her phone from a plug on a planter-base on a sidewalk; she spent a day in jail when she missed her arraignment.      The electricity she used to charge her phone was worth a fraction of a cent. She keeps her phone charged for her personal safety. Worried that a pleading guilty would put a black mark on her record that would interfere with her ability to get social housing, she pled innocent. After two court dates with two different public defenders, the DA dropped the charge. 
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287- Your Highlight on Location 578-581 | Added on Friday, March 13, 2015 10:20:40 PM
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289For many years she worked in social services, and in some cases, with police officers. “I always liked cops,” she says. But now, she says, her perspective has changed.     “Before I became homeless, I had no idea what was going on,” she says. “Now I get harassed. How do you think that makes me feel?”
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292- Your Highlight on Location 478-481 | Added on Sunday, March 15, 2015 8:50:34 AM
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294It’s hard to reconstruct how much  of a role these libels played in creating the crisis of legitimacy before the  revolution – though some of their authors were among the revolutionary  leadership – but they undoubtedly spread the image of a monarchy in decay,  where the body of the king, the source of law, was rotted from the inside  out. 
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296Instapaper: Saturday, Mar. 14th (Instapaper)
297- Your Highlight on Location 649-652 | Added on Sunday, March 15, 2015 9:10:27 AM
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299of course, American torture still goes on: from the force-feeding of strapped-down captives in Gitmo to the psychological and physical terror Obama inflicts on thousands of innocent people every day as they watch the lizard-eyed drones hovering over them and wonder if this is the hour they’ll be ripped to shreds or burned alive to whatever the hell goes on in the secret cells our humanitarian leaders still keep in bases, basements and hidey holes all over the world.
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301Instapaper: Sunday, Mar. 15th (Instapaper)
302- Your Highlight on Location 482-483 | Added on Sunday, March 15, 2015 9:14:16 AM
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304I realized that Ashe occupies a vital space between fighting for material change for trans and gender nonconforming people and being a part of building cultural spaces that make life worth living. 
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307- Your Highlight on Location 1021-1023 | Added on Sunday, March 15, 2015 11:16:29 AM
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309Had exile driven him so mad he did not see? Had he been given some new mind-altering drug that had erased the police raids and assassinations from his brain? He had obviously forgotten the detail of the party mandate, based on the teachings of Malcolm X, that no member speak against another outside the ranks.
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312- Your Highlight on Location 2064-2066 | Added on Sunday, March 15, 2015 11:42:30 AM
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314solidarity is now broken, and every worker is alone, facing the blackmail of merit, the humiliation of failure, the threat of being made redundant. What follows is a sense of guilt, anxiety and reciprocal resentment for the perceived mutual inability to help each other, to build solidarity. This is how the heavy architecture of shared depression is built.
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317- Your Highlight on Location 2101-2102 | Added on Sunday, March 15, 2015 11:48:03 AM
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319‘Better to die of cancer than of hunger’, a woman from Taranto told a journalist.
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322- Your Bookmark on Location 2122 | Added on Tuesday, March 17, 2015 11:48:42 AM
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327- Your Highlight on Location 119-124 | Added on Friday, March 20, 2015 7:37:23 AM
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329Coming to grips with recent years through a history and practice of animation – one centered on the construction of moving images, rather than the recording of the physical, fleshly, and gusty – shows that recent movies, games, artist’s video works, shows, and everything in between are uniquely thick with the social history of capitalism, especially the persistent legacies and cartography of colonialism. Moreover, they have started to reflect on and shape themselves around that fact, bringing the means of their making and all its echoes into plain view, provided we know how to get a good line of sight through all the lens flare and softly falling particles.
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331Hostile and Notorious: The Conditions of Private Property (viewpointmag.com)
332- Your Highlight on Location 16-24 | Added on Monday, March 23, 2015 9:14:18 AM
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334the ide­o­log­i­cal defense of “pri­vate prop­erty” is both vague and mis­lead­ing. The seizure, or even abo­li­tion of pri­vate prop­erty doesn’t refer to the water bot­tles or homes that many of us have pur­chased; pri­vate prop­erty in the con­text of anti-capitalist pol­i­tics refers to the own­er­ship by bosses and land­lords of the resources peo­ple need to sur­vive. Most peo­ple have no access to the tools and sup­plies required to build their own fur­ni­ture, pro­vide all their own food, or main­tain a home entirely on their own. In a cap­i­tal­ist soci­ety, we depend on the mar­ket to pro­vide these for us in exchange for money. We work waged jobs, where we receive only a por­tion of the value we add to the com­modi­ties we pro­duce, and go into debt in order to afford them. When anti-capitalists talk about pri­vate prop­erty, they’re not refer­ring to the pos­ses­sions con­sumers have pur­chased in order to live; they’re refer­ring to those pos­ses­sions that the wealthy have accu­mu­lated in order to rent or sell to those who must work a waged job to survive.
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337- Your Highlight on page 2 | Added on Monday, March 23, 2015 10:19:27 AM
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342- Your Highlight on page 3-3 | Added on Monday, March 23, 2015 10:27:17 AM
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344Pacifists are reluctant to remember this, but early on the ancient Greeks invented democracy as a continuation of war by other means. The assembly practice on the scale of the citystate came directly from the assembly of warriors. Equality of speech stemmed from equality in the face of death. Athenian democracy was a hoplitic democracy. One was a citizen because one was a soldier—hence the exclusion of women and slaves. In a culture as violently agonistic as classical Greek culture, debate itself was understood as a moment of warlike confrontation, between citizens this time, in the sphere of speech, with the arms of persuasion.Moreover, “agon” signifies “assembly” as much as “competition. ” The complete Greek citizen was one who was victorious both with arms and with discourse.
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347- Your Highlight on page 3-3 | Added on Monday, March 23, 2015 10:31:10 AM
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349the Greeks are credited with the invention of democracy only on condition that its link with that rather exceptional type of massacre based on the phalanx is glossed over—that is, with the invention of a form of line warfare that replaces skill, bravery, prowess, extraordinary strength, and genius with pure and simple discipline, absolute submission of each to the whole. When the Persians found themselves facing such an effective way of waging war, but one that reduced the life of the foot soldier in the phalanx to nothing, they rightly judged it to be perfectly barbaric, as did so many of those enemies whom the Western armies were to crush subsequently
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352- Your Highlight on page 4-4 | Added on Monday, March 23, 2015 10:39:51 AM
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354tactical refusal of confrontation is itself only a stratagem of warfare. It’s easy to understand, for example, why the Oaxaca Commune immediately declared itself peaceful. It wasn’t a matter of refuting war, but of refusing to be defeated in a confrontation with the Mexican state and its henchmen. As some Cairo comrades explained it, “One mustn’t mistake the tactic we employ when we chant ‘nonviolence’ for a fetishizing of non-violence
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357- Your Highlight on page 4-4 | Added on Monday, March 23, 2015 10:41:03 AM
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359the most farcical case of false genealogy has to be the way Nelson Mandela, the founder of the armed-struggle organization of the ANC, was turned into a global icon of peace. He lays it out himself: “I said that the time for passive resistance had ended, that nonviolence was a useless strategy and could never overturn a white minority regime bent on retaining its power at any cost. At the end of the day, I said, violence was the only weapon that would destroy apartheid and we must be prepared, in the near future, to use that weapon. The crowd was excited; the youth in particular were clapping and cheering. They were ready to act on what I said right then and there. At that point I began to sing a freedom song, the lyrics of which say, ‘There are the enemies, let us take our weapons and attack them. ’ I sang this song and the crowd joined in, and when the song was finished, I pointed to the police and said, ‘There, there are our enemies!”
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362- Your Highlight on page 5-5 | Added on Monday, March 23, 2015 10:44:37 AM
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364the radical— someone who always takes the opposing view to the citizen. To the moral proscription of violence by the one, the other always replies with his purely ideological apology of violence. Where the pacifist always seeks to absolve himself of the state of the world, to remain good by doing no evil, the radical seeks to absolve himself of participation in the “existing state of things” through minor illegalities embellished with hardcore “position statements. ” Both aspire to purity, one through violent action, the other by abstaining from it. Each is the other’s nightmare
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367- Your Highlight on page 5-5 | Added on Monday, March 23, 2015 11:44:59 AM
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369Since the catastrophic defeat of the 1970’s, the moral question of radicality has gradually replaced the strategic question of revolution. That is, revolution has suffered the same fate as everything else in those decades: it has been privatized. It has become an opportunity for personal validation, with radicality as the standard of evaluation.“Revolutionary” acts are no longer appraised in terms of the situation in which they are embedded, the possibilities they open up or close.
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372- Your Highlight on page 5-5 | Added on Monday, March 23, 2015 11:51:51 AM
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374The petty terror that reigns there and makes everyone so stiff is not that of the Bolshevik Party. It’s more like that of fashion, that terror which no one exerts in person, but which affects everyone alike. In these milieus, one is afraid of not being radical anymore, just as elsewhere one fears not being fashionable, cool or hip. It doesn’t take much to spoil a reputation. One avoids going to the root of things in favor of a superficial consumption of theories, demos, and relations. The fierce competition between groups and inside them causes them to periodically implode. But there’s always fresh, young, and abused flesh to make up for the departure of the exhausted, the damaged, the disgusted, and the emptied-out. An a posteriori bewilderment overtakes the person who’s deserted these circles: how can anyone submit to such a mutilating pressure for such enigmatic stakes? It’s approximately the same kind of bewilderment that must take hold of any overworked ex-manager turned baker when he looks back on his previous life. The isolation of these milieus is structural: between them and the world they’ve interposed radicality as a standard. They don’t perceive phenomena anymore, just their measure. At a certain point in the autophagy, some will compete for most radical by critiquing the milieu itself, which won’t make the slightest dent in its structure.“It seems to us that what really reduces our freedom,” wrote Malatesta, “and makes intiative impossible, is disempowering isolation
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377- Your Highlight on page 5-5 | Added on Monday, March 23, 2015 11:52:44 AM
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379The radical defining himself as a producer of actions and discourses has ended up fabricating a purely quantitative idea of revolution—as a kind of crisis of overproduction of acts of individual revolt
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382- Your Highlight on page 6-6 | Added on Monday, March 23, 2015 1:21:35 PM
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384A decisive act is one that is a notch ahead of the movement’s state, and which, breaking with the status quo, gives it access to its own potential. This act can be that of occupying, smashing, attacking, or simply speaking truthfully. The state of the movement is what decides. A thing is revolutionary that actually causes revolutions. While this can only be determined after the event, a certain sensitivity to the situation plus a dose of historical knowledge helps one intuit the matter
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387- Your Highlight on page 6-6 | Added on Monday, March 23, 2015 1:23:35 PM
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389how to nurture the revolutionizing developments so as to arrive finally at a revolutionary situation. All those who draw satisfaction from dogmatically contrasting “radicals” with “citizens,” “active rebels” with the passive population, place obstacles in the path of such developments. On this point, they anticipate the work of the police. In the current period, tact should be considered the cardinal revolutionary virtue, and not abstract radicality—and by “tact” we mean the art of nurturing revolutionizing developments.
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392- Your Highlight on page 7-7 | Added on Monday, March 23, 2015 7:43:25 PM
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394contemporary strategists emphasize that modern victory results from conquering the hearts of the members of a population rather than their territory. Submission must be gained through adherence and adherence through esteem.Indeed, it’s a matter of imposing one’s purpose on the inner individual, where the social contact between human collectivities is established at present. Stripped bare by world homogenization, contacted by globalisation, and penetrated by telecommunication, henceforth the front will be situated in the inner being of each of the members that make up the collectivities.(... ) This sort of fabrication of passive partisans can be summed up by the catchphrase: ‘The front within every person, and no one on any front. ’ (... ) The whole politico-strategic challenge of a world that is neither at war or at peace, which precludes all settlement of conflict by means of the classic military juridical voices, consists in preventing passive partisans on the verge of action, at the threshold of belligerence, from becoming active partisans. ” (Laurent Danet, “La polémosphère”)
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397- Your Highlight on page 7-7 | Added on Monday, March 23, 2015 7:46:41 PM
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399) To win the war is to control the milieu.(
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402- Your Highlight on page 8-8 | Added on Monday, March 23, 2015 7:50:46 PM
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404from being a military doctrine, counterinsurgency has become a principle of government
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407- Your Highlight on page 8-8 | Added on Monday, March 23, 2015 7:53:20 PM
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409There is no world government; what there is instead is a worldwide network of local apparatuses of government, that is, a global, reticular, counterinsurgency machinery. Snowden’s revelations show this amply: secret services, multinationals, and political networks collaborate shamelessly, even beyond a nation-state level that nobody cares about now. In this regard, there is no center and periphery, internal security and foreign operations. What is tried out on faraway peoples will be the fate that is in store for one’s own people
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412- Your Highlight on page 9-9 | Added on Monday, March 23, 2015 8:00:27 PM
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414It sometimes seems as if revolutionaries are doomed to constitute themselves on the same model as what they’re fighting
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417- Your Highlight on page 9-9 | Added on Monday, March 23, 2015 8:07:52 PM
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419this is the monumental error of counterinsurgency: despite its success absorbing the asymmetry introduced by guerilla tactics, it still continues to produce the figure of the “terrorist” based on what it is itself. And this is to our advantage, then, provided we don’t allow ourselves to embody that figure. It’s what all effective revolutionary strategy must accept as its point of departure. The failure of the American strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan bears witness. Counterinsurgency did such a good job of turning “the population” around that the Obama administration has to routinely and surgically assassinate, via drone, anything that might resemble an insurgent
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422- Your Highlight on page 10-10 | Added on Monday, March 23, 2015 8:11:50 PM
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424we must make it so there is no longer a population. The population has never been the object of government without first being its product. It ceases to exist once it ceases to be governable. This is what’s involved in the muffled battle that rages after every uprising: dissolving the power that had formed, focused, and deployed in that event. Governing has never been anything but denying the people all political capacity, that is, preventing insurrection
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427- Your Highlight on page 10-10 | Added on Monday, March 23, 2015 10:50:33 PM
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429the districts were emptied out, the enclaves were broken, in this way effectively separating the “professional” revolutionaries from the riotous populations that risen up in 1969, tearing them away from the thousand complicities that had been woven. Through this maneuver, the Provisional IRA was constrained to being nothing more than an armed faction, a paramilitary group, impressive and determined to be sure, but headed toward exhaustion, internment without trial, and summary executions. The tactic of repression seems to have consisted in bringing a radical revolutionary subject into existence, and separating it from everything that made it a vital force of the Catholic community: a territorial anchorage, an everyday life, a youthfulness. And as if that wasn’t enough, false IRA attacks were organized to finish turning a paralyzed population against it
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432- Your Highlight on page 10-10 | Added on Monday, March 23, 2015 10:52:53 PM
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434When the most indiscriminate repression comes down on us, we should be careful, then, not to see it as the conclusive proof of our radicality. We shouldn’t think they are out to destroy us. We should start rather from the hypothesis that they’re out to produce us. Produce us as a political subject, as “anarchists,” as “Black Bloc,” as “anti-system” radicals, to extract us from the generic population by assigning us a political identity. When repression strikes us, let’s begin by not taking ourselves for ourselves. Let’s dissolve the fantastical terrorist subject which the counterinsurgency theorists take such pains to impersonate
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437- Your Highlight on page 11-11 | Added on Monday, March 23, 2015 10:57:07 PM
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439There’s not on one hand a prepolitical, unreflected, “spontaneous” sphere of existence and on the other a political, rational, organized sphere. Those with shitty relationships can only have a shitty politics.
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442- Your Highlight on page 11-11 | Added on Monday, March 23, 2015 11:00:13 PM
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444It’s largely because the Palestinian resistance has never prevented differences from existing within it—even at the cost of open confrontations—that it has been able to give the Israeli army a hard time. Here as elsewhere, political fragmentation is just as much the sign of an undeniable ethical vitality as it is the nightmare of the intelligence agencies charged with mapping, then annihilating, resistance
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447- Your Highlight on page 11-11 | Added on Monday, March 23, 2015 11:03:11 PM
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449The fact that these organizations shift between cooperation, competition, and violent conflict increases the general complexity of their interactions and with it their collective capacity, efficiency, and resilience. The diffuse nature of Palestinian resistance and the fact that knowledge, skills, and munitions are transferred within and between these organizations—and that they sometimes stage joint attacks and at others compete to outdo each other—substantially reduces the effect that the Israeli occupation forces seek to achieve by attacking them
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452- Your Highlight on page 11-11 | Added on Monday, March 23, 2015 11:05:40 PM
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454Accommodating internal conflict when it presents itself honestly, doesn’t interfere at all with the concrete elaboration of an insurrectionary strategy. On the contrary, it’s the best way for a movement to stay vital, to keep the essential questions open, to make the necessary shifts in a timely manner
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457- Your Note on page 11 | Added on Monday, March 23, 2015 11:05:41 PM
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459"when it presents itself honestly" might be doing some heavy lifting here
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462- Your Highlight on page 12-12 | Added on Monday, March 23, 2015 11:09:15 PM
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464We don’t know if the insurrection will have the look of a heroic assault, or if it will be a planetary fit of crying, a sudden expression of feeling after decades of anesthesia, misery, and stupidity
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467- Your Highlight on Location 2164-2166 | Added on Tuesday, March 24, 2015 8:16:12 AM
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469One day, a few young workers of Foxconn decided to alter the terms of their planned suicide. Instead of jumping from a window, or hanging themselves or setting themselves on fire, a group of them acquired explosives and transformed themselves into human bombs, setting ablaze some of Foxconn’s buildings and destroying the product of their own labours.
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472- Your Bookmark on Location 2171 | Added on Tuesday, March 24, 2015 8:18:41 AM
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477- Your Highlight on Location 2224-2228 | Added on Tuesday, March 24, 2015 8:27:55 AM
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479These people have to be brutally cynical in order to do their job, since their job is based on cheating, humiliating and impoverishing countless communities. Cynicism is not an easy burden to carry, and demands of those who bear it an unshakeable self-image of the winner, the invincible Übermensch. The cynical loser is subject to extreme danger. This hints at one possible explanation for why bankers are killing themselves – the occasional moment of self-awareness, revealing the yawning abyss that they have been excavating inside themselves while operating in a kind of moral vacuum.
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482- Your Highlight on Location 2301-2302 | Added on Tuesday, March 24, 2015 8:51:28 AM
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484Simulation is a copy which has no prototype, the imitation of something that does not exist, and has never existed except than in the simulator’s mind.
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487- Your Highlight on Location 2356-2359 | Added on Tuesday, March 24, 2015 9:01:32 AM
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489The individual is a smiling, lonely monad who walks in the urban space in tender continuous interaction with the photos, the tweets, the games that emanate from a personal screen. The social relation is transformed into a cabled interconnection whose rules and procedures are hidden in the coded linguistincs of the web. Perfectly insulated and perfectly wired, the organism becomes a smooth interface of the flow. In order to access the interaction, the individual must adapt to the format, and their enunciations must be compatible with the code.
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492- Your Highlight on Location 2407-2409 | Added on Tuesday, March 24, 2015 9:09:10 AM
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494my friends from Sujonomo N seem conscious of the fact that only our sense of friendship and the pursuit of a project of common research can give us autonomy, and can allow us to create the conditions for a renaissance to follow the apocalypse which we are currently undergoing.
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497- Your Highlight on Location 2431-2435 | Added on Tuesday, March 24, 2015 9:12:36 AM
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499Ethics used to be based on the proximity of the other. Ethical behaviour necessarily implied a sense of solidarity, the perception of belonging to a community, a territory, a shared destiny, and aspired toward the communal search for a common future. But what happens when competition becomes the general form of social relation, and the perception of the other becomes disembodied, functional and purely operational? What happens when every relation becomes fundamentally precarious?
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502- Your Highlight on Location 2469-2471 | Added on Tuesday, March 24, 2015 9:17:58 AM
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504The Protestant bourgeois was responsible to God and to the territorial community which made his prosperity possible. The worker was united with his/her colleagues through the consciousness of sharing the same interests.
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507- Your Note on Location 2471 | Added on Tuesday, March 24, 2015 9:17:58 AM
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512- Your Highlight on Location 2472-2475 | Added on Tuesday, March 24, 2015 9:18:55 AM
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514The post-bourgeois capitalist class does not feel responsible for the community and the territory because financial capitalism is totally deterritorialized and has no interest in the future well-being of the community. On the other hand, the post-Fordist worker no longer shares the same interest as his/her colleagues, but, on the contrary, is forced to compete every day against other workers for a job and a salary in the deregulated labour arena. Within the framework of this new precarious organization of labour, building solidarity becomes a difficult task.
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517- Your Highlight on Location 2476-2480 | Added on Tuesday, March 24, 2015 10:11:23 AM
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519During the last three decades social movements have tried to re-establish the conditions of modern ethics and to reaffirm the values that were the foundations of the bourgeois civilization: democracy, job security and the respect of law. Unsuccessfully. While the Neoliberal wave, taking advantage of new technology-based lifestyles, was transforming cultural and political expectations, the Left has been defending the ethical rules of the past and the established political institutions. Driven to an inherently conservative position, the leftists lost their character and their identity.
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522- Your Highlight on Location 2566-2567 | Added on Tuesday, March 24, 2015 1:05:12 PM
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524utter capture of human attention: ceaseless communication, mandatory friendliness, the creation of a new system of needs centred around the obsessive need incessantly to express and to share.
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527- Your Highlight on Location 2616-2618 | Added on Tuesday, March 24, 2015 3:10:12 PM
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529Money is our shelter, the only way we have to access life. But at the same time, if you want money you have to renounce life. Don’t build a shelter, it is surely going to be useless. Furthermore, building shelters is the job of those who are preparing the storm. Remain calm. Don’t be attached to life, and most of all: don’t have hope, that addictive poisonous weed.
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532- Your Note on Location 2668 | Added on Tuesday, March 24, 2015 3:32:26 PM
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537- Your Highlight on Location 2668-2668 | Added on Tuesday, March 24, 2015 3:32:26 PM
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539re-syntonization
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541Heroes (Franco "Bifo" Berardi)
542- Your Highlight on Location 2668-2669 | Added on Tuesday, March 24, 2015 3:33:06 PM
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544How can the subjectivity flows that we produce be independent from the corrupting effects of the context, while still interacting with the context?
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546Heroes (Franco "Bifo" Berardi)
547- Your Highlight on Location 2691-2692 | Added on Tuesday, March 24, 2015 3:39:26 PM
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549As consciousness is too slow for processing the information that comes from the world in acceleration (info-technology multiplied by semiocapitalist exploitation), we are unable to translate the world into a cosmos, mental order, syntony and sympathy.
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551Heroes (Franco "Bifo" Berardi)
552- Your Highlight on Location 2707-2713 | Added on Tuesday, March 24, 2015 3:44:20 PM
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554we need to produce and to circulate chaoides, that is, tools for the conceptual elaboration both of the surrounding and of the internalized chaos. A chaoide is a form of enunciation (artistic, poetic, political, scientific) which is able to open the linguistic flows to different rhythms and to different frames of interpretation. Chaosmosis means reactivation of the body of social solidarity, reactivation of imagination, a new dimension for human evolution, beyond the limited horizon of economic growth. Writing this book, I intended to produce a chaoide. Dealing with crime and suicide, I have been dealing with the contemporary spasm, and I have tried to decipher the social and cultural genesis of the present pathology. At the same time, I have tried to breathe normally, while staring into the eyes of the beast.
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556Heroes (Franco "Bifo" Berardi)
557- Your Highlight on Location 2727-2727 | Added on Tuesday, March 24, 2015 3:47:06 PM
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559Dystopia has to be faced and dissolved by irony.
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561Heroes (Franco "Bifo" Berardi)
562- Your Highlight on Location 2740-2741 | Added on Tuesday, March 24, 2015 3:49:34 PM
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564If you follow these inveiglements to participate, to be responsible – you are trapped. Do not take part in the game, do not expect any solution from politics, do not be attached to things, do not hope.
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566Heroes (Franco "Bifo" Berardi)
567- Your Highlight on Location 2742-2751 | Added on Tuesday, March 24, 2015 3:52:24 PM
568
569Be sceptical: do not believe your own assumptions and predictions (or mine). And do not revoke revolution. Revolt against power is necessary even if we may not know how to win. Do not belong. Distinguish your destiny from the destiny of those who want to belong and to participate and to pay their debt. If they want war, be a deserter. If they are enslaved but want you to suffer like them, do not give in to their blackmail. If you have to choose between death and slavery, don’t be a slave. You have some chance to survive. If you accept slavery, you will die sooner or later anyway. As a slave. You will die anyway; it is not particularly important when. What is important is how you live your life. Remember that despair and joy are not incompatible. Despair is a consequence of understanding. Joy is a condition of the emotional mind. Despair is to acknowledge the truth of the present situation, but the sceptical mind knows that the only truth is shared imagination and shared projection. So do not be frightened by despair. It does not delimit the potential for joy. And joy is a condition for proving intellectual despair wrong.
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571Male Fantasies vol 1_ women, floods, bodies, history - Klaus Theweleit  
572- Your Highlight on page 141-141 | Added on Tuesday, March 24, 2015 3:55:33 PM
573
574it is precisely the great importance he assigns to art, philosophy, "culture," that prevents him from accepting the political demands of the proletariat, especially when the topic of power is broached. 4 For him the notion of culture, or better, a "feeling" for culture, is linked to the rejection of female sexuality and a preference for certain male social circles
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576Male Fantasies vol 1_ women, floods, bodies, history - Klaus Theweleit  
577- Your Highlight on page 142-142 | Added on Tuesday, March 24, 2015 6:16:36 PM
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579Above all, the tribulations of puberty didn't weigh so heavily, and hopelessly, on proletarian youths. They apparently didn't depend for their lovemaking on fantasies concerning the constitution or the function of the human body. They were not victims of a celibacy enforced until well into their manhood years. From a sex-economic standpoint, this is not nearly as "devastating" a moral turpitude as Fermor's hours of lonely lovemaking with culture, where the body's thrills had to be brought up from the depths of Nietzsche. Now that is a sad ethos
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581Male Fantasies vol 1_ women, floods, bodies, history - Klaus Theweleit  
582- Your Bookmark on page 145 | Added on Wednesday, March 25, 2015 1:00:21 PM
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586Male Fantasies vol 1_ women, floods, bodies, history - Klaus Theweleit  
587- Your Highlight on page 168-168 | Added on Wednesday, March 25, 2015 11:46:40 PM
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589Not that Bloch himself wouldn't have known that these labels were "alienating commodity-categories." In spite of that, he felt able to use them as "real" descriptions of the "forms" taken on by that "confusion" that is woman.
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591Instapaper: Friday, Feb. 20th (Instapaper)
592- Your Highlight on Location 1037-1038 | Added on Thursday, March 26, 2015 9:25:51 AM
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594“To die for the people is weightier than Mount Tai, but to work for the fascists and die for the exploiters and oppressors is lighter than a feather.”
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596Male Fantasies vol 1_ women, floods, bodies, history - Klaus Theweleit  
597- Your Highlight on page 171-171 | Added on Thursday, March 26, 2015 9:29:47 AM
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599Our subjects are equivalent to the tip of the patriarchal iceberg, but it's what lies beneath the surface that really makes the water cold.*
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601Why the "OverMan" is a Middle Class Scam. Wake up Sheeple! (suburbanidiocies.tumblr.com)
602- Your Highlight on Location 67-68 | Added on Friday, March 27, 2015 9:42:46 AM
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604(First World) petite bourgeoisie are pretty much the most handicapped ones coming to the struggle, both in terms of ability to disrupt the system and in ability to understand what ‘s going on in the first place
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606Male Fantasies vol 1_ women, floods, bodies, history - Klaus Theweleit  
607- Your Highlight on page 207-207 | Added on Friday, March 27, 2015 10:50:42 AM
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609Through the dialectical process of extricating itself from that symbiosis, the self-perceiving ego of the child evolves. In the same moment as the child perceives its mother as an object located outside itself, it also perceives itself as an object distinct from the mother. In other words, it becomes an "ego," a subject, by learning to see itself as an object. (An object in the mother's eyes, and in the child's own eyes in front of the mirror.) 8 And so, the ego doesn't simply differentiate itself out of the id, as Freud tells us; it differentiates itself out of the mother-child symbiosis, a dualistic union
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611“Woody Allen is a genius. Woody Allen is a predator”: Why Mariel Hemingway’s new revelation matters (salon.com)
612- Your Highlight on Location 21-22 | Added on Saturday, March 28, 2015 1:01:21 AM
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614an artist of incomparable influence whose work has purchased him forgiveness from a public he spent his entire artistic career grooming to forgive men like him.
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616“Woody Allen is a genius. Woody Allen is a predator”: Why Mariel Hemingway’s new revelation matters (salon.com)
617- Your Highlight on Location 44-44 | Added on Saturday, March 28, 2015 1:04:47 AM
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619For those of us who were taught to be drawn to these ambiguities, to embrace to them, even,
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621"I Was Born a Baby Not a Boy": Sex, Gender and Trans Liberation (sheisrevolutionarilysuicidal.wordpress.com)
622- Your Bookmark on Location 27 | Added on Monday, March 30, 2015 12:55:56 AM
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626Housing Monster, The - Prole.info  
627- Your Bookmark on page 13 | Added on Thursday, April 2, 2015 12:52:26 AM
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631Housing Monster, The - Prole.info  
632- Your Highlight on page 13-13 | Added on Thursday, April 2, 2015 12:56:55 AM
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634In a capitalist society everyone’s activity is interchangeable and we are all equal as people with commodities for sale. At the same time most of us have nothing to sel l but our abi l i t y to wor k . Everything that is necessary to make useful things is owned and controlled by a class of capitalists— it is their private property
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636World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction (Immanuel Wallerstein)
637- Your Highlight on Location 40-41 | Added on Thursday, April 2, 2015 11:24:21 PM
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639we look at globalization and terrorism as phenomena that are defined in limited time and scope, we tend to arrive at conclusions that are as ephemeral as the newspapers.
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641World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction (Immanuel Wallerstein)
642- Your Highlight on Location 59-64 | Added on Friday, April 3, 2015 6:59:21 PM
643
644We have been arguing that the social reality within which we live and which determines what our options are has not been the multiple national states of which we are citizens but something larger, which we call a world-system. We have been saying that this world-system has had many institutions—states and the interstate system, productive firms, households, classes, identity groups of all sorts—and that these institutions form a matrix which permits the system to operate but at the same time stimulates both the conflicts and the contradictions which permeate the system. We have been arguing that this system is a social creation, with a history, whose origins need to be explained, whose ongoing mechanisms need to be delineated, and whose inevitable terminal crisis needs to be discerned.
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646World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction (Immanuel Wallerstein)
647- Your Highlight on Location 100-101 | Added on Friday, April 3, 2015 7:04:47 PM
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649Concepts can only be understood within the context of their times. This is even more true of whole perspectives, whose concepts have their meaning primarily in terms of each other, of how they make up a set.
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651World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction (Immanuel Wallerstein)
652- Your Highlight on Location 100-104 | Added on Friday, April 3, 2015 7:05:35 PM
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654Concepts can only be understood within the context of their times. This is even more true of whole perspectives, whose concepts have their meaning primarily in terms of each other, of how they make up a set. New perspectives are, in addition, generally best understood if one thinks of them as a protest against older perspectives. It is always the claim of a new perspective that the older, and currently more accepted, one is in some significant way inadequate, or misleading, or tendentious, that the older one therefore represents more a barrier to apprehending social reality than a tool for analyzing it.
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656World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction (Immanuel Wallerstein)
657- Your Highlight on Location 141-142 | Added on Friday, April 3, 2015 7:15:35 PM
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659The only legacy we have today of their erstwhile unity is that all the arts and sciences in the university offer as their highest degree the PhD, doctor of philosophy.
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661World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction (Immanuel Wallerstein)
662- Your Highlight on Location 143-145 | Added on Friday, April 3, 2015 7:16:19 PM
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664In the earlier period of unified knowledge, the search for the true, the good, and the beautiful had been closely intertwined, if not identical. But now the scientists insisted that their work had nothing to do with a search for the good or the beautiful, merely the true. They bequeathed the search for the good and the beautiful to the philosophers.
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666World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction (Immanuel Wallerstein)
667- Your Highlight on Location 147-147 | Added on Friday, April 3, 2015 7:16:47 PM
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669then justified the claim of the scientists that they were “value-neutral.”
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671World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction (Immanuel Wallerstein)
672- Your Highlight on Location 175-178 | Added on Friday, April 3, 2015 7:23:37 PM
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674historians would insist that they could write history only of the “past” and not of the “present,” since writing about the present inevitably bore the imprint of the passions of the moment. In any case, archives (which were controlled by the political authorities) were seldom “open” to the historian until a long period had passed (fifty to a hundred years), so they normally did not have access in any case to the important documents about the present.
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676World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction (Immanuel Wallerstein)
677- Your Highlight on Location 193-195 | Added on Friday, April 3, 2015 7:26:23 PM
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679in which countries were such historians located? The overwhelming majority (probably 95 percent) were to be found in only five zones: France, Great Britain, the United States, and the various parts of what would later become Germany and Italy. So at first, the history that was written and taught was primarily the history of these five nations.
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681World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction (Immanuel Wallerstein)
682- Your Highlight on Location 198-200 | Added on Friday, April 3, 2015 7:26:51 PM
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684The history of France was thus the history of everything that had happened within the boundaries of France as defined in the nineteenth century. This was of course quite arbitrary, but it did serve one purpose—reinforcing contemporary nationalist sentiments—and it was therefore a practice encouraged by the states themselves.
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686World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction (Immanuel Wallerstein)
687- Your Highlight on Location 203-207 | Added on Saturday, April 4, 2015 8:13:23 AM
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689Why, however, would there be three disciplines to study the present but only one to study the past? Because the dominant liberal ideology of the nineteenth century insisted that modernity was defined by the differentiation of three social spheres: the market, the state, and the civil society. The three spheres operated, it was asserted, according to different logics, and it was good to keep them separated from each other—in social life and therefore in intellectual life. They needed to be studied in different ways, appropriate to each sphere—the market by economists, the state by political scientists, and the civil society by sociologists.
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691World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction (Immanuel Wallerstein)
692- Your Bookmark on Location 210 | Added on Saturday, April 4, 2015 8:14:14 AM
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696World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction (Immanuel Wallerstein)
697- Your Highlight on Location 126-130 | Added on Saturday, April 4, 2015 8:17:30 AM
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699in the late eighteenth century, there occurred what some now call the “divorce” between philosophy and science. It was those defending empirical “science” who insisted upon this divorce. They said that the only route to “truth” was theorizing based on induction from empirical observations, and that these observations had to be done in such a way that others could subsequently replicate and thereby verify the observations. They insisted that metaphysical deduction was speculation and had no “truth”-value. They thus refused to think of themselves as “philosophers.”
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701World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction (Immanuel Wallerstein)
702- Your Highlight on Location 153-155 | Added on Saturday, April 4, 2015 9:42:19 AM
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704The French Revolution propagated two quite revolutionary ideas. One was that political change was not exceptional or bizarre but normal and thus constant. The second was that “sovereignty”—the right of the state to make autonomous decisions within its realm—did not reside in (belong to) either a monarch or a legislature but in the “people” who, alone, could legitimate a regime.
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706World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction (Immanuel Wallerstein)
707- Your Note on Location 205 | Added on Saturday, April 4, 2015 10:10:23 AM
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711World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction (Immanuel Wallerstein)
712- Your Highlight on Location 211-213 | Added on Saturday, April 4, 2015 10:10:47 AM
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714we call these three disciplines nomothetic disciplines (that is, disciplines in search of scientific laws) as opposed to the idiographic discipline which history aspired to be—that is, a discipline that is predicated on the uniqueness of social phenomena.
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716World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction (Immanuel Wallerstein)
717- Your Highlight on Location 213-224 | Added on Saturday, April 4, 2015 10:16:23 AM
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719where should one focus the study of contemporary phenomena? The nomothetic social scientists were located primarily in the same five countries as the historians, and in the same way studied primarily their own countries (or at most they made comparisons among the five countries). This was to be sure socially rewarded, but in addition the nomothetic social scientists put forward a methodological argument to justify this choice. They said that the best way to avoid bias was to use quantitative data, and that such data were most likely to be located in their own countries in the immediate present. Furthermore, they argued that if we assume the existence of general laws governing social behavior, it would not matter where one studied these phenomena, since what was true in one place and at one time was true in all places at all times. Why not then study phenomena for which one had the most reliable data—that is, the most quantified and replicable data? Social scientists did have one further problem. The four disciplines together (history, economics, sociology, and political science) studied in effect only a small portion of the world. But in the nineteenth century, the five countries were imposing colonial rule on many other parts of the world, and were engaged in commerce and sometimes in warfare with still other parts of the world. It seemed important to study the rest of the world as well. Still, the rest of the world seemed somehow different, and it seemed inappropriate to use four West-oriented disciplines to study parts of the world that were not considered “modern.” As a result, two additional disciplines arose.
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721World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction (Immanuel Wallerstein)
722- Your Highlight on Location 238-241 | Added on Saturday, April 4, 2015 11:13:20 AM
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724Ethnographers served in many ways as the primary interpreters of their peoples to the modern outsiders who governed them. They recast in language understandable to these outsiders the rationale behind the customary ways. They were thus useful to the colonial rulers by offering information that could make the governors more cognizant of what they could and could not do (or should not do) in their administration.
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726World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction (Immanuel Wallerstein)
727- Your Highlight on Location 412-415 | Added on Saturday, April 4, 2015 2:00:05 PM
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729In the process of the upheaval, however, the revolutionaries of 1968, who had their strongest base in the world’s universities, also began to raise a number of issues about the structures of knowledge. At first, they raised questions about direct political involvement of university scholars in work that supported the world status quo—such as physical scientists who did war-related research and social scientists who provided material for counterinsurgency efforts. Then they raised questions about neglected areas of work.
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731World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction (Immanuel Wallerstein)
732- Your Highlight on Location 529-533 | Added on Saturday, April 4, 2015 3:18:59 PM
733
734For world-systems analysis, these actors, just like the long list of structures that one can enumerate, are the products of a process. They are not primordial atomic elements, but part of a systemic mix out of which they emerged and upon which they act. They act freely, but their freedom is constrained by their biographies and the social prisons of which they are a part. Analyzing their prisons liberates them to the maximum degree that they can be liberated. To the extent that we each analyze our social prisons, we liberate ourselves from their constraints to the extent that we can be liberated.
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736World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction (Immanuel Wallerstein)
737- Your Highlight on Location 553-560 | Added on Saturday, April 4, 2015 3:25:19 PM
738
739Capitalism is not the mere existence of persons or firms producing for sale on the market with the intention of obtaining a profit. Such persons or firms have existed for thousands of years all across the world. Nor is the existence of persons working for wages sufficient as a definition. Wage-labor has also been known for thousands of years. We are in a capitalist system only when the system gives priority to the endless accumulation of capital. Using such a definition, only the modern world-system has been a capitalist system. Endless accumulation is a quite simple concept: it means that people and firms are accumulating capital in order to accumulate still more capital, a process that is continual and endless. If we say that a system “gives priority” to such endless accumulation, it means that there exist structural mechanisms by which those who act with other motivations are penalized in some way, and are eventually eliminated from the social scene, whereas those who act with the appropriate motivations are rewarded and, if successful, enriched.
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741World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction (Immanuel Wallerstein)
742- Your Highlight on Location 563-564 | Added on Saturday, April 4, 2015 3:27:09 PM
743
744manu militari
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746World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction (Immanuel Wallerstein)
747- Your Highlight on Location 573-574 | Added on Saturday, April 4, 2015 3:28:42 PM
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749interstate system; the households; the classes; and the status-groups (to use Weber’s term, which some people in recent years have renamed the “identities”).
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751World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction (Immanuel Wallerstein)
752- Your Highlight on Location 640-643 | Added on Sunday, April 5, 2015 12:20:07 AM
753
754Since profitability is directly related to the degree of monopolization, what we essentially mean by core-like production processes is those that are controlled by quasi-monopolies. Peripheral processes are then those that are truly competitive. When exchange occurs, competitive products are in a weak position and quasi-monopolized products are in a strong position. As a result, there is a constant flow of surplus-value from the producers of peripheral products to the producers of core-like products. This has been called unequal exchange.
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756Instapaper: Sunday, Apr. 5th (Instapaper)
757- Your Highlight on Location 1339-1342 | Added on Monday, April 6, 2015 4:50:59 AM
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759Here’s how to turn the world upside down: take what is, and turn it upside down.  Or take what is and make it was isn’t. Or take what isn’t and make it what is. Or take what is and shake it till change falls out of its pockets. Or take any hierarchy and plug the constituents of its bottom into the categories of its top. Or take any number of hierarchies and mix up their parts.
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761Instapaper: Sunday, Apr. 5th (Instapaper)
762- Your Highlight on Location 1335-1338 | Added on Monday, April 6, 2015 4:52:35 AM
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764Let the reformers descend from the stands where they are forever bawling — let an idiot or insane person appear on each of the stands; Let the judges and criminals be transposed — let the prison keepers be put in prison— let those that were prisoners take the keys; Let them that distrust birth and death lead the rest.
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766Instapaper: Monday, Apr. 6th (Instapaper)
767- Your Highlight on Location 278-283 | Added on Monday, April 6, 2015 11:14:37 AM
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769Un(der)known Writers: Flavia Dzodan By The New Inquiry Few words define The Netherlands better than “imperialist”. In a time of white appropriations of post colonial theory, few pause to realize that no post colonial analysis is possible while we live in a country where the “post” lays within a distant future (i.e. The Netherlands still holds colonial territories in the Caribbean).
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771Instapaper: Monday, Apr. 6th (Instapaper)
772- Your Highlight on Location 327-328 | Added on Monday, April 6, 2015 11:20:11 AM
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774Combustion Books’ collection of essays, A Small Key Can Open a Large Door: The Rojava Revolution,
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776amountainriver-web  
777- Your Bookmark on page 8 | Added on Monday, April 6, 2015 11:38:03 PM
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781Instapaper: Tuesday, Apr. 7th (Instapaper)
782- Your Highlight on Location 295-296 | Added on Tuesday, April 7, 2015 11:08:12 AM
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784Today, proactive urban police departments plan for and execute sophisticated surveillance and monitor such demonstrations in order to mitigate problems.
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786World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction (Immanuel Wallerstein)
787- Your Highlight on Location 1039-1039 | Added on Wednesday, April 8, 2015 6:24:33 PM
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789profit is a reward not merely for efficiency but for greater access to the assistance of the state.
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791Grin and Bare It All_ against liberal conc - tangled wilderness  
792- Your Highlight on page 2-2 | Added on Thursday, April 9, 2015 4:49:29 PM
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794I’d argue that, while the centering of customers’ needs and desires is a deplorable, liberal, anti-worker trend among some sex-positive feminists, its frequency is highly overstated and functions as a strawman to discredit sex worker rights activists as being more concerned with male orgasms than workers’ liberation
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796Grin and Bare It All_ against liberal conc - tangled wilderness  
797- Your Highlight on page 6-6 | Added on Thursday, April 9, 2015 5:27:12 PM
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799Undocumented/immigrant sex workers in particular become reconceptualized as “trafficking victims,” thus providing a convenient moral imperative for increased State surveillance and control (racial profiling, raids, invasive searches, forced placement into factories and “rehabilitation centers,” deportation, State acquisition of sex workers’ children
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801Grin and Bare It All_ against liberal conc - tangled wilderness  
802- Your Highlight on page 6-6 | Added on Thursday, April 9, 2015 5:29:02 PM
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804Incarceration is a toxic cycle that reinforces itself in the lives of sex workers—a prostitution arrest in the US can land one an appearance on the local police department’s “vice” crime website or the weekly mugshot tabloids, and often disqualifies one from obtaining “straight” employment
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806Instapaper: Wednesday, Apr. 8th (Instapaper)
807- Your Highlight on Location 106-109 | Added on Thursday, April 9, 2015 5:44:14 PM
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809Sharpton has been extremely sensitive to this criticism. “Oh, you young and hip, you’re full of fire. You’re the new face,” he sneered at a recent gathering at the headquarters of NAN in Harlem. “All that the stuff that they know will titillate your ears. That’s what a pimp says to a ho.”
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811Instapaper: Wednesday, Apr. 8th (Instapaper)
812- Your Highlight on Location 346-348 | Added on Thursday, April 9, 2015 9:39:08 PM
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814as the wealth gap widens, lack of access to organic foods is effectively sterilizing entire demographics. People with diets high in pesticide residue produce almost half the sperm – and 32% fewer ‘normally-formed’ sperm.
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816Instapaper: Thursday, Apr. 9th (Instapaper)
817- Your Highlight on Location 578-584 | Added on Friday, April 10, 2015 3:22:45 AM
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819In the diffuse world of the post-Fordian economy, calls for acceleration feel a bit quaint: the infrastructure is still standing, but capitalism as we knew it is a thing of the past. Under the twin blades of financialization and what is called “the sharing economy,” capital has emancipated itself from the social––which is not to say it did away with work, just the need to pay formal salaries. As for the State, at the moment, its main function is simply to guarantee that credit is converted back onto cash payments, no matter how much misery such conversion elicits. Ironically, as the new Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis put it, it became the Left’s task to arrest capitalism’s free-fall in order to buy time to formulate an alternative––since at the moment the Left remains “squarely defeated,” any upheaval would end up in fascism.
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821Instapaper: Thursday, Apr. 9th (Instapaper)
822- Your Highlight on Location 280-282 | Added on Friday, April 10, 2015 3:37:32 AM
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824fall in love and create a child with someone who makes the inescapable grey mundanity of our pitiful existence seem like the beautiful quiet intermission betwixt two symphonies that it truly is,
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826Instapaper: Friday, Apr. 10th (Instapaper)
827- Your Highlight on Location 480-485 | Added on Friday, April 10, 2015 10:51:15 AM
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829new and old gen­er­a­tions peel back to square one and open Das Kap­i­tal for the first, or the dozenth, time, while work­ers go on their first, or dozenth, walk­out, we see the same prin­ci­ple reaf­firmed. Vic­tory is not assured – far from it! – but it is never fore­closed. “Crest” makes the same point that Fredric Jame­son does in Valences of the Dialec­tic: “the world­wide tri­umph of cap­i­tal­ism at one and the same time secures the pri­or­ity of Marx­ism as the ulti­mate hori­zon of thought in our time.” Things are not all that out of control.
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831Awkwardness: An Essay (Kotsko, Adam)
832- Your Highlight on Location 340-342 | Added on Sunday, April 12, 2015 2:25:11 AM
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834None of the main characters actually sit and stew in their awkwardness, and I’d propose that that’s because they are all essentially sociopaths. They cause awkwardness in others but don’t truly feel it themselves, because they lack any real investment in the social order—instead, they merely attempt to manipulate it.
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836Instapaper: Sunday, Apr. 12th (Instapaper)
837- Your Highlight on Location 1322-1326 | Added on Sunday, April 12, 2015 11:00:25 PM
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839when rock dudes idolize black bluesmen, they always give the bluesmen artistic credit: Robert Johnson didn’t get any money from Clapton’s cover of “Crossroads,” nor did Leadbelly see much benefit from Nirvana’s admiration, but both Johnson and Leadbelly are explicitly cited as artistic influences–they got credit for their work. (In fact, the gesture of giving credit to a black man is what establishes the white dude’s status as elite among other white dude artists.) But black women artists? They don’t even get credit for their work.
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841Instapaper: Sunday, Apr. 12th (Instapaper)
842- Your Highlight on Location 59-60 | Added on Monday, April 13, 2015 4:09:24 PM
843
844Absent a challenge to white supremacy, anti-capitalist initiatives will certainly lapse into partial white-oriented reforms, at best, and white populist or fascist movements, at worst.
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852- Your Bookmark on page 56 | Added on Monday, April 13, 2015 6:18:24 PM
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856Giorgio Agamben: Legal, Political and Philosophical Perspectives (Tom Frost)
857- Your Bookmark on Location 179 | Added on Tuesday, April 14, 2015 7:35:26 AM
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861Instapaper: Monday, Apr. 13th (Instapaper)
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864Once you realize an oil company functions not to deliver oil but to structure the future as a system of financial flows, then the points of sabotage shift a little bit. This is why I think projects like Carbon Tracker’s “Unburnable Carbon” are really important. Carbon Tracker shows that the share price of fossil fuel companies is a bubble, since it is based on a projected use of energy that is incompatible with keeping the planet livable. This campaign works precisely at the point at which the corporation understood as a set of financial flows is vulnerable—the calculability of future revenue.
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869these people should remember that Marxism is fire and danger: the theoretical approach that not only manages to comprehend capitalist relations, but proposes the abolition of those relations. In other words, it’s the only joke that’s actually funny. Marxism sees the finely tuned logic of all currently existing societies, recognizes the absolute necessity of every element, and then pronounces the whole thing to be mad and stupid. It finally reveals that the rational world we’re living in now is in fact a fantasy world, full of snarks and grumpkins, as absurd as anything in the most overblown fictions.
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879for self-sufficiency and the new high-wage regime allowed
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909Revolt in the towns disorganized industrial production and revolt in the countryside strengthened peasant resistance to the payment of rent. Rent and profits thus dropped even further
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929it has planted into the body of the proletariat deep divisions that have served to intensify and conceal exploitation. It is in great part because of these imposed divisions­ especially those between women and men - that capitalist accumu­ lation continues to devastate life in every corner of the planet
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944Slavery had never been abolished in Europe, surviving in pockets, mostly as female domestic slavery.
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964Among them are OorgJ Ratget quartered in Pforzheim (Stuttgart), [Philipp] Dietman beheaded, and [Tilman] Riemenschneider mutilated - both in Wurzburg - [Matthi .. ] Grunewald chased from the court of Magollza where he worked. Holbein the Young was so troubled by the events that he £led from Basel, a city that was torn apart by religious conflict
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974Also in Switzerland,Austri a, and the Tyrol artists participated in me PeasantWar, including famous ones like Lucas Cranach (Cranach the old) as well as myriad lesser painters and engravers
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979There was a never a time when the big city police neutrally enforced “the law,” or came anywhere close to that ideal (for that matter, the law itself has never been neutral). In the North, they mostly arrested people for the vaguely defined “crimes” of disorderly conduct and vagrancy throughout the nineteenth century. This meant that the police could arrest anyone they saw as a threat to “order.” In the post-bellum South, they enforced white supremacy and largely arrested black people on trumped-up charges in order to feed them into convict labor systems.
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989she had learned her scholastic lessons. She quotes St Augustine, St Ambrose (‘Let them know that the earth, from which they were created, is the common property of all men’), St. John Chrysostomus (‘Behold the idea we ought to have concerning rich and avaricious men. They are robbers’), and St. Basil (‘Who is the robber? It is he who appropriates to himself the things which belong to all.’). She remembers the early Christians for whom ‘there was none among who wanted, for they had all things in common.’ (Acts 4:32) She quoted Luke, the land is a common gift to all;
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994The pilgrim sees that defeat is partly within, and thus revolution requires introspection or, to formulate this in another way, the defeat without has consequences within, and thus individual physical and mental health requires revolution.
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999Later he worked with E.P. Thompson at the Centre for the Study of Social History at the University of Warwick to learn the art and craft of ‘people’s remembrancing’ which has taken printed results in Albion’s Fatal Tree, The London Hanged, The Many-Headed Hydra, Magna Carta Manifesto, and Stop, Thief!
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1004In our view, when women fight for the wage for domes­tic work, they are also fight­ing against this work, as domes­tic work can con­tinue as such so long as and when it is not paid. It is like slav­ery. The demand for a domes­tic wage denat­u­ral­ized female slav­ery. Thus, the wage is not the ulti­mate goal, but an instru­ment, a strat­egy, to achieve a change in the power rela­tions between women and cap­i­tal. The aim of our strug­gle was to con­vert exploita­tive slave labor that was nat­u­ral­ized because of its unpaid char­ac­ter into socially rec­og­nized work; it was to sub­vert a sex­ual divi­sion of labor based on the power of the mas­cu­line wage to com­mand the repro­duc­tive labor of women, which in Cal­iban and the Witch I call “the patri­archy of the wage.” At the same time, we pro­posed to move beyond all of the blame gen­er­ated by the fact that it was always con­sid­ered as a female oblig­a­tion, as a female vocation.
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1009New territorial assemblies emerged after 1 525 "[real­ izing] in a weakened form one of the demands of 1 525 : that the C0l1U1l011 man ought to be part of the territorial estates alongside the nobles, the clergy, and the towns." BlickJe concludes that "Wherever this cause won out, we cannOt say that there the lords crowned their military conquest with political victory, [as] the prince was still bound to the consent of the common man. Only later, during the formation of the absolute state, did the prince succeed in freeing himself from that consent
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1019n the end imperialism - as a means of reproducing cheap labor power - is leading capitalism to a major crisis, for even if there are still millions of people in the world . . . not directly involved in capitalist employment . . . how many are still capable owing to the social disruption, famine and wars it brings about, of producing their own subsistence and feeding their children?"
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1029in the 16th and 1'" centuries,land privatization and the commodification of social relations (the response lords and merchants to their economic crisis) caused widespread poverty, mortalicy, and an intense resistance that threatened to sh.ipwreck the emerging capitalist economy. '[his, I argue, is the historical context in wh.ich the history of women and reproduction in the transition from feudalism to capitalism must be placed; for the changes which the advefll of capitalism introduced in the social position of women - especially at the proletariaJl level, whether in Europe or America - were primarily dictated by the search for n� sources of lahar as well as new fonns of regimentation and division of the work-force. 66
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1039European states began to turn to territorial conquest to resolve their economic crisis and wealthy financiers invested in it. Military campaigns became much longer. grew tenfold, and they became permanent and professionalized. 19 Mercenaries well hired who had no attachment to the local population; and the goal of warfare bec .. the elimination of the enemy, so that war left in its wake deserted viUages, fields ered with corpses, faJnines, and epidemics
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1044European states began to turn to territorial conquest to resolve their economic crisis and wealthy financiers invested in it. Military campaigns became much longer. grew tenfold, and they became permanent and professionalized. 19 Mercenaries well hired who had no attachment to the local population; and the goal of warfare bec .. the elimination of the enemy, so that war left in its wake deserted viUages, fields ered with corpses, faJnines, and epidemics
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1049origins of modern state. excerpt graeber
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1059In France, a corrunon hunger for the Church's land at first united the lower and higher classes in the Protestant movemem, but when the land was auc­ tioned, starting in 1 563, the artisans and day-laborers, who had demanded the expropri­ ation of the Church "with a passion born of bitterness and hope," and had mobilized with the promise that they too would receive their share, were betrayed in their expec­ tations (Le
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1074Albrecht Diirer's engraving was not the only representation of the "Four Horsemen."We have also one by Lucas Cranach ( 1 522) and by Mauheus Merian ( 1 630). Representations of battlefields, portraying slaughters of soldiers and civil­ ians, viUages in Dames, rows of hanging bodies, are too numerous to mention. War is possibly the main theme of 1 61b and 171h-century painting, leaking into every representation, even those ostensibly devoted to sacred subjects
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1099'Do ye not know; said John Palmer to a group of holders he was evicting, 'that the king's grace hath put down all houses of ... " friars, and nuns, therefore now i s the time come that we gentJemen will pull dotra the houses of such poor knaves as yet be?'
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1104legal methods ... frequently concealed the use of force, tratla,;­ intimidation against the tenants
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1129self fulfilling prophecy in subject called forth by privatization 
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1134The ;'tragedy;' in Hardin's version. is the inevitability of Hobbesian egoism as a determinant of human behavior. In his view, in a hypothetical common, each herdsman wants to l11ax.im.ize ills gain regardless of the implications of his action for the other herdsmen, so that "ruin is the destination CO which all men rush, each pu"uing his best incerest
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1139the conUl1Ons were the "nurleries and recept:lcles of thieves, rogues and begga,,"
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1149Population growth have been a contributing factor; but its importance has been overstated, and should circumscribed in time
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1169essays by James R.Siemon, "Landlord Not King: Agrarian Change and Imerarciculation
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1179Not only did cooPera. rion in agricultural lahor die when land was privatized and individual labor Contracta replaced collective ones; economic differences among the rural population deepened, II the number of poor squatters incre3sed who had nothing left but a cot and a cow, and no choice but to go with "bended knee and cap in hand" to beg for a job (Seccornbe 1992). Social cohesion broke down;30 families disintegrated, the youth left the village to join the increasing number of vagabonds or itinerant workers - soon to become the social problem of the age -while the elderly were left behind to fend for themsel ...
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1189n the breaking down o f social cohesion see (among othe,,) David Underdown, Rtvel, Riot alld Rebellioll: Popular Politics and Cul,u", ill Ellgland, 1603-1660 ( 1 985
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1199drop off materials. women make textiles. pay them low aux wages
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1209The cottage industry had cwo main advantages for employers: it prevented the danger of 'combinations'; and it cheap­ ened the cost of labor, since its home-based organization provided the workers with free domestic services and the cooperation of their children and wives, who were treated as helpers and paid low "auxmary
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1214In turn Gerrard Winstanley, the leader of the Diggers, declared that it did not make any difference whether one lived under one's enemy or under one's brother if one worked for a wage
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1219to include . forms ofland privatization), of the number of "vagabonds" and "masterless" men, whO preferred to take to the road and to risk ensJavemem or death - as prescribed by cbt "bloody" legisJation passed against them -rather than CO work for a wage
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1234England, anti-enclosure struggles began in the late 1 5th century and continued roughout the 1 6th and 1 7th, when levelling the enclosing h ges be�me "the most th on species of social protest" and dlC symbol of class conflict
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1254armies were further regimented and the crowds women that used to follow them were expelled fiom the battlefields (Kriedte
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1259the nomic importance of the reproduction aflabar-power carried ou[ in the home, and eco function in the accumulation of capital became invisible, being mystified as a natural us cion and labelled "women's lahor. " In addition, women were excluded from many ged occupations and, when they worked for a wage. they earned a pittance compared r o the average male
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1264not only fixed women to reproductive work, but increased their dependence on men, enabling the state and employers to use the male wage as a means to conunand women's labor. I n this way, the separation of conunodity production from the reproduction of labor-power also made possible the development of a specifically capitalist use of the wage and of the markets as means for the accumu­ I>tion of unpaid labor
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1269the devaluation and feminization of reproductive labor was a dis­ aster also for male workers, for the devaluation of reproductive labor inevitably devalued ItS product: labor-power. But there is no doubt that in the "transition from feudalism to capitalism" women suffered a unique process of social degradation that was fundamen­ tal to the accumulation of capital and has remained SO ever since
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1284Riq prices ruined the small farmers, who had to give up their land to buy grain or bread when the harvests could not feed their families, and created a class of capitalist entre­ preneurs, who accumulated forrunes by investing in agriculture and money-lending, . a time when having money was for many people a matter of life or death
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1334That in the industrializing regions of Europe, by me 19th century, the most extreme forms of proletar i a n mi sery and rebellion had disappeared is not a proof against this claim. Proletarian misery and rebellions did not come t o an end; they only lessened to the degree that the super-exploitation of workers had been expo ned. through the instirutionaHzation of slavery, at first, and later thr o u gh the contillUing expansion of colonial domination
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1337- Your Bookmark on page 24 | Added on Sunday, April 19, 2015 11:06:31 AM
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1342- Your Bookmark on page 25 | Added on Sunday, April 19, 2015 11:14:21 AM
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1347- Your Bookmark on page 68 | Added on Sunday, April 19, 2015 11:17:41 AM
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1352- Your Bookmark on page 26 | Added on Sunday, April 19, 2015 11:22:06 AM
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1357- Your Bookmark on page 27 | Added on Sunday, April 19, 2015 11:29:26 AM
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1362- Your Bookmark on page 27 | Added on Sunday, April 19, 2015 11:29:34 AM
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1366CalibanAndTheWitchCh2  
1367- Your Note on page 27 | Added on Sunday, April 19, 2015 11:36:19 AM
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1369misogynist and essentializing
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1371CalibanAndTheWitchCh2  
1372- Your Highlight on page 27-27 | Added on Sunday, April 19, 2015 11:36:19 AM
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1374whatever their weaknesses, women possess one virtue that cancels them all: dley have a womb and they can give binh
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1376CalibanAndTheWitchCh2  
1377- Your Highlight on page 28 | Added on Sunday, April 19, 2015 11:49:39 AM
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1382- Your Bookmark on page 2 | Added on Sunday, April 19, 2015 1:05:04 PM
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1386CalibanAndTheWitchCh2  
1387- Your Highlight on page 10-10 | Added on Sunday, April 19, 2015 1:33:47 PM
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1389Land privatization and the conmlercializatiOD of agriculture did not increase the food supply available to the common people, though more food was made available for the market and for export. For workers they inaugu­ rated two centuries of starvation. in the same way as today
1390==========
1391Instapaper: Sunday, Apr. 19th (Instapaper)
1392- Your Highlight on Location 985-987 | Added on Monday, April 20, 2015 12:04:11 AM
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1394Rankine’s argument against Dickinson that “hope was never a thing with feathers.” Rankine writes of a “deepening personality flaw: IMH, The Inability to Maintain Hope, which translates into no innate trust in the supreme laws that govern us.”
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1396Instapaper: Sunday, Apr. 19th (Instapaper)
1397- Your Highlight on Location 755-758 | Added on Monday, April 20, 2015 7:10:10 AM
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1399Portland’s affordability is also being pressured by investors so bullish on this city’s single-family housing they’ve bought properties by the dozen on the heels of the recession, driving up prices and rents as they go. Traditional real estate investors — flippers, remodelers and developers, companies that to some extent have always been here — have been joined by hundreds of private investors and new private equity firms out to make money for investors through real estate.
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1401Instapaper: Sunday, Apr. 19th (Instapaper)
1402- Your Highlight on Location 781-785 | Added on Monday, April 20, 2015 7:17:09 AM
1403
1404“It isn’t the people who are beginning their careers. It isn’t the people who are in the early stages or even in middle-income stages. It is the folks who are upper-income or upper middle-class income that can afford to buy these houses. So you’ve just classed out a significant amount of people,” he said. “Our city is becoming an exclusive kind of rich kid club.” Grace Widdicombe, president of the Northwest Real Estate Investors Association, says among those who have turned to real estate are people trying to climb out of financial holes.
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1406Instapaper: Sunday, Apr. 19th (Instapaper)
1407- Your Highlight on Location 791-799 | Added on Monday, April 20, 2015 7:19:40 AM
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1409“Anytime you have multiple offers and you have cash in the mix, the conventionally financed borrower is going to try as hard as they can to look like a cash buyer, even though they’re still being financed,” said Eric Hagstette, owner and principal broker at Inhabit Portland, a real estate company. When sellers have a choice, they prefer the sure thing. Unlike cash, financing can fall through, especially in a market with tighter credit. Buyers who turn up with a check rather than a pre-approved loan are more likely to complete the transaction –and sellers know it. To compete, some buyers are simply borrowing cash from friends and family and financing their houses after closing — bout 14 percent of cash buyers in the greater Portland area between 2011 and the end of 2014, in fact, according to RealtyTrac. Others are overbidding to ram deals through quickly, then waiving the right to negotiate price if an appraiser doesn’t agree. The practice comes with significant risks. It also allows the next guy to price his house just as high, while one sale becomes a benchmark for the starting price of the next, Hagstette said.
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1411Instapaper: Sunday, Apr. 19th (Instapaper)
1412- Your Highlight on Location 811-820 | Added on Monday, April 20, 2015 7:26:39 AM
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1414In a market where multiple offers are raising prices, Teri Toombs, Principal Broker at Living Room Realty, says she discourages people from overpaying for homes. But some can’t resist. Some people don’t want to continue renting. And they don’t care what that costs. An in-house poll led by Toombs’ colleague Alyssa Isenstein Krueger, Living Room found more than a few first-time buyers with cash to throw around. The Living Room agents that responded said that of 148 first-time buyers served in 2014, 42 percent came to the table with funds from friends and relatives to help grab whatever edge they could leverage. The sums ranged from up to $470,000. It’s not scientific, but it suggests a hard new reality in the market. For those without cash? Those that can’t overpay? “It’s torture. And I try my best to prepare them for what they’re in for and I see them starting to glaze over like, ‘Why is this lady saying all this? Why can’t we just start looking at houses? Why is she bringing us down like this?’” said Toombs. “With determination and being really diligent about it, they can get into a house. But they have to realize that they’re going to be moving into emerging neighborhoods.”
1415==========
1416Instapaper: Sunday, Apr. 19th (Instapaper)
1417- Your Note on Location 820 | Added on Monday, April 20, 2015 7:26:39 AM
1418
1419what does "emerging neighborhoods" mean :/
1420==========
1421Instapaper: Sunday, Apr. 19th (Instapaper)
1422- Your Highlight on Location 835-841 | Added on Monday, April 20, 2015 7:29:38 AM
1423
1424Data on how such buyers affect the listed market are difficult to corral. But an InvestigateWest analysis of roughly 12,000 buyers who paid cash for listed homes in Multnomah County between 2006 and 2014 found more than 850 individuals or their corporate doppelgangers buying between two and nine homes. Those buyers were joined by the 26 institutional investors that captured hundreds more. Translation? Among the approximately 12,000 purchases, there were at least 2,750 flips, remodels, redevelopments and new rental acquisitions in place of new homeowners at the lowest price point of the market. Owing to the lack of transparency in real estate holdings — many homes were acquired by opaquely named corporations, and some buyers use several at a time — and to the tendency of equity groups to place houses in the names of their investors rather than of the investment company, that number is likely much higher.
1425==========
1426Instapaper: Sunday, Apr. 19th (Instapaper)
1427- Your Highlight on Location 853-856 | Added on Monday, April 20, 2015 7:33:46 AM
1428
1429For some companies and investors, it’s all a bit of financial fun. Castle Partners, L.P., a pooled investment vehicle registered in Delaware, bought properties through its Oregon affiliate Castle Advisors using several companies with variations on the name COTD, an apparent play on the seafood menu phrase “Catch Of The Day.” One real estate developer held property in a company called Boondoggle LLC. Another bought six houses with My Financial Workout.
1430==========
1431Instapaper: Sunday, Apr. 19th (Instapaper)
1432- Your Highlight on Location 856-862 | Added on Monday, April 20, 2015 7:34:52 AM
1433
1434For Justin Buri, who is executive director at Community Alliance of Tenants, buying in this market meant pushing past his unease with its burgeoning equity issues. It’s not his style to troll neighborhoods talking about which are about to “pop” with fresh waves of gentrification. While viewing his own prospective homes, he watched real estate agents wave off nearby properties — other people’s homes — with assurances they would be torn down. It fit him like a shoe on a doorknob. “Being a player in that was really challenging for me,” he said. But his own need for stability egged him on. He can now tell his story in the rowhouse he and Julieth Buri own, a St. Johns property with an abundance of natural light, bursts of bright color, and flashes of art-savvy décor. The couple were able to buy the home after deciding to look farther from more popular areas.
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1436Instapaper: Sunday, Apr. 19th (Instapaper)
1437- Your Note on Location 862 | Added on Monday, April 20, 2015 7:34:52 AM
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1439fucking vom
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1441CalibanAndTheWitchCh2  
1442- Your Bookmark on page 28 | Added on Monday, April 20, 2015 10:53:01 AM
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1446CalibanAndTheWitchCh2  
1447- Your Bookmark on page 29 | Added on Monday, April 20, 2015 10:58:03 AM
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1451CalibanAndTheWitchCh2  
1452- Your Bookmark on page 69 | Added on Monday, April 20, 2015 10:58:32 AM
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1456CalibanAndTheWitchCh2  
1457- Your Highlight on page 31-31 | Added on Monday, April 20, 2015 5:43:10 PM
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1459tillS dynantic, which Marx defines as the "law of population typical of the capitalist mode of production" (Capital,Vol. 1: 689ff could only prevail if procreation were a purely biological process, or an activity responding automatically to economic change, and if cap­ Ital iUld the state did not need to worry about "women going on strike against child mak­ mg."This, in fact� is what Marx assumed
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1461CalibanAndTheWitchCh2  
1462- Your Note on page 31 | Added on Monday, April 20, 2015 5:51:45 PM
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1464trans politics? can we refer instead to people with wombs or something? idk
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1466CalibanAndTheWitchCh2  
1467- Your Highlight on page 31-31 | Added on Monday, April 20, 2015 5:51:45 PM
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1469activity, invested by diverse Interests and power relations, is a question Marx did not ask. Nor did he imagine that men and women aught have different interests with respect to child-making, an activity which he treated as a gender-neucral. undifferentiated process
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1471CalibanAndTheWitchCh2  
1472- Your Highlight on page 31-31 | Added on Monday, April 20, 2015 5:53:02 PM
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1474women have often been forced to procreate against their will, and have txperienced an alienation from their bodies, their"labor," and even their children, deeper than that experienced by any other workers (Martin 1987: 19-21). No one can describe In fact the anguish and desperation suffered by a woman seeing her body turn against her self, as it must occur in the case of an unwanted pregnancy
1475==========
1476CalibanAndTheWitchCh2  
1477- Your Bookmark on page 32 | Added on Monday, April 20, 2015 5:53:51 PM
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1481CalibanAndTheWitchCh2  
1482- Your Highlight on page 69-69 | Added on Monday, April 20, 2015 5:54:39 PM
1483
1484An interesting article on this topic is Robert Fletcher's "The Witches Pharmakopeia" ( 1 896)
1485==========
1486CalibanAndTheWitchCh2  
1487- Your Bookmark on page 35 | Added on Monday, April 20, 2015 11:47:28 PM
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1491CalibanAndTheWitchCh2  
1492- Your Bookmark on page 36 | Added on Monday, April 20, 2015 11:49:47 PM
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1496CalibanAndTheWitchCh2  
1497- Your Highlight on page 37-37 | Added on Monday, April 20, 2015 11:53:57 PM
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1499111 the neW organjzation of work every woman (other than those privatized by bourgeois mell) became a commullal good, for once women's activities were defined as non-work, women's labor began to appear as a natural resource, available to all, no less than the air we breathe or the water we drink
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1501CalibanAndTheWitchCh2  
1502- Your Note on page 37 | Added on Monday, April 20, 2015 11:55:02 PM
1503
1504mirrors ironic double freedom 
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1506CalibanAndTheWitchCh2  
1507- Your Highlight on page 37-37 | Added on Monday, April 20, 2015 11:55:02 PM
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1509double dependence
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1511CalibanAndTheWitchCh2  
1512- Your Note on page 38 | Added on Monday, April 20, 2015 11:59:21 PM
1513
1514novara neoliberalism episode section on micromanagement 
1515==========
1516CalibanAndTheWitchCh2  
1517- Your Highlight on page 38-38 | Added on Monday, April 20, 2015 11:59:21 PM
1518
1519the identification of the ( 3S 3 nucro-st3te or 3 nucro-church, and the demand by the authorities that single under the roof and rule of wort. ers live a m3Ster
1520==========
1521_We're trying to destroy the world_ Anti-B - Frank B Wilderson III  
1522- Your Highlight on page 13 | Added on Thursday, April 23, 2015 7:10:17 AM
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1524diachronically
1525==========
1526Instapaper: Friday, Apr. 24th (Instapaper)
1527- Your Highlight on Location 965-969 | Added on Saturday, April 25, 2015 9:39:55 AM
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1529Marx does something that no other economist from either the various post-war Marxist schools or bourgeois simpletons do: He sets a strict and definite limit on the aggregate value that can be produced by labor under any circumstances. And he then explains that this strict and definite limit will change as the productive forces are developed. This is a hard material limit on the production of value and, therefore, on all modes based on production of value. The aggregate value produced in a capitalist society can never be greater than the aggregate expenditure of socially necessary labor time required for production of commodities.
1530==========
1531Instapaper: Friday, Apr. 24th (Instapaper)
1532- Your Highlight on Location 970-979 | Added on Saturday, April 25, 2015 9:43:37 AM
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1534Since capitalism is not simply the production of value, but the production of surplus value, the material limit on the production of value acts to set a strict and definite limit on the lifespan of capitalism. This is because capitalism develops the productive forces with an eye toward the production of surplus value. In the first place, the production of value is limited to the aggregate socially necessary labor time required for production of commodities. In the second place, the aggregate socially necessary labor time required for production of commodities diminishes with the development of the productive forces. In the third place, capitalism, in its drive to produce surplus value, develops the very productive forces that reduce the socially necessary labor time required for production of commodities. This is Marx’s argument in a nutshell. And he spends the rest of Capital showing why it doesn’t happen overnight, but happens nonetheless. Because capitalism continuously runs into the barrier imposed by socially necessary labor time in its hunger for surplus value, it progressively erodes its own material conditions of existence. Capitalism’s lifespan is therefore limited by its own material logic.
1535==========
1536Instapaper: Friday, Apr. 24th (Instapaper)
1537- Your Highlight on Location 869-872 | Added on Saturday, April 25, 2015 10:35:56 AM
1538
1539Neoconservatives were blind to the enormously significant fact that black Americans, as historian David Hollinger writes, “are the only ethno-racial group to inherit a multicentury legacy of group-specific enslavement and extensive, institutionalized debasement under the ordinance of federal constitutional authority.”
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1541Instapaper: Sunday, Apr. 26th (Instapaper)
1542- Your Highlight on Location 50-54 | Added on Sunday, April 26, 2015 12:09:55 PM
1543
1544though now-familiar scenes of civilians, mostly black men, being beaten, shot or choked by law enforcement have rightly provoked the ire of the American public, sexual misconduct is the nation’s second most reported allegation of officer misconduct, according to a 2013 report by the Cato Institute. Nevertheless, broad narratives of police brutality tend to ignore both female victims and the often specific nature of the violence leveled against them in favor of focusing on the highly visible use of weapons to kill men.
1545==========
1546"The Lion King" by Matt Roth (ejumpcut.org)
1547- Your Highlight on Location 63-68 | Added on Tuesday, April 28, 2015 3:03:15 AM
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1549PINOCCHIO’s sexual politics follow this fascist lead: women quite literally inhabit a “separate sphere.” Procreation is transformed into an act of male creativity, which women merely ratify with their mysterious ability to “give life.” Women are also repositories of “morality,” encouraging virtues like honesty (although even this becomes a test of masculine self-control: Pinocchio, denying his naughtiness, is betrayed by a growing, ever more erect and unconcealable nose; learning virtue and getting this unruly organ under control are the same task.) The ideal society of PINOCCHIO, as of the Nazis, is a disciplined, all male, warrior culture nurtured by idealized feminine domestics.
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1551"The Lion King" by Matt Roth (ejumpcut.org)
1552- Your Highlight on Location 86-86 | Added on Tuesday, April 28, 2015 3:06:51 AM
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1554lebensraum,
1555==========
1556"The Lion King" by Matt Roth (ejumpcut.org)
1557- Your Highlight on Location 140-143 | Added on Tuesday, April 28, 2015 7:52:17 PM
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1559THE LION KING has a clear political agenda: end the welfare state, barricade the suburbs against the inner city, and replace liberal politicians with true, authoritarian leaders. It works: Simba’s kingdom becomes once again green and stuffed with prey. The hyenas remain quarantined in their ghetto; the balance of nature, each species in its own habitat, becomes restored.
1560==========
1561"The Lion King" by Matt Roth (ejumpcut.org)
1562- Your Highlight on Location 144-150 | Added on Tuesday, April 28, 2015 7:55:58 PM
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1564Since Disney’s animated extravaganzas reappeared with THE LITTLE MERMAID, they have been a weirdly accurate barometer of the “national political mood,” including a brief liberal flourish around the time of Clinton’s election. Disney’s 1980s features reflected the neo-conservative preoccupation with personal morality and “family values.” They consist mainly of family dramas, bent on achieving proper heterosexual couple bonding despite the odds. The female leads in all three are restless and eager to escape their fathers’ realms, an impulse which puts them in danger until they arrive safely into their husbands’ arms. The males are all, at first, unworthy of full patriarchal responsibility but, in true PINOCCHIO fashion, overcome their weaknesses and, through exertions of will, defeat their foes and become fit successors to their wives’ fathers.
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1566CalibanAndTheWitchCh2  
1567- Your Highlight on page 37-37 | Added on Wednesday, April 29, 2015 8:04:46 PM
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1569The counterpart of the market, the instrument for the privatization of social rela on and, above all, for the propagation of capitalist discipline and patriarchal rule, the an y emerges in the tubon for period of primitive accumulation also as the most important insti­ the appropriation and concealment of women's labor.
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1571CalibanAndTheWitchCh2  
1572- Your Bookmark on page 38 | Added on Wednesday, April 29, 2015 8:06:04 PM
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1577- Your Highlight on page 38-38 | Added on Wednesday, April 29, 2015 8:08:34 PM
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1579though the wife worked side-by-side wiIh her husband, she too producing for the market, it was the husband who now received her wage
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1581CalibanAndTheWitchCh2  
1582- Your Highlight on page 38-38 | Added on Wednesday, April 29, 2015 8:17:12 PM
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1584This policy, making it impossible for women to have money of their own, created the material conditions for their subjection to men and the appropriation of their labor by male workers
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1586The Man Who Broke the Music Business (newyorker.com)
1587- Your Bookmark on Location 107 | Added on Thursday, April 30, 2015 8:12:24 PM
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1592- Your Bookmark on page 39 | Added on Sunday, May 3, 2015 10:25:40 AM
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1596CalibanAndTheWitchCh2  
1597- Your Note on page 39 | Added on Sunday, May 3, 2015 3:20:17 PM
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1599gender accumulation
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1601CalibanAndTheWitchCh2  
1602- Your Highlight on page 39-39 | Added on Sunday, May 3, 2015 3:20:19 PM
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1604within the working-class conullunity o f the transition period we already see the emergence of the sexual division o f labor that was to become typical o f the capitalist organization o f work. At its center was an performed increasing d.ifferentiation between male and female labor, as the tasks by women and men became more diversified and, above all, became the car­ riers of nt social relations
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1606CalibanAndTheWitchCh2  
1607- Your Note on page 39 | Added on Sunday, May 3, 2015 3:21:53 PM
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1612- Your Highlight on page 39 | Added on Sunday, May 3, 2015 3:21:58 PM
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1616CalibanAndTheWitchCh2  
1617- Your Highlight on page 39-39 | Added on Sunday, May 3, 2015 3:22:35 PM
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1619the criminalization of prostitution, which pun­ ts ed the WOman but :�h . Could hardly tOuched her male customers, strengthelled male power
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1621CalibanAndTheWitchCh2  
1622- Your Bookmark on page 40 | Added on Sunday, May 3, 2015 3:22:54 PM
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1627- Your Highlight on page 69-69 | Added on Sunday, May 3, 2015 3:27:36 PM
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16291 7th-century social contract theory, as formuJated by Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, Carol Pateman ( 1 988) argues that the "social Contract" \-vas based on a more fundamental "sexual contract," which recognized men's right CO appropriate women's bodies and women's labor
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1631CalibanAndTheWitchCh2  
1632- Your Highlight on page 70-70 | Added on Sunday, May 3, 2015 3:29:39 PM
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1634Being at least formally cOl1unitted to the principle or'natural equality," and "government by consent,"in defense of male supremacy they invoked the theory of women's "narural inferiority, according to which women wouJd consent to their husbands' appropriation of their property and voting rights upon realizing their intrinsic weakness and necessary depend­ ence on men
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1636CalibanAndTheWitchCh2  
1637- Your Bookmark on page 70 | Added on Sunday, May 3, 2015 3:29:52 PM
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1641CalibanAndTheWitchCh2  
1642- Your Highlight on page 40-40 | Added on Sunday, May 3, 2015 3:43:36 PM
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1644reconstructed.Two trends within <hi:s <1<­ can be identified. On the one hand, new cultural canons were constructed maxirnizil1ii ' differences between women and men and creating more fenunille and more ""lSC\JIIII prototypes (Fortunati 1984
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1646CalibanAndTheWitchCh2  
1647- Your Note on page 40 | Added on Sunday, May 3, 2015 3:44:15 PM
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1649gender accumulation 
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1651CalibanAndTheWitchCh2  
1652- Your Highlight on page 40-40 | Added on Sunday, May 3, 2015 3:44:15 PM
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1654reconstructed.Two trends within <hi:s <1<­ can be identified. On the one hand, new cultural canons were constructed maxirnizil1ii ' differences between women and men and creating more fenunille and more ""lSC\JIIII prototypes (Fortunati 1984
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1656CalibanAndTheWitchCh2  
1657- Your Bookmark on page 41 | Added on Sunday, May 3, 2015 3:47:59 PM
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1661Gotterdammerung Family BBQ - Jasper Bernes  
1662- Your Highlight on page 12-12 | Added on Sunday, May 3, 2015 4:28:44 PM
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1664chez toi
1665==========
1666Gotterdammerung Family BBQ - Jasper Bernes  
1667- Your Highlight on page 12 | Added on Sunday, May 3, 2015 4:29:04 PM
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1669policier
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1671Instapaper: Sunday, May. 3rd (Instapaper)
1672- Your Highlight on Location 430-431 | Added on Tuesday, May 5, 2015 9:39:04 AM
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1674sometimes dutifully falling and getting out, with perfect fortitude, saying “look at the skill and spirit with which I rise from that which resembles the grave but isn’t!“ 
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1676CalibanAndTheWitchCh2  
1677- Your Bookmark on page 42 | Added on Tuesday, May 5, 2015 11:18:07 AM
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1681CalibanAndTheWitchCh2  
1682- Your Highlight on page 43-43 | Added on Tuesday, May 5, 2015 11:23:08 AM
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1684new model of fenunuuty ..... emerged: the Ideal woman and wIfe _ passive, obediem, thrifty, of few words, always busy at work, and chaste
1685==========
1686ecritureshared (bmumford@gmail.com)
1687- Your Highlight on Location 14-16 | Added on Wednesday, May 6, 2015 11:44:31 PM
1688
1689Something is not adding up, or maybe equations are the problem. There have been cultures which held a refusal to quantify exchanges as a first order of social relations; you only totalized a figure with somebody when you wanted no more to do with them: an act of enmity...
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1691ecritureshared (bmumford@gmail.com)
1692- Your Highlight on Location 17-17 | Added on Wednesday, May 6, 2015 11:44:39 PM
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1694Unyielding raccoon fists stuck within another crate’s eyelets.
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1696ecritureshared (bmumford@gmail.com)
1697- Your Highlight on Location 26-26 | Added on Wednesday, May 6, 2015 11:47:59 PM
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1699One observes that the market resurrects identities lost to the quotidian passage of time, and we chat with them on social media.
1700==========
1701ecritureshared (bmumford@gmail.com)
1702- Your Note on Location 37 | Added on Thursday, May 7, 2015 8:57:06 AM
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1704similar to never rescinded 
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1706ecritureshared (bmumford@gmail.com)
1707- Your Highlight on Location 37-38 | Added on Thursday, May 7, 2015 8:57:06 AM
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1709the bourgeois have never denounced the anti-plebiscite oath of the elites.
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1711ecritureshared (bmumford@gmail.com)
1712- Your Note on Location 44 | Added on Thursday, May 7, 2015 9:01:57 AM
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1714why not more like "i am yr nightmare" or smthn - maybe that's condescending 
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1716ecritureshared (bmumford@gmail.com)
1717- Your Highlight on Location 43-44 | Added on Thursday, May 7, 2015 9:01:57 AM
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1719We are enemies. We will not be enemies if YOU change your mind.
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1721ecritureshared (bmumford@gmail.com)
1722- Your Highlight on Location 83-84 | Added on Thursday, May 7, 2015 10:10:23 AM
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1724Only a global capitalist market could have achieved this technologic level of subjective objectification: us as spatial origami.
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1726Review: Cards Against Humanity (shutupandsitdown.com)
1727- Your Highlight on Location 84-86 | Added on Thursday, May 7, 2015 11:13:15 PM
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1729I can’t help but feel that the success of the game has been virally powered by this desire to reduce those pangs of guilt: the more people who you know who’ve also bought this game, the better. You’re never expected to take responsibility for any of the things that the game makes you say, but that doesn’t solve the problem of why you own it in the first place.
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1731Review: Cards Against Humanity (shutupandsitdown.com)
1732- Your Highlight on Location 112-114 | Added on Thursday, May 7, 2015 11:18:17 PM
1733
1734Some simple card games we recommend instead! Skull offers the most game in the simplest rules. The Metagame is Cards Against Humanity for the clever kids. Monikers is just very, very funny.
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1736ecritureshared (bmumford@gmail.com)
1737- Your Highlight on Location 160-161 | Added on Friday, May 8, 2015 9:12:35 AM
1738
1739Does it matter that nobody writes love letters anymore? The last link of We fractured in a long chain of being leading to nothing but a self. All the freedom in the world, minus the world.
1740==========
1741ecritureshared (bmumford@gmail.com)
1742- Your Note on Location 165 | Added on Friday, May 8, 2015 9:14:04 AM
1743
1744difference between literary acts / forms?
1745==========
1746ecritureshared (bmumford@gmail.com)
1747- Your Highlight on Location 162-165 | Added on Friday, May 8, 2015 9:14:05 AM
1748
1749I wrote letters to women for whom I felt overpowering emotions. These were emotions bound for acts. So they became literary acts. I wrote lines which satisfied me. At the time a regret that they did not occur in poems or novels seemed petty and mean, vile even. So I never copied them into these literary forms.
1750==========
1751Instapaper: Thursday, May. 7th (Instapaper)
1752- Your Highlight on Location 394-396 | Added on Friday, May 8, 2015 9:19:21 AM
1753
1754Whiteness has nothing to do with culture and everything to do with social position. It is nothing but a reflection of privilege, and exists for no reason other than to defend it. Without the privileges attached to it, the white race would not exist, and the white skin would have no more social significance than big feet.
1755==========
1756Instapaper: Thursday, May. 7th (Instapaper)
1757- Your Highlight on Location 425-429 | Added on Friday, May 8, 2015 1:17:35 PM
1758
1759Just as the capitalist system is not a capitalist plot, so racial oppression is not the work of “racists.” It is maintained by the principal institutions of society, including the schools (which define “excellence”), the labor market (which defines “employment”), the legal system (which defines “crime”), the welfare system (which defines “poverty”), the medical industry (which defines “health”), and the family (which defines “kinship”). Many of these institutions are administered by people who would be offended if accused of complicity with racial oppression.
1760==========
1761Instapaper: Thursday, May. 7th (Instapaper)
1762- Your Highlight on Location 435-437 | Added on Friday, May 8, 2015 1:19:21 PM
1763
1764Most northerners considered slavery unjust, but their opposition to it was purely nominal. However much they disapproved of it, the majority “went along,” as majorities normally do, rather than risk the ordinary comforts of their lives, meager as they were.
1765==========
1766Instapaper: Thursday, May. 7th (Instapaper)
1767- Your Highlight on Location 444-448 | Added on Friday, May 8, 2015 1:27:44 PM
1768
1769The concentrated expression of the abolitionist strategy was the slogan, “No Union with Slaveholders,” which was not, as has often been charged, an attempt to maintain their moral purity but an effort to break up the Union in order to establish a liberated zone adjacent to the slave states. It was a strategy that would later come to be known as dual power, and neither Garrison’s pacifism nor his failure to develop a general critique of the capitalist system should blind us to its revolutionary character.
1770==========
1771Instapaper: Thursday, May. 7th (Instapaper)
1772- Your Highlight on Location 463-465 | Added on Friday, May 8, 2015 1:33:09 PM
1773
1774the reflection of their refusal to view themselves as part of a class with the slaves - just as a century later white labor opposition to school integration showed that the laborers viewed themselves more as whites than as proletarians.
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1776Instapaper: Thursday, May. 7th (Instapaper)
1777- Your Highlight on Location 468-469 | Added on Friday, May 8, 2015 1:36:44 PM
1778
1779The white club does not require that all members be strong advocates of white supremacy, merely that they defer to the prejudices of others. It is based on one huge assumption: that all those who look white are, whatever their reservations, fundamentally loyal to it.
1780==========
1781Instapaper: Thursday, May. 7th (Instapaper)
1782- Your Highlight on Location 477-480 | Added on Friday, May 8, 2015 1:39:50 PM
1783
1784The non-beating of poor whites is time off for good behavior and an assurance of future cooperation. Their color exempts them to some degree from the criminal class - which is how the entire working class was defined before the invention of race and is still treated in those parts of the world where race, or some functional equivalent, does not exist as a social category. It is a cheap way of buying some people’s loyalty to a social system that exploits them.
1785==========
1786Instapaper: Thursday, May. 7th (Instapaper)
1787- Your Highlight on Location 481-487 | Added on Friday, May 8, 2015 1:42:04 PM
1788
1789What if the police couldn’t tell a loyal person just by color? What if there were enough people around who looked white but were really enemies of official society so that the cops couldn’t tell whom to beat and whom to let off? What would they do then? They would begin to “enforce the law impartially,” as the liberals say, beating only those who “deserve” it. But, as Anatole France noted, the law, in its majestic equality, forbids both rich and poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. The standard that normally governs police behavior is wealth and its external manifestations - dress, speech, etc. At the present time, the class bias of the law is partially repressed by racial considerations; the removal of those considerations would give it free rein. Whites who are poor would find themselves on the receiving end of police justice as black people now do.
1790==========
1791Instapaper: Thursday, May. 7th (Instapaper)
1792- Your Highlight on Location 492-494 | Added on Friday, May 8, 2015 1:43:03 PM
1793
1794The task is to gather together a minority determined to make it impossible for anyone to be white. It is a strategy of creative provocation, like Wendell Phillips advocated and John Brown carried out.
1795==========
1796Instapaper: Friday, May. 8th (Instapaper)
1797- Your Highlight on Location 604-607 | Added on Friday, May 8, 2015 1:55:08 PM
1798
1799Jan Breman, in his review of Standing’s book, notes that in the Communist Manifesto Marx and Engels argue that one of the defining conditions of “proletarianization” is precarity: “Stripped of the means of subsistence on the land, workers could only survive by selling their labour.”
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1801Spread Anarchy, Live Communism (A4 READ) - Ill Will Editions  
1802- Your Highlight on page 3-3 | Added on Monday, May 11, 2015 1:59:26 AM
1803
1804in the layout of a town like New York - the pinnacle of the global petit-organic-hipster-bourgeoisie - we mean whatever captures intensities and vitalities in order to chew them up, digest them, and shit out value
1805==========
1806Spread Anarchy, Live Communism (A4 READ) - Ill Will Editions  
1807- Your Highlight on page 4-4 | Added on Monday, May 11, 2015 2:01:34 AM
1808
1809We call hostility that which governs almost completely the relationships between beings, relationships of pure estrangement, pure incompatibility between bodies. It may take the shape of benevolence or malevolence, but it is always a distance: I be a t yo u d o wn be c a u s e I am a c o p and yo u a r e a s h i t . I invite you to the restaurant b e c a u s e I want t o f u c k y o u . I leave you the bill because I don’t know how to tell you h o w mu ch I h a te yo u . I ne ve r s to p smi l ing. This is hostility
1810==========
1811Spread Anarchy, Live Communism (A4 READ) - Ill Will Editions  
1812- Your Highlight on page 5-5 | Added on Monday, May 11, 2015 9:22:51 AM
1813
1814Isolation is a cause for impotence more dreadful than that caused by repression. Those who don’t let themselves be isolated do not let themselves be reduced to impotence. Malatesta understood this well in his time
1815==========
1816Spread Anarchy, Live Communism (A4 READ) - Ill Will Editions  
1817- Your Highlight on page 7-7 | Added on Monday, May 11, 2015 9:30:43 AM
1818
1819the debate around the necessity to create our own little oasis or to wait for the insurrection to come before creating troubles within the radical milieu, was firstly a theological question. We could wait for the coming of the Messiah, staying at the very position God gave him, or we could pretend to fasten the second coming. There is another way, of a different nature. There is a Messianic time that is the abolition of the time that passes: the rupture of the continuum of history, the end of waiting. That also means there are sparks mixed with the blackness of reality. It means there exists something Messianic: the kingdom is not merely to come but already, by fragments, here among us
1820==========
1821Spread Anarchy, Live Communism (A4 READ) - Ill Will Editions  
1822- Your Highlight on page 7-7 | Added on Monday, May 11, 2015 9:34:20 AM
1823
1824To become a war machine or collapse into a milieu? To end up alone or begin to love each other? The commune does not describe what we organize but how we organize ourselves, which is always at the same time a material question. A commune is only as it becomes. There is no preliminary to communism. Those who believe otherwise, by dint of pursuing their goal, manage only to lose themselves in the accumulation of means
1825==========
1826Spread Anarchy, Live Communism (A4 READ) - Ill Will Editions  
1827- Your Highlight on page 8-8 | Added on Monday, May 11, 2015 9:39:55 AM
1828
1829When we are looking for an enemy, we often start by projecting ourselves on an abstract scene, within which the world has disappeared. Let us ask ourselves the same question, but starting from the neighbourhood where we live, from the company where we work, from the professional sector we are familiar with. Then the answer is clear; then the front lines can be distinctly seen, and who is on what side can easily be determined. This is because the question of the confrontation, the properly political question, only makes sense in a given world, in a substantial world. For those who are nowhere, cybernetic philosophers or metropolitan hipsters, the political question never makes sense. It refuses itself to them and leaves them walking backward into abstraction. And that is the price to pay for so much superficiality. As compensation, they will prefer to juggle with some great folkloric significance, to give themselves some post-Maoist or post-situationist thrills.Or, perhaps they will accommodate their nothingness with the last glosses of the ultra-left logorrhoea
1830==========
1831Spread Anarchy, Live Communism (A4 READ) - Ill Will Editions  
1832- Your Highlight on page 11-11 | Added on Monday, May 11, 2015 9:52:40 AM
1833
1834tear down power, globally, locally - wherever it captures, manages and controls us. It means: organize by and for ourselves, first of all in the neighbourhood, the city and the region.Food, transportation, healthcare, energy - in each case we need to find the level at which we can act without recreating the power that we only just deposed. The commune is a not a form, but rather a way of posing problems that dissolves them
1835==========
1836Spread Anarchy, Live Communism (A4 READ) - Ill Will Editions  
1837- Your Highlight on page 13-13 | Added on Monday, May 11, 2015 9:56:26 AM
1838
1839In a world of lies, the lie can never be defeated by its contrary, it can only be defeated by a world of truth
1840==========
1841Spread Anarchy, Live Communism (A4 READ) - Ill Will Editions  
1842- Your Highlight on page 13-13 | Added on Monday, May 11, 2015 9:59:42 AM
1843
1844if we have come here t o t alk, it is only bec aus e we have been persuaded of this: we must be done with radicalism and its meager comforts - now. The intellectual, the academic, both remain mesmerized by the contradictions that banish thought to the clouds. By never beginning from the situation, from their own situation, intellectuals distance themselves from the world so much that, finally, it is their intelligence itself that abandons them. If hipsters succeed in perceiving the world with precision and subtlety, it is only to aestheticize the sensible ever further, that is to say, to keep it at a distance, to contemplate their lives and their beautiful souls and thereby to promote their own impotence - their particular autism, which expresses itself in a valorization ofthe tiniest aspects of life.Meanwhile, the activist, in refusing to think, in adopting the ethic of middle managers, runs grinning into every single wall before him before finally collapsing into cynicism. If taking part is the only option in war, the lines that are offered to us visibly are not the ones that we should follow. We have to displace them and we have to move ourselves in between them
1845==========
184610:04 (Ben Lerner)
1847- Your Highlight on Location 1385-1387 | Added on Wednesday, May 13, 2015 7:45:42 AM
1848
1849The way they used poetic language to integrate a terrible event and its image back into a framework of meaning, the way the transpersonality of prosody constituted a community: poets were the unacknowledged legislators of the world, it seemed to me.
1850==========
1851Rites of Passage (ultra-com.org)
1852- Your Bookmark on Location 41 | Added on Thursday, May 14, 2015 9:49:39 AM
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1856Rites of Passage (ultra-com.org)
1857- Your Bookmark on Location 396 | Added on Thursday, May 14, 2015 9:50:02 AM
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1861Rites of Passage (ultra-com.org)
1862- Your Bookmark on Location 52 | Added on Thursday, May 14, 2015 10:13:58 AM
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1866Rites of Passage (ultra-com.org)
1867- Your Bookmark on Location 406 | Added on Thursday, May 14, 2015 10:35:55 AM
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1871Rites of Passage (ultra-com.org)
1872- Your Bookmark on Location 415 | Added on Thursday, May 14, 2015 10:37:30 AM
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1876Rites of Passage (ultra-com.org)
1877- Your Bookmark on Location 71 | Added on Thursday, May 14, 2015 10:43:42 AM
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1881Rites of Passage (ultra-com.org)
1882- Your Bookmark on Location 126 | Added on Thursday, May 14, 2015 10:52:45 AM
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1886Rites of Passage (ultra-com.org)
1887- Your Bookmark on Location 425 | Added on Thursday, May 14, 2015 10:53:43 AM
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189110:04 (Ben Lerner)
1892- Your Highlight on Location 1618-1624 | Added on Friday, May 15, 2015 7:45:52 AM
1893
1894trying to convince the largest insurer of art in the country to give them some of its “totaled” art. When a valuable painting is damaged in transit or a fire or flood, vandalized, etc., and an appraiser agrees with the owner of a work that the work cannot be satisfactorily restored, or that the cost of restoration would exceed the value of the claim, then the insurance company pays out the total value of the damaged work, which is then legally declared to have “zero value.” When Alena asked me what I thought happened to the totaled art, I told her I assumed that the damaged work was destroyed, but, as it turned out, the insurer had a giant warehouse on Long Island full of these indeterminate objects: works by artists, many of them famous, that, after suffering one kind of damage or another, were formally demoted from art to mere objecthood and banned from circulation, removed from the market, relegated to this strange limbo.
1895==========
189610:04 (Ben Lerner)
1897- Your Highlight on Location 2055-2055 | Added on Saturday, May 16, 2015 7:47:06 AM
1898
1899tapetum lucidum,
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190110:04 (Ben Lerner)
1902- Your Bookmark on Location 2213 | Added on Saturday, May 16, 2015 8:33:29 AM
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1906Strange Victories (Midnight Notes)
1907- Your Highlight on Location 17-19 | Added on Sunday, May 17, 2015 5:07:02 PM
1908
1909The State’s projects are continually being updated. One minute they are putting up a wall of repression, the next they are softer, decodifying behaviour that was once condemned and persecuted.
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1911Strange Victories (Midnight Notes)
1912- Your Highlight on Location 167-170 | Added on Monday, May 18, 2015 7:41:12 AM
1913
1914By 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.
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1916Strange Victories (Midnight Notes)
1917- Your Highlight on Location 171-178 | Added on Monday, May 18, 2015 7:43:46 AM
1918
1919In New England, subsistence farming, collective reproduction (communal living) and mutual use of the skills of the highly qualified intellectual labour-force via the substitution of capital-intensive re-production (hospitals, microwave ovens) by labour-intensive reproduction techniques (macro-biotics, yoga, bio-genetics, meditation, massage, walks and fresh air) were favoured by the agricultural structure, the climate (which imposes a certain discipline), the vicinity of metropolitan areas and low real estate prices. This constellation allowed a certain refusal of full-time intellectual work and the loosening of capitalist control over it. Under this aspect, the retreat to the countryside and the alternative lifestyle are forms of struggle by intellectual workers against capital. Capital has always had problems in controlling its intellectual labour force mainly because the profit returns are indirect and slow, particularly for disciplines like philosophy, literature and art.
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1921Strange Victories (Midnight Notes)
1922- Your Highlight on Location 183-189 | Added on Monday, May 18, 2015 7:47:29 AM
1923
1924Nature as a means of reproduction is important for these intellectual workers because the specialisation and one-sidedness of their work generates psychological instability and requires periods of complete relaxation without jarring sensorial stimuli (noise, media, social contacts). Nature is the most efficient compensation for intellectual stress since it represents the unity of body and mind against the capitalist division of labour. Extensive consumption of nature has traditionally been an element of the re-production of intellectual workers. (It started with Rousseau, then came the Romantics, Thoreau, the early tourists, Tolstoi, artists’ colonies in the Alps, etc). The ecological movement responds directly to the class interests of the intellectual sector of the proletariat and the struggle against nuclear power plants is a mere extension of this struggle.
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1926Strange Victories (Midnight Notes)
1927- Your Highlight on Location 221-226 | Added on Monday, May 18, 2015 7:54:01 AM
1928
1929For underemployed or temporarily employed workers it is very difficult to organise on the job. The jobs are unstable, the possibilities of mass struggle are minimal (the worker-boss ratio being low or, in the case of self-managed or ‘alternative’ jobs, reaching 1/1), and sabotage is ineffective in the case of intellectual work and in the absence of expensive capital goods. All this pushed the struggle immediately on the level of the ‘general’ circulation of capital, on the level of ‘society’, of ‘humankind’. As it is not possible for them to attack any specific capital from the inside, the struggle has to be launched from the outside.
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1931Strange Victories (Midnight Notes)
1932- Your Highlight on Location 247-248 | Added on Monday, May 18, 2015 8:03:44 AM
1933
1934very uneducated class-sectors have always been able to grasp the essential knowledge about their problems, if the knowledge were in their interest and presented possibilities of struggle.
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1936Caliban and the Witch: excerpt chapter two (with images) (Silvia Federici;takerlab)
1937- Your Highlight on page 55 | Location 842-842 | Added on Monday, May 18, 2015 6:15:03 PM
1938
1939man
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1941Caliban and the Witch: excerpt chapter two (with images) (Silvia Federici;takerlab)
1942- Your Highlight on page 56 | Location 851-852 | Added on Monday, May 18, 2015 6:16:22 PM
1943
1944(in this period the term “gossip” -- female friend -- began to acquire a disparaging connotation).
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1946Caliban and the Witch: excerpt chapter two (with images) (Silvia Federici;takerlab)
1947- Your Highlight on page 57 | Location 866-866 | Added on Monday, May 18, 2015 6:19:06 PM
1948
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1951Caliban and the Witch: excerpt chapter two (with images) (Silvia Federici;takerlab)
1952- Your Highlight on page 57 | Location 873-873 | Added on Monday, May 18, 2015 6:20:02 PM
1953
1954address
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1956Caliban and the Witch: excerpt chapter two (with images) (Silvia Federici;takerlab)
1957- Your Highlight on page 102 | Location 1563-1563 | Added on Monday, May 18, 2015 6:22:03 PM
1958
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1961Caliban and the Witch: excerpt chapter two (with images) (Silvia Federici;takerlab)
1962- Your Highlight on page 59 | Location 895-895 | Added on Monday, May 18, 2015 6:31:45 PM
1963
1964Oce
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1966Caliban and the Witch: excerpt chapter two (with images) (Silvia Federici;takerlab)
1967- Your Highlight on page 102 | Location 1564-1565 | Added on Monday, May 18, 2015 6:52:08 PM
1968
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1971Caliban and the Witch: excerpt chapter two (with images) (Silvia Federici;takerlab)
1972- Your Highlight on page 103 | Location 1566-1566 | Added on Monday, May 18, 2015 6:52:38 PM
1973
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1976Caliban and the Witch: excerpt chapter two (with images) (Silvia Federici;takerlab)
1977- Your Highlight on page 60 | Location 915-915 | Added on Monday, May 18, 2015 6:53:59 PM
1978
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1981Caliban and the Witch: excerpt chapter two (with images) (Silvia Federici;takerlab)
1982- Your Bookmark on page 60 | Location 912 | Added on Monday, May 18, 2015 7:07:25 PM
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198610:04 (Ben Lerner)
1987- Your Bookmark on Location 2544 | Added on Tuesday, May 19, 2015 10:52:54 AM
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1991maskmag 201504 - The Crossing Paths Issue (Mask Magazine)
1992- Your Highlight on page 18 | Location 272-275 | Added on Tuesday, May 19, 2015 10:24:44 PM
1993
1994I can’t imagine a social movement that’s not deeply connected to creativity and the arts. Creative processes are so generative, and it’s incredibly important to be thinking about the aesthetics of social movements. By aesthetics, I mean how we come together. Like: How are we dancing together? What do our spaces look like? What are we listening to? Who are the people building the spaces? What we’re defending. How we laugh together, how we exist together.
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1996maskmag 201504 - The Crossing Paths Issue (Mask Magazine)
1997- Your Highlight on page 19 | Location 279-282 | Added on Tuesday, May 19, 2015 10:25:46 PM
1998
1999I think for a long time, I was not feeling that, because I associated style with a luxury class. There is a level of austerity that gets celebrated as “authenticity” in social movements, and being intentional about style can be seen as a luxury instead of something that’s essential to the growth of movements. Dressing the most drab – as if there is no time for trying to look good – is validated. 
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2001maskmag 201504 - The Crossing Paths Issue (Mask Magazine)
2002- Your Highlight on page 19 | Location 277-279 | Added on Tuesday, May 19, 2015 10:25:57 PM
2003
2004It’s so important to lift up aesthetics, style, and creativity in social movements, especially femmeness and transfemininity which are so often scapegoated as superficial or artificial.
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2006maskmag 201504 - The Crossing Paths Issue (Mask Magazine)
2007- Your Highlight on page 25 | Location 369-374 | Added on Tuesday, May 19, 2015 10:37:21 PM
2008
2009we might have a lot of visibility of trans women of color, but we’re also seeing the highest rate of trans women of color being murdered right now. I’m not interested in trans visibility unless its supporting movements for self determination. Visibility is often connected to respectability politics. Too often, the mantras people use are, “Show us not doing sex work!” “Show us not using drugs!” It then becomes even more difficult to have conversations about how the violence and murders of trans women of color are directly linked to perceptions that come from these stigmas. When movements center people that society says are respectable, the most vulnerable people continue to be exposed to violence.
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2011maskmag 201504 - The Crossing Paths Issue (Mask Magazine)
2012- Your Highlight on page 27 | Location 410-414 | Added on Tuesday, May 19, 2015 10:43:51 PM
2013
2014A lot of ableism happens in our social movements and political communities, where people have this idea that you can fail as long as you’re successful. Or, not working is a wealthy person thing to do, or being femme or fabulous is a frivolous, silly thing to do – rather than things that are deeply meaningful. There is so much language about how we’re supposed to be independent people. I think it’s wonderful – to be dependent. Oppression and exploitation allow certain people to not understand that they are super dependent on a lot of other people’s labor. What if we valued being gentle with ourselves instead of being productive?
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2016maskmag 201504 - The Crossing Paths Issue (Mask Magazine)
2017- Your Bookmark on page 32 | Location 480 | Added on Tuesday, May 19, 2015 10:50:21 PM
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2021maskmag 201504 - The Crossing Paths Issue (Mask Magazine)
2022- Your Highlight on page 43 | Location 647-650 | Added on Tuesday, May 19, 2015 11:13:59 PM
2023
2024Veteran suicide numbers are still through the roof, and a new study found that it has nothing to do with being deployed in combat. Instead, research suggests that military life simply depletes most people’s will to go on. Every day, 22 veterans kill themselves.
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2026maskmag 201504 - The Crossing Paths Issue (Mask Magazine)
2027- Your Highlight on page 45 | Location 679-684 | Added on Tuesday, May 19, 2015 11:17:44 PM
2028
2029the number of people with access to work is lower than it has been for three and a half decades. You heard me right: the last time this many people who wanted work but didn’t have it was in 1978. If that weren’t dismal enough: twelve million black people were unemployed last month at a rate of 10.1%, nearly double the national average. Wouldn’t you know it, it gets even worse: for young blacks aged 16 – 19 who are actively looking for jobs, one in four don’t have one. That’s five times the country’s average unemployment rate.
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2031maskmag 201504 - The Crossing Paths Issue (Mask Magazine)
2032- Your Highlight on page 47 | Location 713-717 | Added on Tuesday, May 19, 2015 11:21:29 PM
2033
2034Purvi Patel is a woman from Indiana who was sentenced this week to 20 years in prison for miscarrying a pregnancy. She will be the first woman in US history jailed for “feticide”. This story pisses me off so much I’m not going to say anything about it and just let my friend Natasha tell you why Purvi Patel’s feticide conviction in Indiana must be overturned.
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2036The Fire Next Time (James Baldwin)
2037- Your Highlight on page 5 | Location 64-66 | Added on Tuesday, May 19, 2015 11:51:51 PM
2038
2039This innocent country set you down in a ghetto in which, in fact, it intended that you should perish. Let me spell out precisely what I mean by that, for the heart of the matter is here, and the root of my dispute with my country. You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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2041The Fire Next Time (James Baldwin)
2042- Your Highlight on page 6 | Location 81-87 | Added on Tuesday, May 19, 2015 11:59:08 PM
2043
2044Try to imagine how you would feel if you woke up one morning to find the sun shining and all the stars aflame. You would be frightened because it is out of the order of nature. Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying because it so profoundly attacks one’s sense of one’s own reality. Well, the black man has functioned in the white man’s world as a fixed star, as an immovable pillar: and as he moves out of his place, heaven and earth are shaken to their foundations. You, don’t be afraid. I said that it was intended that you should perish in the ghetto, perish by never being allowed to go behind the white man’s definitions, by never being allowed to spell your proper name. You have, and many of us have, defeated this intention; and, by a terrible law, a terrible paradox, those innocents who believed that your imprisonment made them safe are losing their grasp of reality.
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204610:04 (Ben Lerner)
2047- Your Note on Location 2595 | Added on Wednesday, May 20, 2015 12:04:45 AM
2048
2049text pat
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205110:04 (Ben Lerner)
2052- Your Highlight on Location 2595-2595 | Added on Wednesday, May 20, 2015 12:04:45 AM
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205610:04 (Ben Lerner)
2057- Your Highlight on Location 2600-2600 | Added on Wednesday, May 20, 2015 12:05:30 AM
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206110:04 (Ben Lerner)
2062- Your Highlight on Location 2601-2601 | Added on Wednesday, May 20, 2015 12:05:57 AM
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2064idiopathic
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206610:04 (Ben Lerner)
2067- Your Bookmark on Location 2831 | Added on Wednesday, May 20, 2015 8:26:31 AM
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2071The Failure of Bystander Intervention (thenewinquiry.com)
2072- Your Highlight on Location 42-45 | Added on Friday, May 22, 2015 5:58:18 AM
2073
2074In a culture of violence, both victim and intervening bystander have little support to rely on and are likely to be re-victimized after the original assault. In this light, bystander intervention appears less as a weapon in the fight against sexual assault and more like an evolved form of victim blaming. Minimizing the difficult work of challenging the institutions that support violence, it shifts the responsibility of ending violence to those most vulnerable to it.
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2076The Failure of Bystander Intervention (thenewinquiry.com)
2077- Your Highlight on Location 75-76 | Added on Friday, May 22, 2015 6:05:29 AM
2078
2079We know, for example, that police officers beat their partners at double the national rate.
2080==========
2081Caliban and the Witch: excerpt chapter two (with images) (Silvia Federici;takerlab)
2082- Your Note on page 61 | Location 931 | Added on Friday, May 22, 2015 11:28:21 PM
2083
2084ways
2085==========
2086Caliban and the Witch: excerpt chapter two (with images) (Silvia Federici;takerlab)
2087- Your Highlight on page 61 | Location 931-931 | Added on Friday, May 22, 2015 11:28:21 PM
2088
2089was
2090==========
2091Caliban and the Witch: excerpt chapter two (with images) (Silvia Federici;takerlab)
2092- Your Highlight on page 61 | Location 930-930 | Added on Friday, May 22, 2015 11:28:37 PM
2093
2094o f
2095==========
2096Caliban and the Witch: excerpt chapter two (with images) (Silvia Federici;takerlab)
2097- Your Note on page 61 | Location 934 | Added on Friday, May 22, 2015 11:38:24 PM
2098
2099how?
2100==========
2101Caliban and the Witch: excerpt chapter two (with images) (Silvia Federici;takerlab)
2102- Your Highlight on page 61 | Location 933-934 | Added on Friday, May 22, 2015 11:38:24 PM
2103
2104On the other side, the metropolitan wage became the vehicle by which the goods produced by enslaved workers went to the market, and the value of the products of enslaved-labor was realized.
2105==========
2106Caliban and the Witch: excerpt chapter two (with images) (Silvia Federici;takerlab)
2107- Your Highlight on page 62 | Location 938-938 | Added on Friday, May 22, 2015 11:39:54 PM
2108
2109The
2110==========
2111Caliban and the Witch: excerpt chapter two (with images) (Silvia Federici;takerlab)
2112- Your Highlight on page 62 | Location 940-940 | Added on Friday, May 22, 2015 11:40:23 PM
2113
2114ride
2115==========
2116Caliban and the Witch: excerpt chapter two (with images) (Silvia Federici;takerlab)
2117- Your Highlight on page 63 | Location 954-954 | Added on Friday, May 22, 2015 11:43:15 PM
2118
2119is
2120==========
2121Caliban and the Witch: excerpt chapter two (with images) (Silvia Federici;takerlab)
2122- Your Highlight on page 63 | Location 960-960 | Added on Friday, May 22, 2015 11:46:40 PM
2123
212416thy
2125==========
2126Caliban and the Witch: excerpt chapter two (with images) (Silvia Federici;takerlab)
2127- Your Highlight on page 64 | Location 967-967 | Added on Friday, May 22, 2015 11:56:35 PM
2128
2129:thyne”
2130==========
2131Caliban and the Witch: excerpt chapter two (with images) (Silvia Federici;takerlab)
2132- Your Highlight on page 64 | Location 977-977 | Added on Friday, May 22, 2015 11:59:08 PM
2133
2134friend.
2135==========
2136Caliban and the Witch: excerpt chapter two (with images) (Silvia Federici;takerlab)
2137- Your Highlight on page 65 | Location 992-992 | Added on Saturday, May 23, 2015 12:04:40 AM
2138
2139matchetable.
2140==========
2141Caliban and the Witch: excerpt chapter two (with images) (Silvia Federici;takerlab)
2142- Your Highlight on page 67 | Location 1014-1015 | Added on Saturday, May 23, 2015 8:42:39 AM
2143
2144the bonds that could be established there between European, indigenous, and African women by virtue of a common experience of sexual discrimination.
2145==========
2146Caliban and the Witch: excerpt chapter two (with images) (Silvia Federici;takerlab)
2147- Your Highlight on page 67 | Location 1025-1025 | Added on Saturday, May 23, 2015 8:45:50 AM
2148
2149white women,
2150==========
2151Caliban and the Witch: excerpt chapter two (with images) (Silvia Federici;takerlab)
2152- Your Highlight on page 67 | Location 1028-1028 | Added on Saturday, May 23, 2015 8:46:39 AM
2153
2154Amount
2155==========
2156Caliban and the Witch: excerpt chapter two (with images) (Silvia Federici;takerlab)
2157- Your Highlight on page 68 | Location 1033-1033 | Added on Saturday, May 23, 2015 8:48:05 AM
2158
2159AMerica
2160==========
2161Caliban and the Witch: excerpt chapter two (with images) (Silvia Federici;takerlab)
2162- Your Highlight on page 68 | Location 1042-1042 | Added on Saturday, May 23, 2015 8:50:36 AM
2163
2164AMerican
2165==========
2166Caliban and the Witch: excerpt chapter two (with images) (Silvia Federici;takerlab)
2167- Your Highlight on page 70 | Location 1071-1071 | Added on Saturday, May 23, 2015 8:56:30 AM
2168
2169n
2170==========
2171Caliban and the Witch: excerpt chapter two (with images) (Silvia Federici;takerlab)
2172- Your Highlight on page 72 | Location 1094-1098 | Added on Saturday, May 23, 2015 9:01:44 AM
2173
2174The Jesuits’ greatest victory, however, was persuading the Naskapi to beat their children, believing that the “savages” excessive fondness for their offspring was the major obstacle to their Christianization. Le Jeune’s diary records the first instance in which a girl was publicly beaten, while one of her relatives have a chilling lecture to the bystanders on the historic significance of the event: “This is the first punishment by beating (he said) we inflict on anyone of our nation…” (ibid.: 54-55).
2175==========
2176Caliban and the Witch: excerpt chapter two (with images) (Silvia Federici;takerlab)
2177- Your Highlight on page 75 | Location 1150-1150 | Added on Saturday, May 23, 2015 9:14:34 AM
2178
2179manner
2180==========
2181Caliban and the Witch: excerpt chapter two (with images) (Silvia Federici;takerlab)
2182- Your Highlight on page 76 | Location 1153-1153 | Added on Saturday, May 23, 2015 9:16:46 AM
2183
2184PEnn
2185==========
2186Caliban and the Witch: excerpt chapter two (with images) (Silvia Federici;takerlab)
2187- Your Highlight on page 77 | Location 1172-1174 | Added on Saturday, May 23, 2015 9:19:58 AM
2188
2189the advantages which the capitalist class, derived from the differentiation between agricultural and industrial labor and within industrial labor itself - celebrated in Adam Smith’s ode to pin-making -  pale when compared to those it derived from the degradation  of women’s work and social position.
2190==========
2191Caliban and the Witch: excerpt chapter two (with images) (Silvia Federici;takerlab)
2192- Your Highlight on page 77 | Location 1174-1174 | Added on Saturday, May 23, 2015 9:20:09 AM
2193
2194i
2195==========
2196Caliban and the Witch: excerpt chapter two (with images) (Silvia Federici;takerlab)
2197- Your Highlight on page 77 | Location 1177-1178 | Added on Saturday, May 23, 2015 9:20:49 AM
2198
2199primitive accumulation has been above all an accumulation of differences, inequalities, hierarchies, divisions, which have alienated workers from each other and even from themselves.
2200==========
2201Caliban and the Witch: excerpt chapter two (with images) (Silvia Federici;takerlab)
2202- Your Highlight on page 77 | Location 1180-1182 | Added on Saturday, May 23, 2015 9:23:21 AM
2203
2204the power that men have imposed on women by virtue of their access to wage-labor and their recognized contribution to capitalist accumulation have been paid at the price of self-alienation, and the “primitive disaccumulation” of their own individual and collective powers.
2205==========
2206Hunger (Knut Hamsun)
2207- Your Bookmark on Location 16 | Added on Sunday, May 24, 2015 7:58:36 AM
2208
2209
2210==========
2211Hunger (Knut Hamsun)
2212- Your Highlight on Location 172-173 | Added on Sunday, May 24, 2015 8:18:06 AM
2213
2214my satisfaction became ill-regulated, and for no definite reason I began to hum joyfully.
2215==========
2216Hunger (Knut Hamsun)
2217- Your Highlight on Location 237-238 | Added on Sunday, May 24, 2015 8:29:32 AM
2218
2219down near the Queen's arbour two nursemaids were trundling their perambulators;
2220==========
2221Hunger (Knut Hamsun)
2222- Your Highlight on Location 380-381 | Added on Sunday, May 24, 2015 10:28:56 AM
2223
2224Something of my own nature had gone over into these shoes; they affected me, like a ghost of my other I-- a breathing portion of my very self.
2225==========
2226Hunger (Knut Hamsun)
2227- Your Highlight on Location 405-405 | Added on Sunday, May 24, 2015 10:31:52 AM
2228
2229arrière pensée,
2230==========
2231Street-time for Hamsun (nplusonemag.com)
2232- Your Highlight on Location 61-64 | Added on Monday, May 25, 2015 11:27:37 AM
2233
2234It’s telling that Vyacheslav Molotov, the Soviet foreign minister, a man not exactly known for his kind and forgiving manner (“I have never seen a human being who more perfectly represented the modern conception of a robot” –Winston Churchill), showed more sympathy for Hamsun than did many Norwegians. When, during a 1944 meeting in Moscow, Molotov suggested that the 85-year-old novelist should be spared the firing squad after the war, the Norwegian justice minister in exile responded, “You are too soft, Mr. Molotov.”
2235==========
2236Street-time for Hamsun (nplusonemag.com)
2237- Your Highlight on Location 29-35 | Added on Monday, May 25, 2015 11:28:11 AM
2238
2239The novel’s audience was not restricted to the literati; it had prominent fans in other sectors too. In 1943, Hamsun gave his Nobel medal to one of those fans: Josef Goebbels. Hamsun wanted to thank the Nazi propaganda minister for the hospitality he had enjoyed during a recent trip to Germany. Ten years earlier, a 74-year-old Hamsun had taken to supporting the Nazis in Norwegian newspapers. When the Nazis invaded Norway in April 1940, Hamsun urged his countrymen to surrender. Not long after his meeting with Goebbels, Hamsun paid a visit to Hitler himself. Two years later, when Hitler committed suicide, Hamsun took the opportunity to compose an unsolicited obituary, which was published in Norway’s most prominent broadsheet, Aftenposten. In the obituary, Hamsun mourned the loss of the Führer and praised him as “a preacher of the gospel of justice for all nations.” The Allies liberated Norway the next day.
2240==========
2241Addicted to Unpredictability (lrb.co.uk)
2242- Your Highlight on Location 125-127 | Added on Monday, May 25, 2015 11:35:26 AM
2243
2244His Nazism was a kind of anarchism, based more on his irrational hatred of England than on any natural Fascism; he and his wife may have been the only people in the whole of Norway who wanted Germany to ‘bring England to its knees’, as he madly implored in one wartime newspaper article.
2245==========
2246Addicted to Unpredictability (lrb.co.uk)
2247- Your Highlight on Location 137-140 | Added on Monday, May 25, 2015 11:36:41 AM
2248
2249Take his encounter with the blind old man on the bench. It is hard not to see the ghost of a religious temperament here. Tangen, one feels, would like the old man not to believe his lies. He wants to be rebuked for lying, exposed for what he is. Then, guiltily, he attacks the old man for what he should be feeling – he should be disbelieving. In other words, Tangen wants to be punished. He has lied in order to be punished, is angry when he isn’t punished and proceeds to punish the old man for not punishing him.
2250==========
2251Addicted to Unpredictability (lrb.co.uk)
2252- Your Highlight on Location 228-232 | Added on Tuesday, May 26, 2015 3:18:50 AM
2253
2254Suppose, instead, that a contrarian politics is not thought at all, and not even a rusty instinct, but simply an enormous irresponsibility, an irresponsibility towards politics itself? When, in 1943, Hamsun made his infamous visit to Hitler, the meeting was a farcical disaster. Hamsun showed no respect for Hitler. Almost completely deaf, he lectured the Führer in Norwegian, loudy complaining about Josef Terboven, Hitler’s representative in Norway, whose vicious administration Hamsun disliked. Hitler was furious. An aide later recalled that Knut Hamsun was the only man he had ever seen thwart Hitler.
2255==========
2256Instapaper: Tuesday, May. 26th (Instapaper)
2257- Your Highlight on Location 56-57 | Added on Wednesday, May 27, 2015 12:50:02 AM
2258
2259I felt there was a serious flaw in economic determinism. I believed that ideas played a big part in social change, as big a part as economics or anything else.
2260==========
2261In From the Cold - The New Yorker (newyorker.com)
2262- Your Highlight on Location 186-188 | Added on Thursday, May 28, 2015 12:38:06 AM
2263
2264When Hitler repeated that one could see Germany’s good will in the fact that Norway had its own government, Hamsun, in despair, interrupted and said, “We’re talking to a wall!” Holmboe, Kolloen writes, didn’t translate that, either.
2265==========
2266Untitled from org.uib.no (org.uib.no)
2267- Your Bookmark on Location 91 | Added on Thursday, May 28, 2015 9:05:27 AM
2268
2269
2270==========
2271Instapaper: Friday, May. 29th (Instapaper)
2272- Your Highlight on Location 52-53 | Added on Saturday, May 30, 2015 6:33:48 AM
2273
2274artistic labor is not subject to the rationality of socially necessary labor time.
2275==========
2276Instapaper: Saturday, May. 30th (Instapaper)
2277- Your Highlight on Location 189-190 | Added on Saturday, May 30, 2015 7:24:29 AM
2278
2279Scholars believe that The Blues originated with slaves, particularly those from the Igbo people in West Africa who allegedly had a penchant for expressing melancholy in song.
2280==========
2281Commune Editions (recluse.poetryproject.org)
2282- Your Highlight on Location 9-13 | Added on Saturday, May 30, 2015 7:05:01 PM
2283
2284We prefer those accounts which refer to qualitative characteristics: to the distinctions which divide those who do not have to show up for work to stay alive from those who do, and moreover those who are largely excluded from this dynamic, who find no work even though they lack other resources. This latter category, surplus population, is a miserable validation of Stuart Hall’s adage that “race is the modality through which class is lived.” This population is distinct — the profoundly dispossessed. But it is at the same time joined to those allowed and compelled to work. Both groups are without reserves, the original meaning of proletarian.
2285==========
2286Germinal - Emile Zola & Raymond N. MacKenzie & David Baguley  
2287- Your Bookmark on page 9 | Added on Sunday, May 31, 2015 10:11:32 AM
2288
2289
2290==========
2291Germinal - Emile Zola & Raymond N. MacKenzie & David Baguley  
2292- Your Highlight on page 3-3 | Added on Sunday, May 31, 2015 10:13:47 AM
2293
2294We recommend, however, the translation by Stanley and Eleanor Hochman, in the Signet Classic paperback edition
2295==========
2296Germinal (Émile Zola)
2297- Your Highlight on Location 571-572 | Added on Monday, June 1, 2015 5:30:11 AM
2298
2299The cutting opened out above like a large chimney, flat and oblique, in which the soot of ten years had amassed a profound night.
2300==========
2301Germinal (Émile Zola)
2302- Your Highlight on Location 573-573 | Added on Monday, June 1, 2015 5:30:42 AM
2303
2304a vigorous head, besmeared as if for a crime.
2305==========
2306Germinal (Émile Zola)
2307- Your Highlight on Location 874-875 | Added on Monday, June 1, 2015 6:27:22 AM
2308
2309"make them hold their tongues. When one hasn't got power one must have sense."
2310==========
2311Germinal (Émile Zola)
2312- Your Highlight on Location 882-883 | Added on Monday, June 1, 2015 6:28:43 AM
2313
2314with his wider education he felt nothing of the resignation of this flock; he would end by strangling one of the masters.
2315==========
2316An Anarchist FAQ (02/17) (The Anarchist FAQ Editorial Collective)
2317- Your Highlight on page 12 | Location 179-180 | Added on Tuesday, June 2, 2015 12:24:00 AM
2318
2319Anarchism seeks to arouse the consciousness of oppression, the desire for a better society, and a sense of the necessity for unceasing warfare against capitalism and the State.”
2320==========
2321An Anarchist FAQ (02/17) (The Anarchist FAQ Editorial Collective)
2322- Your Highlight on page 14 | Location 208-211 | Added on Tuesday, June 2, 2015 12:31:39 AM
2323
2324“Anarchists do not stand aside from popular struggle, nor do they attempt to dominate it. They seek to contribute practically whatever they can, and also to assist within it the highest possible levels of both individual self-development and of group solidarity. It is possible to recognise anarchist ideas concerning voluntary relationships, egalitarian participation in decision-making processes, mutual aid and a related critique of all forms of domination in philosophical, social and revolutionary movements in all times and places.”
2325==========
2326An Anarchist FAQ (02/17) (The Anarchist FAQ Editorial Collective)
2327- Your Highlight on page 17 | Location 247-251 | Added on Tuesday, June 2, 2015 12:37:35 AM
2328
2329Taking a more recent example, in the USA, anarchists organised “The Libertarian League” in July 1954, which had staunch anarcho-syndicalist principles and lasted until 1965. The US-based “Libertarian” Party, on the other hand has only existed since the early 1970’s, well over 100 years after anarchists first used the term to describe their political ideas (and 90 years after the expression “libertarian communism” was first adopted). It is that party, not the anarchists, who have “stolen” the word. Later, in Section B, we will discuss why the idea of a “libertarian” capitalism (as desired by the Libertarian Party) is a contradiction in terms.
2330==========
2331Instapaper: Monday, Jun. 1st (Instapaper)
2332- Your Highlight on Location 169-169 | Added on Wednesday, June 3, 2015 12:40:03 AM
2333
2334ruin is not the invention of the mirror.
2335==========
2336Instapaper: Monday, Jun. 1st (Instapaper)
2337- Your Highlight on Location 296-298 | Added on Wednesday, June 3, 2015 8:54:42 AM
2338
2339Would the Paris Commune have lasted a single day if it had not made use of this authority of the armed people against the bourgeois? Should we not, on the contrary, reproach it for not having used it freely enough?
2340==========
2341OPINION: Western canon, meet trigger warning | Al Jazeera America (america.aljazeera.com)
2342- Your Highlight on Location 10-11 | Added on Wednesday, June 3, 2015 6:51:09 PM
2343
2344Thousands of years reduced to the history and literature of white men looks less and less like, as the Columbia website describes its core curriculum, the basis for “critical and creative intellectual capacity.”
2345==========
2346OPINION: Western canon, meet trigger warning | Al Jazeera America (america.aljazeera.com)
2347- Your Highlight on Location 38-41 | Added on Wednesday, June 3, 2015 6:56:12 PM
2348
2349Putting trigger warnings on old texts is a way of reading the syllabus backward. To place a “misogynist contempt” warning on Rousseau (something no one has actually proposed, to my knowledge) would be to consider Wollstonecraft’s critique first rather than as an addendum. It’s only fidelity to a historical narrative in which women are “discovered” as subjects in the late 18th century that prevents this reversal.
2350==========
2351Germinal (Émile Zola)
2352- Your Bookmark on Location 1025 | Added on Friday, June 5, 2015 8:44:59 AM
2353
2354
2355==========
2356maskmag 201505 - The Madness Issue (Mask Magazine)
2357- Your Highlight on page 11 | Location 159-161 | Added on Friday, June 5, 2015 9:06:10 AM
2358
2359In rejecting capitalism as well as the corny “happiness” you’re rewarded when you succeed at capitalism, we’ve left ourselves with nothing but our FMLs and hyper-identification with pathologies. If we are to move past the sad girl trope, we need to become less averse to feeling uncomfortable; we need to become more resilient. Let’s not fall into the trap of buying into diagnoses of our sickness.
2360==========
2361maskmag 201505 - The Madness Issue (Mask Magazine)
2362- Your Highlight on page 44 | Location 673-689 | Added on Friday, June 5, 2015 10:03:09 AM
2363
2364Following a first appointment, a client will be assigned to a clinician based on their grade. For lower-graded clients, they might only be able to see their therapist once a month. They have the option to split this into two half-hour sessions every other week. (The only people who have been able to talk about this “option” without rolling their eyes are apologist managers.) If someone reports any drug use in the past three months – even if they only had a single drink on someone’s birthday three weeks ago – they’ll be scheduled for an alcohol and drug screening. For example: someone who is seeking help with their symptoms of bipolar disorder, knows they would benefit from a counselor, shares that sometimes they need a drink when they feel manic. They then are directed to do another interview with another person about their drug use. There is a lot of skepticism from clinicians about this, in no small part because assessments bill for more money than regular appointments. In the nonprofit world, “profit” is just replaced by “revenue”. The rest remains pretty similar, with no excuses for low wages. Once you are enrolled, the clinician you are assigned to, in a current best-case scenario, will have about 80 people on their caseload. In worse cases, they may have 120. That means that if you do have a crisis, or a sudden exceptional need, you will be competing with 119 other people for your case worker’s limited and underpaid time. In some cases your caseworker may only be getting paid in school credit. Nonprofit mental health agencies rely on a tremendous amounts of unpaid work, performed by interns. A few months ago the agency had a staff “retreat”. Before an uncomfortable speech about stepping out of our “silos” and into “synergy”, the clinical director walked us through some new clinical tracking software that the agency had paid who knows how much for. Apparently every relevant consideration in a client’s “recovery” can be plotted on an axis and graphed on a scattergram. They were beautiful charts – great colors, lots of numbers – and perfectly representative of how the system understands the people who the agency seeks to serve.
2365==========
2366maskmag 201505 - The Madness Issue (Mask Magazine)
2367- Your Highlight on page 47 | Location 719-723 | Added on Friday, June 5, 2015 10:06:15 AM
2368
2369There is more, now, an understanding of the importance of sila [ed. virtue, ethical conduct]. In the mindfulness movement, for example, they’re trying to instill more of an ethical attitude. Otherwise, you get mindfulness for teaching soldiers how to kill more efficiently, or for teaching bank managers how to scalp customers more efficiently. That’s not what we want mindfulness for. (laughs) It’s not why I want mindfulness in the world.
2370==========
2371Spinoza_ A Guide for the Perplexed (Guides for the Perplexed) - Charles Jarrett  
2372- Your Highlight on page 6-6 | Added on Saturday, June 6, 2015 10:11:55 AM
2373
2374The Aristotelian worldview also regards natural phenomena as having both efficient and final causes.Everything, that is, is ‘due to’ an antecedent cause as we ordinarily understand it and everything is also ‘for something’ in the sense that it has a purpose or goal
2375==========
2376Spinoza_ A Guide for the Perplexed (Guides for the Perplexed) - Charles Jarrett  
2377- Your Highlight on page 17-17 | Added on Saturday, June 6, 2015 10:33:50 AM
2378
2379Spinoza holds that nothing is good or bad in itself.Instead, he maintains that things are good only insofar as they affect the soul with joy and they are bad only insofar as they affect the soul with ‘negative’ (unpleasant) emotions
2380==========
2381Spinoza_ A Guide for the Perplexed (Guides for the Perplexed) - Charles Jarrett  
2382- Your Highlight on page 17-17 | Added on Saturday, June 6, 2015 10:35:22 AM
2383
2384good and bad are said of things only in a certain respect, so that one and the same thing can be called both good and bad according to different respects. The same applies to perfect and imperfect. For nothing, considered in its own nature, will be called perfect or imperfect, especially after we have recognized that everything that happens happens according to the eternal order, and according to certain laws of nature
2385==========
2386Spinoza_ A Guide for the Perplexed (Guides for the Perplexed) - Charles Jarrett  
2387- Your Highlight on page 18-18 | Added on Saturday, June 6, 2015 10:37:20 AM
2388
2389we can construct an idea of a ‘stronger human nature’, and can legitimately call a thing ‘good’ or a ‘true good’, insofar as it is a means of attaining such a nature. Such a view can also be called ‘constructivist’, insofar as it requires construction of an ideal with reference to which things are to be evaluated as good or bad
2390==========
2391Spinoza_ A Guide for the Perplexed (Guides for the Perplexed) - Charles Jarrett  
2392- Your Bookmark on page 23 | Added on Saturday, June 6, 2015 10:49:31 AM
2393
2394
2395==========
2396Spinoza_ A Guide for the Perplexed (Guides for the Perplexed) - Charles Jarrett  
2397- Your Bookmark on page 24 | Added on Sunday, June 7, 2015 8:01:32 AM
2398
2399
2400==========
2401The incomplete, true, authentic and wonderful history of May Day (libcom.org)
2402- Your Highlight on Location 62-66 | Added on Sunday, June 7, 2015 10:25:21 AM
2403
2404Merry Mount became a refuge for Indians, the discontented, gay people, runaway servants, and what the governor called “all the scume of the countrie.” When the authorities reminded him that his actions violated the King’s Proclamation, Morton replied that it was “no law.” Miles Standish, whom Morton called “Mr. Shrimp,” attacked. The Maypole was cut down. The settlement was burned. Morton’s goods were confiscated, he was chained in the bilboes, and ostracized to England aboard the ship “The Gift,” at a cost the Puritans complained of twelve pounds seven shillings. The rainbow coalition of Merry Mount was thus destroyed for the time being.
2405==========
2406The incomplete, true, authentic and wonderful history of May Day (libcom.org)
2407- Your Highlight on Location 71-76 | Added on Sunday, June 7, 2015 10:26:50 AM
2408
2409Thomas Morton was a thorn in the side of the Boston and Plymouth Puritans, because he had an alternate vision of Massachusetts. He was impressed by its fertility; they by its scarcity. He befriended the Indians; they shuddered at the thought. He was egalitarian; they proclaimed themselves the “Elect”. He freed servants; they lived off them. He armed the Indians; they used arms against Indians. To Nathaniel Hawthorne, the destiny of American settlement was decided at Merry Mount. Casting the struggle as mirth vs. gloom, grizzly saints vs. gay sinners, green vs. iron, it was the Puritans who won, and the fate of America was determined in favor of psalm-singing, Indian-scalpers whose notion of the Maypole was a whipping post.
2410==========
2411The incomplete, true, authentic and wonderful history of May Day (libcom.org)
2412- Your Highlight on Location 82-85 | Added on Sunday, June 7, 2015 10:29:02 AM
2413
2414A parson wrote a piece of work propaganda called Funebria Florae, Or the Downfall of the May Games. He attacked, “ignorants, atheists, papists, drunkards, swearers, swashbucklers, maid-marians, morrice-dancers, maskers, mummers, Maypole stealers, health-drinkers, together with a rapscallion rout of fiddlers, fools fighters, gamesters, lewd-women, light-women, contemmers of magistracy, affronters of ministry, disobedients to parents, misspenders of time, and abusers of the creature, &c.”
2415==========
2416The incomplete, true, authentic and wonderful history of May Day (libcom.org)
2417- Your Highlight on Location 186-187 | Added on Sunday, June 7, 2015 10:46:15 AM
2418
2419No more women who are less than free,Or men who cannot learn to seeTheir power steals their humanityAnd makes us all less than we can be.
2420==========
2421The incomplete, true, authentic and wonderful history of May Day (libcom.org)
2422- Your Highlight on Location 193-194 | Added on Sunday, June 7, 2015 10:47:36 AM
2423
2424Let’s take it easy, but let’s take it.
2425==========
2426Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Mark Fisher)
2427- Your Highlight on page 4 | Location 54-57 | Added on Sunday, June 7, 2015 11:51:21 AM
2428
2429What caused the catastrophe to occur, who knows; its cause lies long in the past, so absolutely detached from the present as to seem like the caprice of a malign being: a negative miracle, a malediction which no penitence can ameliorate. Such a blight can only be eased by an intervention that can no more be anticipated than was the onset of the curse in the first place. Action is pointless; only senseless hope makes sense.
2430==========
2431Gotterdammerung Family BBQ - Jasper Bernes  
2432- Your Highlight on page 14-14 | Added on Sunday, June 7, 2015 1:54:17 PM
2433
2434all work and no pay makes Jack a ludd boy
2435==========
2436The incomplete, true, authentic and wonderful history of May Day (libcom.org)
2437- Your Highlight on Location 219-220 | Added on Sunday, June 7, 2015 2:03:39 PM
2438
2439Leigh Hunt, the English essayist of the 19th century, wrote that May Day is “the union of the two best things in the world, the love of nature, and the love of each other.”
2440==========
2441Instapaper: Monday, Jun. 1st (Instapaper)
2442- Your Highlight on Location 320-321 | Added on Sunday, June 7, 2015 2:47:16 PM
2443
2444Hic Rhodus, hic salta!”
2445==========
2446Instapaper: Monday, Jun. 1st (Instapaper)
2447- Your Highlight on Location 329-330 | Added on Sunday, June 7, 2015 2:53:33 PM
2448
2449The real fruit of their battles lies, not in the immediate result, but in the ever expanding union of the workers.
2450==========
2451Instapaper: Monday, Jun. 1st (Instapaper)
2452- Your Note on Location 335 | Added on Sunday, June 7, 2015 2:55:03 PM
2453
2454id
2455==========
2456Instapaper: Monday, Jun. 1st (Instapaper)
2457- Your Highlight on Location 334-335 | Added on Sunday, June 7, 2015 2:55:03 PM
2458
2459“This organisation of the proletarians into a class, and, consequently into a political party, is continually being upset again by the competition between the workers themselves.
2460==========
2461Instapaper: Monday, Jun. 1st (Instapaper)
2462- Your Highlight on Location 346-348 | Added on Sunday, June 7, 2015 2:57:06 PM
2463
2464you can’t act as if the politics outlined in the Manifesto, and consistently advocated and developed by Marx and Engels throughout their lives, and by Karl Kautsky up to 1909, by Rosa Luxemburg and Lenin until their deaths, simply did not exist because you don’t think they are still applicable.
2465==========
2466Instapaper: Monday, Jun. 1st (Instapaper)
2467- Your Highlight on Location 350-351 | Added on Sunday, June 7, 2015 2:57:42 PM
2468
2469“it is better to do nothing at all… just wait for the day of general liquidation — the last judgement.”
2470==========
2471Housing Monster, The - Prole.info  
2472- Your Note on page 18 | Added on Sunday, June 7, 2015 3:18:21 PM
2473
2474best practices / benchmarks
2475==========
2476Housing Monster, The - Prole.info  
2477- Your Highlight on page 18-18 | Added on Sunday, June 7, 2015 3:18:21 PM
2478
2479Contractors making significantly less than the average rate of profit will go out of business, and their contracts will go to those who are making more. This competition makes the different enterprises producing a similar product compare and copy each other’s internal organization and work processes. If one contractor starts using a new
2480==========
2481Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Mark Fisher)
2482- Your Highlight on page 6 | Location 85-90 | Added on Sunday, June 7, 2015 9:07:48 PM
2483
2484Capitalism is what is left when beliefs have collapsed at the level of ritual or symbolic elaboration, and all that is left is the consumer-spectator, trudging through the ruins and the relics. Yet this turn from belief to aesthetics, from engagement to spectatorship, is held to be one of the virtues of capitalist realism. In claiming, as Badiou puts it, to have ‘delivered us from the “fatal abstractions” inspired by the “ideologies of the past”’, capitalist realism presents itself as a shield protecting us from the perils posed by belief itself. The attitude of ironic distance proper to postmodern capitalism is supposed to immunize us against the seductions of fanaticism.
2485==========
2486Nihilism, Anarchy, and the 21st century (Aragorn!)
2487- Your Highlight on Location 61-62 | Added on Sunday, June 7, 2015 9:53:37 PM
2488
2489when the pamphlet The Catechism of a Revolutionist inspired the movement-in-waiting into a movement-with-teeth
2490==========
2491Nihilism, Anarchy, and the 21st century (Aragorn!)
2492- Your Highlight on Location 78-80 | Added on Monday, June 8, 2015 5:12:10 AM
2493
2494The obscurity principle says that in times of repression the most cogent social commentary happens in the vehicle of fiction, where your intention is ‘obscured’ because you appear to be talking about something entirely different than you are.
2495==========
2496Nihilism, Anarchy, and the 21st century (Aragorn!)
2497- Your Highlight on Location 80-82 | Added on Monday, June 8, 2015 5:13:04 AM
2498
2499In the case of the nihilists, art was anathema because it aggregated sentimentalism, emotionalism, irrationalism, spiritualism, and was a waste of resources. This obscured the fact that nihilists were actually talking about the values of the current order embedded in the vehicle of art but this connection couldn’t be made more clearly in a context of censorship.
2500==========
2501Nihilism, Anarchy, and the 21st century (Aragorn!)
2502- Your Highlight on Location 122-127 | Added on Monday, June 8, 2015 6:31:38 AM
2503
2504At the time, the question of woman’s emancipation was of great interest to reformers. For the nihilist the issues were regarding work and sexual freedom. Because a woman’s passport (which was used for general travel and not just travel abroad) was legally controlled by men — a father, or husband, had ultimate control of a woman’s life. The nihilists solved this problem by having ‘fictitious’ marriages. This allowed for an emancipation of women de jure if not de facto. This resulted in women having the freedom of mobility to pursue some academic pursuits (which were curtailed during the White Terror) and some enterprise. Finally, the nihilists adopted the credo that adultery was a natural, and even desirable trait, in contrast to the spirit of their time, or their own cultural composition (i.e. they were prudes).
2505==========
2506Nihilism, Anarchy, and the 21st century (Aragorn!)
2507- Your Highlight on Location 130-131 | Added on Monday, June 8, 2015 6:32:46 AM
2508
2509Chernyshevsky’s What is to be Done? (1863), which was written in prison, became the guiding light to the movement.
2510==========
2511Nihilism, Anarchy, and the 21st century (Aragorn!)
2512- Your Bookmark on Location 230 | Added on Monday, June 8, 2015 6:53:17 AM
2513
2514
2515==========
2516Nihilism, Anarchy, and the 21st century (Aragorn!)
2517- Your Highlight on Location 240-240 | Added on Monday, June 8, 2015 6:55:28 AM
2518
2519Nihilists made up in enthusiasm what they lacked in marksmanship.
2520==========
2521Nihilism, Anarchy, and the 21st century (Aragorn!)
2522- Your Highlight on Location 292-293 | Added on Monday, June 8, 2015 7:42:02 AM
2523
2524Five members of the plot to assassinate the Tsar were ceremoniously hung on April the 3rd, wearing a placard stating ‘Tsaricide’.
2525==========
2526Nihilism, Anarchy, and the 21st century (Aragorn!)
2527- Your Highlight on Location 304-305 | Added on Monday, June 8, 2015 7:43:54 AM
2528
2529Nihilists; Russian radicals and revolutionaries in the reign of Alexander II, 1855–81 Hingley, Ronald. New York : Delacorte Press, [1969, c1967]
2530==========
2531DIY Touring The World - Blink  
2532- Your Highlight on page 20-20 | Added on Tuesday, June 9, 2015 8:38:56 PM
2533
2534The way to find promoters is to look at posters or ‘event pages’ of various upcoming shows at a particular venue and see who is ‘presenting’ the show. Then research that promoter and see if their taste is in line with yours
2535==========
2536DIY Touring The World - Blink  
2537- Your Highlight on page 23-23 | Added on Tuesday, June 9, 2015 11:14:15 PM
2538
2539A good idea before leaving home is to download the Gas Buddy app (gasbuddy.com). It’s a free app on which you can check petrol prices and find the cheapest petrol in any city. Five minutes of pre-planning every so often can help save a few bucks.
2540==========
2541DIY Touring The World - Blink  
2542- Your Highlight on page 23-23 | Added on Tuesday, June 9, 2015 11:16:03 PM
2543
2544One of the most incredible projects happening anywhere, and an amazing resource for booking shows is the All-Ages Movement Project (allagesmovementproject.org). It is many things, least of all a directory of allages communities/venues all around the USA. I thoroughly recommend you order a copy of the book they published “In Every Town: An All-Ages Music Manualfesto”. It’s a hugely informative and inspiring guidebook to getting any DIY/all-ages scene/community off the ground.
2545==========
2546DIY Touring The World - Blink  
2547- Your Highlight on page 25-25 | Added on Wednesday, June 10, 2015 4:40:21 AM
2548
2549FreeCampgrounds.com (freecampgrounds.com) is a directory of free or nearlyfree sites where RVs can park (I’m sure cars can too, or you can possibly tent as well)
2550==========
2551DIY Touring The World - Blink  
2552- Your Highlight on page 25-25 | Added on Wednesday, June 10, 2015 4:41:40 AM
2553
2554Better than the Van
2555==========
2556DIY Touring The World - Blink  
2557- Your Highlight on page 26-26 | Added on Wednesday, June 10, 2015 4:50:42 AM
2558
2559you pick up a car in one city and deliver it to another city and pay little or no rental per day. The conditions might be prohibitive, but you may be able to hold onto vehicle for a long enough period to cover your tour. Some sites to check out are Stanybyrelocs.com (standbyrelocs.com) and Auto Driveaway (autodriveawaydc.com
2560==========
2561DIY Touring The World - Blink  
2562- Your Highlight on page 27-27 | Added on Wednesday, June 10, 2015 4:55:20 AM
2563
2564much better career. You’re in the USA! C’mon! Go to a drive-in movie (drive-in.org)
2565==========
2566DIY Touring The World - Blink  
2567- Your Highlight on page 28-28 | Added on Wednesday, June 10, 2015 5:00:23 AM
2568
2569The Eat Well Guide (eatwellguide.org) is an online guide you can search by city, zip code etc for sustainable farms, bakers, restaurants, organic, markets, etc.
2570==========
2571DIY Touring The World - Blink  
2572- Your Highlight on page 28-28 | Added on Wednesday, June 10, 2015 5:09:07 AM
2573
2574Before you leave on tour, go to: theculpritandthecure.com and download the “Stop and Go” books, especially the Fast Food Nutrition guide. It’s a free PDF download (there is also an app version
2575==========
2576DIY Touring The World - Blink  
2577- Your Highlight on page 29-29 | Added on Wednesday, June 10, 2015 5:12:25 AM
2578
2579Electric jug + inverter + noodles or soup = dreams come true
2580==========
2581DIY Touring The World - Blink  
2582- Your Highlight on page 30-30 | Added on Wednesday, June 10, 2015 5:15:56 AM
2583
2584If money is running low and things are getting tough you can always go dumpster diving. A wiki where people share tips on the best spots on places all around the world you can find here: http:// trashwiki.org/en/World
2585==========
2586DIY Touring The World - Blink  
2587- Your Highlight on page 32-32 | Added on Wednesday, June 10, 2015 5:24:28 AM
2588
2589Pillows are also cheap from Wal-Mart. Take size into consideration. While (with lids) if you are struggling with space.Also, bigger pillows are handy for wedging in and around backline while travelling, cup and utensils (or a ‘spork’). If you’re doing you should also look into smaller cushions
2590==========
2591DIY Touring The World - Blink  
2592- Your Highlight on page 33-33 | Added on Wednesday, June 10, 2015 5:27:51 AM
2593
2594Other handy things include: Gaffer tape, paper, pens, Sharpie/Vivid, a stamp, extension cords and pocket knife (remember to not put it in your carry-on luggage
2595==========
2596DIY Touring The World - Blink  
2597- Your Highlight on page 34-34 | Added on Wednesday, June 10, 2015 5:31:53 AM
2598
2599IKEA sell handy little LED light strips for €4 that run on 2xAAA batteries and do a great job
2600==========
2601DIY Touring The World - Blink  
2602- Your Highlight on page 34-34 | Added on Wednesday, June 10, 2015 5:34:48 AM
2603
2604For Europe a great company to use is GZ Media (gzcd.cz), based in the Czech Republic. Don’t be nervous about dealing with a Czech company, they are professional, reliable and English is no problem; I fully recommend them. The process is simple and they will send your order anywhere, but if you feel more comfortable going through a US-based middleman, you can use Pirates Press (piratespress.com). They act as an agent for GZ and prices should be the same
2605==========
2606DIY Touring The World - Blink  
2607- Your Highlight on page 37-37 | Added on Wednesday, June 10, 2015 5:53:16 AM
2608
2609Getting a work permit for the UK is significantly easier and cheaper than the US. Visit the Home Office (homeoffice.gov.uk) and check out the immigration/ visas part of the site. You can apply here for a work permit, for bands (creatives) it’s called a Tier 5 Entertainment Visa. If you are doing lots of UK shows you’re pretty much an idiot not to organise one. It’s a very easy procedure that can be done by email in around 24 hours (don’t hold me to that) and costs less than £200 for your entire band (depending on numbers), so cheap. They last up to a year and you’ll need a company to sponsor you, such as a booking agent, festival, label or management company.Otherwise, Lissa Brayley (lissapia@googlemail.com) runs a sponsor service and can arrange on your behalf, simply send her an email. If this address bounces, you’ll understand why I am reluctant to make this book more of a ‘directory
2610==========
2611DIY Touring The World - Blink  
2612- Your Highlight on page 37-37 | Added on Wednesday, June 10, 2015 5:54:20 AM
2613
2614I’ve heard about a sweet Canadian visa where you do not need a work permit as long as you don’t perform in a bar or restaurant, which could make playing the DIY scene totally doable. Go to Canada’s immigration website (cic.gc.ca). Navigate your way to ‘work temporarily’ then ‘jobs that do not require a permit’ and ‘performing artists’
2615==========
2616DIY Touring The World - Blink  
2617- Your Highlight on page 42-42 | Added on Wednesday, June 10, 2015 6:17:22 AM
2618
2619find club nights and club promoters outside of London is Get a Gig (getagig.info). This is a city search that will pop up the names of promoters and venues in the area. Sites like this are never conclusive, but a great starting point. What I do is note the contacts that pop up here, then visit their MySpace/Facebook pages and do more research. First I’ll look at their top friends (usually a venue will have their club nights in their top friends) then I scroll down the comments and have a look at all the posters that have been spammed there. I’ll look for recent events that look like they’ve been well promoted, click through to the promoters doing those and see what bands they are into. Another great resource is this list of cities and promoters/club nights: gringorecords.com/UKbooking.html or the boringly named Venues and Bands UK (venuesandbands.co.uk
2620==========
2621DIY Touring The World - Blink  
2622- Your Highlight on page 43-43 | Added on Wednesday, June 10, 2015 6:22:23 AM
2623
2624festivals can be very enjoyable. booking bands; they delegate that out to promoters and club nights. Booking Check out How Does it Feel to be Loved (howdoesitfeel.co.uk). It’s a London shows in the UK is easy-ish. It’s easier than booking direct with USA venues, but club night but the website contains a bunch of interesting information. Click on not as easy as DIY shows in the USA. “UK Promoters” for a list of the better clubs around. It has a London gig guide Make sure when you approach a promoter you display knowledge of their (highlights) and the “Indie Travel Guide” is a very basic rundown of some of the regular club night; that you’re available that night of the week and the genre/ bigger music scenes around the world. It’s a little out of date, but still worth a style of your music is a suitable fit. Mention the name of their company or club read.Also, have a look at UK Indie Touring (ukindietouring.com) before hitting night in your email, and don’t get it wrong. I still cringe when I think of the band up the UK. It’s got decent coverage of venues, festivals, industry, labels and more
2625==========
2626DIY Touring The World - Blink  
2627- Your Highlight on page 44-44 | Added on Wednesday, June 10, 2015 6:24:47 AM
2628
2629The starting points are big sites like Efestivals (efestivals.co.uk), Virtual Festivals (virtualfestivals.com), UK Festival Guides (ukfestivalguides.com), FestivalNet (festivalnet.com) and Music Festival Junkies (musicfestivaljunkies.com). These sites will have the big boys but finding smaller independent festivals takes more searching. Trawl Last.fm, Facebook & MySpace. Google search ‘intimate festival’, ‘boutique festival’, etc. Like I described in the USA section, have your tour mates copy and paste band tour schedules and look for festival names. Sonic Bids will also have a good amount listed as well
2630==========
2631DIY Touring The World - Blink  
2632- Your Highlight on page 44-44 | Added on Wednesday, June 10, 2015 6:25:03 AM
2633
2634Like everything, I begin with research. I create a spreadsheet that looks kind of like this: DATE NAME COUNTRY CITY WEB CONTACT July 2-5 Mean Fest Spain Madrid www.mean.com mean@gmail.com
2635==========
2636DIY Touring The World - Blink  
2637- Your Highlight on page 49-49 | Added on Wednesday, June 10, 2015 6:50:05 AM
2638
2639If you are considering catching trains around Europe (or anywhere in the world), the first site you must check out is The Man in Seat Sixty-One (seat61.com). This is one of the most informative and well written travel sites on the net with a complete breakdown, country by country, of how to best approach the trains in that territory (even the section on NZ is incredibly in-depth and more than you’d ever need to know).
2640==========
2641DIY Touring The World - Blink  
2642- Your Highlight on page 49-49 | Added on Wednesday, June 10, 2015 6:51:23 AM
2643
2644cool thing about France is a weird vehicle tax dodge.Basically, the French have to pay a big tax on brand new cars so French car companies came up with a smart way around this called ‘Buyback Leasing’. They ‘sell’ brand new vehicles to foreigners, who take them on little trips around Europe, then the French car company ‘buys back’ the cars. They then tidy them up and sell them to locals who’d prefer to have a slightly used car and avoid the tax. It’s totally above-board. Peugeot (eurolease.co.nz), Renault (renaulteurodrive.co.nz) and Citroen (eurolease.com.au/citroen) all offer this and any travel agent will handle the booking for you. There’ll be some conditions on this, such as a 17-day minimum, and one drawback is that you may not be able to get a super large car/van
2645==========
2646DIY Touring The World - Blink  
2647- Your Highlight on page 53-53 | Added on Wednesday, June 10, 2015 7:16:17 AM
2648
2649When you’re booking and planning routing, Mappy (mappy.com) is an amazing tool. Choose ‘United Kingdom’ from the pull down menu at the top left (so it’s in English) and click on ‘Itinerary’. Enter your start/end points, click on ‘more options’ (just under ‘vehicle’) and choose from several options like ‘shortest’ or ‘fastest’ route, or ‘avoid tolls’. Then click on ‘calculate costs’. Choose the type of vehicle you think you’ll have and the petrol type. Click ‘OK’. It will give you a rough estimate of drive time, tolls and petrol costs. Once you’re out on the road EUROPEyour GPS should be loaded with toll road information, otherwise buy a recent map that includes this info
2650==========
2651DIY Touring The World - Blink  
2652- Your Highlight on page 60-60 | Added on Wednesday, June 10, 2015 7:49:26 AM
2653
2654The cheapest way to get to Norway is drive through Denmark to Hirtshalls and catch the ferry to Kristiansand (approx €50 for four people and car). Scandinavia is super, super, super, super expensive so make sure you have good guarantees and free accom
2655==========
2656DIY Touring The World - Blink  
2657- Your Highlight on page 61-61 | Added on Wednesday, June 10, 2015 7:53:19 AM
2658
2659Southern Compass is a guide to touring Australia and New Zealand. It has a whole bunch of industry contacts, venues, etc. It’s a few years old, but after a brief skim over the NZ section most of it’s still relevant despite a few errors. Download at: http://www.omdc.on.ca/Asset4266. aspx (if that link dies, I’ll post another link on the forums). For another guide to Australia, go to nzmusic.org.nz and navigate to “Artist Resources” then “Industry Information” and you’ll find “Guide to touring Australia”, compiled by David Benge for NZMIC several years ago. Within the same collection of documents you’ll find Sam Walsh’s short guide to booking your first tour in New Zealand: “Organising a Tour: A Beginner’s Guide”.
2660==========
2661Nihilism, Anarchy, and the 21st century (Aragorn!)
2662- Your Highlight on Location 354-357 | Added on Thursday, June 11, 2015 8:41:08 AM
2663
2664This is best exemplified by the events in Spain where the CNT joined with the Catalan government in a common front against Franco’s fascism. This decision was based on the fear of isolation by the CNT and the belief that it was a higher priority to defeat fascism than to finish the revolution. Placing the war before revolution meant, ultimately, collaboration with the state against the revolution.
2665==========
2666Nihilism, Anarchy, and the 21st century (Aragorn!)
2667- Your Highlight on Location 376-383 | Added on Thursday, June 11, 2015 8:45:21 AM
2668
2669Russian socialism started from a rejection of morality, truth, beauty, love, and social convention. As a political philosophy Russian socialism begins by questioning the validity of all forms of authority and ends by practicing the adage “The passion for destruction is a creative passion, too!” The Russian Socialists did not see the path to social revolution as progressive. Instead of seeing an industrial proletariat as the revolutionary agent the Russians saw their own rural peasantry. In 1861, when the peasants were freed from servitude but chained to debt, the Russian Socialists believed an uprising was inevitable. When it did not occur, nor could be inspired to occur, the Russian Socialists took action. Instead of locking themselves up in the Library of England for 10 years the Russian socialists moved into group houses with their comrades, took daring and ridiculous actions (like handing a socialist pamphlet to the sitting Tsar), and eventually committed Tsaricide. Of course, we know the Russian Socialists by another name, Nihilists.
2670==========
2671Nihilism, Anarchy, and the 21st century (Aragorn!)
2672- Your Highlight on Location 392-392 | Added on Thursday, June 11, 2015 8:48:32 AM
2673
2674Bakunin provided the Nihilists with a formative gift in his essay “Reaction in Germany” (1842),
2675==========
2676maskmag 201505 - The Madness Issue (Mask Magazine)
2677- Your Bookmark on page 55 | Location 842 | Added on Thursday, June 11, 2015 5:56:24 PM
2678
2679
2680==========
2681maskmag 201505 - The Madness Issue (Mask Magazine)
2682- Your Highlight on page 58 | Location 881-884 | Added on Friday, June 12, 2015 4:34:53 AM
2683
2684There is this really famous Marx quote about Milton writing poetry like a spider produces his web; it’s the natural activity of his being. I think the fantasy of making your money off of your own music or something is appealing because then you’ve somehow managed to turn your spider web into something everyone wants. It’s such a direct affirmation. But most people have to do something that isn’t from their being.
2685==========
2686maskmag 201505 - The Madness Issue (Mask Magazine)
2687- Your Highlight on page 59 | Location 905-908 | Added on Friday, June 12, 2015 4:38:53 AM
2688
2689My friend’s sister who’s studying  clowning said to me, the clown is a person for whom everything is always at stake. I think that’s true. The clown is captivating and funny because you’re watching someone for whom every single gesture is life and death. Everything is at a maximal level of emotional capacity. And I think writing is embarrassing because, similar to the clown, the writer always has too much at stake.
2690==========
2691maskmag 201505 - The Madness Issue (Mask Magazine)
2692- Your Highlight on page 61 | Location 924-929 | Added on Friday, June 12, 2015 4:41:26 AM
2693
2694A certain kind of revolutionary leftist is constantly searching for the revolutionary subject – someone who in their very being is opposed to the operations of capital, whose inclusion into the political field would automatically mean total social transformation. But it seems like historically every attempt to identify revolutionary subjects has failed. Honestly, I don’t think there can be a revolutionary subject because I don’t think subjectivity is revolutionary. There is something about constituting yourself as a subject that means you’re always in this impasse between reform and revolution. Identity is violence, which isn’t to say we can just jump over it: I think we will have to somehow pass through the violence and absurdity of identity, in order to get to whatever happens next.
2695==========
2696maskmag 201505 - The Madness Issue (Mask Magazine)
2697- Your Highlight on page 64 | Location 974-979 | Added on Friday, June 12, 2015 4:48:43 AM
2698
2699On April 16, 1968, a multi-racial group of five hundred prisoners sat down in the yard of the Raleigh, NC Central Prison and began a work strike. The State Corrections Commissioner temporarily placated the men with hollow promises. Authorities continued to pander to the prisoners’ demands with promises of bargaining and negotiation, but the impatient men armed themselves anyways, looting material from one building to make “torches, spears, clubs, and crude maces.” When the state finally attacked, the prisoners were already well-surrounded. Despite the prisoners erecting a “wall of fire” with stolen gasoline, and fighting back with short-range weapons, it was ultimately a massacre: 83 prisoners were shot, six killed.
2700==========
2701maskmag 201505 - The Madness Issue (Mask Magazine)
2702- Your Highlight on page 65 | Location 982-986 | Added on Friday, June 12, 2015 4:48:56 AM
2703
2704On February 20, 2015, over two thousand prisoners rioted and overran the facility in which they were being housed in Willacy County, Texas. The vast majority of mostly immigrant prisoners broke out of their barracks and set fire to three buildings. When guards used non-lethal force and tear gas to subdue the rebellion, the prisoners defended themselves with steel pipes.
2705==========
2706maskmag 201505 - The Madness Issue (Mask Magazine)
2707- Your Highlight on page 65 | Location 988-991 | Added on Friday, June 12, 2015 4:51:01 AM
2708
2709Since 1968, the rate of US incarceration has increased more than sevenfold: counting only adults, one in one hundred Americans are in jail or prison at this moment. The United States now incarcerates significantly more people per capita than any other country in the world. If the statistics home in on specific demographics, that rate of incarceration is much, much higher: one in three black men, for example, will go to prison in their lifetime.
2710==========
2711maskmag 201505 - The Madness Issue (Mask Magazine)
2712- Your Highlight on page 65 | Location 995-999 | Added on Friday, June 12, 2015 4:54:16 AM
2713
2714Whether in the rec yard of the modern prison or the streets of West Baltimore, one-dimensional methods of brute force often fail to control and contain, sometimes pathetically so. Wherever the decadence and misery of twenty-first century capitalism spills over into the riots, rebellions, and occupations that have come to define our generation, this process of negotiation and dialogue seeks to return its citizen-subjects to the democratic fold. The greatest ally the state can find in this process is those earnest managers of protest and social change that claim to profess (and thereby shape) the values of the rioters themselves, all while proposing and initiating their own, more palatable methods.
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2716maskmag 201505 - The Madness Issue (Mask Magazine)
2717- Your Highlight on page 75 | Location 1139-1158 | Added on Friday, June 12, 2015 5:14:48 AM
2718
2719Trying to figure out what level someone is connecting with you on can be confusing for anyone, but especially for someone experiencing schizophrenia. One symptom of schizophrenia is increased preoccupation with metaphor. Perceiving an intended meaning may become difficult. Unconscious material (and other mysterious forces) flood and overwhelm the conscious mind. This is similar to what happens when you dream. I was diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of twenty, but I don’t experience it as a constant state of being, so I don’t always identify as schizoidal. During schizophrenic states my behavior can seem confused. If someone were to ask me “Would you like some water?” I might interpret it in a number of ways other than someone wondering if I’m thirsty. The water could take on alchemical properties, emotional qualities, a “yr a thirsty bitch” connotation could be fun, or maybe I’m working for an interstellar agency and water is code word for paid vacation on Venus. Formulating an answer that is complementary to all possible realities – an incredible feat of creativity – is not only helpful in passing as sane in all potentially existing worlds, sometimes it feels like a matter of life or death. When I’m “manic” I become increasingly interested in playing with, mediating, preserving, and collapsing multiple realities – there’s no way to validate one reality over another. So, I try to achieve a plane of consistency for all possible realities to coexist. Crisis arises when I’m unable to generate an encompassing reality which would conserve freedom of dimensionality. A split into one dimension or another requires me to split also. Hence the Greek prefix skhízō, meaning “I split”. Then the shock of snapping from one reality to another ensues. Weaving these disparate realities becomes tricky when trying to do day-to-day things like picking an outfit, keeping a schedule, or going to social gatherings where I’ll encounter an even larger variation of realities. It’s also hard on my nervous system, because some of the realities I’m snapping into could be life threatening, boring, or ultimate comedy – all requiring drastically different chemical responses in my body. Everyone’s experience happens, on a certain level, alone. But we develop trust and community with others through shared mythology, even if others don’t share our experience – ideally everyone’s reality is respected and considered. The realities I’ve experienced become a collage of disparate narratives and can seem pretty bizarre to others, so it can be hard to relate at times. Also, most of my realities are pre- or post-verbal and may be better expressed non-verbally.
2720==========
2721maskmag 201505 - The Madness Issue (Mask Magazine)
2722- Your Highlight on page 82 | Location 1250-1252 | Added on Friday, June 12, 2015 5:28:18 AM
2723
2724Heather Hall is from Dallas, Texas but lives and works in Olympia, Washington as a musician and waitress. She graduated with a BA in Music Technology and Consciousness Studies from Evergreen State College. Find her on tumblr.
2725==========
2726Germinal (Émile Zola)
2727- Your Bookmark on Location 1084 | Added on Friday, June 12, 2015 6:34:45 AM
2728
2729
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2731Housing Monster, The - Prole.info  
2732- Your Highlight on page 27-27 | Added on Saturday, June 13, 2015 10:24:27 AM
2733
2734Our hostility to the work doesn’t come from our political ideas. It comes from the fact that we are being exploited as wage workers. We have interests that are directly opposed to the company’s interests.Still, the less internally conflicted we can become, the better we can get at fighting the boss. We can consciously plan and coordinate our resistance. We can see who our real allies and enemies are likely to be
2735==========
2736Lucifer Effect, The - Philip Zimbardo  
2737- Your Bookmark on page 11 | Added on Sunday, June 14, 2015 12:03:58 AM
2738
2739
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2741Lucifer Effect, The - Philip Zimbardo  
2742- Your Highlight on page 11 | Added on Sunday, June 14, 2015 12:04:12 AM
2743
2744Contents
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2746Lucifer Effect, The - Philip Zimbardo  
2747- Your Highlight on page 17-17 | Added on Sunday, June 14, 2015 7:37:12 AM
2748
2749Evil consists in intentionally behaving in ways that harm, abuse, demean, dehumanize, or destroy innocent others—or using one's authority and systemic power to encourage or permit others to do so on your behalf
2750==========
2751Lucifer Effect, The - Philip Zimbardo  
2752- Your Bookmark on page 56 | Added on Monday, June 15, 2015 12:37:55 AM
2753
2754
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2756Lucifer Effect, The - Philip Zimbardo  
2757- Your Bookmark on page 81 | Added on Tuesday, June 16, 2015 12:28:31 AM
2758
2759
2760==========
2761Hunger (Knut Hamsun)
2762- Your Bookmark on Location 486 | Added on Wednesday, June 17, 2015 12:23:30 AM
2763
2764
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2766Fathers and Sons (Oxford World's Classics) (Ivan Turgenev;Richard Freeborn)
2767- Your Bookmark on Location 148 | Added on Sunday, June 21, 2015 4:48:57 AM
2768
2769
2770==========
2771Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism (David Harvey)
2772- Your Highlight on Location 1400-1417 | Added on Sunday, June 21, 2015 5:46:27 AM
2773
2774The other path to bridge the production–realisation contradiction is to recoup from the labourers any share of the surplus that they have acquired for themselves by charging extortionate prices or imposing fees, rents or taxes upon the working classes so as to diminish their discretionary income and standard of living significantly. This practice can also occur through manipulation of the social wage such that gains made in pension rights, in educational and health care provision and in basic services can be rolled back as part of a political programme of accumulation by dispossession. This is what the current widespread appeal to a politics of austerity on the part of the state is designed to achieve. Capital may lose or concede to workers’ demands at the point of production but regain what has been conceded or lost (and then some) by excessive extractions in the living space. High rents and housing costs, excessive charges by credit card companies, banks and telephone companies, the privatisation of health care and education, the imposition of user fees and fines, all inflict financial burdens on vulnerable populations even when these costs are not inflated by a host of predatory practices, arbitrary and regressive taxes, excessive legal fees and the like. These activities are, moreover, active and not passive. The actual or attempted expulsion of low-income and vulnerable populations from high-value land and locations through gentrification, displacement and sometimes violent clearances has been a long-standing practice within the history of capitalism. It unites those residents of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas subject to evictions, the former occupants of self-built housing in Seoul, those moved through eminent domain procedures in the United States and the shack-dwellers in South Africa. Production here means the production of space, and realisation takes the form of capital gains on land rents and property values, thus generally empowering the developers and the rentiers as opposed to other factions of capital. The contradictory unity between production and realisation therefore applies as much to the fate of the workers as it does to capital. The logical conclusion, which by and large the left has tended to sideline if not ignore, is that there is necessarily a contradictory unity in class conflict and class struggle across the spheres of working and living.
2775==========
2776Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism (David Harvey)
2777- Your Highlight on Location 2257-2278 | Added on Sunday, June 21, 2015 5:51:26 AM
2778
2779The commodification of history, culture and tradition may appear obnoxious but it underpins a vast tourist trade in which authenticity and uniqueness are highly valued, even as they are subject to the hegemony of market valuations. And more significant is the systematic branding of many consumer commodities as unique and special (even when such claims are dubious at best) so as to allow a monopoly price to be put upon them. The items or effects produced cannot be so unique or special as to be entirely outside of the monetary calculus of course, so even Picassos, archaeological artefacts and aboriginal art objects must have their price. For more common commodities, the aim is to set one brand apart as a superior toothpaste, shampoo or car. The idea is to use product differentiation as a way to secure a monopoly price. The reputation and the public image of a commodity becomes just as if not more important than its material use value. From this arises the immense importance of advertising, which is nothing more than an industry struggling to squeeze monopoly prices out of an otherwise competitive situation. Nearly one-sixth of the jobs in the United States are now in advertising or selling, an industry that is dedicated to the production of monopoly rents through the production of image and reputation of particular commodities. There is an interesting geographical version of this same phenomenon. Cities like Barcelona, Istanbul, New York and Melbourne get branded, for example, as tourist destinations or as hubs for business activities by virtue of their unique characteristics and special cultural qualities. If there are no particularly unique features to hand, then hire some famous architect, like Frank Gehry, to build a signature building (like the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao) to fill the gap.6 History, culture, uniqueness and authenticity are everywhere commodified and sold to tourists, prospective entrepreneurs and corporate heads alike, yielding monopoly rents to landed interests, property developers and speculators. The role of the class monopoly rent that is then gained from rising land values and property prices in cities like New York, Hong Kong, Shanghai, London and Barcelona is hugely important for capital in general. The gentrification process that is then unleashed is, worldwide, a critical part of an economy based as much on accumulation through dispossession as on creating wealth through new urban investments. In cultivating monopoly power, capital realises far-reaching control over production and marketing. It can stabilise the business environment to allow for rational calculation and long-term planning, the reduction of risk and uncertainty. The ‘visible hand’ of the corporation, as Alfred Chandler terms it, has been and continues to be just as important to capitalist history as Adam Smith’s ‘invisible hand’.7 The ‘heavy hand’ of state power exercised broadly in support of capital also plays its part.
2780==========
2781Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism (David Harvey)
2782- Your Highlight on Location 4384-4409 | Added on Sunday, June 21, 2015 5:58:37 AM
2783
2784as Gorz notes, ‘functional workers, who accept alienation in their work because the possibilities of consumption it offers are adequate compensation for them, can only come into being if they simultaneously become a socialised consumer. But only a market economy sector and commercial advertising that goes with it can produce these socialised consumers.’12 This is exactly where the revolutionary movement of 1968, with all its vaunted rhetoric of individual liberty and freedom and social justice, ended up – lost in the world of alien consumerism, drowning in a wealth of compensatory goods, the ownership of which was taken as a sign of freedom of choice in the marketplace of human desires. The progress of alien or compensatory consumerism has its own internally destructive dynamics. It requires what Schumpeter called ‘creative destruction’ to be let loose upon the land. Daily life in the city, settled ways of living, relating and socialising, are again and again disrupted to make way for the latest fad or fancy. Demolitions and displacements to make way for gentrification or Disneyfication break open already achieved fabrics of urban living to make way for the gaudy and the gargantuan, the ephemeral and fleeting. Dispossession and destruction, displacement and construction become vehicles for vigorous and speculative capital accumulation as the figures of the financier and the rentier, the developer, the landed proprietor and the entrepreneurial mayor step from the shadows into the forefront of capital’s logic of accumulation. The economic engine that is capital circulation and accumulation gobbles up whole cities only to spit out new urban forms in spite of the resistance of people who feel alienated entirely from the processes that not only reshape the environments in which they live but also redefine the kind of person they must become in order to survive. Processes of social reproduction get re-engineered by capital from without. Everyday life is perverted to the circulation of capital. The coalition of the unwilling in relation to this forced redefinition of human nature constitutes a pool of alienated individuals that periodically erupts in riots and potentially revolutionary movements from Cairo to Istanbul, from Buenos Aires to São Paulo, and from Stockholm to El Alto. All this rests, however, upon the possession of sufficient money, the crushing need for which persuades ‘previously unpaid strata of society to seek waged work’, which further increases ‘the need for compensatory consumption’. As a result ‘getting paid becomes the primary objective of the activity to the extent that any activity which does not have a financial compensation ceases to be acceptable. Money supplants other values and becomes their only measure.’ Along with this goes ‘an incentive to withdraw into the private sphere and give it priority, to the pursuit of “personal” advantages’. This then ‘contributes to the disintegration of networks of solidarity and mutual assistance, social and family cohesion and our sense of belonging. Individuals socialised by (alien) consumerism are no longer socially integrated individuals but individuals who are encouraged to “be themselves” by distinguishing themselves from others and who only resemble these others in their refusal (socially channelled into consumption) to assume responsibility for the common condition by taking common action.’13 Affections and loyalties to particular places and cultural forms are viewed as anachronisms.
2785==========
2786Instapaper: Tuesday, May. 12th (Instapaper)
2787- Your Highlight on Location 699-703 | Added on Sunday, June 21, 2015 6:05:42 AM
2788
2789federal dollars were funneled through a racial filter. To decide exactly how and where to allocate funds, HOLC and FHA developed property and neighborhood appraisal systems with a strong preference for “racially homogenous” housing stock. Any neighborhood with black or other “undesirable” populations was automatically relegated to the bottom of the four-tier ranking, colored red on the security map (thus the term “redlining”), and declared largely ineligible for loans.
2790==========
2791Instapaper: Monday, Apr. 20th (Instapaper)
2792- Your Highlight on Location 545-546 | Added on Sunday, June 21, 2015 6:13:52 AM
2793
2794A storm of outrage erupted last year over reports that African Americans and Latinos faced discrimination in Portland’s rental market.
2795==========
2796Instapaper: Monday, Apr. 20th (Instapaper)
2797- Your Highlight on Location 549-550 | Added on Sunday, June 21, 2015 6:14:00 AM
2798
2799An investigation by The Oregonian has found that leaders across the metro area and beyond are failing to fulfill a fundamental goal of the nation’s 44-year-old Fair Housing Act: to give everyone, regardless of color, a fair shot at living in a decent neighborhood.
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2801Instapaper: Monday, Apr. 20th (Instapaper)
2802- Your Note on Location 563 | Added on Sunday, June 21, 2015 6:21:57 AM
2803
2804#pdxgent
2805==========
2806Instapaper: Monday, Apr. 20th (Instapaper)
2807- Your Highlight on Location 560-563 | Added on Sunday, June 21, 2015 6:21:57 AM
2808
2809Agencies and governments serving Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas counties accept about $170 million a year in federal money for affordable housing. In doing so, under the Fair Housing Act, they are expected to try to spread affordable housing across neighborhoods. They are expected to avoid concentrating poverty or people of color. In taking the money, they explicitly promise to identify and dismantle barriers to those efforts.
2810==========
2811Instapaper: Monday, Apr. 20th (Instapaper)
2812- Your Highlight on Location 596-600 | Added on Sunday, June 21, 2015 6:22:42 AM
2813
2814Portland lacks the entrenched segregation found in Detroit and Chicago. In fact, Portland “has experienced the greatest decline in segregation in the past 30 years of any major city, at least that I’m aware of,” said Brown University professor John Logan, who conducted a 2010 study. But that’s in part because gentrification has forced thousands of black residents out of Northeast Portland’s historically African American neighborhoods.
2815==========
2816Hear No Evil: Portland’s Cultural Shift and What It Means for Music - Noise & Color PDX (noiseandcolorpdx.com)
2817- Your Note on Location 22 | Added on Sunday, June 21, 2015 6:32:45 AM
2818
2819#pdxgent
2820==========
2821Hear No Evil: Portland’s Cultural Shift and What It Means for Music - Noise & Color PDX (noiseandcolorpdx.com)
2822- Your Highlight on Location 18-22 | Added on Sunday, June 21, 2015 6:32:45 AM
2823
2824Displacement in North Portland happened at a staggering pace. From 2000 to 2010, nearly 10,000 people of color moved out of the Albina District, the only area the real estate industry would allow African-Americans to live in for decades. According to U.S. Census data, annual median incomes in the Killingsworth neighborhood have risen over $10,000 the last ten years. Meanwhile, the median net worth for black households was lower in 2011 than it was in 1984, according to a 2013 report. And between 2000 and 2012, the black homeownership rate in the city fell ten points to 29 percent.
2825==========
2826Hear No Evil: Portland’s Cultural Shift and What It Means for Music - Noise & Color PDX (noiseandcolorpdx.com)
2827- Your Highlight on Location 39-42 | Added on Sunday, June 21, 2015 6:35:02 AM
2828
2829By failing to recognize, organize, and combat the cascading forces displacing more vulnerable communities, the radical economic changes that swept over Alberta and Mississippi, have now spread across the city to historically more affluent neighborhoods like Division and Sellwood. Rents rise, houses are replaced by apartments and condos, and anyone who can’t afford to ride the wave of increased prosperity is forced out.
2830==========
2831Hear No Evil: Portland’s Cultural Shift and What It Means for Music - Noise & Color PDX (noiseandcolorpdx.com)
2832- Your Highlight on Location 23-28 | Added on Sunday, June 21, 2015 6:36:02 AM
2833
2834In an in-depth study, Portland State Professor Lisa Bate created a map that shows nearly all of inner-SE Portland has become too expensive for vulnerable populations, and vast swaths of North Portland have already seen significant demographic shifts and will continue to gentrify in the coming years. Over the last decade the fastest growing part of Portland has been east of 82nd Avenue. (Next door, Gresham saw a 17 percent growth rate earlier in the decade.) Parts of East Portland lack basic infrastructure like parks, sidewalks, and even paved roads compared to other neighborhoods in the city. Still, an incredible 40 percent of Portland’s youth now live east of 82nd, despite that portion of the city representing only one-fourth of the city’s population. In many ways, much of Portland truly has become a young, white and proportionally rich playground.
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2836Hear No Evil: Portland’s Cultural Shift and What It Means for Music - Noise & Color PDX (noiseandcolorpdx.com)
2837- Your Highlight on Location 88-89 | Added on Sunday, June 21, 2015 6:42:58 AM
2838
2839Aaron Colter is the cofounder of Banana Stand Media
2840==========
2841Communist Interventions, Volume I European Socialism and Communism (Communist Research Cluster)
2842- Your Highlight on page 3 | Location 40-40 | Added on Sunday, June 21, 2015 7:04:50 AM
2843
2844we recommend Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000 by Geoff Eley
2845==========
2846Communist Interventions, Volume I European Socialism and Communism (Communist Research Cluster)
2847- Your Bookmark on page 5 | Location 62 | Added on Sunday, June 21, 2015 7:07:39 AM
2848
2849
2850==========
2851Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism (David Harvey)
2852- Your Note on Location 4725 | Added on Sunday, June 21, 2015 7:17:26 AM
2853
2854learn dialectics 
2855==========
2856Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism (David Harvey)
2857- Your Highlight on Location 4724-4725 | Added on Sunday, June 21, 2015 7:17:26 AM
2858
2859Bertell Ollman, The Dance of the Dialectic: Steps in Marx’s Method, Champagne, IL, University of Illinois Press, 2003.
2860==========
2861Instapaper: Monday, Jun. 22nd (Instapaper)
2862- Your Highlight on Location 304-306 | Added on Monday, June 22, 2015 11:31:46 PM
2863
2864In most states, black people could not congregate, had to sign year-long work contracts, and could be arrested on charges of “vagrancy,” fined, and then bound to whoever paid their fine. Nowhere could a black person testify in court against a white person, so nowhere could a black American claim the protection of the law against theft, rape, or murder.
2865==========
2866Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism (David Harvey)
2867- Your Highlight on Location 366-368 | Added on Tuesday, June 23, 2015 9:16:23 AM
2868
2869If it is widely accepted that everyone has a right to ‘a decent home and a suitable living environment’ (as stated in the preamble to the US Housing Act of 1949), then, obviously, use value considerations are brought back to the forefront of struggles over housing provision.
2870==========
2871Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism (David Harvey)
2872- Your Highlight on Location 399-401 | Added on Tuesday, June 23, 2015 9:22:12 AM
2873
2874people can also lose their savings when the state or investors take over housing in a neighbourhood destined for redevelopment and let that housing deteriorate, thus destroying the market value of the housing that remains.
2875==========
2876Wanderings of the Slave: Black life and Social Death (metamute.org)
2877- Your Bookmark on Location 32 | Added on Thursday, June 25, 2015 8:43:40 AM
2878
2879
2880==========
2881Wanderings of the Slave: Black life and Social Death (metamute.org)
2882- Your Highlight on Location 39-40 | Added on Thursday, June 25, 2015 8:46:08 AM
2883
2884While Wilderson was the initial conscious architect of the expression, one can also follow its theoretical elaboration within the works of Jared Sexton, Saidiya Hartman and Hortense Spillers,
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2886Wanderings of the Slave: Black life and Social Death (metamute.org)
2887- Your Highlight on Location 40-41 | Added on Thursday, June 25, 2015 8:46:25 AM
2888
2889Wilderson, Sexton and Achille Mbembe
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2891Wanderings of the Slave: Black life and Social Death (metamute.org)
2892- Your Highlight on Location 40-53 | Added on Thursday, June 25, 2015 8:50:39 AM
2893
2894Leading Afro-pessimist thinkers such as Wilderson, Sexton and Achille Mbembe seek to draw out a political ontology of black existence vis-à-vis a Left-Heideggerianism influenced by contemporary philosopher Giorgio Agamben. Alongside Agamben’s political ontology, Afro-pessimist theorists also heavily draw from the works of Frantz Fanon, the figurehead and consistent reference point for many of the theorists. In this way a genealogy of Afro-pessimism can be traced between all these thinkers who deal with the concept of the human, the existential and affective structures of being, and the ambiguities of vitalism and life. Afro-pessimism poses a critique at the junction of political economy and the libidinal economy of white supremacy. At this theoretical intersection, black existence emerges as a categorical distortion that gives birth to the classical Humanist subject as a product of Modernity and the Enlightenment. For the Afro-pessimists, the black subject is exiled from the human relation, which is predicated on social recognition, volition, subjecthood, and the valuation of life itself. Thus black existence is marked as an ontological absence, posited as sentient object and devoid of any positive relationality, in contradistinction to the human subject’s presence. How does this negative relationality originate and maintain itself? Through a structural violence, which is the formative relation that positions the slave, making it the central ontological foundation of black existence: Structural vulnerability to appropriation, perpetual and involuntary openness, including all the wanton uses of the body […] should be understood as the paradigmatic conditions of black existence in the Americas, the defining characteristics of New World anti-blackness. In short, the black, whether slave or ‘free,’ lives under the commandment of whites.
2895==========
2896Wanderings of the Slave: Black life and Social Death (metamute.org)
2897- Your Highlight on Location 106-111 | Added on Thursday, June 25, 2015 9:09:19 AM
2898
2899For Afro-pessimists, there is no possible empirical redress for its structural position in relation to civil society, for it is the very condition that enables civil society to cohere in the first place. And this condition is that of an inordinate suffering that is not commensurate to mere experience. For this reason, black existence figures as an antagonism that transcends any empirical injustice, an antagonism that splits the world between black or human. Consequently this antagonism entails a total disorganisation of what it would mean to exist in the world at all. Black existence is essentially a structural position that positions itself as demandless, an antagonsim which is irreconcilable, and without any possible future of organic synthesis of black existence and humanity.
2900==========
2901Wanderings of the Slave: Black life and Social Death (metamute.org)
2902- Your Highlight on Location 122-125 | Added on Thursday, June 25, 2015 9:13:08 AM
2903
2904the racial distinction was a consequence, and not the cause, of slavery. From its origins in slavery, the racial distinction was reproduced through historically specific institutional arrangements that enabled black subjection to continue. The primary aim of these institutions was ‘the conjoint extraction of labour and social ostracisation of an outcast group deemed unassimilable’.
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2906Wanderings of the Slave: Black life and Social Death (metamute.org)
2907- Your Highlight on Location 154-160 | Added on Thursday, June 25, 2015 9:27:28 AM
2908
2909After slavery, such instances of patrolling were devolved upon the institutionality of the police, a professional body that regulated the movement of blacks according to the spatial configurations of both Jim Crow in the South and the black ghettoes of the urbanising North. In both instances, the racialisation of space that was enacted by these institutions defined white life as immune from police violence. In fact, all whites were dutifully bound as the perpetrators of this violence against blacks. The police simply came to embody this violence by excising this aspect of being white and formalising it within its institution. White civilians could now simply disavow the violence necessary for its livelihood and devolve it to the professional police force. By definition, ‘white people are not simply “protected” by the police, they are the police.’
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2911Wanderings of the Slave: Black life and Social Death (metamute.org)
2912- Your Highlight on Location 208-214 | Added on Thursday, June 25, 2015 9:49:54 AM
2913
2914Contemporary post-crisis struggles against anti-blackness therefore have two principle features in common: confrontation with the police and the socio-spatial closure that entails in its material and symbolic forms. Whether it is the police as such, or the confinements of the ghetto and the possibility of escaping it through education, or even the free movement of black bodies through space, struggles against anti-blackness orient themselves toward the disorganisation of this controlled space. In relation to riots in particular, calls for ‘social justice’, ‘rights’, ‘police accountability and transparency’ obscure the essence of these movements, whose meaning resides entirely on the surface. They are fundamentally demandless and intentionally destructive. There is no ‘point’ except for utter dissolution of the current state of affairs.
2915==========
2916Wanderings of the Slave: Black life and Social Death (metamute.org)
2917- Your Highlight on Location 275-276 | Added on Thursday, June 25, 2015 9:53:45 AM
2918
2919an incarnate property perceived to make its contact degrading by virtue of what Max Weber calls ‘negative social estimatino of honour.’
2920==========
2921Maciej Zurowski: Of Runes and Men (whomakesthenazis.com)
2922- Your Highlight on Location 108-114 | Added on Sunday, June 28, 2015 11:03:31 AM
2923
2924some individuals in the neofolk scene are rather well acquainted with the theories of the nouvelle droite (‘new right’) and particularly those of Alain de Benoist. De Benoist, a French intellectual who fancies himself as the Antonio Gramsci of the right, would in fact be better described as fascism’s answer to the neo-‘Gramscians’ of 1970s left academia: he advocated a ‘war of position’, as outlined in Gramsci’s Prison notebooks, though without the complementary ‘war of manoeuvre’. After World War II and that unfortunate gaffe known as the holocaust, cultural work would be the only way forward. Activists would covertly infiltrate the superstructure and gradually influence certain groups into adopting key concepts of fascist ideology; won over by largely aesthetical means, these would then form a hidden army prepared to strike on the Great Day. Until then, open political work would be futile.
2925==========
2926Maciej Zurowski: Of Runes and Men (whomakesthenazis.com)
2927- Your Highlight on Location 122-123 | Added on Sunday, June 28, 2015 11:05:00 AM
2928
2929as far as his fans are concerned, not even Pierce’s solidarity visits to the neo-fascist HOS militia in the midst of the Balkans conflict represent a clear political statement. For Pierce is an artist, and apparently artists are above politics.7
2930==========
2931Maciej Zurowski: Of Runes and Men (whomakesthenazis.com)
2932- Your Highlight on Location 163-171 | Added on Sunday, June 28, 2015 11:12:36 AM
2933
2934What if most musicians simply do not screen their collaborators and drug buddies for political beliefs? What if ‘meta-fascism’ blends so easily with the common outlook of declassed bohemia that it simply dissolves in a swamp of amorphous self-indulgence? At Who makes the Nazis, writers are at pains to make out who is “definitely” a fascist and who is just a fellow traveller, eccentric or imposter. But, despite the often intriguing cultural analysis and obsessive evidence-collecting, their attempts to identify a point where quantity becomes quality clearly gives them a bit of a headache. Maybe that is because fascism never really had a coherent ideology – rather, it took any resentments, prejudices and fragments of reactionary thought that happened to cross its path and tossed them into its grubby, populist rag-bag. As Leon Trotsky remarked in reference to German national socialism, its ideological “beggar’s bowl” preserved “whatever had met with approbation” during Hitler’s early speeches. Hitler’s “political thoughts were the fruits of his oratorial acoustics … That is how the programme was consolidated”.11
2935==========
2936Maciej Zurowski: Of Runes and Men (whomakesthenazis.com)
2937- Your Highlight on Location 204-208 | Added on Sunday, June 28, 2015 11:18:51 AM
2938
2939Much though esoteric rightists delude themselves that their ideas are ‘eternal’, transhistorical and ‘natural’, they are in reality ideological expressions of a social class in specific historical conditions. The biggest problem of the nouvelle droite has always been fascism’s lack of political substance. Divorced from social realities, devoid of street-fighting squads and lacking a mass base, it really is reduced to little more than obscure, metaphysical drivel. Tales of a Jewish ‘world conspiracy’, neo-paganism, ‘aristocracy of the soul’, and other such candyfloss-brained baloney are unlikely to strike a chord with western societies in the 21st century.
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2941Maciej Zurowski: Of Runes and Men (whomakesthenazis.com)
2942- Your Highlight on Location 217-227 | Added on Sunday, June 28, 2015 11:21:27 AM
2943
2944Pioneer of a sub-current of industrial music christened ‘power electronics’, Sotos’s declared mission was to record the most extreme music of all time – and he complemented his band Whitehouse’s ultra-invasive noise fest with the most extreme, misanthropic lyrics he could think of. Industrial pioneers Throbbing Gristle, whose leader Genesis P Orridge obsessed over Charles Manson, Hitler, Aleister Crowley and everything else that his teachers might consider shocking, had laid the groundwork. Driven by an extreme version of libertarianism, Sotos went further and celebrated sadistic Nazi death camp wardens and child pornography.Like Throbbing Gristle, he was tilting at windmills, unaware that the humanist values he so despised were the mere facade of a social system built on exploitation, oppression, violence and war. Barack Obama, the hope-and-change man of liberal America, has inflicted more death and misery upon the world than the likes of Peter Sotos could ever dream of. Boyd Rice, industrial music’s resident misanthrope, looks like a boy scout next to David Cameron and the class that he represents. In their minds, Sotos and Rice might feel quite at home in the 120 Days of Sodom – except that in the real world evil is not the triumph of the libertine’s will, but the inevitable, wholly unglamorous, and barren by-product of class society.
2945==========
2946Maciej Zurowski: Of Runes and Men (whomakesthenazis.com)
2947- Your Highlight on Location 237-239 | Added on Sunday, June 28, 2015 11:23:17 AM
2948
2949just like the punk group Crass grew increasingly hostile to the left when Red Action randomly took out skinhead youths at their gigs, the philistine anti-fascism employed by LMHR is bound to alienate the alternative scene from the left rather than cleanse it of reactionary influence.
2950==========
2951Maciej Zurowski: Of Runes and Men (whomakesthenazis.com)
2952- Your Highlight on Location 273-274 | Added on Sunday, June 28, 2015 11:28:02 AM
2953
2954communist-themed martial industrial act, Vae Victus, to be “very enjoyable”. Candidly noting that band leader Peter Iolin considers himself to be a “revolutionary socialist”,
2955==========
2956Accumulation of capital (Rosa Luxemburg)
2957- Your Highlight on page 84 | Location 1281-1282 | Added on Sunday, June 28, 2015 5:28:29 PM
2958
2959gold in its capacity as money is not a metal but rather an embodiment of social labour in abstracto. Thus it is no more a means of production than it is a consumer good.
2960==========
2961An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx's Capital (Michael Heinrich)
2962- Your Highlight on Location 895-898 | Added on Sunday, June 28, 2015 5:32:21 PM
2963
2964The money form is ultimately distinguished from the general form of value merely by the fact that the equivalent form has coalesced “by social custom” with the specific natural form of a particular commodity (historically this has been gold, and to a lesser extent silver). This commodity thus becomes the “money commodity.”
2965==========
2966Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism (David Harvey)
2967- Your Highlight on Location 509-516 | Added on Monday, June 29, 2015 5:22:39 AM
2968
2969Money, we can say at the outset, is inseparable but also distinct from the social labour that constitutes value. Money hides the immateriality of social labour (value) behind its material form. It is all too easy to mistake the representation for the reality it seeks to represent, and to the degree that the representation falsifies (as to some degree it always does) we end up believing in and acting upon something that is false. In the same way we cannot see the social labour in any commodity, so we are particularly blinded to the nature of social labour by the money that represents it. We will look at examples shortly. The inseparability of value from its representation is important. It derives from the simple fact that without money and the commodity transactions it facilitates, value could not exist as an immaterial social relation. In other words, value could not form without the aid of the material representation (money) and the social practices of exchange. The relation between money and value is dialectical and co-evolutionary – they both emerge together – rather than causal.
2970==========
2971Instapaper: Monday, Jun. 29th (Instapaper)
2972- Your Highlight on Location 454-456 | Added on Tuesday, June 30, 2015 3:52:43 AM
2973
2974the credibility of any Lockean theory defending established property rights from the state that established them depends on the existence of a frontier, beyond which lies boundless usable land. This in turn requires the erasure (mentally and usually in brutal reality) of the people already living beyond the frontier and drawing their sustenance from the land in question.
2975==========
2976Nihilist Communism (Monsieur Dupont)
2977- Your Highlight on page 1 | Location 9-10 | Added on Tuesday, June 30, 2015 5:24:10 AM
2978
2979Yes, structure is human, it is the monumentalisation of congealed sweat, sweat squeezed from old exploitation and represented as nature, the world we inhabit, the objective ground.
2980==========
2981Nihilist Communism (Monsieur Dupont)
2982- Your Highlight on page 1 | Location 12-14 | Added on Tuesday, June 30, 2015 5:25:01 AM
2983
2984The structure of the world was built by the dead, they were paid in wages, and when the wages were spent and they were dead in the ground, what they had made continued to exist, these cities, roads and factories are their calcified bones.
2985==========
2986maskmag201506TheAlienIssue (bmumford@gmail.com)
2987- Your Highlight on Location 240-241 | Added on Wednesday, July 1, 2015 6:53:12 PM
2988
2989“We wouldn’t be us if we didn’t believe in second chances, but it’s okay to close the door on somebody if they are toxic.”
2990==========
2991maskmag201506TheAlienIssue (bmumford@gmail.com)
2992- Your Highlight on Location 388-389 | Added on Wednesday, July 1, 2015 6:56:59 PM
2993
2994How do you deal with mean people? Mercilessly and with a lingering fear that I may be among them.
2995==========
2996maskmag 201506 - The Alien Issue (Mask Magazine)
2997- Your Note on page 41 | Location 622 | Added on Wednesday, July 1, 2015 11:27:29 PM
2998
2999link
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3001maskmag 201506 - The Alien Issue (Mask Magazine)
3002- Your Highlight on page 41 | Location 621-622 | Added on Wednesday, July 1, 2015 11:27:29 PM
3003
3004her recent writing on trans femininity in Feminist Wire
3005==========
3006maskmag 201506 - The Alien Issue (Mask Magazine)
3007- Your Note on page 38 | Location 569 | Added on Wednesday, July 1, 2015 11:27:58 PM
3008
3009link 
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3011maskmag 201506 - The Alien Issue (Mask Magazine)
3012- Your Highlight on page 38 | Location 568-569 | Added on Wednesday, July 1, 2015 11:27:58 PM
3013
3014This thing still holds up many years later
3015==========
3016Instapaper: Tuesday, Jun. 30th (Instapaper)
3017- Your Highlight on Location 208-209 | Added on Wednesday, July 1, 2015 11:49:25 PM
3018
3019Sanders…chicken?” for more details) Criticism #9: Sanders fell in line with the false and absurdist argument “that Iran is “building a nuclear weapon”” since they are NOT doing so at all
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3021Instapaper: Tuesday, Jun. 30th (Instapaper)
3022- Your Highlight on Location 226-227 | Added on Wednesday, July 1, 2015 11:51:39 PM
3023
3024Sanders voted for the “an extension of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), which is harshly neoliberal” even though he “voted against similar “trade” deals like NAFTA and [would vote against] the
3025==========
3026Instapaper: Tuesday, Jun. 30th (Instapaper)
3027- Your Highlight on Location 806-808 | Added on Thursday, July 2, 2015 5:04:09 PM
3028
3029When they met in Venice near the end of his life, Pound famously renounced his poisonous views to Allen Ginsberg, saying: “The worst mistake I ever made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.” Ginsberg forgave him; many others, understandably, did not.
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3031Instapaper: Sunday, Jul. 5th (Instapaper)
3032- Your Highlight on Location 364-365 | Added on Sunday, July 5, 2015 4:01:27 PM
3033
3034White: A bizarre state of mind that makes you attribute race to others with darker skin
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3036Instapaper: Sunday, Jul. 5th (Instapaper)
3037- Your Highlight on Location 409-411 | Added on Sunday, July 5, 2015 4:06:24 PM
3038
3039Marx and Engels never thought the capitalist state expressed the interests of the capitalists; instead, it expresses the interests of capital, a social relation that is composed of two classes, not one.
3040==========
3041Instapaper: Sunday, Jul. 5th (Instapaper)
3042- Your Highlight on Location 426-428 | Added on Sunday, July 5, 2015 4:09:46 PM
3043
3044As Engels put it, “[The] modern State, again, is only the organization that bourgeois society takes on in order to support the external conditions of the capitalist mode of production against the encroachments as well of the workers as of individual capitalists.”
3045==========
3046Instapaper: Sunday, Jul. 5th (Instapaper)
3047- Your Highlight on Location 424-428 | Added on Sunday, July 5, 2015 4:09:57 PM
3048
3049The state intervenes not to protect individual capitalists from destruction — although it may do this, as in the case of GM, but not for Lehman Brothers — but to preserve the conditions necessary for the function of the mode of production as a whole. As Engels put it, “[The] modern State, again, is only the organization that bourgeois society takes on in order to support the external conditions of the capitalist mode of production against the encroachments as well of the workers as of individual capitalists.”
3050==========
3051Instapaper: Sunday, Jul. 5th (Instapaper)
3052- Your Highlight on Location 437-452 | Added on Tuesday, July 7, 2015 1:37:10 AM
3053
3054if you look at chapter 9 of Wage Labor and Capital, you will find that the answer given by Marx that is far more horrific. The proletarians creates their competition through their own labor: “The greater division of labour enables one labourer to accomplish the work of five, 10, or 20 labourers; it therefore increases competition among the labourers fivefold, tenfold, or twentyfold. The labourers compete not only by selling themselves one cheaper than the other, but also by one doing the work of five, 10, or 20; and they are forced to compete in this manner by the division of labour, which is introduced and steadily improved by capital. Furthermore, to the same degree in which the division of labour increases, is the labour simplified. The special skill of the labourer becomes worthless. He becomes transformed into a simple monotonous force of production, with neither physical nor mental elasticity. His work becomes accessible to all; therefore competitors press upon him from all sides. Moreover, it must be remembered that the more simple, the more easily learned the work is, so much the less is its cost to production, the expense of its acquisition, and so much the lower must the wages sink – for, like the price of any other commodity, they are determined by the cost of production. Therefore, in the same manner in which labour becomes more unsatisfactory, more repulsive, do competition increase and wages decrease. The labourer seeks to maintain the total of his wages for a given time by performing more labour, either by working a great number of hours, or by accomplishing more in the same number of hours. Thus, urged on by want, he himself multiplies the disastrous effects of division of labour. The result is: the more he works, the less wages he receives. And for this simple reason: the more he works, the more he competes against his fellow workmen, the more he compels them to compete against him, and to offer themselves on the same wretched conditions as he does; so that, in the last analysis, he competes against himself as a member of the working class. “
3055==========
3056Instapaper: Friday, Jul. 3rd (Instapaper)
3057- Your Highlight on Location 1232-1234 | Added on Wednesday, July 8, 2015 12:04:41 AM
3058
3059Galaxy2, while small and hidden, is as vibrant as its clearweb counterparts Facebook and Twitter, with the added twist that Galaxy2 is not interested in your identity nor in creating a profile of you to sell to marketers. Galaxy2 is for pseudonymous social networking, often with a political edge.
3060==========
3061Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism (David Harvey)
3062- Your Highlight on Location 535-543 | Added on Thursday, July 9, 2015 12:07:11 AM
3063
3064The simplest way to conjure up a material representation for value is to select one commodity as the value representative for all the rest. For a variety of reasons, the precious metals, gold and silver in particular, emerged historically as best suited to fulfil this role. The reasons they were selected are important. To begin with these metals were relatively scarce and there is a fairly constant accumulated supply. I cannot go into my back yard and dig up some gold or silver whenever I want. The supply of the precious metals is relatively inelastic, so they maintain their relative value against all other commodities over time (though bursts of production activity, like the California gold rush, did create some problems). Most of the world’s gold is already mined and above ground. Second, these metals do not oxidise and deteriorate (as would happen if we chose raspberries or potatoes as our money commodity): this means that they maintain their physical characteristics over the time of a market transaction and, even more importantly, they can function relatively safely as a long-term store of value. Third, the physical properties of these metals are known and their qualities can be assayed accurately so their measure is easily calibrated,
3065==========
3066CAPITAL Vol. I (Karl Marx)
3067- Your Bookmark on Location 1104 | Added on Friday, July 10, 2015 6:28:20 PM
3068
3069
3070==========
3071The Hour of the Star (Clarice Lispector)
3072- Your Highlight on page 6 | Location 92-93 | Added on Saturday, July 11, 2015 1:55:18 AM
3073
3074With humility I confine myself — without making too much fuss about my humility for then it would no longer be humility
3075==========
3076The Hour of the Star (Clarice Lispector)
3077- Your Highlight on page 5 | Location 75-77 | Added on Saturday, July 11, 2015 1:55:29 AM
3078
3079the person whom I am about to describe scarcely has a body to sell; nobody desires her, she is a harmless virgin whom nobody needs. It strikes me that I don't need her either and that what I am writing could be written by another. Another writer, of course, but it would have to be a man for a woman would weep her heart out.
3080==========
3081The Hour of the Star (Clarice Lispector)
3082- Your Highlight on page 7 | Location 99-100 | Added on Saturday, July 11, 2015 1:56:52 AM
3083
3084Forgive me if I add something more about myself since my identity is not very clear, and when I write I am surprised to find that I possess a destiny. Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?
3085==========
3086Instapaper: Sunday, Jul. 12th (Instapaper)
3087- Your Highlight on Location 75-77 | Added on Monday, July 13, 2015 5:02:40 AM
3088
3089Perhaps, then, what I’m exploring in this section is a kind of duration produced through the lengthening of a single occurrence rather than the accumulation of instants, a momentary intensity raised to the level of history.
3090==========
3091Instapaper: Sunday, Jul. 12th (Instapaper)
3092- Your Highlight on Location 570-571 | Added on Tuesday, July 14, 2015 3:40:29 AM
3093
3094A 2014 study found that witnesses were less likely to intervene in cases of sexual assault than iPod theft.
3095==========
3096Instapaper: Monday, Jul. 13th (Instapaper)
3097- Your Highlight on Location 1759-1765 | Added on Tuesday, July 14, 2015 4:22:49 AM
3098
3099Before, the state was satisfied with repression coupled with the spreading of “outside agitator” narratives to isolate potential rioters. But since the Ferguson uprisings, the tactic has become more generalized. As a decreasing amount of people are put off by riots, and thus the strategy of erasing its potential must be shifted. When the success of rioting is framed in terms of concessions won, it replaces the revolutionary nature of the riot with the agenda of reform. It becomes simply one of many tools in the activist’s toolkit to achieve “social change.” Want to pressure your elected officials? Riot. Revolutionaries seem to be misled by this newfound appreciation for formerly-condemned tactics and are excited for a culture that accepts and even supports not-so-civil disobedience. But when we agree to this framework, we only sacrifice this growing potential.
3100==========
3101The Hour of the Star (Clarice Lispector)
3102- Your Highlight on page 17 | Location 247-248 | Added on Wednesday, July 15, 2015 1:39:26 PM
3103
3104She did not think about God, nor did God think about her. God belongs to those who succeed in pinning Him down. God appears in a moment of distraction.
3105==========
3106The Hour of the Star (Clarice Lispector)
3107- Your Highlight on page 18 | Location 262-265 | Added on Wednesday, July 15, 2015 1:41:50 PM
3108
3109The girl did not know that she existed, just as a dog doesn't know that it's a dog. Therefore she wasn't aware of her own unhappiness. The only thing she desired was to live. She could not explain, for she didn't probe her situation. Perhaps she felt there was some glory in living. She thought that a person was obliged to be happy. So she was happy. Before being born was she an idea? Before being born was she dead? And after being born was she about to die? What a thin slice of water melon.
3110==========
3111The Hour of the Star (Clarice Lispector)
3112- Your Highlight on page 19 | Location 290-292 | Added on Thursday, July 16, 2015 2:20:55 PM
3113
3114If she had thought hard, she might have concluded that she had sprouted from the soil of Alagoas inside a mushroom that soon rotted. She could speak, of course, but had little to say. No sooner do I succeed in persuading her to speak, than she slips through my fingers.
3115==========
3116Instapaper: Thursday, Jul. 16th (Instapaper)
3117- Your Highlight on Location 300-302 | Added on Thursday, July 16, 2015 11:27:35 PM
3118
3119Kenneth Murphy, who directs FEMA’s Region X, the division responsible for Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska, says, “Our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast.”
3120==========
3121Instapaper: Friday, Jul. 17th (Instapaper)
3122- Your Highlight on Location 249-258 | Added on Friday, July 17, 2015 11:35:10 AM
3123
3124For many households, the monthly rent check is so big that it eats up the majority of their paycheck — and the burden is growing. Some 20.7 million rental households — or about half of all renters– spent more than 30 percent of their income on housing in 2013, according to a report from the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. About 11 million of those households spent more than half of their paycheck on rent and utilities, up 37 percent from 2003, the study found. (Financial advisers typically recommend that people spend less than a third of their pay on housing costs.) As the map below shows, renters in cities that people expect to be expensive, like New York City, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. aren’t the only ones struggling to pay the bills. “The rental housing crisis is everywhere,” says Angela Boyd, vice president of advocacy at Enterprise Community Partners, an organization that advocates for affordable housing.
3125==========
3126Instapaper: Friday, Jul. 17th (Instapaper)
3127- Your Note on Location 332 | Added on Friday, July 17, 2015 11:41:09 AM
3128
3129jeune fille
3130==========
3131Instapaper: Friday, Jul. 17th (Instapaper)
3132- Your Highlight on Location 330-332 | Added on Friday, July 17, 2015 11:41:09 AM
3133
3134In a later revision of his ideas about the “cultural contradictions of capitalism,” Bell declared that the affluent society that consumer capitalism had bequeathed us also generated a “fun morality” of personal gratification that triumphed over a “goodness morality” of abnegation; this fun morality, he writes, “centers, in most instances, on sex.”
3135==========
3136Instapaper: Friday, Jul. 17th (Instapaper)
3137- Your Highlight on Location 355-359 | Added on Friday, July 17, 2015 12:31:56 PM
3138
3139In The Culture of Narcissism (1979), Christopher Lasch was noting how “the cult of intimacy conceals a growing despair of finding it,” with marital relations becoming difficult to create, let alone sustain, given the self-centeredness of those who might venture into such bonds. “Personal relations have become increasingly risky,” he noted, “most obviously because they no longer carry any assurance of permanence. Men and women make extravagant demands on each other and experience irrational rage and hatred when their demands are not met.”
3140==========
3141Instapaper: Friday, Jul. 17th (Instapaper)
3142- Your Highlight on Location 380-384 | Added on Friday, July 17, 2015 1:46:37 PM
3143
3144This basic passivity is crucial to the escapism promised by Pablo Cruise and its hot-tub-rock cohort. What is fun is in part the flight from responsibility, but also, and more important, the assuredness that pleasure will find you without your having to make any effort. Translated into the reality of capitalist life, that means emotional effort can be supplanted by the ease of purchase making. Novel goods that satiate novel desires will find a way, and you can escape the depressing way in which love dims by allowing those new desires into your open heart.
3145==========
3146Instapaper: Friday, Jul. 17th (Instapaper)
3147- Your Highlight on Location 384-389 | Added on Friday, July 17, 2015 1:58:38 PM
3148
3149Fun, as Baudrillard argued, is always code for a consumer society’s requirement of what he called “universal curiosity,” a hunger “driven by a vague sense of unease” — what today tends to be called “FOMO” or the “fear of missing out.” Fun allows those subject to its tyranny to believe that what is obligatory — fulfilling capitalism’s need for ever increasing consumer demand — is actually an expression of their existential freedom, their liberation: Marcuse’s repressive tolerance under a sunnier mantle, complete with palm trees and an ocean breeze.
3150==========
3151The Hour of the Star (Clarice Lispector)
3152- Your Highlight on page 22 | Location 336-337 | Added on Friday, July 17, 2015 2:44:28 PM
3153
3154As for the girl, she would sometimes buy a rose when the boss paid out her wages.
3155==========
3156The Hour of the Star (Clarice Lispector)
3157- Your Highlight on page 25 | Location 371-373 | Added on Friday, July 17, 2015 2:49:45 PM
3158
3159She sighed. She recalled her childhood with nostalgia — dried mandioca — and believed that she had been happy. In truth, no matter how bad one's childhood may have been, it always sounds enchanted in recollection — how awful.
3160==========
3161The Hour of the Star (Clarice Lispector)
3162- Your Highlight on page 26 | Location 387-389 | Added on Friday, July 17, 2015 2:52:19 PM
3163
3164And when she woke up? When she woke up, she no longer knew her own identity. Only later did she reflect with satisfaction: I am a typist and a virgin, and I like coca-cola. Only then did she get dressed, and spend the rest of the day passively enacting the role of being.
3165==========
3166The Hour of the Star (Clarice Lispector)
3167- Your Bookmark on page 28 | Location 429 | Added on Friday, July 17, 2015 3:19:52 PM
3168
3169
3170==========
3171To Get to the Other Side: a journey through Europe and its anarchist movements (Peter Gelderloos)
3172- Your Bookmark on page 3 | Location 31 | Added on Saturday, July 18, 2015 12:06:14 AM
3173
3174
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3176Anarchism and sex (Organise!)
3177- Your Highlight on page 6 | Location 79-83 | Added on Saturday, July 18, 2015 2:18:35 PM
3178
3179during the French revolution, greater free sexual expression and the distribution of pornography really came to the fore. In other words, it became freely available to us plebs as well. I remember reading about the early days of the Portuguese revolution of 1974, when the fascist dictatorship had just fallen and all the forbidden literature was suddenly becoming freely available, so one could find works by Bakunin, Kropotkin, Marx and Lenin sitting alongside an assortment of porno mags!
3180==========
3181Anarchism and sex (Organise!)
3182- Your Highlight on page 9 | Location 126-130 | Added on Saturday, July 18, 2015 2:29:49 PM
3183
3184For me, the revolutionary anarchist attitude to sex and sexuality has to encompass the belief that sexual activities and relations should be safe, free, diverse and consensual; acknowledging that people are queer, bi or hetero, ranging from the monogamous to the polyamourous, from the disinterested asexual to the rampant polysexual, and from the softest vanilla to the hardest edge playing SM-er. At the end of the day, if it’s a safe and mutually consensual activity (however weird it may seem) and all parties involved enjoy themselves, then what’s the big deal?
3185==========
3186Instapaper: Sunday, Jul. 19th (Instapaper)
3187- Your Highlight on Location 1172-1174 | Added on Sunday, July 19, 2015 11:32:41 AM
3188
3189No one on the Left reads Marx any more, especially the first three chapters of Capital. If they did, they would know that money is only the phenomenal form of the expression of value. And they would know that value itself is only socially necessary labor time; which is to say, absent labor, money is just so much metal or paper.
3190==========
3191Instapaper: Sunday, Jul. 19th (Instapaper)
3192- Your Highlight on Location 1229-1235 | Added on Sunday, July 19, 2015 2:07:21 PM
3193
3194On March 17, 2011, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1973, authorizing a no-fly zone over Libya and “all necessary measures” to protect civilians. That same day — as revealed by Pentagon audio tapes obtained by the Washington Times — President Qaddafi’s son Seif tried to call a US general to try to negotiate a ceasefire. Every now and then — on Israel and Palestine, for example — the US military brass takes the term “national security” literally and needs to be set straight by civilian leaders. Never mind that the UN resolution had urged diplomacy, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton instructed the Joint Chiefs of Staff not to negotiate with the Libyan government.
3195==========
3196Instapaper: Sunday, Jul. 19th (Instapaper)
3197- Your Highlight on Location 1301-1311 | Added on Sunday, July 19, 2015 4:36:11 PM
3198
3199At the same time, though, the press dismissed Qaddafi’s warnings. “Most experts agree that Qaddafi is grossly exaggerating the al-Qaeda threat to discredit his opposition,” said the Christian Science Monitor. Clinton went farther, suggesting that al-Qaeda allies had no role in the opposition. Asked about NATO commander’s reference to “flickers in the intelligence of potential” al-Qaeda involvement, Clinton said, “We do not have any specific information about specific individuals from any organization who are part of this.” The Libyan government didn’t just allege an al-Qaeda presence in the opposition but compiled evidence in a report that, according to the Washington Times, a US intelligence asset sought to deliver to members of Congress. “There is a close link between al Qaeda, Jihadi organizations, and the opposition in Libya,” read the report. Now that beheadings and car bombs are commonplace in Libya, it can’t be denied that the warning was valid, although no one could foresee the emergence of the Islamic State.
3200==========
3201Retaliate Against Alex Jones’ Treacherous Psychological Warfare! (Rocktown Rebel)
3202- Your Highlight on page 6 | Location 86-88 | Added on Sunday, July 19, 2015 5:10:43 PM
3203
3204Finally, we must never allow the capitalist journalists and activist-bureaucrat leaders, such as those present during the confrontation in Pittsburgh, (Jones, Shehan, the Daily Show, et. al) to walk amongst our ranks without ridicule and vocal denunciation.
3205==========
3206An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz)
3207- Your Highlight on page 13 | Location 186-186 | Added on Sunday, July 19, 2015 6:21:34 PM
3208
3209papal bulls,
3210==========
3211How To Read Agamben - (Giorgio Agamben)
3212- Your Highlight on Location 43-46 | Added on Monday, July 20, 2015 2:59:22 PM
3213
3214The entireHomo Sacerseries can be read as a follow-up on Benjamin’s suggestion, in hisCritique of Violence(1921), that someone really ought to look into the origin of the concept of the sacredness of human life. His study of animality inThe Openis, by contrast, centered on one of Heidegger’s writings on that question, and many of the chapters expand on Heidegger’s own key references.
3215==========
3216How To Read Agamben - (Giorgio Agamben)
3217- Your Highlight on Location 48-49 | Added on Monday, July 20, 2015 3:00:14 PM
3218
3219Some of his originality can be traced to the way he brings together Heidegger and Benjamin, along with other major figures such as Michel Foucault, Carl Schmitt, Hannah Arendt, and Aristotle.
3220==========
3221How To Read Agamben - (Giorgio Agamben)
3222- Your Highlight on Location 51-55 | Added on Monday, July 20, 2015 3:01:06 PM
3223
3224he traces the notion of the sacredness of human life back to thehomo sacer— an origin that, far from indicating that human life has exceptional and unconditional value, actually refers to a form of human life that has been deprived of all legal protection. And instead of marveling at how much our concept of the sacredness of human life has changed, he argues that the old meaning still stands: the state that respects the sacredness of human life is actually a machine that threatens to turn every one of us into a defenselesshomo sacer.
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3226How To Read Agamben - (Giorgio Agamben)
3227- Your Highlight on Location 67-69 | Added on Monday, July 20, 2015 3:03:51 PM
3228
3229“At the extreme limits of the order, the sovereign andhomo sacerpresent two symmetrical figures that have the same structure and are correlative: the sovereign is the one with respect to whom all men are potentiallyhomines sacri, andhomo saceris the one with respect to whom all men act as sovereigns.”
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3231How To Read Agamben - (Giorgio Agamben)
3232- Your Highlight on Location 76-83 | Added on Monday, July 20, 2015 3:07:44 PM
3233
3234Many critics of the War on Terror, including Judith Butler, have used Agamben’s terminology to mount a kind of moral critique of American foreign policy. One might say, for instance, that the US government is wrong to create a kind of exceptional law-free zone in Guantánamo Bay, because that results in turning the detainees into bare life — which is bad. And certainly itis; yet Agamben’s political work is a little too complex to fit easily into this kind of moralizing discourse. For Agamben, the answer to the problem posed by sovereign power cannot be to return to the “normal” conditions of the rule of law, because Western political systems have always contained in their very structure the seeds that would grow into our universalized exception. It can’t be a matter of refraining from reducing people to “bare life,” because that is just what Western legal structuresdo. The extreme, destructive conjunction of sovereign authority and bare life is not a catastrophe that we could have somehow avoided: for Agamben, it represents the deepest and truest structure of the law.
3235==========
3236How To Read Agamben - (Giorgio Agamben)
3237- Your Highlight on Location 89-92 | Added on Monday, July 20, 2015 3:09:49 PM
3238
3239One day humanity will play with law just as children play with disused objects, not in order to restore them to their canonical use but to free them from it for good…. This liberation is the task of study, or of play. And this studious play is the passage that allows us to arrive at that justice that one of Benjamin’s posthumous fragments defines as a state of the world in which the world appears as a good that absolutely cannot be appropriated or made juridical.
3240==========
3241How To Read Agamben - (Giorgio Agamben)
3242- Your Highlight on Location 122-123 | Added on Monday, July 20, 2015 3:17:57 PM
3243
3244For this reason, I think that the best way into Agamben’s work may not be his better-known political writings, but the short and fragmentary bookThe Open: Man and Animal(2002; 2004).
3245==========
3246Means Without End_ Notes on Politics (Theory Out of Bounds) - Giorgio Agamben  
3247- Your Highlight on page 7-7 | Added on Monday, July 20, 2015 3:22:36 PM
3248
3249A life tha t c annot be s epa r a t ed f rom its form is a life for whi ch wha t is a t s t ake in its way of l iving is l iving itself
3250==========
3251Means Without End_ Notes on Politics (Theory Out of Bounds) - Giorgio Agamben  
3252- Your Bookmark on page 7 | Added on Monday, July 20, 2015 3:26:58 PM
3253
3254
3255==========
3256Instapaper: Tuesday, Jul. 21st (Instapaper)
3257- Your Highlight on Location 72-83 | Added on Tuesday, July 21, 2015 2:40:09 PM
3258
3259indifference to these overlapping systems of oppression and focusing primarily on disparate impact follows a particular kind of liberal approach to race that is more obsessed with counting and tracking the various ways race determines an individual or community's fate without actually asking why or how this is the case. Sea level change is another issue that is often stripped of any real political force or analytical rigor by framing its ill effects as simply having disproportionate impacts on communities of color. The piece mentions how the people of the Ninth Ward suffered due to rising seas and more intense storms. That's all entirely true, but as Neil Smith so eloquently demonstrated that there are no such things as natural disasters   . Smith focused on how vulnerability is differentially distributed across space and shows how New Orleans's Jim Crow urban logics placed blacks in the most vulnerable, flood-prone areas of the city. In other words, vulnerability in the Ninth Ward was produced. Mainstream climate change advocacy has very little to say on this  and, in turn, had very little to say to black folks from New Orleans before Katrina and certainly had nothing to say to folks after the hurricane hit. The massive appropriation of people's homes, the take over of the public school system, and other forms of revanchist urban policy are entirely impenetrable if one were to rely solely upon a mainstream climate change approach. But an environmental justice approach that logically links segregation with differentiated vulnerability has no problem extending this analysis to the state of people and institutions after "natural" disasters.
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3261Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Penguin Education) - Paulo Freire  
3262- Your Highlight on page 34-34 | Added on Tuesday, July 21, 2015 4:12:13 PM
3263
3264Men and women rarely admit their fear of freedom openly, however, t ending r a ther to camouflage it—sometimes unconsciously—by p r esenting themselves as defenders of freedom. They give their doubts and misgivings an air of profound sobriety, as befitting custodians of freedom. But they confuse freedom with the maintenance of the status quo; so that if conscientizagdo threatens to place that status quo in question, it the r eby seems to constitute a threat to freedom itself
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3266Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Penguin Education) - Paulo Freire  
3267- Your Highlight on page 35-35 | Added on Tuesday, July 21, 2015 4:18:27 PM
3268
3269Sectarianism, fed by fanaticism, is always castrating. Radicalization, nourished by a critical spirit, is always creative. Sectarianism mythicizes and thereby alienates; radicalization criticizes and thereby liberates. Radicalization involves increased commitment to the position one has chosen, and thus ever greater engagement in the effort to transform concrete, objective reality. Conversely, sectar­ ianism, because it is mythicizing and irrational, turns reality into a false (and therefore unchangeable) "reality."
3270==========
3271Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Penguin Education) - Paulo Freire  
3272- Your Highlight on page 35-35 | Added on Tuesday, July 21, 2015 4:19:18 PM
3273
3274Not infrequently, revolutionaries themselves become reactionary by falling into sectarianism in the process of responding to the sectarianism of the Right. This possibility, however, should not lead the radical to become a docile pawn of the elites. Engaged in the process of liberation, he or she cannot remain passive in the face of the oppressors violence
3275==========
3276Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Penguin Education) - Paulo Freire  
3277- Your Highlight on page 36-36 | Added on Tuesday, July 21, 2015 4:20:44 PM
3278
3279The rightist sectarian (whom I have previously t e rmed a born sectarian 5 ) wants to slow down the historical process, to "domesticate" time and thus to domesticate men and women. T he leftist-turned-sectarian goes totally astray when he or she attempts to int e rpr et reality and history dialectically, and falls into essentially fatalistic positions
3280==========
3281The Hour of the Star (Clarice Lispector)
3282- Your Highlight on page 48 | Location 722-722 | Added on Tuesday, July 21, 2015 7:04:21 PM
3283
3284'quiddity'
3285==========
3286The Hour of the Star (Clarice Lispector)
3287- Your Highlight on page 49 | Location 751-754 | Added on Tuesday, July 21, 2015 7:11:47 PM
3288
3289It was quite alarming to observe how the breath of life surged within Macabéa's parched body; expansive and diffused, and as abundant as the breath of a pregnant woman, impregnated by herself, by parthenogenesis: she experienced the weirdest dreams with visions of immense prehistoric animals, as if she were living in some more remote age of this violent territory.
3290==========
3291The Hour of the Star (Clarice Lispector)
3292- Your Highlight on page 52 | Location 794-803 | Added on Tuesday, July 21, 2015 7:18:45 PM
3293
3294She had transformed herself into organic simplicity. She had contrived a way of finding grace in simple, authentic things. She liked to feel the passage of time. She did not possess a watch, and perhaps for that very reason, she relished the infinity of time. Her life was supersonic. Yet no one noticed that she had crossed the sound barrier with her existence. For other people, she didn't exist. Her only advantage over others was to know how to swallow pills at one go, without any water. Glória, who supplied her with aspirin, was full of admiration and this kindled a pleasing warmth in Macabéa's heart. Glória warned her: — One of these days the aspirin will stick in your throat and you'll be running around the office like a beheaded chicken. One day Macabéa enjoyed a moment of ecstasy. It happened in front of a tree that was so enormous that she couldn't put her arms around its trunk. Yet despite her ecstasy, she did not abide with God. She prayed with total indifference. True. Yet that mysterious God of others sometimes bestowed on her a state of grace. Bliss, bliss, bliss. Her soul almost took flight. She, too, had become a flying saucer. She had tried to confide in Glória but decided against it. She didn't know how to express herself and what was there to confide? The atmosphere? One doesn't confide everything, for everything is a hollow void.
3295==========
3296The Hour of the Star (Clarice Lispector)
3297- Your Highlight on page 59 | Location 890-893 | Added on Tuesday, July 21, 2015 7:50:54 PM
3298
3299Speaking for myself, I am only true when I'm alone. As a child, I always feared that I was about to fall off the face of the earth at any minute. Why do the clouds keep afloat when everything else drops to the ground? The explanation is simple: the gravity is less than the force of air that sustains the clouds. Clever, don't you think? Yes, but sooner or later they fall in the form of rain. That is my revenge.
3300==========
3301The Hour of the Star (Clarice Lispector)
3302- Your Bookmark on page 60 | Location 915 | Added on Tuesday, July 21, 2015 7:54:26 PM
3303
3304
3305==========
3306The Hour of the Star (Clarice Lispector)
3307- Your Highlight on page 71 | Location 1077-1082 | Added on Tuesday, July 21, 2015 8:20:14 PM
3308
3309A scrawny fellow appeared on the street-corner, wearing a threadbare jacket and playing the fiddle. I should explain that, when I was a child and living in Recife, I once saw this man as dusk was falling. The shrill, prolonged sound of his playing underlined in gold the mystery of that darkened street. On the ground, beside this pitiful fellow, there was a tin can which received the rattling coins of grateful bystanders as he played the dirge of their lives. It is only now that I have come to understand. Only now has the secret meaning dawned on me: the fiddler's music is an omen. I know that when I die, I shall hear him playing and that I shall crave for music, music, music.
3310==========
3311The Hour of the Star (Clarice Lispector)
3312- Your Highlight on page 71 | Location 1083-1083 | Added on Tuesday, July 21, 2015 8:21:33 PM
3313
3314ora pro nobis.
3315==========
3316Homo Sacer_ Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Meridian_ Crossing Aesthetics) - Giorgio Agamben  
3317- Your Highlight on page 3-3 | Added on Wednesday, July 22, 2015 1:51:13 PM
3318
3319bornwithregardtolife,butexistingessentiallywithregardtothegoodlife
3320==========
3321Homo Sacer_ Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Meridian_ Crossing Aesthetics) - Giorgio Agamben  
3322- Your Highlight on page 4-4 | Added on Wednesday, July 22, 2015 1:57:22 PM
3323
3324includedinthemechanismsandcalculationsofStatepower, andpoliticsturnsintobiopolitics."Formillennia,"hewrites,"manremainedwhathewas forAristotle:alivinganimalwiththeadditionalcapacityforpoliticalexistence;modern manisananimalwhosepoliticscallshisexistenceasalivingbeingintoquestion
3325==========
3326Homo Sacer_ Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Meridian_ Crossing Aesthetics) - Giorgio Agamben  
3327- Your Highlight on page 4-4 | Added on Wednesday, July 22, 2015 1:59:56 PM
3328
3329whichisthengraduallytransformedintoa"governmentof men"(Ditsetēcrits,3:719)."Whatfollowsisakindofbestializationofmanachieved throughthemostsophisticatedpoliticaltechniques.Forthefirsttimeinhistory,the possibilitiesofthesocialsciencesaremadeknown,andatonceitbecomespossibleboth toprotectlifeandtoauthorizeaholocaust
3330==========
3331Homo Sacer_ Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Meridian_ Crossing Aesthetics) - Giorgio Agamben  
3332- Your Highlight on page 4-4 | Added on Wednesday, July 22, 2015 2:01:13 PM
3333
3334passagefromthe"territorialState"tothe"Stateofpopulation"and ontheresultingincreaseinimportanceofthenation'shealthandbiologicallifeasa problemofsovereignpower,whichisthengraduallytransformedintoa"governmentof men"(Ditsetēcrits,3:719)."Whatfollowsisakindofbestializationofmanachieved throughthemostsophisticatedpoliticaltechniques.Forthefirsttimeinhistory,the possibilitiesofthesocialsciencesaremadeknown,andatonceitbecomespossibleboth toprotectlifeandtoauthorizeaholocaust."Inparticular,thedevelopmentandtriumphof capitalismwouldnothavebeenpossible,fromthisperspective,withoutthedisciplinary controlachievedbythenewbio#power,which,throughaseriesofappropriate technologies,sotospeakcreatedthe"docilebodies"thatitneeded
3335==========
3336Homo Sacer_ Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Meridian_ Crossing Aesthetics) - Giorgio Agamben  
3337- Your Highlight on page 4-4 | Added on Wednesday, July 22, 2015 2:03:33 PM
3338
3339theentryofzoēintothesphereofthepolis## thepoliticizationofbarelifeassuch##constitutesthedecisiveeventofmodernityand signalsaradicaltransformationofthepolitical#philosophicalcategoriesofclassical thought
3340==========
3341Homo Sacer_ Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Meridian_ Crossing Aesthetics) - Giorgio Agamben  
3342- Your Highlight on page 4-4 | Added on Wednesday, July 22, 2015 2:05:37 PM
3343
3344onlyareflectionthat,takingupFoucault'sand Benjamin'ssuggestion,thematicallyinterrogatesthelinkbetweenbarelifeandpolitics,a linkthatsecretlygovernsthemodernideologiesseeminglymostdistantfromoneanother, willbeabletobringthepoliticaloutofitsconcealmentand,atthesametime,return thoughttoitspracticalcalling
3345==========
3346Homo Sacer_ Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Meridian_ Crossing Aesthetics) - Giorgio Agamben  
3347- Your Note on page 4 | Added on Wednesday, July 22, 2015 2:06:01 PM
3348
3349praxis
3350==========
3351Homo Sacer_ Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Meridian_ Crossing Aesthetics) - Giorgio Agamben  
3352- Your Highlight on page 5-5 | Added on Wednesday, July 22, 2015 2:18:22 PM
3353
3354AlthoughtheexistenceofsuchalineofthinkingseemstobelogicallyimplicitinFoucault's work,itremainsablindspottotheeyeoftheresearcher,orrathersomethinglikea vanishingpointthatthedifferentperspectivallinesofFoucault'sinquiry(and,more generally,oftheentireWesternreflectiononpower)convergetowardwithoutreaching. Thepresentinquiryconcernspreciselythishiddenpointofintersectionbetweenthe juridico#institutionalandthebiopoliticalmodelsofpower
3355==========
3356Homo Sacer_ Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Meridian_ Crossing Aesthetics) - Giorgio Agamben  
3357- Your Highlight on page 5-5 | Added on Wednesday, July 22, 2015 2:19:49 PM
3358
3359arcanaimperil
3360==========
3361Homo Sacer_ Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Meridian_ Crossing Aesthetics) - Giorgio Agamben  
3362- Your Highlight on page 5-5 | Added on Wednesday, July 22, 2015 2:20:02 PM
3363
3364Itcanevenbesaidthattheproductionofabiopoliticalbodyis theoriginalactivityofsovereignpower.Inthissense,biopoliticsisatleastasoldasthe sovereignexception
3365==========
3366Homo Sacer_ Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Meridian_ Crossing Aesthetics) - Giorgio Agamben  
3367- Your Highlight on page 6-6 | Added on Wednesday, July 22, 2015 2:23:35 PM
3368
3369Thepeculiarphrase"bornwithregardtolife,butexisting essentiallywithregardtothegoodlife"canbereadnotonlyasanimplicationofbeing born(ginomenē)inbeing(ousa),butalsoasaninclusiveexclusion(anexceptio)ofzoēin thepolis,almostasifpoliticsweretheplaceinwhichlifehadtotransformitselfintogood lifeandinwhichwhathadtobepoliticizedwerealwaysalreadybarelife.InWestern politics,barelifehasthepeculiarprivilegeofbeingthatwhoseexclusionfoundsthecityof men
3370==========
3371Homo Sacer_ Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Meridian_ Crossing Aesthetics) - Giorgio Agamben  
3372- Your Highlight on page 6-6 | Added on Wednesday, July 22, 2015 2:32:12 PM
3373
3374Thefundamentalcategorialpairof Westernpoliticsisnotthatoffriend/enemybutthatofbarelife/politicalexistence,zoēl bios,exclusion/inclusion.Thereispoliticsbecausemanisthelivingbeingwho,in language,separatesandopposeshimselftohisownbarelifeand,atthesametime, maintainshimselfinrelationtothatbarelifeinaninclusiveexclusion.
3375==========
3376Homo Sacer_ Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Meridian_ Crossing Aesthetics) - Giorgio Agamben  
3377- Your Highlight on page 6-6 | Added on Wednesday, July 22, 2015 3:11:29 PM
3378
3379onceexcludingbarelifefromandcapturingitwithinthe politicalorder,thestateofexceptionactuallyconstituted,initsveryseparateness,the hiddenfoundationonwhichtheentirepoliticalsystemrested
3380==========
3381Homo Sacer_ Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Meridian_ Crossing Aesthetics) - Giorgio Agamben  
3382- Your Highlight on page 7-7 | Added on Wednesday, July 22, 2015 3:18:34 PM
3383
3384Ifanythingcharacterizesmoderndemocracyasopposedtoclassicaldemocracy,then,itis thatmoderndemocracypresentsitselffromthebeginningasavindicationandliberation ofzoē,andthatitisconstantlytryingtotransformitsownbarelifeintoawayoflifeand tofind,sotospeak,thebiosofzoē.Hence,too,moderndemocracy'sspecificaporia:it wantstoputthefreedomandhappinessofmenintoplayintheveryplace##"barelife"## thatmarkedtheirsubjection.Behindthelong,strife#riddenprocessthatleadstothe recognitionofrightsandformallibertiesstandsonceagainthebodyofthesacredman withhisdoublesovereign,hislifethatcannotbesacrificedyetmay,nevertheless,be killed
3385==========
3386Homo Sacer_ Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Meridian_ Crossing Aesthetics) - Giorgio Agamben  
3387- Your Highlight on page 7-7 | Added on Wednesday, July 22, 2015 3:21:43 PM
3388
3389Todaypoliticsknowsnovalue(and, consequently,nononvalue)otherthanlife,anduntilthecontradictionsthatthisfact impliesaredissolved,Nazismandfascism##whichtransformedthedecisiononbarelife intothesupremepoliticalprinciple##willremainstubbornlywithus
3390==========
3391Homo Sacer_ Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Meridian_ Crossing Aesthetics) - Giorgio Agamben  
3392- Your Highlight on page 7-7 | Added on Wednesday, July 22, 2015 3:25:52 PM
3393
3394Incontrastingthe"beautifulday"(euēmeria)ofsimplelifewiththe"greatdifficulty"of politicalbiosinthepassagecitedabove,Aristotlemaywellhavegiventhemostbeautiful formulationtotheaporiathatliesatthefoundationofWesternpolitics.The24centuries thathavesincegonebyhavebroughtonlyprovisionalandineffectivesolutions.In carryingoutthemetaphysicaltaskthathasleditmoreandmoretoassumetheformofa biopolitics,Westernpoliticshasnotsucceededinconstructingthelinkbetweenzoēand bios,betweenvoiceandlanguage,thatwouldhavehealedthefracture.Bareliferemains includedinpoliticsintheformoftheexception,thatis,assomethingthatisincluded solelythroughanexclusion
3395==========
3396Homo Sacer_ Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Meridian_ Crossing Aesthetics) - Giorgio Agamben  
3397- Your Highlight on page 7-7 | Added on Wednesday, July 22, 2015 3:27:14 PM
3398
3399doeszoēreallyneedtobepoliticized,orispoliticsnotalreadycontainedin zoēasitsmostpreciouscenter
3400==========
3401Homo Sacer_ Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Meridian_ Crossing Aesthetics) - Giorgio Agamben  
3402- Your Highlight on page 7-7 | Added on Wednesday, July 22, 2015 3:27:27 PM
3403
3404untilacompletelynewpolitics##thatis,apoliticsnolonger foundedontheexceptioofbarelife##isathand,everytheoryandeverypraxiswill remainimprisonedandimmobile,andthe"beautifulday"oflifewillbegivencitizenship onlyeitherthroughbloodanddeathorintheperfectsenselessnesstowhichthesocietyof thespectaclecondemnsit
3405==========
3406Homo Sacer_ Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Meridian_ Crossing Aesthetics) - Giorgio Agamben  
3407- Your Note on page 7 | Added on Wednesday, July 22, 2015 3:28:13 PM
3408
3409define
3410==========
3411Homo Sacer_ Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Meridian_ Crossing Aesthetics) - Giorgio Agamben  
3412- Your Highlight on page 7-7 | Added on Wednesday, July 22, 2015 3:28:13 PM
3413
3414limitconcept
3415==========
3416Homo Sacer_ Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Meridian_ Crossing Aesthetics) - Giorgio Agamben  
3417- Your Highlight on page 8-8 | Added on Wednesday, July 22, 2015 3:29:46 PM
3418
3419arcanumimperil
3420==========
3421Homo Sacer_ Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Meridian_ Crossing Aesthetics) - Giorgio Agamben  
3422- Your Highlight on page 8-8 | Added on Wednesday, July 22, 2015 3:33:13 PM
3423
3424Theproblemof sovereigntywasreducedtothequestionofwhowithinthepoliticalorderwasinvestedwith certainpowers,andtheverythresholdofthepoliticalorderitselfwasnevercalledinto question.Today,nowthatthegreatStatestructureshaveenteredintoaprocessof dissolutionandtheemergencyhas,asWalterBenjaminforesaw,becometherule,the timeisripetoplacetheproblemoftheoriginarystructureandlimitsoftheformofthe Stateinanewperspective.TheweaknessofanarchistandMarxiancritiquesoftheState waspreciselytohavenotcaughtsightofthisstructureandthustohavequicklyleftthe arcanumimperilaside,asifithadnosubstanceoutsideofthesimulacraandthe ideologiesinvokedtojustifyit.Butoneendsupidentifyingwithanenemywhosestructure onedoesnotunderstand,andthetheoryoftheState(andinparticularofthestateof exception,whichistosay,ofthedictatorshipoftheproletariatasthetransitionalphase leadingtothestatelesssociety)isthereefonwhichtherevolutionsofourcenturyhave beenshipwrecked.
3425==========
3426The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction (Michel Foucault)
3427- Your Highlight on page 6 | Location 81-83 | Added on Wednesday, July 22, 2015 3:41:56 PM
3428
3429A principle of explanation emerges after the fact: if sex is so rigorously repressed, this is because it is incompatible with a general and intensive work imperative. At a time when labor capacity was being systematically exploited, how could this capacity be allowed to dissipate itself in pleasurable pursuits, except in those—reduced to a minimum—that enabled it to reproduce itself?
3430==========
3431The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction (Michel Foucault)
3432- Your Highlight on page 6 | Location 88-96 | Added on Wednesday, July 22, 2015 3:43:40 PM
3433
3434there may be another reason that makes it so gratifying for us to define the relationship between sex and power in terms of repression: something that one might call the speaker’s benefit. If sex is repressed, that is, condemned to prohibition, nonexistence, and silence, then the mere fact that one is speaking about it has the appearance of a deliberate transgression. A person who holds forth in such language places himself to a certain extent outside the reach of power; he upsets established law; he somehow anticipates the coming freedom. This explains the solemnity with which one speaks of sex nowadays. When they had to allude to it, the first demographers and psychiatrists of the nineteenth century thought it advisable to excuse themselves for asking their readers to dwell on matters so trivial and base. But for decades now, we have found it difficult to speak on the subject without striking a different pose: we are conscious of defying established power, our tone of voice shows that we know we are being subversive, and we ardently conjure away the present and appeal to the future, whose day will be hastened by the contribution we believe we are making.
3435==========
3436The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction (Michel Foucault)
3437- Your Highlight on page 7 | Location 98-100 | Added on Wednesday, July 22, 2015 3:44:50 PM
3438
3439Because this repression is affirmed, one can discreetly bring into coexistence concepts which the fear of ridicule or the bitterness of history prevents most of us from putting side by side: revolution and happiness; or revolution and a different body, one that is newer and more beautiful; or indeed, revolution and pleasure.
3440==========
3441The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction (Michel Foucault)
3442- Your Highlight on page 8 | Location 109-113 | Added on Wednesday, July 22, 2015 3:48:59 PM
3443
3444Today it is sex that serves as a support for the ancient form—so familiar and important in the West—of preaching. A great sexual sermon—which has had its subtle theologians and its popular voices—has swept through our societies over the last decades; it has chastised the old order, denounced hypocrisy, and praised the rights of the immediate and the real; it has made people dream of a New City. The Franciscans are called to mind. And we might wonder how it is possible that the lyricism and religiosity that long accompanied the revolutionary project have, in Western industrial societies, been largely carried over to sex.
3445==========
3446The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction (Michel Foucault)
3447- Your Bookmark on page 12 | Location 170 | Added on Wednesday, July 22, 2015 5:00:22 PM
3448
3449
3450==========
3451Homo Sacer_ Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Meridian_ Crossing Aesthetics) - Giorgio Agamben  
3452- Your Highlight on page 9-9 | Added on Wednesday, July 22, 2015 7:18:11 PM
3453
3454thesovereign,havingthelegalpowertosuspendthevalidityofthelaw, legallyplaceshimselfoutsidethelaw.Thismeansthattheparadoxcanalsobeformulated thisway:"thelawisoutsideitself,"or:"I,thesovereign,whoamoutsidethelaw,declare thatthereisnothingoutsidethelaw[chenonc'èunfuorilegge]
3455==========
3456The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction (Michel Foucault)
3457- Your Highlight on page 18 | Location 274-277 | Added on Thursday, July 23, 2015 1:59:54 PM
3458
3459the Christian pastoral also sought to produce specific effects on desire, by the mere fact of transforming it—fully and deliberately—into discourse: effects of mastery and detachment, to be sure, but also an effect of spiritual reconversion, of turning back to God, a physical effect of blissful suffering from feeling in one’s body the pangs of temptation and the love that resists it.
3460==========
3461maskmag 201506 - The Alien Issue (Mask Magazine)
3462- Your Highlight on page 53 | Location 803-805 | Added on Thursday, July 23, 2015 6:50:08 PM
3463
3464Added has come to find the best way to be loved – if love is the goal, and love is always the goal – is to first demand love and understanding, its phantom, from herself. There is only more serendipitous synthesis of self-knowledge and influences to look forward to.
3465==========
3466maskmag 201506 - The Alien Issue (Mask Magazine)
3467- Your Highlight on page 53 | Location 810-818 | Added on Thursday, July 23, 2015 6:51:37 PM
3468
3469A century and a half ago, a huge social struggle was waged over the question of slavery on this continent. Slave uprisings and mass escapes were increasingly common, and conflicts internal to the ruling class over what kinds of colonial and industrial expansion should take place added to the tension. The American Civil War was a product of the state intervening in this struggle, and it resulted in new regimes of bondage and control. The loophole in the 13th amendment, which abolished slavery “except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted,” made this abundantly clear, and the politics of Reconstruction even more so. While occupying the former Confederacy, the Union Army itself enforced labor contracts by which Black people were often made to work for their former masters. Former slaves were evicted from lands they had taken over, industrial projects increased in number and scope, and the wage labor and convict lease systems favored by northern capitalists solved the labor problem created by the absence of slavery. Bondage was not destroyed by slavery's abolition – it was democratized.
3470==========
3471Xenofeminism_ A Politics for Alienation - Laboria Cuboniks  
3472- Your Highlight on page 1-1 | Added on Friday, July 24, 2015 3:04:45 PM
3473
3474no more reification of the given masked as critique
3475==========
3476An Anarchist FAQ (03/17) (The Anarchist FAQ Editorial Collective)
3477- Your Highlight on page 61 | Location 922-923 | Added on Friday, July 24, 2015 4:20:33 PM
3478
3479the women’s movement of the 1960s and 1970s did much the same thing, aiming to challenge the traditional sexism and patriarchy of capitalist society.
3480==========
3481An Anarchist FAQ (02/17) (The Anarchist FAQ Editorial Collective)
3482- Your Highlight on page 166 | Location 2532-2537 | Added on Friday, July 24, 2015 4:23:48 PM
3483
3484Anarchism, therefore, is based on an awareness that fighting patriarchy is as important as fighting against the state or capitalism. For “[y]ou can have no free, or just, or equal society, nor anything approaching it, so long as womanhood is bought, sold, housed, clothed, fed, and protected, as a chattel.” [Voltairine de Cleyre, “The Gates of Freedom”, pp. 235–250, Eugenia C. Delamotte, Gates of Freedom, p. 242] To quote Louise Michel: “The first thing that must change is the relationship between the sexes. Humanity has two parts, men and women, and we ought to be walking hand in hand; instead there is antagonism, and it will last as long as the ‘stronger’ half controls, or think its controls, the ‘weaker’ half.” [The Red Virgin: Memoirs of Louise Michel, p. 139]
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3486An Anarchist FAQ (02/17) (The Anarchist FAQ Editorial Collective)
3487- Your Highlight on page 165 | Location 2524-2528 | Added on Friday, July 24, 2015 4:24:33 PM
3488
3489Thus anarchism has since the 1860s combined a radical critique of capitalism and the state with an equally powerful critique of patriarchy (rule by men). Anarchists, particularly female ones, recognised that modern society was dominated by men. As Ana Maria Mozzoni (an Italian anarchist immigrant in Buenos Aires) put it, women “will find that the priest who damns you is a man; that the legislator who oppresses you is a man, that the husband who reduces you to an object is a man; that the libertine who harasses you is a man; that the capitalist who enriches himself with your ill-paid work and the speculator who calmly pockets the price of your body, are men.”
3490==========
3491What About the Rapists_ - Luci  
3492- Your Highlight on page 43-43 | Added on Saturday, July 25, 2015 3:33:01 PM
3493
3494We can’t sweep assault and abuse under the rug and silence survivors in the name of false unity. This previous norm perpetuated oppression and made us less effective all around, prompting community accountability efforts to emerge in the first place. We have to find a way to deal with our abusive behavior that doesn’t swallow up all of our energy and demoralize us
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3496What About the Rapists_ - Luci  
3497- Your Highlight on page 69-69 | Added on Saturday, July 25, 2015 7:06:02 PM
3498
3499Various forms of retaliation are used today by anarchists against rapists, batterers and perpetrators of sexual assault, perhaps most commonly in the form of public exposure, which may involve publishing a culprit's details on the Internet or in activist spaces, or outing them publicly (in one case, a group of Italian feminists successfully interrupted a university seminar attended by a perpetrator of domestic violence and refused to leave without him). This shaming may be a secondary consequence of actions designed to warn others about the individual
3500==========
3501What About the Rapists_ - Luci  
3502- Your Highlight on page 69-69 | Added on Saturday, July 25, 2015 7:08:04 PM
3503
3504This is not to say that violent retaliation, or in fact any form of retaliation is unproblematic. In particular, using the intense power of shame (whether as a tool in itself or as a consequence of punitive action) can perpetuate unacceptable behaviour by that person and entrench undesirable ways of relating to one another. Do we want to have a culture in which we're disciplined by fear of shame and rejection? Do we want to live our lives according to norms and morality – that is, behaviour that is driven by desire for conformity – or according to values and ethics which we've thought through and chosen for ourselves? Can we use tactics against our enemies which we consider problematic for our communities, whilst rejecting those principles for ourselves
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3506The Broken Teapot (Anonymous)
3507- Your Highlight on page 10 | Location 148-151 | Added on Saturday, July 25, 2015 8:01:27 PM
3508
3509Cyclical patterns of abuse don’t just disappear. This shit is really really deep — many abusers were abused and many abused become abusers. The past few years I have watched with horror as the language of accountability became an easy front for a new generation of emotional manipulators. It’s been used to perfect a new kind of predatory maverick — the one schooled in the language of sensitivity — using the illusion of accountability as community currency.
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3511The Broken Teapot (Anonymous)
3512- Your Highlight on page 15 | Location 229-229 | Added on Saturday, July 25, 2015 8:28:26 PM
3513
3514The story that’s never spoken is sure to be repeated. Hate it, fear it, ban it from the radio. It’s going to come back around.
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3516The Broken Teapot (Anonymous)
3517- Your Highlight on page 16 | Location 243-246 | Added on Saturday, July 25, 2015 8:31:53 PM
3518
3519The illusion of individuality, where it succeeds, leaves us constantly bleeding. All the nodes on our body that connected us with the world — my hand that gripped yours, my lips that kissed his, my feet that held up the earth, my lungs that traded secrets with the leaves in the trees, my belly that was a furnace transmuting one living thing into another — become open wounds.
3520==========
3521The Broken Teapot (Anonymous)
3522- Your Highlight on page 18 | Location 264-269 | Added on Saturday, July 25, 2015 8:39:20 PM
3523
3524And this is exactly how it works. As an oppressive network system that supplements structurally enforced hierarchies (such as capitalism and the State), patriarchy functions like an addiction, by fostering dependency, casting incomplete parts to seek completion in an impossible way, and in so doing to articulate a web of mutual theft or destruction of value. It is, if you will, a scarcity machine, in which people keep the treadmills running by stealing from those closest to them to fill their own holes, like four people in a bed with a blanket big enough for two. Love is this machine’s dynamo. Its violence arises when people can’t live without exactly what is destroying them, when one thinks he is completing another and actually he is filling up his hole by eviscerating the other.
3525==========
3526The Broken Teapot (Anonymous)
3527- Your Highlight on page 18 | Location 275-279 | Added on Saturday, July 25, 2015 8:41:50 PM
3528
3529healthy love is only possible when we take responsibility for our own emotions — expropriate them from these networks of codependency, as it were. And in fact I can be most grateful to the lovers who treated me like shit, for teaching me this. They took good care of themselves. Beyond that: “If we meet, it’s marvelous. If not, that’s alright.” I could either choose to take care of myself, and not demand anything of others but what they gave as a gift, or I could choose to be a victim. I chose the former, and our love existed where we coincided. When we stopped coinciding, we went our separate ways, each stronger and wiser.
3530==========
3531The Broken Teapot (Anonymous)
3532- Your Highlight on page 20 | Location 292-301 | Added on Saturday, July 25, 2015 8:47:57 PM
3533
3534But if what we are setting up is not a courthouse but a commune, a conspiracy among friends, the embodiment of our dreams, we have to permit ourselves to talk about things that could never be said in a society in which “everything you say will be used against you.” One of these unmentionables is that sometimes we choose to be abused. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes we “like the way it hurts.” As we move from a world of imposed desires and addictive relationships to one in which relationships express our paradoxical agency and independence as subjects of the world and interlaced hubs in a network of mutual aid, play can be as important a tool as destruction. Patriarchy is a game that solidified and forgot its own rules. Queer theory and some of the libertarian psychologists who preceded it have taught us that suppressing what troubles us only perpetuates it. By playing with power dynamics, playing with pain, even playing with torture, we make them our own, and we can make them harmless to us. We are not so fragile that by having our partner tie us up and having her whip us or choke us with a dildo we lose something to her, we become dominated.
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3536The Broken Teapot (Anonymous)
3537- Your Highlight on page 21 | Location 311-313 | Added on Saturday, July 25, 2015 8:51:14 PM
3538
3539By suspending judgment, or at least mixing it with sympathy, the song creates the possibility of learning from a seemingly incurable situation. Judgment makes learning impossible. The judge is the greatest fool in the statist pantheon, because one cannot learn from those one condemns.
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3541The Broken Teapot (Anonymous)
3542- Your Bookmark on page 25 | Location 372 | Added on Saturday, July 25, 2015 10:10:27 PM
3543
3544
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3546The Broken Teapot (Anonymous)
3547- Your Highlight on page 29 | Location 438-442 | Added on Saturday, July 25, 2015 10:26:14 PM
3548
3549At the other extreme, there are people who act inexcusably and are totally unable to admit it. Simply put, if someone hurts another person and they are not emotionally present in the aftermath, simply put, it is impossible to take their feelings into consideration. You can’t save someone who doesn’t want help. In such a case, the person hurt and their social circle need to do what is best for themselves, both to heal and to protect themselves from a person they have no guarantee will treat them well in the future. Maybe they will decide to shame that person, frighten them, beat them up, or kick them out of town.
3550==========
3551The Broken Teapot (Anonymous)
3552- Your Note on page 29 | Location 445 | Added on Saturday, July 25, 2015 10:27:17 PM
3553
3554I'm only down with part of this argument 
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3556The Broken Teapot (Anonymous)
3557- Your Highlight on page 29 | Location 442-445 | Added on Saturday, July 25, 2015 10:27:17 PM
3558
3559Although kicking them out of town brings the greatest peace of mind, it should be thought of as a last resort, because it passes off the problem on the next community where the expelled person goes. Because it is a relatively easy measure it is also easy to use disproportionately. Rather than finding a solution that avoids future conflict, it is better to seek a conflictive solution. This also forces people to face the consequences of their own righteous anger which can be a learning process.
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3561The Broken Teapot (Anonymous)
3562- Your Highlight on page 31 | Location 474-475 | Added on Saturday, July 25, 2015 10:33:28 PM
3563
3564We can’t encourage the naive ideal of a harm-free world. People will always hurt each other, and it is impossible to learn how not to hurt others without also making mistakes. As far as harm goes, we need to be more understanding than judgmental.
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3566The Broken Teapot (Anonymous)
3567- Your Highlight on page 32 | Location 481-482 | Added on Saturday, July 25, 2015 10:34:18 PM
3568
3569A person or group of people who would leave someone no escape can only be dealt with through exclusion and violence. Then it becomes a matter of pure self-defense. In all the other cases, there is a possibility for mutual growth and healing.
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3571The Broken Teapot (Anonymous)
3572- Your Highlight on page 34 | Location 521-526 | Added on Saturday, July 25, 2015 10:42:01 PM
3573
3574There are no activist communities, only the desire for communities, or the convenient fiction of communities. A community is a material web that binds people together, for better and for worse, in interdependence. If its members move away every couple years because the next pace seems cooler, it is not a community. If it is easier to kick someone out than to go through a difficult series of conversations with them, it is not a community. Among the societies that had real communities, exile was the most extreme sanction possible, tantamount to killing them. On many levels, losing the community and all the relationships it involved was the same as dying. Let’s not kid ourselves: we don’t have communities.
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3576Guest Blogger Starling: Schrödinger’s Rapist: or a guy’s guide to approaching strange women without being maced (kateharding.net)
3577- Your Highlight on Location 69-72 | Added on Saturday, July 25, 2015 10:59:24 PM
3578
3579So if you speak to a woman who is otherwise occupied, you’re sending a subtle message. It is that your desire to interact trumps her right to be left alone. If you pursue a conversation when she’s tried to cut it off, you send a message. It is that your desire to speak trumps her right to be left alone. And each of those messages indicates that you believe your desires are a legitimate reason to override her rights.
3580==========
3581Lines in Sand (Peter Gelderloos)
3582- Your Highlight on page 4 | Location 54-58 | Added on Saturday, July 25, 2015 9:17:24 PM
3583
3584One typical internet harangue of Anarchist People of Color bristled at their support for Mumia abu-Jamal, who is “not an anarchist.” Does this mean we should be concerned about what happens to other anarchists, but what happens to other people in the same social category as us doesn’t affect us? In the end it’s not a coherent criticism, it’s just white people telling people of color how they should identify. This is true identity politics, in the Mobutu Sese Seko sense of the term, that only regards one identity as natural or at least unquestionable in the common project (nationhood, the struggle against capitalism, what have you), and any other identity as superfluous or harmful.
3585==========
3586Lines in Sand (Peter Gelderloos)
3587- Your Highlight on page 3 | Location 34-36 | Added on Saturday, July 25, 2015 9:17:55 PM
3588
3589I thought identity politics meant the process of creating a homogenous identity within a certain population to serve as a political constituency and power base for a group of politicians, whose role as exploiters sitting atop that population is hidden by the shared use of that singular identity.
3590==========
3591Billy Moon (Lain, Douglas)
3592- Your Bookmark on Location 235 | Added on Saturday, July 25, 2015 9:56:09 PM
3593
3594
3595==========
3596maskmag201507TheFlingIssue (bmumford@gmail.com)
3597- Your Highlight on Location 385-390 | Added on Saturday, August 1, 2015 5:29:41 PM
3598
3599It's a good thing that people are starting to see police brutality and incarceration in a different light. But it's important to remember that police brutality predates all of this, it's been around since slavery, that's really where it stems from. Unfortunately there's a lot of ignorance and miseducation, that's just how that is. I hope that people will start to see the truth behind police brutality and how it's affecting so many people, so many families, and so many lives. But until people grasp that cops were created to do exactly what they are doing right now, nothing is going to change. Cops were created to keep order in a militarized way, to target minorities and marginalized groups, to protect the rich and white, and to keep impoverished and people of color in fear. That's what they're doing.
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3601To Our Friends (Invisible Committee)
3602- Your Highlight on Location 77-79 | Added on Saturday, August 1, 2015 6:25:41 PM
3603
3604The only party to be built is the one that’s already there. We must rid ourselves of all the mental clutter that gets in the way of a clear grasp of our shared situation, our “common terrestritude,” to use Gramsci’s expression. Our inheritance is not preceded by any will or testament.
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3606To Our Friends (Invisible Committee)
3607- Your Highlight on Location 84-86 | Added on Saturday, August 1, 2015 6:26:41 PM
3608
3609the collective lootings of Tottenham are a sufficient demonstration that one ceases to be poor as soon as one begins to get organized. There is a considerable difference between a mass of poor people and a mass of poor people determined to act together.
3610==========
3611European Socialism & Communism: Communist Interventions, vol 1 (Communist Research Cluster)
3612- Your Highlight on Location 40-40 | Added on Monday, August 3, 2015 7:07:12 PM
3613
3614we recommend Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000 by Geoff Eley
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3616Instapaper: Tuesday, Aug. 4th (Instapaper)
3617- Your Highlight on Location 247-256 | Added on Tuesday, August 4, 2015 11:28:09 PM
3618
3619Some friends eventually suggested some readings and resources that would help me understand. I read them and learned more about the history and symbolism of dreadlocks in the US in context to black folk’s resistance movements against white supremacy. I learned that black folks in the US with dreadlocks are not seen as “quirky” or “alternative,” but as “dangerous” and “militant”.
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3621Instapaper: Tuesday, Aug. 4th (Instapaper)
3622- Your Highlight on Location 293-295 | Added on Tuesday, August 4, 2015 11:31:13 PM
3623
3624“But there’s a difference between ‘appreciation’ and ‘appropriation’ isn’t there?” My friends referred me to articles like these,
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3626Instapaper: Sunday, Aug. 9th (Instapaper)
3627- Your Highlight on Location 86-90 | Added on Sunday, August 9, 2015 10:49:30 AM
3628
3629The worst kind of “genderist” for Keith is a “transgenderist,” a person who identifies as being of the opposite gender. Instead of taking the social constructivist view that subversion of rigid gender and sexual identity categories exposes sex/gender as a construction, Keith grows oppressively rigid about appropriate and inappropriate performances of and identifications with gender identity. For Keith, a trans woman is still a privileged male and thus a dangerous oppressor of women, in spite of the disproportionate level of assaults, threats, harassment, and murder of trans people in the US.
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3631Instapaper: Sunday, Aug. 9th (Instapaper)
3632- Your Highlight on Location 136-138 | Added on Sunday, August 9, 2015 11:11:32 AM
3633
3634horrific firebombings of Hamburg during Operation Gomorrah in 1943, which impressed FDR with the ashes of 6,000 incinerated children. Assistant Secretary of War, Robert Lovett approved as well, remarking, “If we are going to have a total war we might as well make it as horrible as possible.”[26]
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3636Instapaper: Sunday, Aug. 9th (Instapaper)
3637- Your Highlight on Location 275-278 | Added on Sunday, August 9, 2015 12:52:07 PM
3638
3639“[C]ommunism, as fully developed naturalism, equals humanism, and as fully developed humanism equals naturalism; it is the genuine resolution of the conflict between man and nature, and between man and man, the true resolution of the conflict between existence and being, between objectification and self-affirmation, between freedom and necessity, between individual and species. It is the solution of the riddle of history and knows itself to be the solution.”[51]
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3641Instapaper: Sunday, Aug. 9th (Instapaper)
3642- Your Highlight on Location 286-291 | Added on Sunday, August 9, 2015 12:54:34 PM
3643
3644By failing to examine the dialectics of radicalism and reaction, Keith seeks to unify reactionary and radical tendencies against liberalism—and even the left—rather than uniting people against reactionary oppression. DGR’s “radical analysis” seeks to maintain and promote “basic social norms” while annihilating the “phenomena of trans” and “queer culture” and producing a rebirth of “original markets”—all points that find intersections with the reactionary far right. If this is the stuff of radicalism, we might keep in mind the admonition of Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, “Let there be no illusions: fascism was always a radical political movement.”[52]
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3646European Socialism & Communism: Communist Interventions, vol 1 (Communist Research Cluster)
3647- Your Highlight on Location 115-121 | Added on Monday, August 10, 2015 6:09:36 PM
3648
3649Among the upper ranks of the property-holding classes there exists a higher degree of culture and a broader view. Here and there a few individuals are still affected by idealistic reminiscences from the days of the early revolutionary struggles. But woe to the person in these upper ranks who shows an interest in socialism or engages in its propaganda He must soon choose between giving up his ideas or breaking all the social bonds that have held and supported him. Few possess the vigor and independence of character requisite to approach the point where the roads fork; few among these few are brave enough to break with their own class when they have reached the point; and, finally, of these few among the few the greater portion have hitherto soon grown tired, recognized the “indiscretions of their youth,” and finally turned “sensible.”
3650==========
3651European Socialism & Communism: Communist Interventions, vol 1 (Communist Research Cluster)
3652- Your Bookmark on Location 116 | Added on Monday, August 10, 2015 6:09:39 PM
3653
3654
3655==========
3656European Socialism & Communism: Communist Interventions, vol 1 (Communist Research Cluster)
3657- Your Highlight on Location 125-126 | Added on Monday, August 10, 2015 6:15:42 PM
3658
3659Only those bourgeois idealists develop into genuine socialists who have, not only the requisite theoretical insight, but also the courage and strength to break with their class.
3660==========
3661European Socialism & Communism: Communist Interventions, vol 1 (Communist Research Cluster)
3662- Your Highlight on Location 166-172 | Added on Monday, August 10, 2015 6:32:26 PM
3663
3664However numerous the class of menials may be, it has not, as a rule, been able to absorb the whole number of those left propertyless. The unemployable, children, old people, sick and cripples have been from the beginning unable to earn a living by entering into service. To these were added at the beginning of modern times a large number who could work but found nothing to do. For them there was nothing but to beg, steal, or prostitute themselves. They were compelled either to perish or to throw overboard all sense of shame, honor and self-respect. They prolong their existence only by giving precedence to their immediate wants over their regard for their reputations. That such a condition cannot but exercise the most demoralizing and corrupting influence is self-evident.
3665==========
3666European Socialism & Communism: Communist Interventions, vol 1 (Communist Research Cluster)
3667- Your Highlight on Location 176-177 | Added on Monday, August 10, 2015 6:37:34 PM
3668
3669they have no way of forcing society to support them as parasites. They are only tolerated. Humility is, consequently, the first duty of the beggar and the highest virtue of the poor.
3670==========
3671European Socialism & Communism: Communist Interventions, vol 1 (Communist Research Cluster)
3672- Your Highlight on Location 181-185 | Added on Monday, August 10, 2015 6:39:30 PM
3673
3674though this section of the proletariat has never: offered any resistance to the system of exploitation, still it cannot be regarded as a bulwark of this system. Cowardly and unprincipled, it soon deserts its benefactors when power and wealth have slipped from their hands. This class has never taken the lead in any revolutionary movement. But it has always been on hand during social disturbances, ready to fish in troubled waters. Occasionally it has given the last kick to a falling class; as a rule, however, it has satisfied itself with exploiting every revolution that has broken out, only to betray it at the earliest opportunity.
3675==========
3676European Socialism & Communism: Communist Interventions, vol 1 (Communist Research Cluster)
3677- Your Note on Location 206 | Added on Monday, August 10, 2015 6:45:51 PM
3678
3679work ethic?
3680==========
3681European Socialism & Communism: Communist Interventions, vol 1 (Communist Research Cluster)
3682- Your Highlight on Location 205-206 | Added on Monday, August 10, 2015 6:45:51 PM
3683
3684despises them as idlers.
3685==========
3686European Socialism & Communism: Communist Interventions, vol 1 (Communist Research Cluster)
3687- Your Highlight on Location 208-208 | Added on Monday, August 10, 2015 6:46:18 PM
3688
3689The sense of power that goes with class-consciousness means the regeneration of the working-class.
3690==========
3691The Forgotten Story of America's Other Racist Flag (talkingpointsmemo.com)
3692- Your Highlight on Location 7-8 | Added on Wednesday, August 12, 2015 1:06:23 AM
3693
3694Richard Nixon invented the cult of the “POW/MIA” in order to justify the carnage in Vietnam in a way that rendered the United States as its sole victim.
3695==========
3696Instapaper: Saturday, Aug. 15th (Instapaper)
3697- Your Highlight on Location 829-829 | Added on Sunday, August 16, 2015 11:59:16 PM
3698
3699Kim Stanley Robinson’s 1990s Mars trilogy
3700==========
3701Instapaper: Saturday, Aug. 15th (Instapaper)
3702- Your Highlight on Location 835-836 | Added on Monday, August 17, 2015 8:49:36 AM
3703
3704Francis Spufford’s 2012 novel Red Plenty positively re-envisions the Soviet dream of an economy of abundance and the passion that dream evoked.
3705==========
3706Instapaper: Saturday, Aug. 15th (Instapaper)
3707- Your Highlight on Location 841-843 | Added on Monday, August 17, 2015 8:51:38 AM
3708
3709Paolo Bacigalupi’s work exemplifies this interest, exploring what David Harvey calls the continuation of accumulation through dispossession in environmental and ecological terms. Bacigalupi’s Pump Six and Other Stories (2008) and The Windup Girl
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3711Instapaper: Saturday, Aug. 15th (Instapaper)
3712- Your Highlight on Location 850-853 | Added on Monday, August 17, 2015 8:54:30 AM
3713
3714Ann Leckie is similarly concerned with the nature of exploitation. In the first two books of her Radch Trilogy, Leckie posits the biopower and profit resulting from state/corporate usurpation of workers’ very beings. In her novels Ancillary Justice (2013) and Ancillary Sword (2014), dead labor is literally stored for reanimation and later use through cryogenics and personality obliteration.
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3716Instapaper: Sunday, Aug. 16th (Instapaper)
3717- Your Highlight on Location 1432-1436 | Added on Tuesday, August 18, 2015 12:23:19 PM
3718
3719Even more, bullies are usually aware that the system is likely to punish any victim who strikes back more harshly. Just as a woman, confronted by an abusive man who may well be twice her size, cannot afford to engage in a “fair fight,” but must seize the opportune moment to inflict as much as damage as possible on the man who’s been abusing her—since she cannot leave him in a position to retaliate—so too must the schoolyard bullying victim respond with disproportionate force, not to disable the opponent, in this case, but to deliver a blow so decisive that it makes the antagonist hesitate to engage again.
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3721Instapaper: Sunday, Aug. 16th (Instapaper)
3722- Your Highlight on Location 1471-1475 | Added on Tuesday, August 18, 2015 1:58:35 PM
3723
3724bullies do not, in fact, suffer from low self-esteem. Psychologists had long assumed that mean kids were taking out their insecurities on others. No. It turns out that most bullies act like self-satisfied little pricks not because they are tortured by self-doubt, but because they actually are self-satisfied little pricks. Indeed, such is their self-assurance that they create a moral universe in which their swagger and violence becomes the standard by which all others are to be judged; weakness, clumsiness, absentmindedness, or self-righteous whining are not just sins, but provocations that would be wrong to leave unaddressed.
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3726Instapaper: Sunday, Aug. 16th (Instapaper)
3727- Your Highlight on Location 1491-1493 | Added on Tuesday, August 18, 2015 2:00:43 PM
3728
3729Bullying creates a moral drama in which the manner of the victim’s reaction to an act of aggression can be used as retrospective justification for the original act of aggression itself.
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3731Instapaper: Tuesday, Aug. 18th (Instapaper)
3732- Your Highlight on Location 955-955 | Added on Tuesday, August 18, 2015 6:16:49 PM
3733
3734Dad bod is a safe investment strategy, frozen in the lifeless capture of monogamy.
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3736Instapaper: Wednesday, Aug. 19th (Instapaper)
3737- Your Highlight on Location 707-712 | Added on Wednesday, August 19, 2015 2:32:53 PM
3738
3739Right after we shot a now-angry Cube and they shouted, “Cut!” one of the producers said, “We’re going to put that in.” I said, “Hell no.” I wasn’t even thinking about being attacked at the time, I was just afraid that they were going to shoot each other. I didn’t want to be part of that. “This is no laughing matter,” I tried telling them. “This is no joke. These guys take this stuff seriously.” I was told by executives that I was being emotional. That’s because I’m a woman. They would have never told a man that. They would have taken him seriously and listened.
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3741Instapaper: Wednesday, Aug. 19th (Instapaper)
3742- Your Highlight on Location 756-764 | Added on Wednesday, August 19, 2015 2:44:36 PM
3743
3744In 1990, at a Grammys party in front of an A-List crowd, Dr. Dre assaulted Tairrie B. This was a year before my assault. In an interview, F. Gary Gray said these were considered “side stories” and not important to the narrative. If that’s the case, it’s too bad for the movie and it’s too bad for its audience. Straight Outta Compton transforms N.W.A. from the world’s most dangerous rap group to the world’s most deluded rap group. In rap, authenticity matters, and gangsta rap has always pushed boundaries beyond what’s comfortable with hardcore rhymes that are supposed to present accounts of the street’s harsh realities (though N.W.A. shared plenty of fantasies, as well). The biggest problem with Straight Outta Compton is that it ignores several of N.W.A.’s own harsh realities. That’s not gangsta, it’s not personal, it’s just business. Try as they might, too much of N.W.A.’s story ain’t that kinda shit you can sweep under no rug. You know?
3745==========
3746Red Plenty (Francis Spufford)
3747- Your Bookmark on Location 124 | Added on Friday, August 21, 2015 2:00:45 AM
3748
3749
3750==========
3751Red Plenty (Francis Spufford)
3752- Your Bookmark on Location 134 | Added on Friday, August 21, 2015 2:03:51 AM
3753
3754
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3756Instapaper: Friday, Aug. 21st (Instapaper)
3757- Your Highlight on Location 421-424 | Added on Friday, August 21, 2015 9:17:43 AM
3758
3759we choose to follow the informal leadership of black people fighting back against police terror. For better or worse, in some situations, a riot for example, one cannot follow both the formal leadership of those associated with organizations and the informal leadership of those fighting in the streets. In such situations the two forms of leadership move in opposite directions.
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3761Instapaper: Friday, Aug. 21st (Instapaper)
3762- Your Highlight on Location 453-456 | Added on Friday, August 21, 2015 9:22:46 AM
3763
3764we don’t trust you either. Which is not to say that we’re immediately suspicious of all strangers. Trust, like friendship, is a mutual relationship that is built over time. It is not one-sided. It is not something that White Allies have to earn. It is something that comrades who struggle and live together over many years develop.
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3766BeginnersGuidetoMarxism (bmumford@gmail.com)
3767- Your Highlight on Location 153-155 | Added on Saturday, August 22, 2015 7:57:30 PM
3768
3769In one way or another, all official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.
3770==========
3771BeginnersGuidetoMarxism (bmumford@gmail.com)
3772- Your Highlight on Location 173-176 | Added on Saturday, August 22, 2015 8:00:34 PM
3773
3774Their views are most clearly and fully expounded in the works of Engels, Ludwig Feuerbach and Anti-Dühring, which, like the Communist Manifesto, are handbooks for every class-conscious worker.
3775==========
3776BeginnersGuidetoMarxism (bmumford@gmail.com)
3777- Your Highlight on Location 194-197 | Added on Saturday, August 22, 2015 8:05:28 PM
3778
3779Having recognised that the economic system is the foundation on which the political superstructure is erected, Marx devoted his greatest attention to the study of this economic system. Marx’s principal work, Capital, is devoted to a study of the economic system of modern, i.e., capitalist, society.
3780==========
3781BeginnersGuidetoMarxism (bmumford@gmail.com)
3782- Your Bookmark on Location 267 | Added on Sunday, August 23, 2015 9:21:42 AM
3783
3784
3785==========
3786Instapaper: Sunday, Aug. 23rd (Instapaper)
3787- Your Highlight on Location 914-916 | Added on Sunday, August 23, 2015 10:31:47 PM
3788
3789These services, provided by grassroots organizers, posed important political questions: Why do women need shelters? Why do Black children need breakfast? Then they proposed responses: patriarchy, white supremacy, and capitalism.
3790==========
3791Instapaper: Sunday, Aug. 23rd (Instapaper)
3792- Your Highlight on Location 923-925 | Added on Sunday, August 23, 2015 10:34:20 PM
3793
3794As manners go, anti-oppression is not a bad try at a moral code that seeks not to brutalize and disempower each other. Perhaps this is the best that can be said about it. However, it does not in and of itself constitute anything other than a bare minimum standard of behaviour, certainly not a politics.
3795==========
3796Instapaper: Sunday, Aug. 23rd (Instapaper)
3797- Your Highlight on Location 928-930 | Added on Sunday, August 23, 2015 10:35:07 PM
3798
3799The groups that I have been in have also not gotten into “alternative lifestyles” or what it means to be a “liberated” woman. We came early to the conclusion that all alternatives are bad under present conditions… There is no “more liberated” way; there are only bad alternatives.
3800==========
3801Instapaper: Sunday, Aug. 23rd (Instapaper)
3802- Your Highlight on Location 996-997 | Added on Sunday, August 23, 2015 10:45:10 PM
3803
3804the approach of challenging oppression via the confession of one’s privilege leads to a valorization of the individual actions of a “confessing subject”.
3805==========
3806Instapaper: Sunday, Aug. 23rd (Instapaper)
3807- Your Highlight on Location 1048-1054 | Added on Sunday, August 23, 2015 10:55:44 PM
3808
3809What we actually see on display here is the arrogant glee with which those within the activist bubble shake their finger at those outside it. The retreat to subcultural bohemian enclaves and activist bubbles acknowledges that revolutionary change is impossible, and as a substitute offers a counterfeit new society in the here and now. We understand that such a proposition is appealing given the day-to-day indignity and suffering that is life under our current conditions, but time and time again we have seen these experiments implode on themselves. Capitalism simply does not offer a way out and we must face this reality as the rest of the class that we are a part of faces it everyday. No amount of call-outs or privilege checking will make us into individuals untainted by the violent social relationships that permeate our reality.
3810==========
3811Instapaper: Sunday, Aug. 23rd (Instapaper)
3812- Your Highlight on Location 1089-1092 | Added on Sunday, August 23, 2015 11:03:43 PM
3813
3814proponents of anti-oppression politics attempting to amalgamate “class” as another oppression alongside the rest, which “intersect” with one another at various times and places in a person’s life. Here we are presented with the grotesque notion of “classism”—the result of an attempt by anti-oppression theory to reconcile inadequate politics with the entirety of capitalist social relations.
3815==========
3816Instapaper: Sunday, Aug. 23rd (Instapaper)
3817- Your Highlight on Location 1104-1110 | Added on Sunday, August 23, 2015 11:05:53 PM
3818
3819In their essay Insurrections at the Intersections anarchists Jen Rogue and Abbey Volcano address so-called classism by writing: Since everyone experiences these identities differently, many theorists writing on intersectionality have referred to something called “classism” to complement racism and sexism. This can lead to the gravely confused notion that class oppression needs to be rectified by rich people treating poor people “nicer” while still maintaining class society. This analysis treats class differences as though they are simply cultural differences. In turn, this leads toward the limited strategy of “respecting diversity” […] This argument precludes a class struggle analysis which views capitalism and class society as institutions and enemies of freedom. We don’t wish to “get along” under capitalism by abolishing snobbery and class elitism.
3820==========
3821Instapaper: Sunday, Aug. 23rd (Instapaper)
3822- Your Highlight on Location 1142-1144 | Added on Sunday, August 23, 2015 11:12:16 PM
3823
3824Barucha Calamity Peller’s Women in Uprising: The Oaxaca Commune, the State, and Reproductive Labour looks at the revolt and the particular role women played. The essay shows us both what the disruption of the reproduction of patriarchal social relations can look like and how the reinforcement of those relations from within the movement ultimately contributed to its limitation and defeat.
3825==========
3826Instapaper: Sunday, Aug. 23rd (Instapaper)
3827- Your Highlight on Location 627-631 | Added on Sunday, August 23, 2015 11:37:48 PM
3828
3829The self-organization within various POC-led rebellions in the last years have jumped leaps and bounds past the established ideas about what it means to resist race and victimization. People have found each other in unusual ways that are not the product of some kind of organizer meeting. They have resisted any idea, whether from the police or the liberal-left that they are complacent, passive. This self-organization not only scares police (who are quickly gearing up to prepare for future insurrections), but also many of those who talk of themselves as leaders, activists or grassroots political organizers in the realm of race politics.
3830==========
3831Instapaper: Sunday, Aug. 23rd (Instapaper)
3832- Your Note on Location 426 | Added on Monday, August 24, 2015 6:19:34 AM
3833
3834?!
3835==========
3836Instapaper: Sunday, Aug. 23rd (Instapaper)
3837- Your Highlight on Location 426-426 | Added on Monday, August 24, 2015 6:19:35 AM
3838
3839While most people killed by police are indeed white,
3840==========
3841Instapaper: Sunday, Aug. 23rd (Instapaper)
3842- Your Highlight on Location 311-311 | Added on Monday, August 24, 2015 6:42:38 AM
3843
3844Nebuzaraddon,
3845==========
3846CAPITAL Vol. I (Karl Marx)
3847- Your Bookmark on page 46 | Location 692 | Added on Monday, August 24, 2015 8:53:12 PM
3848
3849
3850==========
3851Instapaper: Monday, Aug. 24th (Instapaper)
3852- Your Highlight on Location 207-213 | Added on Wednesday, August 26, 2015 4:10:45 AM
3853
3854Fascism is a reactionary force which is trying to preserve the old system by means of violence. What will you do with the fascists? Argue with them? Try to convince them? But this will have no effect upon them at all. Communists do not in the least idealise the methods of violence. But they, the Communists, do not want to be taken by surprise, they cannot count on the old world voluntarily departing from the stage, they see that the old system is violently defending itself, and that is why the Communists say to the working class : Answer violence with violence; do all you can to prevent the old dying order from crushing you, do not permit it to put manacles on your hands, on the hands with which you will overthrow the old system. As you see, the Communists regard the substitution of one social system for another, not simply as a spontaneous and peaceful process, but as a complicated, long and violent process. Communists cannot ignore facts.
3855==========
3856Instapaper: Monday, Aug. 24th (Instapaper)
3857- Your Highlight on Location 258-260 | Added on Wednesday, August 26, 2015 4:19:28 AM
3858
3859an auxiliary force is required, that which the Communists call a Party. To the Party belong the intelligent workers and those elements of the technical intelligentsia which are closely connected with the working class. The intelligentsia can be strong only if it combines with the working class. If it opposes the working class it becomes a cipher.
3860==========
3861Instapaper: Monday, Aug. 24th (Instapaper)
3862- Your Highlight on Location 282-288 | Added on Wednesday, August 26, 2015 4:23:24 AM
3863
3864Wells : You have a higher opinion of the ruling classes of my country than I have. But is there a great difference between a small revolution and a great reform? Is not a reform a small revolution? Stalin : Owing to pressure from below, the pressure of the masses, the bourgeoisie may sometimes concede certain partial reforms while remaining on the basis of the existing social-economic system. Acting in this way, it calculates that these concessions are necessary in order to preserve its class rule. This is the essence of reform. Revolution, however, means the transference of power from one class to another. That is why it is impossible to describe any reform as revolution. That is why we cannot count on the change of social systems taking place as an imperceptible transition from one system to another by means of reforms, by the ruling class making concessions.
3865==========
3866Instapaper: Monday, Aug. 24th (Instapaper)
3867- Your Highlight on Location 416-417 | Added on Wednesday, August 26, 2015 4:46:08 AM
3868
38692011 book The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Violence within Activist Communities,
3870==========
3871Instapaper: Monday, Aug. 24th (Instapaper)
3872- Your Highlight on Location 2009-2009 | Added on Wednesday, August 26, 2015 3:00:13 PM
3873
3874what Jeff Chang calls “hip hop’s first death,” when it was put to wax.
3875==========
3876maskmag201508TheDropoutIssueunfinished (bmumford@gmail.com)
3877- Your Bookmark on Location 449 | Added on Sunday, August 30, 2015 11:11:41 AM
3878
3879
3880==========
3881The Queen of America Goes to Washington Ci - Lauren Berlant.pdf  
3882- Your Bookmark on page 4 | Added on Tuesday, September 1, 2015 7:49:10 AM
3883
3884
3885==========
3886The Queen of America Goes to Washington Ci - Lauren Berlant.pdf  
3887- Your Highlight on page 2-2 | Added on Tuesday, September 1, 2015 7:51:04 AM
3888
3889being African American women wh o s e m o s t organized community of support t r e a t e d gender a s t h e sign and s t r u c t u r e of all subordinations t o rank in America, such that o t h e r considerations-of r a c e , class, and political ideology-became both tacit and insubordinate
3890==========
3891The Queen of America Goes to Washington Ci - Lauren Berlant.pdf  
3892- Your Bookmark on page 6 | Added on Tuesday, September 1, 2015 8:03:34 AM
3893
3894
3895==========
3896The Queen of America Goes to Washington Ci - Lauren Berlant.pdf  
3897- Your Highlight on page 6-6 | Added on Tuesday, September 1, 2015 8:06:20 AM
3898
3899how vital t h e existence of official sexual underclasses has been t o produc- ing national symbolic and political coherence
3900==========
3901The Queen of America Goes to Washington Ci - Lauren Berlant.pdf  
3902- Your Bookmark on page 8 | Added on Tuesday, September 1, 2015 8:12:02 AM
3903
3904
3905==========
3906The Queen of America Goes to Washington Ci - Lauren Berlant.pdf  
3907- Your Highlight on page 24-24 | Added on Tuesday, September 1, 2015 8:13:06 AM
3908
3909Sex, Lies, and t h e Public Sphe r e : Some Reflections on t h e Confirmation of Clarence Thoma s , " Critical Inquiry 18
3910==========
3911The Theory of Infantile Citizenship - Lauren Berlant.pdf  
3912- Your Highlight on page 1-1 | Added on Tuesday, September 1, 2015 6:22:18 PM
3913
3914To live fully both the ordinariness and the sublimity of national identity, one must be capable not just of imagining but of managing being American
3915==========
3916The Theory of Infantile Citizenship - Lauren Berlant.pdf  
3917- Your Highlight on page 2-2 | Added on Tuesday, September 1, 2015 6:25:16 PM
3918
3919in Washington the bar of blackness effectively splits the national symbolic from the possessive logics of capitalist culture, even as each nonetheless dominates the American public sphere
3920==========
3921The Theory of Infantile Citizenship - Lauren Berlant.pdf  
3922- Your Highlight on page 3-3 | Added on Tuesday, September 1, 2015 6:36:19 PM
3923
3924It is now a commonplace in television criticism that television promotes the annihilation of memory and, in particular, of historical knowledge and political self-understanding
3925==========
3926The Theory of Infantile Citizenship - Lauren Berlant.pdf  
3927- Your Highlight on page 3-3 | Added on Tuesday, September 1, 2015 6:37:15 PM
3928
3929makes the consumption of commercial, “free/floating” anxi- eties about power, history, and identity the metaproblem and the critical promise of the medium
3930==========
3931The Theory of Infantile Citizenship - Lauren Berlant.pdf  
3932- Your Highlight on page 3-3 | Added on Tuesday, September 1, 2015 6:42:16 PM
3933
3934For the main arguments for the pervasiveness of televisual amnesia or information fatigue, see Mellencamp, ed. (1990:222-39). See also Feuer (1983
3935==========
3936The Theory of Infantile Citizenship - Lauren Berlant.pdf  
3937- Your Highlight on page 3-3 | Added on Tuesday, September 1, 2015 6:43:17 PM
3938
3939Margaret Morse (1990) argues that television enters his- tory by annexing older forms of national self-identity, cultural literacy, and lei- sure. It does this to reacclimate continuously consumer identifications during transitions in media-samrated national and international public spheres
3940==========
3941The Theory of Infantile Citizenship - Lauren Berlant.pdf  
3942- Your Highlight on page 6-6 | Added on Tuesday, September 1, 2015 7:16:23 PM
3943
3944the dirty work of representing the detritus of a white, bourgeois national culture will almost inevitably go to the citizens whose shameful bodies signify a seemingly natural incapacity to become (masters of the) abstract
3945==========
3946The Theory of Infantile Citizenship - Lauren Berlant.pdf  
3947- Your Highlight on page 6-6 | Added on Tuesday, September 1, 2015 7:18:27 PM
3948
3949What Homer does well instead is to drool and moan and expose himself compul- sively like an idiot relegated to his insipid appetites
3950==========
3951The Theory of Infantile Citizenship - Lauren Berlant.pdf  
3952- Your Highlight on page 8-8 | Added on Tuesday, September 1, 2015 7:25:54 PM
3953
3954fishing as usual through the garbage of her family’s affections to gain some emotional capital
3955==========
3956The Theory of Infantile Citizenship - Lauren Berlant.pdf  
3957- Your Highlight on page 11-11 | Added on Tuesday, September 1, 2015 8:00:15 PM
3958
3959the overidenti- fication with national icons evacuates people’s wisdom from the simplest judg- ments of everyday life
3960==========
3961The Theory of Infantile Citizenship - Lauren Berlant.pdf  
3962- Your Highlight on page 11-11 | Added on Tuesday, September 1, 2015 8:00:24 PM
3963
3964countercar- toon aesthetic: she
3965==========
3966The Theory of Infantile Citizenship - Lauren Berlant.pdf  
3967- Your Highlight on page 12-12 | Added on Tuesday, September 1, 2015 8:07:35 PM
3968
3969The performance of mass media-dominated national political culture reveals a system of national meaning in which allegory is the aesthetic ofpolitical realism at every moment of successful national discourse, one in which the narra- tive of that discourse itself, at a certain point of metarepresentation, becomes a conceit that erases aggregate memory as it produces knowledge of the nation as a thing in itself. The competent citizen knows this and learns how conveniently and flexibly to read between the lines, thus preserving both domains of utopian national identification and cynical practical citizenship
3970==========
3971The Theory of Infantile Citizenship - Lauren Berlant.pdf  
3972- Your Note on page 13 | Added on Tuesday, September 1, 2015 8:10:58 PM
3973
3974?
3975==========
3976The Theory of Infantile Citizenship - Lauren Berlant.pdf  
3977- Your Highlight on page 13-13 | Added on Tuesday, September 1, 2015 8:10:58 PM
3978
3979right-wing cultural agenda of the Reagan-Bush era is everywhere in the narrative, including in its recourse to sarcasm as a form of criticism
3980==========
3981The Theory of Infantile Citizenship - Lauren Berlant.pdf  
3982- Your Highlight on page 13-13 | Added on Tuesday, September 1, 2015 8:15:35 PM
3983
3984consciousness that a system exists at all has become what counts as the ideal pedagogical outcome of contempo- rary American politics: thus, in the chain that links the fetus, the wounded, the dead, and the “children” as the true American “people,” the linkage is made through the elevation of a zero-sum mnemonic, a consciousness of the nation with no imagination of agency-apart perhaps from voting, here coded as a form of consumption
3985==========
3986The Theory of Infantile Citizenship - Lauren Berlant.pdf  
3987- Your Highlight on page 13-13 | Added on Tuesday, September 1, 2015 8:16:17 PM
3988
3989consciousness that a system exists at all has become what counts as the ideal pedagogical outcome of contempo- rary American politics: thus, in the chain that links the fetus, the wounded, the dead, and the “children” as the true American “people,” the linkage is made through the elevation of a zero-sum mnemonic, a consciousness of the nation with no imagination of agency-apart perhaps from voting, here coded as a form of consumption. In other words, national knowledge has itself become a modality of national amnesia, an incitement to forgetting that leaves simply the patriotic trace, for real and metaphorically infantilized citizens, that confirms that the nation exists and that we are in it
3990==========
3991The Theory of Infantile Citizenship - Lauren Berlant.pdf  
3992- Your Highlight on page 14-14 | Added on Tuesday, September 1, 2015 8:20:52 PM
3993
3994the condensation of time and power the television-style media produce for her
3995==========
3996The Theory of Infantile Citizenship - Lauren Berlant.pdf  
3997- Your Highlight on page 15-15 | Added on Tuesday, September 1, 2015 8:31:09 PM
3998
3999we witness how an impersonation or an icon of political struggle can eclipse the movement i t represents, for instance in the image of Martin Luther King on the mall; in the image of the subaltern citizen in the body of the fetus; or i n the image, dominating national culture as we speak, of the infantile citizen, too helpless to do anything but know, without understanding, what it means that the “system” of the nation “freely” exists, like “free” television itself.
4000==========
4001Deleuze, Active Nihilism, & Revolt - Lucrezia & Ill Will Editions  
4002- Your Highlight on page 5-5 | Added on Wednesday, September 2, 2015 6:58:32 AM
4003
4004To understand Deleuzian affirmation, it is important to note that, alongside new creation, there is a violence and destruction inherent in becoming: the violence of an outside which destroys the self as it was and spurs it into new directions. This is a form of creation which leaves a trail of destruction in its wake. Deleuze and Nietzsche make clear that the force of negation which accompanies affirmation does not persist as an independent power, but is transformed or “transmuted” into something light and joyful, into a new affirmation. As Deleuze tells us, we can imagine this force of negativity as being like “soluble fire which ignites and then disappears into affirmation
4005==========
4006Deleuze, Active Nihilism, & Revolt - Lucrezia & Ill Will Editions  
4007- Your Highlight on page 5-5 | Added on Wednesday, September 2, 2015 7:10:23 AM
4008
4009the force of negation which accompanies affirmation does not persist as an independent power, but is transformed or “transmuted” into something light and joyful, into a new affirmation. As Deleuze tells us, we can imagine this force of negativity as being like “soluble fire which ignites and then disappears into affirmation
4010==========
4011Deleuze, Active Nihilism, & Revolt - Lucrezia & Ill Will Editions  
4012- Your Highlight on page 6-6 | Added on Wednesday, September 2, 2015 7:41:32 AM
4013
4014Cynicism, depression, and hopelessness fill reservoirs unleashed against Empire in revenge for the wounds it causes. Dangerous emotions pose a threat, not just to those who bear them, but to their source, Empire – the political imperative is to channel them. This should not be understood as an uncritical celebration of alienation or a politics of ressentiment. But these dangerous emotions are not unhealthy reactions to a sound world; they should be everyone’s natural reaction to the terrible situation facing us all. To throw them away would only rob some subjects of the only thing Empire has ever given them. So instead of avoiding their terrifying energy, dangerous emotions can be made political by giving them an orientation
4015==========
4016Deleuze, Active Nihilism, & Revolt - Lucrezia & Ill Will Editions  
4017- Your Highlight on page 7-7 | Added on Wednesday, September 2, 2015 7:44:40 AM
4018
4019Transforming pain into joy, heaviness and ressentiment into laughter, lightness and dance is the primary ethical challenge Nietzsche presents us with. In an affirmation of life which envelops the tragedies of the human species, Nietzsche rips apart all doctrines and images of life as inherently full of suffering, misery and struggle
4020==========
4021Deleuze, Active Nihilism, & Revolt - Lucrezia & Ill Will Editions  
4022- Your Highlight on page 7-7 | Added on Wednesday, September 2, 2015 7:46:16 AM
4023
4024Deleuze and Guattari remind us not to “think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable. ” 6 Deleuze’s affirmative thought then, is philosophy for political nihilists and pessimists who are joyful, who are under no illusion that a communist utopia awaits us on the other side of capitalism
4025==========
4026Deleuze, Active Nihilism, & Revolt - Lucrezia & Ill Will Editions  
4027- Your Highlight on page 10-10 | Added on Wednesday, September 2, 2015 8:02:43 AM
4028
4029We negate and must negate because something in us wants to live and affirm – something that we perhaps do not know or see
4030==========
4031Deleuze, Active Nihilism, & Revolt - Lucrezia & Ill Will Editions  
4032- Your Highlight on page 9-9 | Added on Wednesday, September 2, 2015 8:10:57 AM
4033
4034there is the moment of transmutation when, “at midnight, the focal point, there is a transformation, a conversion from knowledge to creation, from savage negation to absolute affirmation, from painful interiority to joyful exteriority
4035==========
4036Against Innocence_ Race, Gender, & The Politics Of Safety - Ill Will Editions  
4037- Your Highlight on page 16-16 | Added on Wednesday, September 2, 2015 10:10:38 AM
4038
4039White anarchists, ultra-leftists, post-Marxists, and insurrectionists who adhere to and fetishize the position of being “for nothing and against everything” are equally eager to appropriate events like the 2011 London riots for their (non)agenda. They insist on an analysis focused on the crisis of capitalism, which downplays anti-Blackness and ignores forms of gratuitous violence that cannot be attributed solely to economic forces
4040==========
4041Against Innocence_ Race, Gender, & The Politics Of Safety - Ill Will Editions  
4042- Your Highlight on page 16-16 | Added on Wednesday, September 2, 2015 10:11:43 AM
4043
4044Like liberals, post-left and anti-social interpretive frameworks generate political narratives structured by white assumptions, which delimits which questions are posed which categories are the most analytically useful. Tiqqun explore the ways in which we are enmeshed in power through our identities, but tend to focus on forms of power that operate by an investment in life (sometimes called “biopolitics”) rather than, as Achille Mbembe writes, “the power and the capacity to decide who may live and who must die” (sometimes called “necropolitics”)
4045==========
4046Against Innocence_ Race, Gender, & The Politics Of Safety - Ill Will Editions  
4047- Your Highlight on page 17-17 | Added on Wednesday, September 2, 2015 10:14:41 AM
4048
4049asserts that power is not enacted by direct relations of force or violence, and that the capitalism reproduces itself by inducing us to produces ourselves, to express our identities through consumer choices, to base our politics on the affirmation of our marginalized identities. This configuration of power as purely generative and dispersed completely eclipses the realities of policing, the militarization of the carceral system, the terrorization of people of color, the institutional violence of the Welfare State and the Penal State, and of Black and Native social death
4050==========
4051Against Innocence_ Race, Gender, & The Politics Of Safety - Ill Will Editions  
4052- Your Highlight on page 17-17 | Added on Wednesday, September 2, 2015 10:16:17 AM
4053
4054relations defined by social death are not reducible to the capital-labor relation
4055==========
4056Against Innocence_ Race, Gender, & The Politics Of Safety - Ill Will Editions  
4057- Your Highlight on page 18-18 | Added on Wednesday, September 2, 2015 10:17:31 AM
4058
4059the generative subject of capitalism, the Black body of the 15th and 16th centuries, and the generative subject that resolves late capital’s over-accumulation crisis, the Black (incarcerated) body of the 20th and 21st centuries, do not reify the basic categories that structure conflict within civil society: the categories of work and exploitation
4060==========
4061Against Innocence_ Race, Gender, & The Politics Of Safety - Ill Will Editions  
4062- Your Bookmark on page 18 | Added on Wednesday, September 2, 2015 10:20:42 AM
4063
4064
4065==========
4066Against Innocence_ Race, Gender, & The Politics Of Safety - Ill Will Editions  
4067- Your Highlight on page 18-18 | Added on Wednesday, September 2, 2015 10:21:25 AM
4068
4069The discursive strategy of appealing to safety and innocence is also enacted on a micro-level when white radicals manipulate “safe space” language to maintain their power in political spaces. They do this by silencing the criticisms of POC under the pretense that it makes them feel “unsafe. ” 29 This use of safe space language conflates discomfort and actual imminent danger — which is not to say that white people are entitled to feel safe anyway
4070==========
4071Against Innocence_ Race, Gender, & The Politics Of Safety - Ill Will Editions  
4072- Your Highlight on page 19-19 | Added on Wednesday, September 2, 2015 10:25:59 AM
4073
4074Affect is the body’s response to the world — amorphous, outside conscious awareness, non-directional, undefined, full of possibility. In this framing, affect is distinct from emotion, which is understood as the product of affect being marshaled into personal expressions of feeling, as shaped by social conventions. ” Affect is useful to think of the way ‘the criminal’ and ‘the terrorist’ become linked to certain racialized bodies, and how people viscerally respond to the presence of those bodies even when they consciously reject racism. Jackson and Meiners, “Fear and Loathing.”
4075==========
4076Against Innocence_ Race, Gender, & The Politics Of Safety - Ill Will Editions  
4077- Your Highlight on page 20-20 | Added on Wednesday, September 2, 2015 10:27:46 AM
4078
4079people can also mobilize their experiences with racism, transphobia, or classism to purify themselves. When people identify with their victimization, we need to critically consider whether it is being used as a tactical maneuver to construct themselves as innocent and exert power without being questioned. That does not mean delegitimizing the claims made by survivors — but rather, rejecting the framework of innocence, examining each situation closely, and being conscientious of the multiple power struggles at play in different conflicts
4080==========
4081Against Innocence_ Race, Gender, & The Politics Of Safety - Ill Will Editions  
4082- Your Highlight on page 21-21 | Added on Wednesday, September 2, 2015 10:36:25 AM
4083
4084As a Fanonian, I agree that removing all elements of risk and danger reinforces a politics of reformism that just reproduces the existing social order. Militancy is undermined by the politics of safety. It becomes impossible to do anything that involves risk when people habitually block such actions on the grounds that it makes them feel unsafe. People of color who use privilege theory to argue that white people have the privilege to engage in risky actions while POC cannot because they are the most vulnerable (most likely to be targeted by the police, not have the resources to get out of jail, etc) make a correct assessment of power differentials between white and non-white political actors, but ultimately erase POC from the history of militant struggle by falsely associating militancy with whiteness and privilege
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4086Against Innocence_ Race, Gender, & The Politics Of Safety - Ill Will Editions  
4087- Your Highlight on page 21-21 | Added on Wednesday, September 2, 2015 10:37:51 AM
4088
4089Militancy is not just tactically necessary — its dual objective is to transform people and “fundamentally alter” their being by emboldening them
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4091Against Innocence_ Race, Gender, & The Politics Of Safety - Ill Will Editions  
4092- Your Highlight on page 22-22 | Added on Wednesday, September 2, 2015 10:39:09 AM
4093
4094cleansing them of “the core of despair” crystallized in their bodies
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4096Against Innocence_ Race, Gender, & The Politics Of Safety - Ill Will Editions  
4097- Your Highlight on page 22-22 | Added on Wednesday, September 2, 2015 10:41:37 AM
4098
4099Comfort and innocence produce each other when people base their demand for comfort on the innocence of their location or subject-position
4100==========
4101Against Innocence_ Race, Gender, & The Politics Of Safety - Ill Will Editions  
4102- Your Highlight on page 26-26 | Added on Wednesday, September 2, 2015 11:06:06 AM
4103
4104While white men make their claims for recognition as subjects, women and people of color are required to make their claims as objects, as property (or if they are to make their claims as subjects, they must translate themselves into a masculine white discourse). In the US, juridical recognition was initially only extended to white men and their property. These are the terms of recognition that operate today, which we must vehemently refuse. Liberal feminists try to write themselves in by framing themselves as both the property and the owners
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4106Against Innocence_ Race, Gender, & The Politics Of Safety - Ill Will Editions  
4107- Your Highlight on page 28-28 | Added on Wednesday, September 2, 2015 11:14:17 AM
4108
4109The practice of isolating morally agreeable cases in order to highlight racist violence requires passively suffered Black death and panders to a framework that strengthens and conceals current paradigms of racism
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4111Why anarchists don't vote - Elisée Reclus (libcom.org)
4112- Your Highlight on Location 14-15 | Added on Wednesday, September 2, 2015 2:15:00 PM
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4114In ruling assemblies, in a fatal manner, the will prevails of those below the average, both morally and intellectually.
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4116The case against voting - Colin Ward (libcom.org)
4117- Your Highlight on Location 29-31 | Added on Wednesday, September 2, 2015 2:26:55 PM
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4119various streams of 19th century anarchist thought were united together in their opposition to participation in elections. Most of them shared with the early Marxists the view that the State was simply the executive committee of the ruling classes.
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4121The case against voting - Colin Ward (libcom.org)
4122- Your Highlight on Location 55-76 | Added on Wednesday, September 2, 2015 2:36:13 PM
4123
4124Then came another chance to vote in the February elections of 1936. Very quietly, the CNT leadership tacitly abandoned the position it had held since 1911, that elections were a fraud and that “workers and peasants should seize the factories and the land to produce for all. They and their members voted for the Popular Front (a kind of joint Alliance and Labour tactical voting). Our most revered chronicler of the events of 1936, Gerald Brenan in his Spanish Labyrinth, explained that the electoral victory of the Popular Front ‘can to a great extent be put down to the anarchist vote’. And certainly a deal behind the scenes ensured that many thousands of political prisoners would be released. Brenan says that ‘in many places the prisons had already been opened without the local authorities daring to oppose it’. But the triumph of electoral common sense over the convictions of a lifetime had many consequences in Spain that no one had anticipated. The Spanish workers were ready to take on the political right, but the politicians of the left were not. The army was poised to seize power, but the government was not willing to resist. In his book Lessons of the Spanish Revolution, Vernon Richards raised a forbidden question: did the CNT leadership take into account that by ensuring the electoral victory of the left it was also ensuring that the generals of the right would stage a military putsch which the respectable left politicians would not restrain? ‘On the other hand a victory of the right, which was almost certain if the CNT abstained, would mean the end of the military conspiracy and the corning to power of a reactionary but ineffectual government which, like its predecessors, would hold out for not more than a year or two. There is no real evidence to show that there was any significant development of a fascist movement in Spain along the lines of the regimes in Italy and Germany.’ In fact, Spain had three different Popular Front governments on 18 and 19 July 1936, each of which was anxious to cave in to the insurgent generals. It was only the popular rising ( on traditional anarchist lines) and the seizure by workers and peasants, not just of arms and military installations, but of land, factories and railways, that ensured that there was any resistance at all to the generals. These are ordinary facts, totally contrary to what Orwell used to call the News Chronicle / New Statesman version of what happened in Spain. The Spanish revolution of 1936 was forced upon the working class by the election of the Popular Front and its capitulation to the insurgent generals. It was subsequently eliminated in the name of national unity in combating the right, which by then had won international backing. Having participated in the elections the next step was participation in government by the CNT/FAI leadership. This led to the permanent destruction of their own movement and the suppression of the popular revolution, and was followed by 40 years of fascist dictatorship.
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4126Is it ever OK not to vote? (libcom.org)
4127- Your Highlight on Location 8-11 | Added on Wednesday, September 2, 2015 2:43:11 PM
4128
4129If voting is so important, why do politicians treat it – and us – with such contempt? If people died for democracy, how dare we settle for a twice-a-decade trip to a closed library or church hall? We can afford to indulge bankers on seven-figure salaries, but we can’t afford bus passes or sponge baths for pensioners. Who voted for that? Even if we accepted that these cuts are necessary, they are demanded from us in return for a decision we had no say in: the bail-out of a failed, toxic financial sector.
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4131Is it ever OK not to vote? (libcom.org)
4132- Your Highlight on Location 24-26 | Added on Wednesday, September 2, 2015 2:44:35 PM
4133
4134With a growing number not voting, the spectacle of elections becomes less relevant and more divorced from the real politics which is taking place. Some will say that if you don’t vote you have no right to complain, but to shun the sham of parliamentary democracy in favour using our hearts, minds, energy and time to make real change in this society is no bad thing.
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4136Black Nihilism & the Politics of Hope - Calvin Warren & Ill Will Editions  
4137- Your Highlight on page 7-7 | Added on Wednesday, September 2, 2015 6:15:29 PM
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4139Black nihilism resists emancipatory rhetoric that assumes it is possible to purge the Political of anti-black violence and advances political apostasy as the only “ethical” response to black suffering
4140==========
4141Black Nihilism & the Politics of Hope - Calvin Warren & Ill Will Editions  
4142- Your Bookmark on page 7 | Added on Wednesday, September 2, 2015 6:16:14 PM
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4146Black Nihilism & the Politics of Hope - Calvin Warren & Ill Will Editions  
4147- Your Bookmark on page 33 | Added on Wednesday, September 2, 2015 6:16:41 PM
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4151Black Nihilism & the Politics of Hope - Calvin Warren & Ill Will Editions  
4152- Your Highlight on page 8-8 | Added on Wednesday, September 2, 2015 6:21:37 PM
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4154We find this deceptive translation and capitalization of spiritual substance within the sphere of the Political—that organization of social existence through political institutions, mandates, logics, and grammars—as a way to govern and discipline beings
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4156Black Nihilism & the Politics of Hope - Calvin Warren & Ill Will Editions  
4157- Your Highlight on page 8-8 | Added on Wednesday, September 2, 2015 6:26:23 PM
4158
4159the politics of hope posits that one must have a politics in order to have hope; politics is the natural habitat of hope itself. To reject hope in a nihilistic way, then, is really to reject the politics of hope, or certain circumscribed and compulsory forms of expressing, practicing, and conceiving of hope
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4161Black Nihilism & the Politics of Hope - Calvin Warren & Ill Will Editions  
4162- Your Highlight on page 8-8 | Added on Wednesday, September 2, 2015 6:29:01 PM
4163
4164Traditionally, political participation is motivated by self-interested expectancy; this political calculus assumes that political participation, particularly voting, is an investment with an assurance of a return or political dividend. The structure of the Political—the circular movement between self-interest, action, and reward—is sustained through what Farred calls the “electoral unconscious. ” It “historicizes the subject in relation to the political in that it determines the horizon of what is possible’ it maps, through its delimitation or its (relative) lack of limits, what the constituency and its members imagine they can, or, would like to expect from the political
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4166Black Nihilism & the Politics of Hope - Calvin Warren & Ill Will Editions  
4167- Your Highlight on page 9-9 | Added on Wednesday, September 2, 2015 6:38:29 PM
4168
4169Fidelity represents the anti-Pauline politics in that its truth, its only truth, resides in praxis
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4171Black Nihilism & the Politics of Hope - Calvin Warren & Ill Will Editions  
4172- Your Highlight on page 10-10 | Added on Wednesday, September 2, 2015 6:44:30 PM
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4174The politics of hope, then, constitutes what Lauren Berlant would call “cruel optimism” for blacks.(Berlant, 2011) It bundles certain promises about redress, equality, freedom, justice, and progress into a political object that always lies beyond reach. The objective of the Political is to keep blacks in a relation to this political object—in an unending pursuit of it. This pursuit, however, is detrimental because it strengthens the very anti-black system that would pulverize black being. The pursuit of the object certainly has an “ irrational” aspect to it to it, as Farred details, but it is not mere means without expectation, instead, it is a means that undermines the attainment of the impossible object desired. In other words, the pursuit marks a cruel attachment to the means of subjugation and the continued widening of the gap between historical reality and fantastical ideal
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4176Black Nihilism & the Politics of Hope - Calvin Warren & Ill Will Editions  
4177- Your Highlight on page 12-12 | Added on Wednesday, September 2, 2015 6:52:31 PM
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4179politics secures its hegemony through time by claiming the future as its unassailable property and excluding (and devaluing) any other conception of time that challenges this temporal ordering. The politics of hope, then, depends on the incessant (re)production and proliferation of problems to justify its existence. Solutions cannot really exist within the politics of hope, just the illusion of a different order in a future tense
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4181Black Nihilism & the Politics of Hope - Calvin Warren & Ill Will Editions  
4182- Your Highlight on page 12-12 | Added on Wednesday, September 2, 2015 6:53:24 PM
4183
4184The “trick” of time and political solution converge on the site of “action. ” In critiquing the politics of hope, one encounters the rejoinder of the dangers of inaction.“But we can’t just do nothing! We have to do something. ” The field of permissible action is delimited and an unrelenting binary between action/inaction silences critical engagement with political hope
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4186Black Nihilism & the Politics of Hope - Calvin Warren & Ill Will Editions  
4187- Your Bookmark on page 14 | Added on Wednesday, September 2, 2015 7:05:13 PM
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4191Black Nihilism & the Politics of Hope - Calvin Warren & Ill Will Editions  
4192- Your Highlight on page 18-18 | Added on Wednesday, September 2, 2015 7:22:22 PM
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4194We might, however, think of the nihilists not as the fleshly embodiment of “hope-death,” but as spiritualists invested in the deliverance of the spiritual from the clutches of the Political
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4196Instapaper: Thursday, Sep. 3rd (Instapaper)
4197- Your Highlight on Location 1428-1436 | Added on Friday, September 4, 2015 9:54:24 AM
4198
4199Hard-pressed as the social justice left is to admit any advantage, the West these last decades has seen the rhetorical value of victimized stance. The irresistible cudgel of “I am oppressed and this is my experience and you cannot speak to it because you do not know” is valid enough, of course, especially in those cases where ordinary enculturation does not provide natural empathy toward some suspect class. But it is a seductive cudgel, too, especially alluring when it can be claimed without any of the lived experience that makes marginalization a lonely-making sort of suffering. American Christians are “persecuted” now; men are the ones being “squelched” by feminism; white Americans are the victims of “reverse racism.” The “victim card” is a child of the ’70s, and 40 years out, who wouldn’t use it, no matter how disconnected from reality? We are typically aghast when reactionaries accuse the maligned of perniciously employing this rhetorical immunity, but they are not wrong to see how the trick might be exploited. The irony is only that they know this possibility in virtue of their own projection.
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4201Instapaper: Thursday, Sep. 3rd (Instapaper)
4202- Your Highlight on Location 1460-1463 | Added on Friday, September 4, 2015 9:59:57 AM
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4204“A great number of men, online and off, understand feminism as aggression,” he said, “They feel as though the perception of their actions as threats is itself a threat. In other words, they too believe that unsolicited public attention is inherently aggressive, but only when that attention takes the form of criticism, and only when it comes from women. They live this belief on the streets, where they are nearly unaccountable, and argue it online, where they are totally accountable.”
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4206Instapaper: Thursday, Sep. 3rd (Instapaper)
4207- Your Highlight on Location 1568-1571 | Added on Friday, September 4, 2015 10:21:13 AM
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4209Joviality is one of Max’s preferred diffusion tactics. Taking on a deliberately inflated voice when directly addressing our differences is designed to produce an effect whereby we might wink at one another: We are both metacognizant, we both know the clichés about the other side. It isn’t entirely ineffective.
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4211Instapaper: Thursday, Sep. 3rd (Instapaper)
4212- Your Highlight on Location 1700-1704 | Added on Friday, September 4, 2015 10:40:54 AM
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4214U.S. taxpayers will have to pay at least $30 million to cover attorney fees incurred by defense contractor KBR Inc., accused of wrongly exposing U.S. and British soldiers – including dozens from Oregon – to toxic chemicals during duty in the Iraq War KBR’s contract to restore Iraq’s oil fields indemnifies the company from paying legal costs to defend itself against the soldiers’ lawsuits, an Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals judge ruled last month.
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4216Empire - Antonio Negri & Michael Hardt  
4217- Your Highlight on page 5-5 | Added on Saturday, September 5, 2015 5:39:03 PM
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4221Empire - Antonio Negri & Michael Hardt  
4222- Your Highlight on page 12-12 | Added on Saturday, September 5, 2015 6:29:12 PM
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4226Empire - Antonio Negri & Michael Hardt  
4227- Your Highlight on page 14-14 | Added on Saturday, September 5, 2015 6:41:41 PM
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4231The Piano Teacher (Elfriede Jelinek)
4232- Your Highlight on page 50 | Location 758-758 | Added on Saturday, September 5, 2015 10:28:53 PM
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4234Using a small mallet, she taps reality; she is a zealous dentist of language.
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4236The Piano Teacher (Elfriede Jelinek)
4237- Your Highlight on page 50 | Location 758-764 | Added on Saturday, September 5, 2015 10:32:01 PM
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4239Using a small mallet, she taps reality; she is a zealous dentist of language. The tops of simple spruces turn into lonesome, snowy peaks for her. The horizon is lacquered by a spectrum of colors. Far in the distance, huge, unidentifiable airplanes glide past, their gentle thunder barely audible. They are the giants of music and the giants of poetry, wrapped in enormous camouflage. Hundreds of thousands of bits of data flash through HER well-trained mind. An insane, intoxicated mushroom of smoke shoots up, and then, in an ash-gray act of vomiting, slowly descends to the ground. A fine, gray dust quickly covers all the apparatuses, all the test tubes and capillary tubes, all the flasks and spiral condensers. HER room turns to solid rock. Gray. Neither cold nor warm. In between. A pink nylon curtain crackling at the window, not stirred by any puff of wind. The interior furnished neatly. Untenanted. Unowned.
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4241The Piano Teacher (Elfriede Jelinek)
4242- Your Bookmark on page 50 | Location 766 | Added on Saturday, September 5, 2015 10:41:23 PM
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4246The Piano Teacher (Elfriede Jelinek)
4247- Your Highlight on page 52 | Location 786-787 | Added on Saturday, September 5, 2015 10:51:43 PM
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4249The pustules with which the world can be joined together release an equally tiny world of music.
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4251YUPPIES WITH SPEARS - tangled wilderness  
4252- Your Highlight on page Sec1:5-Sec1:5 | Added on Sunday, September 6, 2015 12:28:09 AM
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4254we were lucky to scrape together 80, 90 grand a year. We took a sort of rebellious, youthful pride in our high-risk, high-gain lifestyle, you know, and we formed a Segway gang
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4256Trump the Fascist (counterpunch.org)
4257- Your Highlight on Location 125-128 | Added on Sunday, September 6, 2015 8:38:31 AM
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4259When told that the two Boston men who urinated and beat a houseless Latino man with a metal pole were inspired by his words (“Donald Trump was right, all these illegals need to be deported”), Trump responded, “I will say that people who are following me are very passionate. They love this country and they want this country to be great again. They are passionate.” He later tweeted that “We need energy and passion, but we must treat each other with respect. I would never condone violence.”
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4261Empire - Antonio Negri & Michael Hardt  
4262- Your Bookmark on page 433 | Added on Sunday, September 6, 2015 10:25:15 AM
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4266Empire - Antonio Negri & Michael Hardt  
4267- Your Bookmark on page 433 | Added on Sunday, September 6, 2015 10:28:39 AM
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4271Empire - Antonio Negri & Michael Hardt  
4272- Your Highlight on page 21-21 | Added on Sunday, September 6, 2015 10:32:07 AM
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4276Empire - Antonio Negri & Michael Hardt  
4277- Your Highlight on page 21-21 | Added on Sunday, September 6, 2015 10:32:42 AM
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4281The Piano Teacher (Elfriede Jelinek)
4282- Your Bookmark on page 52 | Location 795 | Added on Sunday, September 6, 2015 10:52:15 AM
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4286Empire - Antonio Negri & Michael Hardt  
4287- Your Highlight on page 21-21 | Added on Sunday, September 6, 2015 1:50:36 PM
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4291Empire - Antonio Negri & Michael Hardt  
4292- Your Bookmark on page 22 | Added on Sunday, September 6, 2015 1:54:48 PM
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4296Empire - Antonio Negri & Michael Hardt  
4297- Your Bookmark on page 434 | Added on Sunday, September 6, 2015 1:55:03 PM
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4301The Theory of Infantile Citizenship (reformatted) (Lauren Berlant)
4302- Your Highlight on page 2 | Location 17-18 | Added on Monday, September 7, 2015 6:32:15 PM
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4304To live fully both the ordinariness and the sublimity of national identity, one must be capable not just of imagining but of managing being American.
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4306The Theory of Infantile Citizenship (reformatted) (Lauren Berlant)
4307- Your Highlight on page 2 | Location 28-29 | Added on Monday, September 7, 2015 6:32:54 PM
4308
4309in Washington the bar of blackness effectively splits the national symbolic from the possessive logics of capitalist culture, even as each nonetheless dominates the American public sphere.
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4311The Theory of Infantile Citizenship (reformatted) (Lauren Berlant)
4312- Your Highlight on page 3 | Location 42-43 | Added on Monday, September 7, 2015 6:33:54 PM
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4314is now a commonplace in television criticism that television promotes the annihilation of memory and, in particular, of historical knowledge and political self-understanding.
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4316The Theory of Infantile Citizenship (reformatted) (Lauren Berlant)
4317- Your Highlight on page 3 | Location 45-46 | Added on Monday, September 7, 2015 6:34:41 PM
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4319makes the consumption of commercial, “free/floating” anxieties about power, history, and identity the metaproblem and the critical promise of the medium),
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4321The Theory of Infantile Citizenship (reformatted) (Lauren Berlant)
4322- Your Highlight on page 4 | Location 53-57 | Added on Monday, September 7, 2015 6:35:32 PM
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4324Margaret Morse (1990) argues that television enters history by annexing older forms of national self-identity, cultural literacy, and leisure. It does this to reacclimate continuously consumer identifications during transitions in media-saturated national and international public spheres: in these conditions of specifically uneven development, the work of media in redefining citizenship and framing what can legitimately be read as national pedagogy becomes more, not less, central to any analysis of political identity in postmodern American culture.
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4326The Theory of Infantile Citizenship (reformatted) (Lauren Berlant)
4327- Your Highlight on page 7 | Location 104-105 | Added on Monday, September 7, 2015 6:36:30 PM
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4329the dirty work of representing the detritus of a white, bourgeois national culture will almost inevitably go to the citizens whose shameful bodies signify a seemingly natural incapacity to become (masters of the) abstract,
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4331The Theory of Infantile Citizenship (reformatted) (Lauren Berlant)
4332- Your Highlight on page 8 | Location 117-118 | Added on Monday, September 7, 2015 6:37:16 PM
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4334What Homer does well instead is to drool and moan and expose himself compulsively like an idiot relegated to his insipid appetites.
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4336The Theory of Infantile Citizenship (reformatted) (Lauren Berlant)
4337- Your Highlight on page 10 | Location 142-142 | Added on Monday, September 7, 2015 6:38:11 PM
4338
4339fishing as usual through the garbage of her family’s affections to gain some emotional capital,
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4341The Theory of Infantile Citizenship (reformatted) (Lauren Berlant)
4342- Your Highlight on page 15 | Location 220-221 | Added on Monday, September 7, 2015 6:39:02 PM
4343
4344the overidentification with national icons evacuates people’s wisdom from the simplest judgments of everyday life;
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4346The Theory of Infantile Citizenship (reformatted) (Lauren Berlant)
4347- Your Highlight on page 15 | Location 221-221 | Added on Monday, September 7, 2015 6:40:11 PM
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4349invents a countercartoon aesthetic:
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4351The Theory of Infantile Citizenship (reformatted) (Lauren Berlant)
4352- Your Highlight on page 16 | Location 237-240 | Added on Monday, September 7, 2015 6:41:26 PM
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4354The performance of mass media-dominated national political culture reveals a system of national meaning in which allegory is the aesthetic of political realism at every moment of successful national discourse, one in which the narrative of that discourse itself, at a certain point of metarepresentation, becomes a conceit that erases aggregate memory as it produces knowledge of the nation as a thing in itself.
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4356The Theory of Infantile Citizenship (reformatted) (Lauren Berlant)
4357- Your Highlight on page 16 | Location 237-241 | Added on Monday, September 7, 2015 6:41:58 PM
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4359The performance of mass media-dominated national political culture reveals a system of national meaning in which allegory is the aesthetic of political realism at every moment of successful national discourse, one in which the narrative of that discourse itself, at a certain point of metarepresentation, becomes a conceit that erases aggregate memory as it produces knowledge of the nation as a thing in itself. The competent citizen knows this and learns how conveniently and flexibly to read between the lines, thus preserving both domains of utopian national identification and cynical practical citizenship.
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4361The Theory of Infantile Citizenship (reformatted) (Lauren Berlant)
4362- Your Note on page 17 | Location 249 | Added on Monday, September 7, 2015 6:53:54 PM
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4366The Theory of Infantile Citizenship (reformatted) (Lauren Berlant)
4367- Your Highlight on page 17 | Location 248-249 | Added on Monday, September 7, 2015 6:53:54 PM
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4369here the right-wing cultural agenda of the Reagan-Bush era is everywhere in the narrative, including in its recourse to sarcasm as a form of criticism
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4371The Theory of Infantile Citizenship (reformatted) (Lauren Berlant)
4372- Your Highlight on page 17 | Location 260-263 | Added on Monday, September 7, 2015 6:54:45 PM
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4374consciousness that a system exists at all has become what counts as the ideal pedagogical outcome of contemporary American politics: thus, in the chain that links the fetus, the wounded, the dead, and the “children” as the true American “people,” the linkage is made through the elevation of a zero-sum mnemonic, a consciousness of the nation with no imagination of agency-apart perhaps from voting, here coded as a form of consumption.
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4376The Theory of Infantile Citizenship (reformatted) (Lauren Berlant)
4377- Your Highlight on page 17 | Location 260-265 | Added on Monday, September 7, 2015 6:55:27 PM
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4379consciousness that a system exists at all has become what counts as the ideal pedagogical outcome of contemporary American politics: thus, in the chain that links the fetus, the wounded, the dead, and the “children” as the true American “people,” the linkage is made through the elevation of a zero-sum mnemonic, a consciousness of the nation with no imagination of agency-apart perhaps from voting, here coded as a form of consumption. In other words, national knowledge has itself become a modality of national amnesia, an incitement to forgetting that leaves simply the patriotic trace, for real and metaphorically infantilized citizens, that confirms that the nation exists and that we are in it.
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4381The Theory of Infantile Citizenship (reformatted) (Lauren Berlant)
4382- Your Highlight on page 19 | Location 277-278 | Added on Monday, September 7, 2015 6:56:26 PM
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4384the condensation of time and power the television-style media produce for her.
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4386The Theory of Infantile Citizenship (reformatted) (Lauren Berlant)
4387- Your Highlight on page 20 | Location 300-303 | Added on Monday, September 7, 2015 6:56:44 PM
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4389we witness how an impersonation or an icon of political struggle can eclipse the movement it represents, for instance in the image of Martin Luther King on the mall; in the image of the subaltern citizen in the body of the fetus; or in the image, dominating national culture as we speak, of the infantile citizen, too helpless to do anything but know, without understanding, what it means that the “system” of the nation “freely” exists, like “free” television itself.
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4391The Theory of Infantile Citizenship (reformatted) (Lauren Berlant)
4392- Your Bookmark on page 2 | Location 23 | Added on Monday, September 7, 2015 8:17:57 PM
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4396The Piano Teacher (Elfriede Jelinek)
4397- Your Bookmark on page 55 | Location 842 | Added on Tuesday, September 8, 2015 12:18:38 AM
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4401The Piano Teacher (Elfriede Jelinek)
4402- Your Bookmark on page 62 | Location 943 | Added on Tuesday, September 8, 2015 12:42:00 AM
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4432- Your Bookmark on page 26 | Added on Tuesday, September 8, 2015 11:22:51 AM
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4441CAPITAL Vol. I (Karl Marx)
4442- Your Highlight on page 48 | Location 724-725 | Added on Friday, September 11, 2015 11:35:03 PM
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4444that that which determines the magnitude of the value of any article is the amount of labour socially necessary, or the labour time socially necessary for its production.
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4446CAPITAL Vol. I (Karl Marx)
4447- Your Highlight on page 48 | Location 730-730 | Added on Friday, September 11, 2015 11:36:41 PM
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4449“As values, all commodities are only definite masses of congealed labour time.”
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4451Xenofeminism_ A Politics for Alienation - Laboria Cuboniks  
4452- Your Highlight on page 1-1 | Added on Monday, September 14, 2015 5:54:32 AM
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4454alienation is the labour of freedom’s construction
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4456Selections From The Prison Notebooks (Gramsci, Antonio)
4457- Your Highlight on Location 22-23 | Added on Saturday, September 19, 2015 1:19:20 AM
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4459Hegemony (Civil Society) and Separation of Powers 245
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4461Selections From The Prison Notebooks (Gramsci, Antonio)
4462- Your Highlight on Location 24-24 | Added on Saturday, September 19, 2015 1:19:30 AM
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4464The State 257
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4466takerlab_Gramsci_Wilderson.pdf  
4467- Your Highlight on page 2-2 | Added on Saturday, September 19, 2015 3:52:02 PM
4468
4469the entire liberal ideology, with its strengths and its weaknesses, can be encapsulated in the principle of the separation of powers, and the source of liberalism’s weakness then becomes apparent: it is the bureaucracy—i.e. the crystallisation of the leading personnel—which exercises coercive power, and at a certain point it becomes a caste
4470==========
4471takerlab_Gramsci_Wilderson.pdf  
4472- Your Highlight on page 2-2 | Added on Saturday, September 19, 2015 3:59:56 PM
4473
4474It is to be noted how lapses in the administration of justice make an especially disastrous impression on the public: the hegemonic apparatus is more sensitive in this sector, to which arbitrary actions on the part of the police and political administration may also be referred
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4476Gramsci's Black Marx_ Whither the Slave in Civil Society_ - Frank B Wilderson III  
4477- Your Highlight on page 2-2 | Added on Monday, September 21, 2015 10:16:32 AM
4478
4479How does the Black subject function within the American Desiring machine differently than the quintessential Gramscian subaltern, the worker
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4481Gramsci's Black Marx_ Whither the Slave in Civil Society_ - Frank B Wilderson III  
4482- Your Highlight on page 3-3 | Added on Monday, September 21, 2015 1:24:43 PM
4483
4484A War of Position can be summed up as a process by which workers struggling against capital and the state forge organs of working class civil society which in turn elaborate organic intellectuals capable of assimilating certain traditional intellectuals, and throughout the whole process all the struggle’s personnel, if you will, fashion a discourse on all of civil society’s fronts through which they eventually become hegemonic. In this way the “common sense,” the “spontaneous” consent of the ruled toward the ideology of the rulers, finds its “good sense,” fragments of antagonistic sentiment transformed into an ensemble of questions which, prior to this process, could not be posed (i.e. , What is to be done
4485==========
4486Gramsci's Black Marx_ Whither the Slave in Civil Society_ - Frank B Wilderson III  
4487- Your Highlight on page 4-4 | Added on Monday, September 21, 2015 1:33:39 PM
4488
4489only the social group [his code word for “class,” in an attempt to secure the Notebooks’ safe passage past Mussolini’s prison censors] that poses the end of the State and its own end as the target to be achieved can create an ethical State—i.e. one which tends to put an end to the internal divisions of the ruled…and to create a technically and morally unitary social organism
4490==========
4491Gramsci's Black Marx_ Whither the Slave in Civil Society_ - Frank B Wilderson III  
4492- Your Highlight on page 5-5 | Added on Monday, September 21, 2015 1:41:32 PM
4493
4494the emergence of the slave, the subject-effect of an ensemble of direct relations of force, marks the emergence of capitalism itself
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4496Gramsci's Black Marx_ Whither the Slave in Civil Society_ - Frank B Wilderson III  
4497- Your Highlight on page 5-5 | Added on Monday, September 21, 2015 4:19:59 PM
4498
4499violence against Black people is ontological and gratuitous as opposed to ideological and contingent
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4501Gramsci's Black Marx_ Whither the Slave in Civil Society_ - Frank B Wilderson III  
4502- Your Note on page 5 | Added on Monday, September 21, 2015 5:16:57 PM
4503
4504counter hegemony ?
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4506Gramsci's Black Marx_ Whither the Slave in Civil Society_ - Frank B Wilderson III  
4507- Your Highlight on page 5-5 | Added on Monday, September 21, 2015 5:16:57 PM
4508
4509hegemonic advances within civil society by the Left hold
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4511Gramsci's Black Marx_ Whither the Slave in Civil Society_ - Frank B Wilderson III  
4512- Your Highlight on page 6-6 | Added on Monday, September 21, 2015 5:19:19 PM
4513
4514the socio-political order of the New World” (Spillers 1987: 67) was kick-started by approaching a particular body (a Black body) with direct relations of force, not by approaching a White body with variable capital
4515==========
4516Gramsci's Black Marx_ Whither the Slave in Civil Society_ - Frank B Wilderson III  
4517- Your Highlight on page 6-6 | Added on Monday, September 21, 2015 5:20:31 PM
4518
4519through an idiom of despotic power
4520==========
4521Gramsci's Black Marx_ Whither the Slave in Civil Society_ - Frank B Wilderson III  
4522- Your Highlight on page 6-6 | Added on Monday, September 21, 2015 5:21:19 PM
4523
4524A relation of terror as opposed to a relation of hegemony
4525==========
4526Gramsci's Black Marx_ Whither the Slave in Civil Society_ - Frank B Wilderson III  
4527- Your Highlight on page 6-6 | Added on Monday, September 21, 2015 5:24:06 PM
4528
4529important to bear in mind that for Hartman, Johnson, Patterson, and Spillers the libidinal economy of slavery is more fundamental to its institutionality than is the political economy: in other words, the constituent element of slavery involves desire and the accumulation of Black bodies and the fact that they existed as things “becoming being for the captor” (Spillers 1987: 67). The fact the Black slaves labored is a historical variable, seemingly constant, but not a constituent element
4530==========
4531Gramsci's Black Marx_ Whither the Slave in Civil Society_ - Frank B Wilderson III  
4532- Your Highlight on page 6-6 | Added on Monday, September 21, 2015 5:31:43 PM
4533
4534The worker demands that productivity be fair and democratic (Gramsci's new hegemony, Lenin's dictatorship of the proletariat), the slave, on the other hand, demands that production stop; stop without recourse to its ultimate democratization. Work is not an organic principle for the slave
4535==========
4536Gramsci's Black Marx_ Whither the Slave in Civil Society_ - Frank B Wilderson III  
4537- Your Highlight on page 6-6 | Added on Monday, September 21, 2015 5:31:54 PM
4538
4539The absence of Black subjectivity from the crux of marxist discourse is symptomatic of the discourse's inability to cope with the possibility that the generative subject of capitalism, the Black body of the 15th and 16th centuries, and the generative subject that resolves late-capital's over-accumulation crisis, the Black (incarcerated) body of the 20th and 21st centuries, do not reify the basic categories which structure marxist conflict: the categories of work, production, exploitation, historical self-awareness and, above all, hegemony
4540==========
4541Gramsci's Black Marx_ Whither the Slave in Civil Society_ - Frank B Wilderson III  
4542- Your Highlight on page 7-7 | Added on Monday, September 21, 2015 5:37:45 PM
4543
4544The worker calls into question the legitimacy of productive practices, the slave calls into question the legitimacy of productivity itself
4545==========
4546Gramsci's Black Marx_ Whither the Slave in Civil Society_ - Frank B Wilderson III  
4547- Your Highlight on page 7-7 | Added on Monday, September 21, 2015 5:39:00 PM
4548
4549exploitation (wage slavery) is the only category of oppression which concerns Gramsci: society, Western society, thrives on the exploitation of the Gramscian subject. Full stop.Again, this is inadequate, because it would call White supremacy "racism" and articulate it as a derivative phenomenon of the capitalist matrix, rather than incorporating White supremacy as a matrix constituent to the base, if not the base itself
4550==========
4551Gramsci's Black Marx_ Whither the Slave in Civil Society_ - Frank B Wilderson III  
4552- Your Highlight on page 7-7 | Added on Monday, September 21, 2015 5:41:04 PM
4553
4554the Black body can not give its consent because “generalized trust,” the precondition for the solicitation of consent, “equals racialized whiteness
4555==========
4556Gramsci's Black Marx_ Whither the Slave in Civil Society_ - Frank B Wilderson III  
4557- Your Highlight on page 8-8 | Added on Monday, September 21, 2015 5:43:18 PM
4558
4559White supremacy’s despotic irrationality is as foundational to American institutionality as capitalism’s symbolic rationality
4560==========
4561Gramsci's Black Marx_ Whither the Slave in Civil Society_ - Frank B Wilderson III  
4562- Your Bookmark on page 8 | Added on Monday, September 21, 2015 5:46:08 PM
4563
4564
4565==========
4566Gramsci's Black Marx_ Whither the Slave in Civil Society_ - Frank B Wilderson III  
4567- Your Bookmark on page 15 | Added on Monday, September 21, 2015 5:46:44 PM
4568
4569
4570==========
4571Gramsci's Black Marx_ Whither the Slave in Civil Society_ - Frank B Wilderson III  
4572- Your Highlight on page 8-8 | Added on Monday, September 21, 2015 5:56:57 PM
4573
4574it is well known that a metaphor comes into being through a violence which kills, rather than merely exploits, the object, that the concept might live
4575==========
4576Gramsci's Black Marx_ Whither the Slave in Civil Society_ - Frank B Wilderson III  
4577- Your Highlight on page 8-8 | Added on Monday, September 21, 2015 5:58:44 PM
4578
4579hyper-discursive violence which kills the Black subject that the concept, civil society, may live
4580==========
4581Gramsci's Black Marx_ Whither the Slave in Civil Society_ - Frank B Wilderson III  
4582- Your Highlight on page 8-8 | Added on Monday, September 21, 2015 5:58:55 PM
4583
4584from the incoherence of Black death, America generates the coherence of White life
4585==========
4586Gramsci's Black Marx_ Whither the Slave in Civil Society_ - Frank B Wilderson III  
4587- Your Note on page 8 | Added on Monday, September 21, 2015 5:59:47 PM
4588
4589?
4590==========
4591Gramsci's Black Marx_ Whither the Slave in Civil Society_ - Frank B Wilderson III  
4592- Your Highlight on page 8 | Added on Monday, September 21, 2015 5:59:47 PM
4593
4594asignifying
4595==========
4596Gramsci's Black Marx_ Whither the Slave in Civil Society_ - Frank B Wilderson III  
4597- Your Bookmark on page 11 | Added on Monday, September 21, 2015 8:04:10 PM
4598
4599
4600==========
4601Instapaper: Tuesday, Sep. 22nd (Instapaper)
4602- Your Highlight on Location 818-818 | Added on Thursday, September 24, 2015 9:38:58 PM
4603
4604Ultimately, what we need to move toward is a world Party and a world government.
4605==========
4606Instapaper: Tuesday, Sep. 22nd (Instapaper)
4607- Your Note on Location 818 | Added on Thursday, September 24, 2015 9:39:20 PM
4608
4609FASH
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4611Instapaper: Tuesday, Sep. 22nd (Instapaper)
4612- Your Highlight on Location 818-818 | Added on Thursday, September 24, 2015 9:39:20 PM
4613
4614Ultimately, what we need to move toward is a world Party and a world government.
4615==========
4616Instapaper: Tuesday, Sep. 22nd (Instapaper)
4617- Your Highlight on Location 821-821 | Added on Thursday, September 24, 2015 9:40:14 PM
4618
4619mass spectacle
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4621Instapaper: Tuesday, Sep. 22nd (Instapaper)
4622- Your Note on Location 826 | Added on Thursday, September 24, 2015 9:42:31 PM
4623
4624only good idea in thjs
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4626Instapaper: Tuesday, Sep. 22nd (Instapaper)
4627- Your Highlight on Location 824-827 | Added on Thursday, September 24, 2015 9:42:31 PM
4628
4629Sometimes I imagine or visualize what would happen if a protest surrounded a large number of police officers and forced them to give up their badges, their weapons, throw them in a fire or whatever, film the whole thing on YouTube and then just walked away. I think it would be all the more humiliating if it were nonviolent.
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4631Instapaper: Tuesday, Sep. 22nd (Instapaper)
4632- Your Note on Location 843 | Added on Thursday, September 24, 2015 9:44:54 PM
4633
4634larry lessig jerks off in his pre-grave 
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4636Instapaper: Tuesday, Sep. 22nd (Instapaper)
4637- Your Highlight on Location 839-843 | Added on Thursday, September 24, 2015 9:44:54 PM
4638
4639What we did is that we sent out an email to our network and said, let’s combine the tactical models of the Tahrir uprising with the general assemblies and bring it to Wall Street. We then need to hold a general assembly and decide on our one demand. And if you look at that tactical briefing, we even suggested a demand. We said that Occupy Wall Street should demand that President Obama set up a presidential commission to investigate the influence of money on politics. We actually called for something; we called for a presidential commission to investigate the influence on money on politics.