When I talk
of the Communist hypothesis, I simply want to
suggest that future forms of the politics of emancipation
must be inscribed in a resurrection, a
re-affirmation, of the Communist idea. To that end, we can draw on new philosophical
tools and a good number of localised
political experiences, where there has been innovative
thinking. In such a framework, it will be
easier to re-invent love than if surrounded by
capitalist frenzy […] The
meaning of the word “communism” doesn’t
immediately relate to love. Nonetheless, the word
brings with it new possibilities for love.Alain Badiou, In Praise of Love
Tag: quotes
“The philosophy of organism is closely allied to Spinoza’s scheme of thought. But it differs by the abandonment of the subject-predicate forms of thought, so far as concerns the presupposition that this form is a direct embodiment of the most ultimate characterization of fact. The result is that the ‘substance-quality’ concept is avoided; and that morphological description is replaced by description of dynamic process. Also Spinoza’s ‘modes’ now become the sheer actualities; so that, though analysis of them increases our understanding, it does not lead us to the discovery of any higher grade of reality. The coherence, which the system seeks to preserve, is the discovery that the process, or concrescence, of any one actual entity involves the other actual entities among its components. In this way the obvious solidarity of the world receives its explanation.”
— Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality,
Every memory is moaning softly inside me. Don’t leave me, begs the past. Don’t abandon us, weep the images. Time itself is talking to me, admonishing me. I draw up my legacy against its inexorable tide.
—Agnès Desarthe, Chez Moi. Penguin Books, 2008
“Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?”
— Emil Cioran, Tears and Saints
“Of the personality disorders [under neoliberalism], the most common are performance anxiety and social phobia: both of which reflect a fear of other people, who are perceived as both evaluators and competitors – the only roles for society that market fundamentalism admits. Depression and loneliness plague us.”
— George Monbiot, Sick of this market-driven world? You should be
“If ‘cyberspace’ once offered the promise of escaping the strictures of essentialist identity categories, the climate of contemporary social media has swung forcefully in the other direction, and has become a theatre where these prostrations to identity are performed.”
— Laboria Cuboniks, Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation (via frenchrollo)
“Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful.”
— Albert Camus, “Three Interviews”, Lyrical and Critical Essays
The cognitive worker has fallen into depression because his or her emotional, physical, and intellectual system cannot indefinitely support the hyperactivity provoked by the market and by psycho-pharmaceuticals…What is the market? It’s the place where signs and the need for meaning, where desires and projections meet. If we want to speak of supply and demand, then we must in terms of fluxes of desire and in terms of semiotic attractors that have lost their appeal.
Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi, “Schizo-Economy” (via anti-oedipussy)
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