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Russian deep sea fisherman becomes online hit after revealing bizarre catches

1. Frilled Shark 2. Unidentified, possibly a stoplight loosejaw, a deep-sea dragonfish from the genus Malacosteus 3. Chimaera 4. Black Scabbardfish 5. Sea Spider 6. Grenadier or Rattail Fish 7. Unidentified 8. Anglerfish, species unidentified 9. Chimaera 10. Ray, species unidentified ***A note about the “unidentified” photos since there’s been some confusion. This simply means the owner of the Twitter account who posted them did not specify what they are and I could not confirm the species myself from the photos alone. They are by no means unidentified by science. Most of these are fairly common inadvertent catches for commercial fishermen.

In doing so, they poison discussion with the divisive generalizations and deception that’s been intentionally woven into that language, and become imprisoned in a kind of manufactured identity.

Fig. I. “The child is not an undeveloped man, but the man is an imperfectly developed child.” Alienist and neurologist. May 1907.

Amusement under late capitalism is the prolongation of work. It is sought after as an escape from the mechanised work process, and to recruit strength in order to be able to cope with it again. But at the same time mechanisation has such power over a man’s leisure and happiness, and so profoundly determines the manufacture of amusement goods, that his experiences are inevitably after-images of the work process itself. The ostensible content is merely a faded foreground; what sinks in is the automatic succession of standardised operations. What happens at work, in the factory, or in the office can only be escaped from by approximation to it in one’s leisure time.

All amusement suffers from this incurable malady. Pleasure hardens into boredom because, if it is to remain pleasure, it must not demand any effort and therefore moves rigorously in the worn grooves of association. No independent thinking must be expected from the audience: the product prescribes every reaction: not by its natural structure (which collapses under reflection), but by signals. Any logical connection calling for mental effort is painstakingly avoided. As far as possible, developments must follow from the immediately preceding situation and never from the idea of the whole.