Desiring Machine

not trying to he rude here, but what do you have against centrists?

There is often a contradiction between the meaning of our actions toward a person and what we say we feel toward that person in a journal. But this does not mean that what we do is shallow, and only what we confess to ourselves is deep. Confessions, I mean sincere confessions of course, can be more shallow than actions.

All the little nouns are the ones that I like most: the deer, the sun, and so on. You say these perfectly little words and you’re asserting that the sun is ninety-three million miles away, and that there is shade because of shadows, and more, who knows? It’s a tremendous structure to have built out of a few small nouns.

uGHHHH why do people have to vomit feminism all over everything

Some take refuge in despair, which is sweet like strong tobacco, like a glass of vodka drunk in the hour of annihilation. Others have the hope of fools, rosy as erotic dreams. To me is given the hope of revenge on others and on myself, for I was he who knew and took from it no profit for myself.

Technical infrastructures are not limits on our humanity, but its conditions. We can debunk silicon salvation without resorting to deluded conceptions of original purity. It is a weird side effect of new media to produce florid opt-out fantasies — you could spend hours watching beautiful videos on YouTube showing life off the grid. The urge to unplug is a real one, but often the cure and the disease are in cahoots. If you let the technology tell how to get out of it, you get all the more embedded in it; this urge to check out from but via technology is like a con artist that lulls you into trust by telling you he is conning you. The promised cure of being free of technology is usually just another technology that isn’t recognized as such. The choice is always the much more difficult one of which technologies and techniques to engage, not whether to abandon them altogether

The individual never ceases passing from one closed environment to another, each having its own laws: first, the family; then the school (“you are no longer in your family”); then the barracks (“you are no longer in school”); then the factory; from time to time the hospital; possibly the prison, the preeminent instance of the enclosed environment.