Sun 11 May 2025
"But in solidarity’s more sublime register, a group or individual gazes outward, reaching past similarity toward something more capacious. A solidarity aiming at transformational change — the horizon toward which solidarity must now, of necessity, be directed — demands we not just recognize and sympathize with the plight of others but also join them as equals, reaching across differences without erasing them. Solidarity in its sublime form shatters the boundaries of identity, connecting us to others even when we are not the same." —Astra Taylor, One for All: To avert global catastrophe, we urgently need to resurrect the ancient ideal of solidarity
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Mon 11 November 2024
"To begin to free ourselves, the first thing we need to do is to see our selves again as historical actors, as people who can make a difference in the course of world events. This is exactly what the militarization of history is trying to take away." —David Graeber, Debt: The First 5000 Years
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Mon 14 October 2024
"Indeed, the big Other could be defined as the consumer of PR and propaganda, the virtual figure which is required to believe even when no individual can. To use one of Žižek's examples: who was it, for instance, who didn't know that Really Existing Socialism was shabby and corrupt? Not any of the people, who were all too aware of its shortcomings; nor any of the government administrators, who couldn't but know. No, it was the big Other who was deemed not to know." —Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism
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Thu 13 April 2023
"You are about to sacrifice something precious. Only so that you may be Lord. What a horrible thing to ponder. Your ascendancy requires sacrifice, whether you wish it or not. But how would the Lord, crowned so, be looked upon? Chosen Tarnished and would-be Lord, dare to tread the path of true rigor. Spare them, and singe your own flesh in their stead. If you are prepared to show resolve, and attain Lordship through righteous hardship, then heed the words of I, Shabriri." —Shabriri, Elden Ring (edited to lessen spoilers)
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Fri 23 September 2022
“The day when it will be possible for the woman to love in her strength and not in her weakness, not to escape from herself but to find herself, not out of resignation but to affirm herself, love will become for her as for man the source of life and not a mortal danger. For the time being, love epitomizes in its most moving form the curse that weighs on woman trapped in the feminine universe, the mutilated woman, incapable of being self-sufficient.” —Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex
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Sun 02 January 2022
“Isn’t it just amazing how a century-and-a-half of science fiction did nothing to swerve our species from the path of doom?” —Audio Datapoint: Interview 2: Brad Andac
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