December 2011
22 posts
On Eros & Revolution
“Going back to this question of eros and revolution - yes, there is power in pleasure, in intimacy, in erotic energy, in spaces that are radiant and psychically charged. Perhaps I might also want to decouple eros and sex(uality), as well as sexuality and freedom - it’s fine not to want to fuck. I am thinking of the erotic as articulated along the lines of Audre Lorde’s “Uses of the Erotic,...
[You've seen the film. Now read the poem.] Snow The room was suddenly rich and the great bay-window was Spawning snow and pink roses against it Soundlessly collateral and incompatible: World is suddener than we fancy it. World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion A tangerine and spit the pips and feel The drunkenness of things being various. And the...
WatchA very JD Christmas [card], ft. Justin Bieber & Simon Cowell. There’s even a little bit of snow [courtesy of Louis MacNeice]. Happy whatever & a brave new year.
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New Aspirational Manifesto
Work like you don’t need the money the world’s gonna end in 2012 Love like you’ve never been hurt the world’s gonna end in 2012 Dance like nobody’s watching the world’s gonna end in 2012 Live like there’s heaven on earth the world’s gonna end in 2012
#nihilistdeterminism
[I identify with this, like, way too much.]
The worker-poets of Rancière’s Proletarian Nights are said to have “made themselves ‘other’ in a double hopeless rejection, refusing both to live like workers and to talk like the bourgeoisie”. As workers they were denied access to the ‘sensible of poetry’, separated from it in a structure of work and militant politics. Being neither workers nor bourgeois puts them in the in-between of a ...
Dinner in New York
If you could, you would just pump life into yourself at the nearest filling station and be off. On the other hand, who can deny the pleasure of reading a room, and that it only improves with years of similar dinners? You learn to see irrelevance as it starts to yellow a painter’s complexion like the early stages of a cancer. You can hear the money laughing in its ripped jeans, all the way...
The good life [is] an already sacrificial model. →
“What if people were to take the opportunity to reimagine state/society relations such that the flourishing of reciprocity were differently constructed and assessed, and in which consumer forms of collectivity were not the main way people secure or fantasize securing everyday happiness? This, I would argue, would involve a considerable restructuring of the place of work and expenditure...
Critique of Abysmal Reasoning
As finite creatures we are vulnerable: we may suffer physical and emotional injury, we may make significant mistakes, even the concepts with which we understand ourselves and the world may collapse - and yet as erotic creatures we reach out to the world and try to embrace it. For all the risks involved, we make an effort to live with others; on occasion we aspire to intimacy; we try to understand...
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The Rise of Capitalism
The first thing I did was make a mistake. I thought I had understood capitalism, but what I had done was assume an attitude — melancholy sadness — toward it. This attitude is not correct. Fortunately your letter came, at that instant. “Dear Rupert, I love you every day. You are the world, which is life. I love you I adore you I am crazy about you. Love, Marta.” Reading...
“When the Abu Ghraib photographs first came to light a strange interpretive...”
– Theatricality and terror: talk about a pornography of signifiers. On The Borders of Politics and Art (Notes), 16 September 2011.
Youroboros
[File under: ghostmodern, entropy, Derridada]
“remember you are a corpse” is a corpse becoming in speaking summoning specters of wisdom “homo-” alone sends echos of sapiens into crude animation, the tongue’s intestine a flame dissolved into spark; Look this poem looks back “remember you are a corpse” a shadow cast against form these words are all corpses their rot utters fumes pulled through...
The Goals of Chaos Marxism
Marxist revolutionary politics seek the coming to consciousness of the vast majority of people in the world – the goal of magick, the tools of politics.
In this sense, the Leninist cadre party is – ideally - a magical order of adepts.
The central goal of Chaos Marxism is to integrate chaos magick and dialectical materialism.
You may have a wrong idea of what being a...