βThe ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.β
David Graeber, Feb. 12 1961-Sept. 02, 2020
I Am Gonzo, Viaindustriae Editions, 2024
The depressive, totally dislocated from the world, is in a better position to undergo subjective destitution than someone who thinks that there is some home within the current order that can still be preserved and defended.
Seeing the network of cause-and-effect in which we are enchained is already freedom. By contrast, what is depressing is the implacable poptimism of the official culture, forever exhorting us to be excited about the latest dreary-shiny cultural product and hectoring us for failing to be sufficiently positive. A certain βvulgar Deleuzianismβ, preaching against any kind of negativity, provides the theology for this compulsory excitation, evangelising on the endless delights available if only we consume harder.
Mark Fisher, Dis-Identity Politics, 2004-2016
Witch is in all women, everything.
Witches have always been women who dared to be groovy, courageous, aggressive, intelligent, non-conformist, explorative, independent, sexually liberated, and revolutionary.
A witch lives and laughs in every woman.
She is the free part in each of us.
W.I.T.C.H. β Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell, Manifesto, 1968
We should plan to build niches filled with explosives into the buildings of the future.
Jean Baudrillard, Fragments, 1990-1995
To analyze the psychology of political violence is not only extremely difficult, but also very dangerous. If such acts are treated with understanding, one is immediately accused of eulogizing them. If, on the other hand, human sympathy is expressed with the AttentΓ€ter, one risks being considered a possible accomplice. Yet it is only intelligence and sympathy that can bring us closer to the source of human suffering, and teach us the ultimate way out of it.
Emma Goldman, The Psychology of Political Violence, 1917
THE APOCALYPSE WILL BLOSSOM.
Jenny Holzer, Inflammatory Essays, 1979-82
Are they not the murderers, who raise innocent children to kill to not be killed themselves?
It is not the English, or the French, or the Russians and for those not the Germans, but ourselves that are the enemy. We see the enemy in others because the actual enemy does not exist. It is the missing of love that is the enemy β the source of war. All of Europe is crying because all of Europe has unlearned to love.
As long as we don't scream in agony if a Frenchman dies, we do not love. As long as we don't feel that a human, one that has done no harm to us, has fallen and died, so long we remain insane.
And the people are insane, truly and sincerely, because we have forgotten to love. And because we have forgotten to love, we must believe everything is right as it should be.
We can no longer lie that it's the Zars, the Kings, the Englishmans fault β it is my fault β it is your fault β it is all of ours. And we will fall and die for love to take its governance.
Leonhard Frank, Der Mensch ist Gut, 1916-1917
Chris George, BOOKS!BOOKS!BOOKS!, 2022
The Fluxus Newspaper, 1964-1979
Women in Concrete Poetry: 1969-1979
In a cove where
huge waves bowed about the sea
and the lone mast lost its sail
and the sky's root fell upon the land
and a nigh replaced the sky with time
N. H. Pritchard, The Matrix Poems: 1960-1970
How to categorize a body?
Felipe Romero BeltrΓ‘n, This is Your Law: 23.794 pages of Spanish Immigration Law, 2023
Nothing is sacred any more because nothing is now meant to be inviolable. This is the tracking down of darkness, the tragedy brought about by an exaggerated love of light.
Paul Virilio, The Vision Machine, 1988
This testament is intended as a warning. It is addressed to those whose eyes and ears and minds can be opened. Hope lies with those people, those brave souls who dare to look. And if my experiences have taught me anything, it is that there is always hope β no matter how dark and desperate things may seem.
CCRU, Writings, 1997-2003
Philosophy is written in the immense Book of Nature which is constantly before our very eyes and which cannot be (humanly) understood unless one has previously learned the language and alphabet in which it is written.
Galileo Galilei, The Assayer, 1623
Larry Clark, Punk Picasso, 2003
What we differentiate will appear divergent, dissonant, negative for just as long as the structure of our consciousness obliges it to strive for unity: as long as its demand for totality will be its measure for whatever is not identical with it.
Theodor W. Adorno, Negative Dialectics, 1966
The great female who sits there guarding the Island is the last of all. Her head is infinitely higher than the high mists. There is no other nearly living thing on the Island except her now. Her red hair, far above everything else, still slightly gilds the clouds, and that is all that is left of the sun.
Modern Love, Constance De Jong, 1977
