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Cobra Fuegote, Bel Fullana
I think this artist is such a bad ass, love the colors and attitude. I'm probably not going to get into posting much sexually provocative stuff on this blog but I like it if it's good and hers is good. Maybe an embrace of her sexuality in defiance of norms, stuff like that.
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"...‘It is easy to boast of victory over ancient oppression,’ says [Jacques] Ellul, ‘but what if victory has been gained at the price of even greater subjection to the forces of the artificial necessity of the technical society which has come to dominate our lives?’”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 118-119
"...This does not require a global conspiracy, or a wizard behind the curtain. There is no wizard. There is no curtain. There is only technique, which ‘has become an autonomous; it has fashioned an omnivorous world which obeys its own laws and which has renounced all tradition. Technique no longer rests on tradition…its evolution is too rapid, too upsetting, to integrate the older traditions.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 117
"...Technique, on the other hand, when it is taken up as a way of seeing, gives birth to an entirely new type of technology: one which exists to remake the world in the image of technique itself. The kind by which, today, we are all increasingly enslaved.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 116
"...something which, in some indefinable way, seems to be struggling to be born through us. Something which we are midwifing into existence every time we click and swipe, whether we know it or not. The question is how we can begin to understand it.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 115
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"...Open is good, closed is bad. Why? Because closed things can't be harvested, exploited or transformed in the image of the new world which the Machine is building. ‘Open’ things, on the other hand; well, they’re easy prey.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 108
"...‘Openness’ is both the aim and the core value of the age of globalism. It is, in the telling of those who promote it, always a good thing. Open minds, open hearts, open doors, open borders; open to trade, to growth, to change, to progress, to ‘diversity’ in all its manifestations.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 106-107
"...All of this creates not universal peace but universal upheaval. Like Perry's arrival in Japan, its effect is to dissolve our previous social bonds, cultural stories, social arrangements and religious commitments in a sea of open, boundless nothing.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 110
"...If Japan was a hidebound ancient nation, America was a newly incorporated business, and it had ambitious plans for expansion—plans which involved spreading its core values of individualism, commerce and competition to every corner of the globe.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 103
“To those who ask, ‘What can I actually do?’, he [E. F. Schumacher] said, the answer was ‘as simple as it is disconcerting: we can each of us work to put our own inner house in order. The guidance we need for this work cannot be found in science or technology, the value of which utterly depends on the ends they serve; but it can still be found in the traditional wisdom of mankind.’”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 99
"...sees our world as a blank slate to be written on afresh when the old limits of nature and culture are washed away. This is our faith: that breaking boundaries leads to happiness, that boundaries are barriers rather than opportunities. We strain against all limits. It is who we are.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 99
“‘What is at stake,’ asserts [E. F.] Schumacher, ‘is not economics but culture; not the standard of living but the quality of life. Economics and the standard of living can just as well be looked after by a capitalist system, moderated by a bit of planning and redistributive taxation. But culture and, generally, the quality of life, can now only be debased by such a system.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 97
"...‘economic problem’? When we look around us, we can see that Keynes’ naive notion—that a society which cores itself around ‘avarice and usury’ can suddenly drop those vices when some undefined plateau of perfection is reached—is ludicrous. Once you adopt these values, they will make and remake you. The world they have built will depend upon their being pursued forever.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 96-97
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"...The same way we run our old ships up onto the beaches in China in India, and leave them for the locals to break up—if they can. The same way we dump nineteen million tonnes of plastic into the environment every year.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 91
"...The poorest Stone Age savage’, Mumford concludes, ‘never lived in such a destitute and demoralized community.’”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 85-86
“This Metropolis breeds a globalized elite class who feel more at home in each others’ cities than they do in the hinterlands of their respective nations, and who promote and represent the ideology of Progress that keeps the metropolis humming. This global network of megacities represents the Machine's core.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 85
“The city provides opportunities for wealth that the village never could, but it treats its poor and marginalized with a contempt that the village would regard with incomprehension.
As so often, this is a question of scale. Plato, according to Mumford, ‘limited the size of his ideal city to the number of citizens who might be addressed by a single voice’. Everyone should be within hailing distance of that voice in order to ensure human-scale living.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 84
“One of the great myths of the city is that we go there to individuate—to ‘find ourselves’. It might be more accurate to say that the city removes our agency, deskills us, and toys with us at its leisure. A city's inhabitants are dependents: they have neither the space, the skills, the time nor the inclination to fend for themselves.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 84
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"...Like a black hole, a city sucks into its orbit everything around it; and a modern world-city sucks in the world. The impacts of this are measurable.
To take just a few examples: 75 percent of worldwide energy use is in cities, and energy energy demand is outstripping population growth as those cities expand.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 83
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"...The sheer scale of the modern urban conglomeration is mind-boggling and entirely irreversible.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 83
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“A Machine civilization is an urban civilization, and its worldview and direction is that of the urban dwellers who build, justify and benefit from it.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 82
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"...A city dweller doesn't even need to know where his lunch comes from. In the city, we can live ignorant of our neighbours, of the seasons, of anything but our own direction and ambition.
The move, then, from country to city—the great shift we have undertaken in just a couple of centuries—can be seen as a kind of turning-in on ourselves: a radical parochialism.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 80-81
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"...Thy will be done is its older brother, and its challenger. We all want to live by the first of them, but we know that the work is to walk away from it a thousand times each day: to let the will go, and to listen instead for the old song which, however much we might think otherwise, has never stopped being sung in the woods and the waters and the around the edges of the human heart.”
~ Paul Kingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 77-78
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“That renunciation has to be a long mental and spiritual effort: the sloughing off of a way of seeing; the refusal of the story we all grew up with and a return to an older one that lies, like the kingdom of God, both within and all around us. It's hard work to change a story, especially when the society around you affirms it at every turn.”
~ #PaulKingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 77
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"...To throw it off. If it is ‘the pursuit of the ideals and methods of modern science that has brought us into this catastrophic situation, clearly they can be no issue from it without the renunciation of those ideals and methods.”
~ Paul Kingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 77
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"...And one of the fruits of modern science, clear for all to see, and implicit in the philosophy on which it is based, is the dehumanisation both of man and of the society that he has built in its name.’”
~ Paul Kingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 77
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"...But ‘now that we begin to see the consequences of our capitulation to it—and we are only now beginning to see these consequences—we are not so sure.”
~ Paul Kingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 75
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“In the early modern period, today's distinction between ‘science’ (real, good, objective) and ‘magic’ (fantastical, bad, superstitious) did not really exist. Both were branches of the same effort: to understand the mysterious forces of the universe, and ultimately to control them.”
~ Paul Kingsnorth, #AgainstTheMachine, p. 75
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#LARB Radio Hour | The Shit Show
"[H]ow #BigTech dreams – from iPhones to #socialMedia to #AI – have become nightmares.
"How did these decade-defining innovations end up making modern life feel sadder, lonelier, and scarier?"
#books discussed
⦁ @pluralistic's #Enshittification
⦁ Paul Kingsnorth’s #AgainstTheMachine
Ray Noir releases new single 'Dead Valentine' on July 3rd, also announces upcoming EP 'Against the Machine', out September 18th #AgainsttheMachine #DeadValentine #JonCass #MadeleineWood #MaximumPerou #RayNoir
@australopithecus @ElleGray casually glancing up at the Hubble Deep Field in broad daylight
… against the machine