Complicity with Anonymous Materials

“That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passion.” Marguerite Duras, The Ravishing of Lol Stein. She/her/me.

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Wangechi Mutu (Born 1972, Kenya) - Hide n’ Seek, Kill or Speak, 2004

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Don’t wait for your life to start. I was always waiting for my life to start. Everything that happened seemed like a good beginning, but it turned out to be the thing itself.

M. John Harrison, The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again

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Les glaneurs et la glaneuse (2000, Agnès Varda)

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Love, we are often told, is beyond all politics and should not be shrunk down to anything political. And love is commonly held to be more about ineffable feeling than thought. These bad ideas have contaminated discussions of love for too long, and we have tried to repudiate them in the present study. Love is a power, and for that reason we cannot sequester it from all politics or keep it trapped in theological and mystical privacy. Love is not a neutral power that agrees with everything. But love lives precariously in a world that vacillates between not knowing what it is and subjecting it to the values of capital.

Richard Gilman-Opalsky, The Communism of Love: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Exchange Value

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As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, Jonas Mekas, 2000

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Stephen Shore

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“A good life, whatever else it is, must include recognizable satisfying pleasures; and by the same token be able to regulate or root out the unsatisfying ones, or whatever it is that is likely to sabotage or waylay the satisfying pleasures. These are psychoanalytic issues only because they are political issues. If all life is group life, psychoanalysis must be politics by other means. Whether or not all our ideals - justice, kindness, self-realization, etc. are synonyms for pleasure, pleasure is always somewhere in the picture, stupefying us and making us think. Our capacity for pleasure often seems to be the most divisive thing about us. Or, it is the divisiveness of pleasure that we have been taught.”

Adam Phillips, On Getting Better, p.49

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Gerhard Richter, Wolke, 1971

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“In Burroughs, language may be seen as a virus that in ancient times stabilised itself inside the organism of the human animal, pervading it, mutating it, and transforming it into what it is now. In The Ticket That Exploded he writes, “Modern man has lost the option of silence. Try to stop your internal sub-vocal discourse. Try to achieve even ten seconds of interior silence. You will encounter a resisting organism that forces you to talk… Language is a genetic defect with no immunology."”

Franco Berardi, The Third Unconscious: The Psycho-sphere in the Viral Age, p.4

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Adam Phillips - On Getting Better

“[P]sychoanalytic treatment is an anti-commodity; when we purchase it we cannot know what to expect.”

Adam Phillips, On Getting Better, p.32

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“Depression starts to look less like a drying up of desire than a stubborn, if painful, libidinal slowdown or sabotage, a demobilization. The soul on strike.”

— Franco “Bifo” Berardi - The Soul at Work From Alienation to Autonomy// Preface by Jason Smith

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“The more important question to ask is not why Trump lies, but instead why so many people vote for him in the first place. What are the conditions—economic, political, semiological, and so on—that produce this voting and acting? The solution to the problem is not to impeach the orange man (again), or ban him from Twitter (too late, Mr. Dorsey, too late). Rather, it is to allow people to think and to choose in a way that is not clouded by humiliation and resentment. The American crisis is not generated by the perverted effects of mass communication. It is generated by the contradictions that emerge from the racist nature of the most violent country of all time. The key for understanding current events in the US can be found in a sentence that President George H. W. Bush uttered at the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992. This summit was devoted to discussing impending climatic change and figuring out ways to reduce the effects of economic growth on the environment. “The lifestyle of the American people is not negotiable,” said the president. The American lifestyle can be summarized in one statistic: the average American consumes four times as much electricity as the average non-American. White Americans—some of whom were impoverished by the 2008 financial crash, from which only the finance class emerged victorious; who feel humiliated by fifty years of criminal wars ignominiously lost; who worry about the coming loss of demographic dominance—are desperately clinging to what little they still have: their SUVs, their weapons, and the right to eat enormous amounts of animals. Endangered by globalization, their privilege is rapidly fading, so they are ready to follow a führer who promises to make America great again. What happened on January 6 in Washington was not an insurrection nor a true coup d’état. It was an episode, simultaneously farcical and criminal, in the American civil war between white nationalism and liberal globalism. Both the globalists and the nationalists are expressions of American capitalist supremacy.”

— Franco Bifo Berardi, “What Abyss Are We Talking About?”

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“Wealth does not mean a person who owns a lot, but refers to someone who has enough time to enjoy what nature and human collaboration place within everyone’s reach. If the great majority of people could understand this basic notion, if they could be liberated from the competitive illusion that is impoverishing everyone’s life, the very foundations of capitalism, would start to crumble.”

— Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi

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“While anxiety is today perceived as something one needs to be able to control and hopefully in the long run get rid of- in short, as an ultimate obstacle to the subject’s happiness- it is almost forgotten that philosophy and psychoanalysis discussed anxiety as an essentially human condition that may not only have paralyzing effects, but also be the very condition through which people relate to the world.”

Renata Salecl- On Anxiety

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Ernest A. Bachrach

Miriam Lavelle, Film Dancer

1944