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"Sherry Turkle has talked to people who are unable to resist the urge to send and receive texts on their mobile telephone, even when they are driving a car. At the risk of a laboured pun, this is a perfect example of the death drive, which is defined not by the desire to die, but by being in the grip of a compulsion so powerful that it makes one indifferent to death. What is remarkable here is the banal content of the drive. This isn't the tragedy of something like 'The Red Shoes', in which the ballerina is killed by the sublime rapture of dance: these are people who are prepared to risk death so that they can open a 140 character message which they know perfectly well is likely to be inane.

Mark Fisher, “The Privatization of Stress”

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“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.”

James Baldwin, “Stranger in the Village”

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“What I am looking for ... is an introduction to living, a guide to life (ethical project): I want to love according to nuance. Now there is a teacher of nuance, literature; try to live according to the nuances that literature teaches me.”

Roland Barthes, The Neutral, quoted in Maggie Nelson’s The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning

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Trailer for Mudigkeitsgesellschaft: Byung-Chul Han in Seoul / Berlin

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the left spent, like, three years trying to explain 'black lives matter' to an obstinate group of privileged, mean-spirited bigots, smug people who smirk and almost take pride in their profound misunderstanding. the internet made infographics and analogies and everything it could think of to break down, in the simplest terms--embarrassingly simple--how the statement works and, importantly, how it doesn't.

and now we have to do this again with 'free speech'?

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Happy Pride Weekend!!🌈🌈🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 I'm stuck inside writing. #walterbenjamin #pride2017 #shelfie #prideshelfie (at Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn)

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Bed-Stuy is upping the political street art game #streetart (at Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn)

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All this talk about bubbles. Mine is a bubble defined by its awareness of other bubbles.

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Imagine a world in which, every time you finally learn how to avoid something harmful, you have to totally forget two hard-learned lessons. What kind of dystopia is this? That's what "for every new regulation we will repeal two regulations" means.

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It's all so funny.

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I go back into Tumblr after being on hiatus for over a year. Five minutes later I'm explaining racism to the "alt-right." Is that what we do here now?

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It’s crucial that we don’t buy into the “myth of progress” at such a crucial time. Things do get worse. History shows us this. Progress is certainly not inevitable. Resist this narrative.

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I know it’s hard to resist, people, but when we call him “orange,” we erase Trump’s whiteness. We should always stress his whiteness.

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Stop asking me to forgive fascism. Stop asking me to forgive racism. Stop asking me to forgive Islamophobia. Stop asking me to forgive sexism. Stop asking me to forgive ableism. Stop asking me to forgive homophobia. Stop asking me to forgive transphobia. Stop asking me to forgive sexual assault. Stop asking me to forgive treason. Stop asking me to forgive bullying. Stop asking me to forgive hate. Stop asking me to forgive wage theft. Stop asking me to forgive lies. Stop asking me to forgive climate denial. Stop asking me to forgive fat-shaming. Stop asking me to forgive fear-mongering. Stop asking me to forgive birther-nativism. (at Fifth Avenue - New York City)

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Okay, neoliberal centrists, can we have a real Left now?

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Welcome to Westworld.