Particles of Things

[wormepoch]

On the most fundamental level there are transitions from continuous to discontinuous or from discontinuous to continuous. We are discontinuous beings, individuals who perish in isolation in the midst of an incomprehensible adventure, but we yearn for our lost continuity. We find the state of affairs that binds us to our random and ephemeral individuality hard to bear. Along with our tormenting desire that this evanescent thing should last, there stands our obsession with a primal continuity linking us with everything that is [….] This nostalgia is responsible for the three forms of eroticism in [us ….] physical, emotional and religious […. W]ith all of them the concern is to substitute for the individual isolated discontinuity a feeling of profound continuity.

Georges Bataille, Erotism: Death and Sensuality (via wormsacre)

[federer7]

GERMANY. West Berlin. 1959

© Rene Burri/Magnum Photos

[exhaustedscreen-deactivated2019]

The body is never in the present, it contains the before and the after, tiredness and waiting. Tiredness and waiting, even despair are the attitudes of the body. No one has gone further than Antonioni in this direction. His method: the interior through behaviour, no longer experience, but ‘what remains of past experiences’, ‘what comes afterwards, when everything has been said’, such a method necessarily proceeds via the attitude or postures of the body.

Gilles Deleuze, Cinema II (via overcoding)

[immafuster]

Mark Rothko studio

[grandpasessions]

Deleuze and Guattari describe capitalism as a kind of dark potentiality which haunted all previous social systems. Capital, they argue, is the ‘unnamable Thing’, the abomination, which primitive and feudal societies ‘warded off in advance’. When it actually arrives, capitalism brings with it a massive desacralization of culture. It is a system which is no longer governed by any transcendent Law; on the contrary, it dismantles all such codes, only to re-install them on an ad hoc basis.

Mark Fisher Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (via grandpasessions)

[psychreaction]

jean genet + black panther zayd malik shakur (fucking tupac’s uncle, wuuut)

[grandpasessions]

The priests killed their victims upon the top of pyramids. They laid them on a stone altar and stabbed them in the chest with an obsidian knife. They tore out the heart—still beating—and lifted it up to the sun. Most of the victims were prisoners of war, justifying the idea that wars were necessary to the life of the sun: wars having the sense of consumption, not that of conquest, and the Mexicans thought that, if they ceased, the sun would cease to blaze.

Georges Bataille The Accursed Share (via grandpasessions)

[unfolding-kriegspiel-deactivate]

There is no such thing as either man or nature now, only a process that produces the one within the other and couples the machines together. Producing-machines, desiring-machines everywhere, schizophrenic machines, all of species life: the self and the non-self, outside and inside, no longer have any meaning whatsoever.

“Anti-Oedipus”, Deleuze and Guattari  (via the-kriegspiel)

[gibisoma]

Paul Klee

Pianist, 1940

[noosphe-re]

… just as early industrial capitalism moved the focus of existence from being to having, post-industrial culture has moved that focus from having to appearing.

Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle (via inthenoosphere)

[stephphs]

stephane salvi, wonder woman  2017

[gorevsenicagiriyor]

[sandinlungs-blog]

[dagwolf]

Jubilee (Jarman, 1978)

[mothwood]

To reach, not the point where one no longer says I, but the point where it is no longer of any importance whether one says I.

Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (via mothwood)

[macrolit]

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

Arthur Schopenhauer (born on this day in 1788)

[shituationist]

Nothing surprising any more, there’s the rub! The monotony of the ideological spectacle makes us aware of the passivity of life: survival. Beyond the pre-fabricated scandals — Scandale perfume, Profumo scandal — a real scandal appears, the scandal of actions drained of their substance to the profit of an illusion which the failure of its enchantment renders more odious every day.

Raoul Vaneigem, The Revolution of Everyday Life (via shituationist)

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French philosopher Jean Paul Sartre au café de Flore, Saint-Germain-des-Prés , Paris,  1945

by  Brassäi