#on control

[stargir1z]

Control is not discipline. You do not confine people with a highway. But by making highways, you multiply the means of control. I am not saying this is the only aim of highways, but people can travel infinitely and "freely" without being confined while being perfectly controlled. That is our future.

gilles deleuze, “what is the creative act?” 

[petertqrk]

— Jeff Lindsay, Dexter in the Dark

[tamsoj]

Renunciation is freedom. Not wanting is power.

Fernando Pessoa, tr. by Margaret Jull Costa, from “The Book of Disquiet”

[stargir1z]

"Nothing If Not Critical" by Jan Verwoert

[stargir1z]

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[stargir1z]

soft coercion, the city, and the recorded female voice by nina power 

[tamsoj]

Death. The end of sense-perception, of being controlled by our emotions, of mental activity, of enslavement to our bodies.

Marcus Aurelius, from Meditations (Book Six, 28)