#scission

[fishdogma]

The chapter is 10k words in but only covered half of what I wanted to cover... Do I split or continue?

If I post as is, it will go out today.

Why can't I just keep things short?

[mvaljean525]

The present moment is an explosion , a scission of past and future leaving those valorous disreputables , the ruins , sentinels in an unknown dawn strewn with prophecy . Only the momentary goggle of death fixes the fugitive momentum .

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Time-Bomb

Mina Loy 1882-1966

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Graphic - Carlos Revilla (B.1940)

[abridurif]

Le point de vue de l’art et celui de la vie sont même dans l’artiste des points de vue différents.

Kafka, Journal, Janvier 1918

[asfaltics]

distance, near

royal air maroc brochure, poly mailer white side disintegrating from 10+ years of sunlight and heat from whose over-cooked interior —

  feel, southern distance, near   features, idiosyncratic poetic, most   letter-writers, one of return, and   words, simple passages, labyrinthine   ways, simple shoes, good pair of walking   conceivable, every minimum, good idea   south, hospitable South, the

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all tagged Africa all tagged distance all tagged south

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near distance because, in tourism encouragements of this sort — and verbiage elsewheres too — every noun requires its adjective.

all tagged near  

[sterwood]

We will not take Deleuze and Guattari to be illiterate. We will thus take them to be crooks. Before giving their readers the shattering directive: ‘Be the Pink Panther and your loves will be like the wasp and the orchid, the cat and the baboon’, they should warn them that before all these metamorphoses they take their readers to be morons. Only a moron can confuse the Marxist dialectical principle ‘One divides into two’ with the genealogy for family trees concealed in ‘One becomes two’. For what the dialectic says is the exact opposite of the ‘strong principal unity’ imputed to it; it is the divided essence of the movement as One, that is, a principle of the double precariousness of the One:

  a)The One has no existence as entity, there is unity only from movement, all is process.

  b)The process itself has its internal being in scission

For a Marxist,to think the One is to think the unity of opposites, that is, the movement as scission. Dialectical thinking is the only thinking of revolt in that, precisely, it shakes to its roots the omnipotence of the One. For dialectical thinking, the essence of the One is the labour of antagonism that constitutes it, which is the Two.

Alain Badiou, “The Fascism of the Potato”, his review of D&G’s essay Rhizome which was the opening chapter to A Thousand Plateaus.

[fishdogma]

Reading a section of Scission to my friend because I'm doubting this new chapter.

He said, "you sure like just torturing these characters, huh?"

He questioned the Hurt and Comfort tag... and asked where the comfort was.

There's me thinking there was a lot of nice comfort bits...

[fishdogma]

Chapter 18... my beloved child. I expect I will need to split it. And this is not including the final section.

[fishdogma]

heyyyyy a bit curious, what was the thought that made you start writing Scission? (big fan here. very like)

🐴 <- Peanut

(Sorry, I did not realise I had asks!) The thought was simply that I wanted to explore Loid's stomach problems further, and then it ballooned into "I would love if Spy x Family was a bit darker". I'm quite interested in political history and the Cold War, which the canon does feed ideas from, so I started making a spider web in an attempt to world-build, and the plot bunny became a bit of a beast. The first scene I ever wrote is actually the scene where Loid finally talks to a doctor. I look back at it every now and then. Thank you so much for reading!