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yes, this figment of the worst parts of my mind is a universal truth. that's the fun of being a french (or french-inspired) intellectual, same goes for Mark Fisher and PKD
I watched part of an interview with him recently and he was sat in a restaurant with people in turtlenecks and berets and stuff in the background. Very French.

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Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
I watched part of an interview with him recently and he was sat in a restaurant with people in turtlenecks and berets and stuff in the background. Very French.

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Two married women conducting a clandestine affair in the background.
 

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Reading Easy Riders, Raging Bulls atm and there's a bit where Biskind mentions people like Hackman being cast in Bonnie and Clyde as a point at which people who looked like 'real people' started to make their way into Hollywood.

Will we see this again? If we operate in cycles it's inevitable, but society seems more image conscious than ever these days and cosmetic surgery's becoming increasingly common, so maybe 'real people' will eventually just look like movie stars?

I suppose if we get to that point the distinction will simply be how good your surgeon is.
 

WashYourHands

Cat Malogen
Had a strange day which involved a service review at work in the instance of continuing winter blackouts

Summary - we are unprepared

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... Land draws a 'diagonal' between pre-modern versions of time, which are cyclical, and the time of modernity, which is linear time. What gets us beyond each of these? Time as a spiral, which contains both cyclical temporality ("time of return") and linear temporality ("time of escape"). This time spiral for land is compressive and involutionary—it cycles 'inward' the further we move down the line of time, and this is where acceleration is taking place.

But what does it mean to reconcile linear time, which is future-oriented, with cyclical time, with is aimed at a restoration of the past? You get a kind of schizophrenic picture, where the deeper we get into the future, the most the ancient and archaic seems to be reborn. My sense is that Land tends to read these temporal dynamics as 'deposited'—or more properly, 'indexed'—within culture. Think of the 1990s early tech culture: cutting edge experience, the future perceived as unfolding, but there was a cultural rush of 'techno-primitivism', talk of network tribalism, the resurgence of shamanism, 'technocculture'. Past and future, together.

 
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