Petty little ____s !

 

It’s repulsive, horrifying, and dystopian, a gruesome history of a world run by anti-people …

 "I can’t have been the only person to have struggled psychologically during this time. This is why these Twitter files have been such a balm. This is the reality they stole from us! It’s repulsive, horrifying, and dystopian, a gruesome history of a world run by anti-people, but I’ll take it any day over the vile and insulting facsimile of truth they’ve been selling. Personally, once I saw that these lurid files could be used as a road map back to something like reality — I wasn’t sure until this week — I relaxed for the first time in probably seven or eight years."

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/notes-on-a-friday-night (Dec 24, 2022)

« Le sentiment vague qu’il s’agit d’une sorte d’invasion rapide, qui oblige les gens à mener une vie très différente, est désormais largement répandu ; mais on ressent cela plutôt comme une modification inexpliquée du climat ou d’un autre équilibre naturel, modification devant laquelle l’ignorance sait seulement qu’elle n’a rien à dire. De plus, beaucoup admettent que c’est une invasion civilisatrice, au demeurant inévitable, et ont même envie d’y collaborer. Ceux-là aiment mieux ne pas savoir à quoi sert précisément cette conquête, et comment elle chemine. » Debord, 1967.

https://amgreatness.com/2023/01/05/the-coup-we-never-knew/

WE ARE ALL BEAGLES

The Covidian Menticide

Let's remember we were here!

           Removed from YouToob:

Desantis's Roundtable with The Great Barrington Three.

✌🏻A human thing!

 Fᴜᴛᴜʀᴏ Aɴᴛᴇʀɪᴏʀᴇ / ǝɹoıɹǝʇu∀ oɹnʇnℲ

[𝙵𝙾𝙻𝙺-𝚂 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚘𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚠?]

_ 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗮 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝗮 𝘄𝗲𝗶𝗿𝗱 𝗽𝗶𝗲𝗰𝗲, 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟮

[creation, dramaturgy Alessandro Sciarroni

with (6 performers alternately) @Amy bell, @Anna bragagnolo,

Marco D'Agostin

, Pablo Esbert Lilienfeld, @Remo Ramponi, @Alessandro Sciarroni, @Francesco Vecchi, @Leon Maric

Biden Time

War and Peace

Giorgio Agamben

February 24th, 2021

“It is unsurprising that governments today never tire of reminding us that the war on the virus marks the beginning of a new historical era in which nothing will be as before … this will be an era of servitude and sacrifice, in which everything that makes life worth living will be forced to undergo mortifications and restrictions … those who blindfold themselves in order not to see the situation of unfreedom … willingly submit to it because they foolishly believe that in this way they have found for their lives the meaning that they had unwittingly lost in peace....”  

https://www.quodlibet.it/giorgio-agamben-la-guerra-e-la-pace

Communist Capitalism

Giorgio Agamben

December 15th, 2020

The form of capitalism that is being consolidated on a planetary scale is not that which it had assumed in the West: it is, rather, capitalism in its communist variation, which unites an extremely rapid development of production with a totalitarian political regime. This is the historical significance of the leading role that China is taking on, not only in the realm of the economy in a narrow sense, but also – as the political use of the pandemic has so eloquently demonstrated – as a paradigm for the government of men. That the regimes established in so-called communist countries were a particular form of capitalism, specially adapted for economically backward countries and thus labelled ‘state capitalism’, was perfectly clear to anyone who knows how to read history; what was entirely unexpected, however, is that this form of capitalism, which seemed to have exhausted its function and was thus now obsolete, was instead destined – in a technologically updated configuration – to become the ruling principle of the current phase of globalized capitalism. Indeed, it is possible that today we are observing a conflict between Western capitalism, which used to exist alongside the ‘state of law’ and bourgeois democracy, and this new communist capitalism, a conflict in which the latter version appears to have emerged as the victor. What is certain, however, is that the new regime will combine the most inhumane aspects of capitalism with the most atrocious aspects of state communism, combining the extreme alienation of relations between people with an unprecedented social control.

Translated by Richard Braude

https://www.quodlibet.it/giorgio-agamben-capitalismo-comunista