“WOMEN, TOO LONG CORRUPTED BY MORALS AND CONVENTIONS, RETURN TO YOUR SUBLIME INSTINCT; TO VIOLENCE AND CRUELTY.”
— Valentine de Saint-Point, Manifesto of the Futurist Woman, 1912
“If the men wore scarlet trousers as I said, they wouldn’t think so much of money: if they could dance and hop and skip, and sing and swagger and be handsome, they could do with very little cash. And amuse the women themselves, and be amused by the women. They ought to learn to be naked and handsome, and to sing in a mass and dance the old group dances, and carve the stools they sit on, and embroider their own emblems. Then they wouldn’t need money. And that’s the only way to solve the industrial problem: train the people to be able to live and live in handsomeness, without needing to spend. But you can’t do it. They’re all one-track minds nowadays. Whereas the mass of people oughtn’t even to try to think, because they can’t. They should be alive and frisky, and acknowledge the great god Pan. He’s the only god for the masses, forever. The few can go in for higher cults if they like. But let the mass be forever pagan.”
– D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover
“Becoming is an antimemory.”
— Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
“the unknown is not distinguished from nothingness by anything that discourse can announce”
—
Georges Bataille
We begin to live authentically only where philosophy ends, at its wreck, when we have understood its terrible nullity, when we have understood that it was futile to resort to it, that is is no help
E.M. Cioran, A Short History of Decay
“when ONE tells us it’s either this or death, it’s
always
actually
this and death.”
– Tiqqun, Introduction To Civil War
“The summit of joy is not joy, for in joy, I sense the moment coming when it will end, while in despair I sense only death coming: I have of it only an anguished desire, but a desire and no other desire. Despair is simple: it is the absence of hope, of all enticement. It is the state of deserted expanses and—I can imagine—of the sun.”
— Georges Bataille. Inner Experience. Translated by Leslie Anne Boldt. (via criminal-delirium)
Total revolt responds to total order, not just dialectical conflict. At this point, it is double or nothing: the system shatters and drags the universal away in its disintegration. It is vain to want to restore universal values from the debris of globalization
Jean Baudrillard, The Agony of Power (via tiqqun)