Taking inventory of my summer reading. Here are some favorite passages from Jean Baudrillard‘s “America.” (Emphases mine.) Driving This sort of travel creates its own peculiar type of even and innervation, so it also has its own special form of fatigue. Like a fibrillation of muscles, striated by the excess of heat and speed, by…
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California
G Faye, on California: ‘…an uninhabited, disenchanted nature, deserted by the gods: a sinister land beneath a sun that is too bright.’ pic.twitter.com/KKGZltEex2 — ᵗ ᵘ ⁿ ᵈ ʳ ᵃ ⁿ ᵃ ᵘ ᵗ (@tundranaut) July 27, 2019
Electroshocks
‘In a society that considers all genuine ideas subversive, which seeks to discourage ideological imagination…the main goal must be to awaken people’s consciences, raising traumatising problems and sending ideological electroshocks: shocking ideas.’ – Faye pic.twitter.com/WCViHq7IWn — ᵗ ᵘ ⁿ ᵈ ʳ ᵃ ⁿ ᵃ ᵘ ᵗ (@tundranaut) July 27, 2019
Xenochrony
“In the 1970s, Frank Zappa developed a procedure for creating a specific kind of phonography. By altering the speed of previously recorded material and overdubbing unrelated tracks, Zappa was able to synthesize ensemble performances from scrap material… “He referred to the technique as xenochrony…Zappa translates the term as ‘strange synchronizations,’ referring to the incidental—and aesthetically…
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Barbaric, Vast & Wild
“Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.” –Denis Diderot pic.twitter.com/k2S8ncSS5V — C e r g a t (@EmptyCobwebs) May 3, 2019
Light Trapped in Time
“There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist?” — DeLillo pic.twitter.com/ms4yiL81Ip — ᵗ ᵘ ⁿ ᵈ ʳ ᵃ ⁿ ᵃ ᵘ ᵗ (@tundranaut) May 1, 2019
“Existence…is the ultimate pathological state.”
“A dark pit has opened in the floor of the living room, and she can see the appetite for cruelty and murder that underpins the foundations of her domestic life.” https://t.co/o5BXxKAWo8 — ᵗ ᵘ ⁿ ᵈ ʳ ᵃ ⁿ ᵃ ᵘ ᵗ (@tundranaut) May 8, 2019