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Blood Meridian

Posted on June 3, 2020June 3, 2020 by tundranaut

I haven’t had the pleasure of reading Blood Meridian yet, but every single Blood Meridian quote I’ve mined from the internet is extraordinary. To wit: They rode on and the sun in the east flushed pale streaks of light and then a deeper run of color like blood seeping up in sudden reaches flaring planewise…

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Posted on May 30, 2020July 17, 2020 by tundranaut

Cities and the Balance of Power: “Cities are like massive information-processing units, with real-estate markets revealing the value of being able to access the networks involved. People put a dollar value on physical colocation and proximity to others who have similarly paid a high price to access density. This implicit sorting lies at the heart of…

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“A luxury cruiseliner quarantined in San Francisco bay, its well-heeled passengers confined to their cabins for weeks on end. Holidaymakers on lockdown at a quarantined hotel in Tenerife after an Italian doctor comes down with coronavirus. A world of isolated individuals rarely leaving their homes, keeping a wary distance from one another in public, communicating with their friends and loved ones via exclusively technological means. These situations are so Ballardian as to be in the realm of copyright infringement.”

Posted on April 2, 2020April 25, 2020 by tundranaut

“Twenty-first century life was already Ballardian. The rapid transition, under the new viral order, into further extremes of technological alienation has only made it more so.” https://t.co/IDnD49NXWA — тцпдяапацт (@tundranaut) April 1, 2020 SOURCE: Mark O’Connell, New Statesman

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November Unrealities

Posted on November 9, 2019December 1, 2019 by tundranaut

 

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Baudrillard: “America”

Posted on August 7, 2019August 7, 2019 by tundranaut

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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Electroshocks

Posted on July 29, 2019 by tundranaut

‘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

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