February 2012
“At its root literature is writing for nothing; a pathological extravagance whose...”
– Nick Land. The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism. 1992
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“The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the...”
– Ted Kaczynski, Industrial Society and its Future (the Unabomber Manifesto).
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“The Internet is strange. It doesn’t make any money. It’s...”
– William Gibson, interview with the Financial Times.
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“I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That’s my dream....”
– Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, Apocalypse Now.
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On "This whole “don’t physically discipline your... →
I just read the most disgusting post I’ve ever seen from one of tumblr’s “social justice” crowd.
It seriously suggested that anti-social behaviour came from children not being physically disciplined. This is bullshit. Here is a lovely study that shows the opposite is true. Physical discipline increases aggressive behaviour in children, it does not prevent it.
I love how...
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“The project of the ‘seizure of the means of production’ finds itself blocked, or...”
– “The Double Barricade and the Glass Floor” - Jasper Bernes; Communization and Its Discontents: Contestation, Critique, and Contemporary Struggle
“Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.”
– Philip K. Dick
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Nelson Goodman's New Problem of Induction →
Nelson Goodman presented a different description of the problem of induction in the third chapter of “Fact, Fiction, and Forecast” entitled “The New Riddle of Induction” (1954). Goodman proposed a new predicate, “grue”. Something is grue if and only if it has been observed to be green before a certain time or blue after that time. The “new” problem...
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“You are waiting for the revolution? Let it be! My own began a long time ago!...”
– Renzo Novatore, Toward the Creative Nothing.
“Our nihilism is not christian nihilism.
We do not deny life.
No! We are the...”
– Renzo Novatore, Toward the Creative Nothing.
“And, once again, we saw the fatally obscene joke that disgusted us. We saw...”
– Renzo Novatore, Toward the Creative Nothing.
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Places to visit in Wellington (NZ)?
Millie and I are going to Wellington in a week, for 5 days.
We’re still looking for suggestions for barbers, cafes, restaurants, bookstores, record shops, vintage/thrift stores, clothing stores, and other hip things.
So far I have:
Farry’s Menswear
Zambesi
Hashigo Zake
Auntie Mena
Midnight Espresso
Hunters and Collectors
Dux Cafe
Te Papa (duh)
Mighty Mighty
MilkCrate...
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“The suicide bomber is the muse of our time. They do not inspire us to sing of...”
– Aragorn! Anarchy and Nihilism: Consequences, “Consequences — On revolutionary despair”
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Nihilism, Anarchy, and the 21st century. →
The lifestyle of the nihilist, or New People, is worth reviewing, if for no other reason, because of its similarity to youth movements of the modern era. While advocating for a callous hedonism and radical subjectivity, in practice nihilists actually tended towards a utilitarian and ascetic lifestyle. The fashion is a case in point. “Both sexes favoured blue-tinted spectacles and high...
“You’re killing yourself with cynicism. Your idols got taken away from you...”
– Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle.
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