Your Desires Have Been Captured: A Discourse on the Mutilated User and the Alienated Worker

There is no individual solution to the situation we find ourselves in. To say, though, that there are no individual components is a mistake. Every collective action is made up of individual actions: it requires that we all consider our situation and broadly take actions – individually and in coordination – that point in roughly the proper direction.

Future Less Vivid

It’s not about the missing period of history, or about what was but about what could have been. The thinking that there was a time when things could have been different, and what that different future – with its attendant alternate present – might have been like.

Cameron SummersSeptember 15, 2021Hauntology, Mark Fisher, China Miéville, Jacques Derrida, Ontology, Ghosts of My LifeComment

In the Empire of Empty Ghosts: On and Against the Emerging New Dualism (Odd Columns, #8)

The solid and the ethereal, though, have traded traits, and the result is something new and unfamiliar. We no longer have the “spiritual” and the “material” – I would argue that what we have is the “informational” and the “totemic”.