Quotes

“Literature was NOT born the day when a boy crying “WOOF! WOOF!” came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray “woof” at his heels;

…literature was born on the day when a boy came crying “Wolf, Wolf!” and there was no 🐺 behind him!”

– Vladimir Nabokov (on Kafka)

“We were supposed to take on the world,
But every day pulled us further…
We’ve gotten used to live in a world
That doesn’t want us around!
Yeah
Torn apart
Yeah
Torn apart”

– Avatar

“While the human mind acts as a relation-factory seeking spiritual intimacy or philosophical meaning, the “Real” remains a unilateral force that refuses to participate in, or be captured by, these mental fictions.”

– NotebookLM

“The iconoclastic Brazilian anthropologist and theoretician Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, well known in his discipline for helping initiate its “ontological turn,” offers a vision of anthropology as “the practice of the permanent decolonization of thought.”

• Cannibal Metaphysics

“Because we will not find in this book any “exit,” nor any “end.” Only protection and a defense against the subjugation of humankind. We will find a “spirit of struggle” unconditioned by the natural belief in history, and so a damn fine [sacré] lesson in heresy.”

– Philippe Petit on François Laruelle

_”So, let’s have no more talk about ‘New Media’ – as if we already knew everything about (so-called) old media.”_

– *Excommunication*
(Galloway + Thacker + Wark)

“We know we are snuff memories.”

• David Roden