Dirt/Wind, Rock/Waves
Trying
“I don’t want your love unless you know I am repulsive, and love me even as you know it.”
— Georges Bataille, My Mother/Madame Edwarda/The Dead Man. (via overcoding)
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“If a culture has not gone beyond a point at which the satisfaction of one portion of its participants depends upon the suppression of another - and this is the case in all present-day cultures - it is understandable that the suppressed people should develop an intense hostility towards a culture whose existence they make possible by their work, but in whose wealth they have too small a share…The hostility of these classes to civilisation is so obvious that it has caused the more latent hostility of the social strata who are better provided for to be overlooked. It goes without saying that a civilisation which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.”
— Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion, (1927)
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“Populist demands are always addressed to the elites. Populism as a project addresses demands to the ruling elites (getting rid of immigrants, saving the climate …); it is not about replacing the elites, but calling on the elites to undertake action. The ecological problem is no exception. It does not invite a transformation of the existing socio-ecological order but calls on the elites to undertake action such that nothing really has to change, so that life can basically go on as before. In this sense, environmental populism is inherently reactionary, a key ideological support structure for securing the socio-political status quo. It is inherently non-political and non-partisan. A Gramscian ‘passive revolution’ has taken place over the past few years, whereby the elites have not only acknowledged the climate conundrum and, thereby, answered the call of the ‘people’ to take the climate seriously, but are moving rapidly to convince the world that, indeed, capitalism can not only solve the climate riddle but also that capitalism can make a new climate by unmaking the one it has co-produced over the past few hundred years through a series of extraordinary techno-natural and ecomanagerial fixes. Not only do the elites take these particular demands of the people seriously, it also mobilizes them in ways that serve their purposes.”
— Erik Swyngedouw, Apocalypse Forever? Post-political Populism and the Spectre of Climate Change
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“The most valuable insights are the last to be discovered, but methods are the most valuable insights.”
—F. Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ, §13 (excerpt).