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I'm baaack. 👀 It's been a while. I probably forgot how to Tumblr.

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The criminal fait divers, by its everyday redundancy, makes acceptable the system of judicial and police supervisions that partition society; it recounts from day to day a sort of internal battle against the faceless enemy; in this war, it constitutes the daily bulletin of alarm or victory.

-'Discipline and Punish'by Michel Foucault

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Arms trafficking, the illegal sale of alcohol in prohibition countries, or more recently drug trafficking show a similar functioning of this 'useful delinquency': the existence of a legal prohibition creates around it a field of illegal practices, which one manages to supervise, while extracting from it an illicit profit through elements, themselves illegal, but rendered manipulable by their organization in delinquency. This organization is an instrument for administering and exploiting illegalities

-Discipline & Punish by Michel Foucault

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The more the object passes from hand to hand, the less it will be charged and the more it will discharge, like a briefcase, an object which carries the trace of all the hands that have held it, all the people, all their looks, and all the locations.

-The Object by Antony Hudek

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Disciplinary power, on the other hand, is exercised through its invisibility; at the same time it imposes on those whom it subjects a principle of compulsory visibility. In discipline, it is the subjects who have to be seen. Their visibility assures the hold of the power that is exercised over them. It is the fact of being constantly seen, of being able always to be seen, that maintains the disciplined individual in his subjection.

-Discipline & Punish by Michel Foucault

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Is anyone watching any really great horror movies?

I'm probably going to watch Hell House LLC tonight.

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Vito Acconci (1940–2017) 

TRADEMARKS Photo piece, 1970

Biting myself: biting as much of my body as I can reach.

If someone passionately embraces his double through the glass, at that moment the double becomes alive, and the being and the image love one another through the wall. —Alfred Jarry, Les Jours et Les Nuits, 1897

Vito Acconci was one of the first to experiment with performance art, in which the artist’s own body was treated like clay—a material to be manipulated, altered, posed, punished, and displayed. In Trademarks, Acconci established a task to execute and then performed it diligently, biting as many parts of his naked body as he could reach and documenting his self-mutilation with photographs and printer’s ink. Like much of his work, Trademarks seeks to breach the boundaries between inside and outside, private and public. The work is also intended as an astute, even humorous, commentary on the branding and marketing of artists and their labor.

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"The big idea in Being There, one with lasting impact in embodied cognitive science, is that minds are not for thinking, traditionally conceived, but for doing, for getting things done in the world in real time." -Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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No wonder I liked this book.

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Thus discipline produces subjected and practiced bodies, ‘docile’ bodies. Discipline increases the forces of the body (in economic terms of utility) and diminishes these same forces (in political terms of obedience). In short, it dissociates power from the body; on the one hand, it turns into an ‘aptitude’, a ‘capacity’, which it seeks to increase; on the other hand, it reverses the course of the energy, the power that might result from it, and turns into a relation of strict subjection. If economic exploitation disciplinary coercion establishes in the body the constricting link between an increases aptitude an dan increased domination.

Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault

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So an axiom is no longer an evidence, true in all circumstances, but one of the rules that govern a given set. We are no longer dealing with truth but with coherence.

Lecture on the Oulipo at Cerisy-la-Salle by Jacques Duchateau

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TW: neurodivergent rejection

Today I learned that I have Asperger's and now I realize why I couldn't understand what my mom didn't like about me.

I thought one's potential for being an even bigger asshole stopped after one died. 🤔

I wish I could pull her out of her grave to tell her that she gave me the very thing she hated about me.

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The criminal has been almost entirely transformed into a positive hero. There were those for whom glory and abomination were not dissociated, but coexisted in a reversible figure. Perhaps we should see this literature of crime, which proliferated around a few exemplary figures, neither as spontaneous form of "popular expression", nor as a concerted programme of propaganda and moralization from above; it was a locus in which two investments of penal practice met - a sort of battleground around the crime, its punishment and its memory.

-Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault

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I say that one must be a seer, make oneself a seer. The poet makes himself a seer by a long, prodigious, and rational disordering of all the senses. Every form of love, of suffering, of madness; he searches himself, he consumes all the poisons in him, and keeps only their quintessences. This is an unspeakable torture during which he needs all his faith and superhuman strength, and during which he becomes the great patient, the great criminal, the great accursed—and the great learned one!—among men.—For he arrives at the unknown! Because he has cultivated his own soul—which was rich to begin with—more than any other man! He reaches the unknown; and even if, crazed, he ends up by losing the understanding of his visions, at least he has seen them! Let him die charging through those unutterable, unnameable things: other horrible workers will come; they will begin from the horizons where he has succumbed!

-Arthur Rimbaud

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Nevertheless, even in a technological age, memory remains crucial to our species. It preserves us from the brutal and brutalizing conception of existence as an irreversible succession of moments with no depth beneath them and no dimension beyond them. Verse is an art of memory. More than any other literary form, we can take it into mind and heart. Lines of verse can return to us unbidden in times of grief to illuminate and make them bearable; and it is often with verse that we celebrate the joys of friendship and love and mark the occasion of a marriage or a birth. It is not just the ear or eye that pauses and turns back at the end of the line. The psyche, too, turns back, recovering and renewing a measure of being larger than itself and, at the same time, moving forward into its own mysterious future. -The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics : Fourth Edition, edited by Stephen Cushman, et al., Princeton University Press, 2012.

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I Don't Agree with This

Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals, for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasures; no intelligent human being would consent to be a fool, no instructed person would be an ignoramus, no person of feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs.… A being of higher faculties requires more to make him happy, is capable probably of more acute suffering, and certainly accessible to it at more points, than one of an inferior type; but in spite of these liabilities, he can never really wish to sink into what he feels to be a lower grade of existence.… It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question…

-Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill