#The Revolution of Everyday Life

[hyperions-fate]

People usually associate creativity with works of art, but what are works of art alongside the creative energy displayed by everyone a thousand times a day: seething unsatisfied desires, daydreams in search of a foothold in reality, feelings at once confused and luminously clear, ideas and gestures presaging nameless upheavals. All this energy, of course, is relegated to anonymity and deprived of adequate means of expression, imprisoned by survival and obliged to find outlets by sacrificing its qualitative richness and conforming to the spectacle's categories. Think of Cheval's palace, the Watts Towers, Fourier's inspired system, or the pictorial universe of Douanier Rousseau. Even more to the point, consider the incredible diversity of anyone's dreams - landscapes the brilliance of whose colors qualitatively surpass the finest canvases of a Van Gogh. Every individual is constantly building an ideal world within themselves, even as their external motions bend to the requirements of soulless routine.

Raoul Vaneigem, The Revolution of Everyday Life (1967)

[brainrotdotorg]

this book is about disco elysium part one million

[eco-situationism]

Raoul Vaneigem -- The Revolution of Everyday Life

[lostfunzones]

—Raoul Vaneigem, The Revolution of Everyday Life

[candont]

Poetry is always somewhere

[shirubiaowo]

I blame @azulashengrottospiano for making me fall madly in love with this fictional man

don’t mind the water marks cough cough

[elektramouthed]

 Every game has two preconditions: the rules of playing and playing with the rules. Watch children at play. They know the rules of the game, they can remember them perfectly well but they never stop breaking them, they never stop dreaming up new ways of breaking them. But for them, cheating doesn’t have the same connotations as it does for adults. Cheating is part of the game, they play at cheating, accomplices even in their arguments. What they are really doing is spurring themselves on to create new games. And sometimes they are successful: a new game is found and unfolds. They revitalise their playfulness without interrupting its flow.  The game dies as soon as an authority crystallises, becomes institutionalised and clothed in a magical aura.

Raoul Vaneigem, from Revolution of Everyday Life (tr. John Fullerton, Paul Sieveking)

[ihatepissvortex]

sorry for all of the Cuba posting lately, i’ve been getting into Blowback. i’ll become a Korea guy after finishing next season

[g0thsoojin]

life shouldnt be this fucking hard

[beguines]

The problem with defining modernity as the rise of bureaucracy and rationality is, from Max Weber to Michel Foucault, the conflation of modernity's form common to all modern societies with its varied substance, quite deliberately blurring the boundaries between different political systems. Yet it matters whether modernity is colonial, capitalist, or socialist. Critique of modern methods of discipline and control should not preclude a rigorous analysis of differences within modernity, so as to restore its potential for human emancipation. Admittedly, much violence has been perpetrated in the name of freedom, but the present as a stage toward a better future is not the monopoly of the modern era. What is central to modernity is not the notion of liberation per se, but the idea that the efforts of men (and more recently also women) will bring about change—that is, Man as Creator. As Agnes Heller aptly described it, "None of our predecessors could consciously create history, prepare the future, or plan it. Only the moderns are able to do these things." The revolutionary and emancipatory potential of Marxist thought that differentiates it from the liberal variety is precisely the elevation of the most downtrodden and exploited to the position of privileged subjects—the ones to bring about a better future for all of humanity. Invoking the term heroic modernism, I mark socialist modernity as distinct from either capitalist or colonial modernity in its belief in the emancipatory potential of history through new forms of community. Socialist modernity embodied the capacity of people to boldly step out as political agents to make history, even if the conditions were not of their choosing and the outcomes were not what they intended. It is the very definition of heroism: the courage to try even at risk of failure.

Suzy Kim, Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution, 1945–1950

[hyperions-fate]

The most certain chances of liberation are born in what is most familiar. Was it ever otherwise? Art, ethics, philosophy bear witness: under the crust of words and concepts, the living reality of non-adaptation to the world is always crouched, ready to spring. Since neither gods nor words can mange to cover it up decently any longer, this commonplace creature roams naked in railway stations and vacant lots; it confronts you at each evasion of yourself, it touches your elbow, catches your eye; and the dialogue begins. You must lose yourself with it or save it with you.

Raoul Vaneigem, The Revolution of Everyday Life (1967)

[brainrotdotorg]

I AM GOING TO SCREAM AND CRY AND YELL AND SHIT MYSELF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[eco-situationism]

"One day, perhaps, we shall see strikers demanding automation and a ten-hour week, and deciding, instead of picketing, to make love in the factories, offices, and cultural centers. Only programmers, managers, union bosses, and sociologists would be surprised -- and worried. For good reason: their hides will be on the line."

-Raoul Vaneigem-

[countess-of-edessa]

the way people jump to the defense of video games whenever someone is like "what a stupid hobby to spend more than the barest amount of time killing effort on" really just reinforces to me that video games is objectively one of stupidest things to waste your life on

[heartancientgallery]

[radiantrealities]

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