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A new way of seeing the essential systems hidden inside our walls, under our streets, and all around us
Infrastructure …
A dark, unflinching haunted house novel that takes readers from the well of the literary …
Cool ass book. Queer as hell and edgy and gross and awesome. Would definitely read another Alison Rumfitt though next maybe another Jenny Hval or maybe other.
A dark, unflinching haunted house novel that takes readers from the well of the literary …
transgressive fiction. begins with a guattari quote. i found alison rumfitt via the z-library wikipedia page. the last part amuses me because she seems v critical theory and i didn't find her by way of that.
Jo is in a strange new country for university, and having a more peculiar time …
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One of the girls turned her head towards the other and said, ‘Let me tell you a fairy tale,’ and the other girl nodded. So the first continued:
‘I’ll tell you the fairy tale of the apple. Eve ate the apple, and then Adam came and did so too. Afterwards the apple was forgotten, and it was assumed that it rolled away in the grass while Adam and Eve were chased out of the garden. But that’s not true, because secretly the apple rolled in between Eve’s legs, scratched open her flesh and burrowed into her crotch. It stayed there with the white bite marks facing out, and after a while the fruit-flesh started to shrivel, and mould threads grew from the edges of the peel. The mould threads became pubic hair and the bite mark became the slit between the labia. Soon all of Eden followed the apple’s example and started to decompose and rot, and since then this has happened in all gardens and everything in nature, and honey mushrooms came into existence, and rot and parasites and beetles arose. But the apple was first, and it never stops rotting, it just gets blacker. The apple has no end, just like this fairy tale.’
— Paradise rot by Jenny Hval
^ the conspiracy that's being concealed from us all
Jo is in a strange new country for university, and having a more peculiar time …
started the audiobook a little while ago, it's very strange but i enjoyed it. it's a pretty gross book about decay, a poorly upkept house (full of fungi, insects, etc.) and people melting into one another. Also, there is a lot of urine in this book for some reason. it's also lesbian as hell. i am glad i listened to it, i should listen to some of jenny hval's music :3
“Thus it is not surprising that the distinction we were seeking was not between assemblages and something else but between two limits of any possible assemblage, in other words between the system of strata and the plane of consistency. We should not forget that the strata rigidify and are organized on the plane of consistency, and that the plane of consistency is at work and is constructed in the strata, in both cases piece by piece, blow by blow, operation by operation. (TP 337, emphasis added)”
This is perhaps the most succinct statement in A Thousand Plateaus of the basic thesis of this guide. Deleuze and Guattari do not see their task as one of sorting assemblages into “good” rhizomatic assemblages and “bad” arborescent assemblages. Rhizome and tree, consistency and organization, change and stasis—all of these oppositions are the two opposed limits of any assemblage. Perceptual semiotics consists in seeing the ways in which different assemblages construct and map out this opposition.
— Deleuze and Guattari's a Thousand Plateaus by Brent Adkins
yup
From Deleuze and Guattari’s perspective, asking what is “innate” already presupposes too much. In particular, it presupposes an answer to the question of consistency, an arborescent answer. The innate/acquired dichotomy presupposes a rigid boundary between an organism and its environment, rather than supposing that an organism is a “selection of the exterior” and that the environment is a “projection of the interior.”
— Deleuze and Guattari's a Thousand Plateaus by Brent Adkins
i like that conception.
dropped for now
A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, …
stopped reading. i don't really like self-help/activity sort of books.
started, stopped, then started and, now, have finished. it's a relatively short book about spinoza's philosophy and death. not sure if the book itself was boring or the narration, but it was very difficult to pay attention to at points.
The best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes expands our sense of what it …
Pretty good book. Interesting to learn about the different ways that cultures think about death and prepare bodies after death. Did like her memoir "Smoke Gets Into Your Eyes" better though.
The best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes expands our sense of what it …
Book about the death practices of different cultures past and present. I love how uplifting and non-morbid Caitlin Doughty makes death sound and her project to try to cultivate a more healthy relationship to death for other people.
Now we are at home. But home does not preexist: it was necessary to draw a circle around that uncertain and fragile center, to organize a limited space. Many, very diverse, components have a part in this, landmarks and marks of all kinds. This was already true of the previous case. But now the components are used for organizing a space, not for the momentary determination of a center. The forces of chaos are kept outside as much as possible, and the interior space protects the germinal forces of a task to fulfill or a deed to do. This involves an activity of selection, elimination and extraction, in order to prevent the interior forces of the earth from being submerged, to enable them to resist, or even to take something from chaos across the filter or sieve of the space that has been drawn.
Makes me think of abiogenesis. enclosing an area with a rudimentary cell wall that allows you the ability to organize and regularize certain functions in a way that opposes the chaos of primordial soup. also i should read about Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics and Dissipative Systems but that's neither here nor there.
A Thousand Plateau calls (again)...
@alsaaas@bookrastinating.com also kill la kill is so good
