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“For capital, and therefore for capitalists, the human species has become a means to the end that is this very mode of representation and visualisation engaging therefore in the practical deconstruction of being itself. The species as a whole has become the means of representation, which is to say, the means of capitalist informatic management. This de-essentialising instrumentalisation of the species of course resonates with Debord: “in the spectacle all that was once lived has moved into mere representation.” But now representation is really an end in a double sense. First as the drive to which all human production accedes …, but second, as a new order of alienated production that results (in) “the loss of reality.” Today, in the near total saturation of mental life by distributed capitalist media, representation is the denial, indeed the negation, and finally the impossibility of reality. Its functioning is, in short, the very definition of psychosis. Representation wholesale is now the active production of non-being. Like the state and the banks that are themselves constituted in it, representation, visual and linguistic, is structured by a matrix of pathologistical processes, and is today totally bankrupt. And this bankruptcy unfolds even as it mounts various exploits and derivatives—abstractions—to stave off a final accounting. If in service of the preservation of the historically and now evermore precariously constituted ego, psychosis entails the denial of reality, then speaking at all today may be its number one symptom. Because the reality is that, at least as far as capital is concerned, we do not exist. Shall we prove otherwise?” - Jonathan Beller, “PATHOLOGISTICS OF ATTENTION”, p155, Psychopathologies_of_Cognitive_Capitalism1.pdf “The root of our problems with the environment comes from a lack of constraint on the growth of population. There is no single right number of people that we can have as a goal: the number varies with our way of life on the planet and the state of its health.” - James Lovelock, “The Revenge of Gaia”, p206 “If we can overcome the self-generated threat of deadly climate change, caused by our massive destruction of eco-systems and global pollution, our next task will be to ensure that our numbers are always commensurate with our and Gaia's capacity to nourish them. Personally I think we would be wise to aim at a stabilised population of about half to one billion, and then we would be free to live in many different ways without harming Gaia. At first this may seem a difficult, unpalatable, even hopeless task, but events during the last century suggest that it might be easier than we think. Thus in prosperous societies, when women are given a fair chance to develop their potential they choose voluntarily to be less fecund. It is only a small step towards a better way of living with Gaia, and it has brought with it problems of a distorted age structure in society and dysfunctional family life, but it is a seed of optimism from which other voluntary controls could grow and surely far better than the cold concept of eugenics that withered in its own amorality.” - ibid, p207

thx andon hristov seldt, its an oil painting on board, placed in an old frame.

In the decor of the spectacle, the eye meets only things and their prices.

^ what he said.

^ +1, spotted here recently on a boomer caravan's bumper lol:

^ that loox p f tasty; track 1 by Darrin Verhagen !

“Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible.” Yes, he actually said this.

^ finished the above. iStruggle w. academic writing, but thankfully this series is just a collection of shorter papers all based around the information economy; a bit heavy going, but worth it for the ideas imo. A̗̝͚̤̥̦̩̯̝̟̤̥̻̬͉͉̜̟̱̿ͧ̓ͥͨͪ͐̈́ͯ͒̚̕͞A̢̟̻͔͙̞͉̯̱̝̜͙̞̠͈͎̐ͩ̈̌͌͛̆̍̒̇͑̀͠Ả̶̴̖̯̮̣̮̝̝̣͖̱̫̥̲̮̝̰͌͋̌͐̓ͤͥ͟͢A̙̞̣̔ͤ͒ͧͭͥ̾ͦ̀̀͟A̵̸̸̖̼̪̮̝͇͙̼̫̘̦̲͈̦ͪͬͫ̈́̒̏ͦͯ͘͜ͅA̶̸̢̞̖͕̣͉̭̘̦̲̤̪̦̒͂̆̓ͨͭ̽ͧ̾ͭ͛̈́͒͌̈͌ͣ̚͡Ḁ̴̛̦͍̘̰̠̙͎̠̝̬̘̭͎͑͊̔ͤͮͧ͊͐͢͞͡ͅĀ̵͇̳̟͎͖͓̼͗ͨ̆̿̽̂͊́́͞͝ͅͅͅȀ̡̢͍̼͓̺̥̱ͩ͌͊ͦ̌̎̒̋̀ͥ̓̐ͭA̷̧͚͈̦̠̝̣̮͔̟̿̾ͭ̎ͥ̀̈́̄́ /10 will read some comic books, then on to: Psychopathologies_of_Cognitive_Capitalism_Part_2

poor Eraserhead baby ?

is that a high school foto of Mega Karen ?