Valentines to give your twin. Er, I mean, crush.
Author: blablablaandgabbler
[BLA and GB GABBLER are two halves of the pen name behind the CIRCO DEL HERRERO series. Vol. 2, THE PRE-PROGRAMMING out now!]
Quotes from _Something in the Woods Loves You_ by Jarod Anderson
“Beyond the illusion of objectivity, shame also shifts our focus away from the real time and place of our power. Our agency dwells in the present moment. The here and now is the place where we can actively exercise control. It becomes impossible to access our power to shape our lives and outlooks when shame is forever shoving us into memories of a painful past and twisted assumptions about tomorrow. Abstract narratives of failure and hopelessness keep our attention on spaces where we truly have no ability to effect change. Depression and shame force us to practice and rehearse powerlessness until it feels like a defining feature of who we are.”
“Shame often arises from a judgement of our life’s project as a whole, unified work. I was well acquainted with shame and sadness as a child, but I also had a friend in nature, a friend that constantly reminded me that our lives do no require formal interrogation. That we don’t live as mathematical sums of events, successes and failures. Our lives exist in their realest form here, in this exact moment, and when we apply ourselves to fully witnessing the here and now of our strange and beautiful universe, shame becomes an illusion, just a trick of the light.”
Quotes from ON EXTINCION by Ben Ware
“It is not therefore, as King Lear warns his daughter Cordelia, that ‘nothing will come from nothing,’ but precisely the opposite: something can come only from nothing; only less can become more; only humanity at its nadir stands any chance of being redeemed. This dialectic is neatly captured in Sophocles’s Oedipus at Colonus, when the blind Oedipus divested of his power and identity, asks his daughter Ismene: ‘am I made a man in this hour when I cease to be?’ Here we might re-phrase this remark for assertively: it is only now that I recognize myself as nothing – as nothing more than a disposable piece of shit for the system0 0that my true political subjectivity, my revolutionary agency, materializes for me.”
“De-extinction…responds to an absence – or rather a perceived series of absences – in nature; but rather than tarrying with loss, it rushes instead to provide a technoscientific ‘fix.’ This attempt to fill out nature’s ‘lack,’ to cork the ecological hole, is quite clearly a drive towards master: an attempt to turn everything – including life itself – into a repeatable, replaceable commodity, a source of surplus value. But the consequences of such Promethean moves turn out to be very strange indeed. For if, in the end, there is no end to creaturely life but only the possibility of infinite biotechnological reversals and repetitions, then life itself begins to appear under a new aspect: what we might call the biotechnological uncanny…
In seeking to ‘reverse’ death, de-extinction ultimately becomes inseparable from extermination: to exterminate literally means to deprive something of its end, to deprive it of its term. Understood in this sense, the de-extinctionist death drive really does culminate in destruction; but it is destruction that coincides with the ecstatic enjoyment of ‘new scientific creation.’”
On Extinction by Ben Ware
Subversive acts
