The Dystopian

Calling out the future in the 'Age of Disruption'. Online magazine focusing on: #writing #art #film #publishing #pandemia

[The Dystopian @dystopianmag]

‘...once you acquire a taste for absolute power there is little to do other than scheme about how you might hang on to it.’

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[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Rishi Sunak on Labour overturning two massive Tory majorities

“We have work to do, but it shows that there isn’t a huge amount of enthusiasm for the alternative in Keir Starmer and the Labour Party. And that’s because they don’t have a plan.”

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Agnes Varda / Ulysse

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The central joke in Kafka’s work is that “[t]he horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from that horrific struggle. That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home.”
—David Foster Wallace

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"Inadequate writers, methadone stubbies
You got energy vampires...
A mess of our age
A mess of my taste
A mess of our nervous systems"

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"People only need me when they're down and gone to seed [...]
It's appreciation half won.
And they hate their allegiance to hip preacher one."
–Hip Priest
#FallFriday #TheFall

[Samantha Rose Hill @Samantharhill]

Hannah Arendt defines the banality of evil as the "simple resistance ever to imagine what another person is experiencing."

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"She passed through strange dead cities where, rather than petrified shapes, mummified circumstances, she found a necropolis of movements, silences, voids; she hurled herself against the extraordinary sonority of nothingness..."

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As antidote to horizontality the Void is always an option

[Samantha Rose Hill @Samantharhill]

The holidays are coming!

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Scratches… after Leiris… a disappearance… and a love like shrapnel lodged in flesh…
Blanchot’s ‘The Writing of the Disaster’ meets Ballard’s ‘The Atrocity Exhibition’ …

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“Things were somehow so good that they were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close to rotting.”
Clarice Lispector

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In the time of ice, push deeper into Ice.

"Yet I suddenly felt an indescribable affinity with him, a sort of blood-contact, generating confusion, so that I began to wonder if there were... two of us..."
–Anna Kavan

[Samantha Rose Hill @Samantharhill]

Reading a book Reading Twitter

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At art school, Kiefer was my route to Paul Celan...
While trying to decipher those weird word scratches on gigantic monuments to eternity, I stumbled into Death Fugue...
"your golden hair Margarete
your ashen hair Shulamit"

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"Celan does not merely contemplate nothingness, he has experienced it, lived through it." –Anselm Kiefer

"Tall poplars – human beings of this earth!
Black ponds of happiness – you mirror them to death!
I saw you, sister, stand in that effulgence."
–Paul Celan, from Landscape

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The cat section in Thomas The Obscure possibly as good an illustration of Blanchot’s application/interpretation of ‘Kafkaesque’ as you’ll read in such a tight space... death, death’s absence, erasure, forgetting, transformation...

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A̶ ̶b̶r̶e̶a̶k̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶o̶u̶t̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶s̶i̶m̶u̶l̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ …

Strategy in Lautréamont

[Gregg Caruso @GreggDCaruso]

What would we think of the philosophical giants of the past if they had social media accounts? Can you imagine Kant and Hume going at it on twitter. Or the outrageous things Nietzsche would be posting. On the whole, we would probably think less of them. Something to consider.

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RIP Mr Keith Levene. Devastating news. One of the most creative people I ever knew. He was like an ideas machine that never turned off, and supreme musician as he was, it wasn't just about music. An artist in the truest sense. Sending love to Kate, and sister Jill.

[Samantha Rose Hill @Samantharhill]

"One has to live and think in the open and not in one's own little shell, no matter how comfortably furnished it is."

— Hannah Arendt