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As this recursive expression of the anaesthetic takes hold of the situation, having your neighborhood mapped by satellites and filmed by drones and then turned to rubble is only the first step of a process which then compels the ruins and death and destruction to be documented and circulated online. Life and death come to *make sense* only as data points within a military campaign, only as violent blips to be recognized and registered within the same genocidal apparatus that effectuates them.
Anaesthetic Violence
illwill.com
My foolish eyes bathe themselves in salt.
The Book of Malachi
T.C. Farren
I think it makes sense that people are looking back wistfully to a time before the natural world started dying, before our shared cultural forms degraded into mass marketing and before our cities and towns became anonymous employment hubs.
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally Rooney
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