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Twitter’s default cynical mode, in this sense, much like Fisher’s personal depression, was not just an issue of social etiquette or individual ego, but of capitalism’s tandem deflation of political consciousness and agency.
Mark Fisher and Russell Brand (Again): With a Note on Talking to the Brick Wall
xenogothic
In such actions it is possible to see how speaking in the voice of the world is not merely imitative. It is a form of solidarity.
Ways of Being
James Bridle
If capitalism is a system which requires a ready supply of people to be dehumanized and exploited, then colonialism is the other side of this coin: that socially organized labor and force which dehumanizes and kills people for material benefit and control. And it is important to understand: colonialism is primary to capitalism - capitalism would never have been possible if not for the (continuous) primitive accumulation of colonial violence.
The Joy of Putting the Gun Down
keweenawspear.com
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