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There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul.
Pattern Recognition
William Gibson
In the disciplinary societies one was always starting again (from school to the barracks, from the barracks to the factory), while in the societies of control one is never finished with anything—the corporation, the educational system, the armed services being metastable states coexisting in one and the same modulation, like a universal system of deformation.
Postscript on the Societies of Control
Gilles Deleuze
Although the event is non-reproducible, irreplaceable, and radically singular, it says itself through the possibility of its re-making and repetition. The event is both radically singular and iterable. This tension constitutes the event by dividing it. That is, the possibility of repetition, of being repeated and re-made, forms the event by dividing it, by rendering it divided.
Derrida on the Event: Singular/Iterable
https://that-which.com/author/hai-ak/
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