Quantified Life: An Interview With Sun-Ha Hong

Could say if there is any correlation between capitalist surplus value and the excess enjoyment in fantasy,,,?

A certain excess which was ..kept in check.., perceived as a local perversion, a limited deviation, is elevated in capitalism to the very principle of social lifeIn the ..movement of money begetting more money, ..the thing can survive only as its own excess, constantly exceeding its own ‘normal’ constraints- ZIZEK

"The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless. .... The only truths that are useful are instruments to be thrown away. ... Fear prophets, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them. ... Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth. ..."

Umberto Eco, 'The Name of the Rose', Vintage Books, London, 2004.

Skysoaked: Jibanananda Das

Reblogged from translations:

Suranjana, you better not go there You better not talk to that young man Come back, Suranjana When silver starfire fills the night

Come back to this meadow, this wave Come back here to my heart Don’t go away with him anymore Fa…

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अनन्त का छंद - 4

अनन्त का छंद – 4 प्रसन्न कुमार चौधरी मनुष्य का अस्तित्व क. सामान्य 45. मनुष्य के अस्तित्व की एक विलक्षणता यह है कि वह अपने विकसित मस्तिष्क के साथ जन्म ही नहीं ले सकता ।22 उसके मस्तिष्क का पूर्ण विकास जन्म के डेढ़-दो साल बाद जाकर सम्पन्न होता है । उसके अस्तित्व की इस विलक्षणता के कारण उसकी प्रोग्रेमिंग में एक फांक उत्पन्न हो जाती है । वह पूरी तरह नियोजित प्राणी नहीं है । नियोजन की यह कमी ही…

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IMG_0333 by Pooja Pant on Flickr.

Working Women's Day Celebrations, Nepal.

Helen Levitt, Children with Soap Bubbles, New York City, c. 1945

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art:

Helen Levitt’s photographs of everyday life in her own New York neighborhood have epitomized domestic urban life for over sixty years. This image of children - one of her most common subjects - demonstrates Levitt’s astute portrayal of gesture, praised as “lyrical” by James Agee in the introduction to her book, A Way of Seeing. As the viewer’s attention echoes the children’s glance toward the left of the scene, the picture poses a riddle as to the bubbles’ source, transforming this gritty city street into a magical metropolitan playground.

The Digital is Political

The Digital is Political

The political ideas we have held for centuries are ill-equipped to respond to today’s challenges.

Source: The Digital is Political

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The Brazilian government has strongly rejected suggestions by two U.S. anthropologists that the only way to protect the country’s isolated tribes would be to establish contact with them.

In the Shadow of the Trylon, New York World’s Fair, 1939, Stanley Rayfield