Mark Fisher in 2009, writing about a pattern of behavior in late capitalism that sounds exactly like doomscrolling and watching short form video a decade and a half later.
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I make websites and draw cartoons for my kids and my co-workers. I love #indieComics and obsessively collect #guidedByVoices related vinyl. I used to teach Latin in public schools. Still a union worker. #indieRock #webdev #cartoonist #indieweb #fedi22 I’m also on Mastodon and at denmchenry.com.
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Den started reading Selected Poems by Bertolt Brecht
Den rated Why Look At Animals: 5 stars
Den finished reading Why Look At Animals by John Berger
Den started reading The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin (DUPLICATE)
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Den finished reading A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (DUPLICATE) (The Earthsea Cycle Series, #1)
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (The Earthsea Cycle Series, #1)
Originally published in 1968, Ursula K. Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea marks the first of the six now beloved …
Den started reading A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (The Earthsea Cycle Series, #1)
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (The Earthsea Cycle Series, #1)
Originally published in 1968, Ursula K. Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea marks the first of the six now beloved …
Den finished reading Doppelganger by Naomi Klein
Doppelganger by Naomi Klein
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self—a double who was almost you and yet …
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Doppelganger by Naomi Klein
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self—a double who was almost you and yet …
Den started reading Inverting the pyramid : a history of football tactics by Jonathan Wilson
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Den quoted Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher
It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. …
Like Burroughs, Spinoza shows that, far from being an aberrant condition, addiction is the standard state for human beings, who are habitually enslaved into reactive and repetitive behaviors by frozen images (of themselves and the world). Freedom, Spinoza shows, is something that can be achieved only when we can apprehend the real causes of our actions, when we can set aside the 'sad passions' that intoxicate and entrance us.