Hello and good morning! Today a bug flew into my eye when I was out grabbing coffee and I was like ‘Ahhhh it’s finally spring!’ So, in honour of that moment, I would like to share this submission with you from new sweet gal pal, Carly Ogonek.
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Thus the present “liberation from labor.” the increase of leisure, is in no way a liberation within labor, nor a liberation from the world shaped by this labor. None of the activity lost in labor can be regained in the submission to its result.
Guy Debord - Society of the Spectacle
(via dropouthangoutspaceout)
I should probably re-read this at some point. It’s been a long time.
A review of what sounds like a fascinating book by the estimable Walter Benn Michaels, though I am fairly sure that I disagree with Michaels w/r/t his position on artistic autonomy.
we spent several decades and trillions of dollars promoting aggressive individualism because we were scared of communism and now we act surprised when young people seem self-absorbed
I wrote about my favourite books of 2015 for the Drawn & Quarterly store blog.