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liminal_d wrote (edited )

I don't know if you're still harboring an interest in this; but if you do, I know there's an upcoming book by Fabien Schiedler (I suspect he may have Marxist sympathies as Zero Books is publishing) called 'The End of the Megamachine'. I have little idea what this book will include, though I believe it may include a friendly simile or two you might appreciate.

Just for the hell and opportunity of purging myself, my interest lies in discovering Fabien's reasoning and selection of pre-Capitalist systems of domination. I'm gonna try contacting him to see if his book is something I'd be interested in seeking out.

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An_Old_Big_Tree wrote

Can't remember anything like that unfortunately!

Completely unrelated, but the train image reminds me of Benjamin's angel of history image.

This is how the Angel of History must look. His face is turned towards the past. Where a chain of events appears before us, he sees one single catastrophe, which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it at its feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from paradise and has got caught in his wings; it is so strong that the angel can no longer close them. This storm drives him irresistibly into the future, to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows toward the sky. What we call progress is this storm.

It's quoted in baedan, quoting Edelman, among other places. It's a nice image to work into their temporality stuff.

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