°Giovanni Arrighi (1937-2009)

June 20, 2009

“There is always an element of contingency.” - Giovanni Arrighi, from “The Winding Paths of Capital,” interviewed by David Harvey. NLR, March/April 2009.


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°Waste

March 24, 2009

I’ve been meaning to post a bit of (and re-read) Mary Catherine Foltz’s excellent “The Excremental Ethics of Samuel R. Delany” (SubStance, 37:2) for some time. Here it be:


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°With Usura

March 16, 2009

- Ezra Pound.


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°exorbitant

[via M-W] 1 : not coming within the scope of the law
2 : exceeding the customary or appropriate limits in intensity, quality, amount, or size


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°What doesn’t kill you makes you stranger

October 14, 2008

Right this very moment, and due to various long-named chemicals and some nuclear matter (for a heart scan) being injected, I’m both radioactive and have acid for blood. Or, in the scientific jargon and as it was put to me: my blood is “necrotic to flesh”, and so, perhaps not really corrosive of spaceship hulls. (Though, since there are no spaceships about I might test this on, I remain quietly confident of my destructive scope.) That said, if, for the moment at least, long naps and a prohibition on sharing bodily fluids are all this induces, I can’t say there’s more fun in it than the obvious jokes. (I was also offered having “a port” surgically implanted, to get around difficult to find veins - the jokes about Cronenberg and bioports proved a little more obscure.)


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°That nocturnal, irreducibly animal faculty

October 4, 2008

A couple of fragments from the first chapter, “Murriana”, of Daniel Heller-Roazen’s The Inner Touch: Archaeology of a Sensation:

It is night, but a cat is awake and, if we take him at his word, he has never been more alert.


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°Self-experiment

August 27, 2008




Meme-wise
, and to celebrate my escape, if only temporary, from Manticor. (Ok, that final denouement is not from the film (stoopid remix), but everyone knows how it goes The Manticor reference is, of course, from elsewhere, but not at all unrelated.)


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