Selective Speculative Realism Inhibitor (SSRI)
— Gregory Marks (@thewastedworld) November 12, 2020
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“One of the foremost tasks of art has always been the creation of a demand which could be fully satisfied only later” (Benjamin).
— Gregory Marks (@thewastedworld) April 13, 2020
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“No matter how the official narrative of this turns out, […] these are the places we should be looking, not in newspapers or television but at the margins, graffiti, uncontrolled utterances, bad dreamers who sleep in public and scream in their sleep” (Pynchon, BE 322).
— Gregory Marks (@thewastedworld) February 9, 2020
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“Absolute deterritorialization is not defined as a giant accelerator; its absoluteness does not hinge on how fast it goes. It is actually possible to reach the absolute by way of phenomena of relative slowness or delay” (Deleuze & Guattari, ATP 56).
— Gregory Marks (@thewastedworld) January 17, 2020
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“Music is never tragic, music is joy. But there are times it necessarily gives us a taste for death; not so much happiness as dying happy, being extinguished. […] Peace and exasperation. Music has a thirst for destruction…” (Deleuze & Guattari ATP, 299).
— Gregory Marks (@thewastedworld) January 6, 2020
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Nothing human makes it out of the medium-to-long-term future!
— Gregory Marks (@thewastedworld) December 13, 2019
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“Nothing human makes it out of the near future.”
— Gregory Marks (@thewastedworld) December 13, 2019
—Land, literally a quarter of a century ago
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McKenzie Wark (2015) on the ecopolitical factions of Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy: On the new planet the Greens are the terraformers, for whom “nature is synonymous with life.” Whereas for the Reds “nature is prior to life, greater than life:” the alien planet itself. pic.twitter.com/p4eLa4np7D
— Gregory Marks (@thewastedworld) November 18, 2019
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“Lifeforms are lagoons, repressed pockets of forgetting, temporarily protecting themselves against the outside that created them and will destroy them” (Mackay 2012, 28). pic.twitter.com/kTg0vRQcI9
— Gregory Marks (@thewastedworld) November 15, 2019
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Pynchon on the secularisation of Sloth, as a sin no longer against God but “against a particular sort of time, uniform, one-way, in general not reversible—that is, against clock time, which got everybody early to bed and early to rise.” pic.twitter.com/r9CI67MiHA
— Gregory Marks (@thewastedworld) July 30, 2019
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“Omnicide examines the potential for every idea, without exception, to undergo this deadly extrapolation—to be wielded not as truth, but as a nascent compulsion which, at the limit, will command the razing of everything in its path” pic.twitter.com/vdsNUwiprS
— Gregory Marks (@thewastedworld) June 2, 2019
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Three emoji thesis for philosophers:
— Gregory Marks (@thewastedworld) February 3, 2019
• Deleuze: 🥚🦞🥔
• Haraway: 🤖🤝🐶
• Bataille: 🌞💦🌍
• Adorno: 🚘🙅♂️📺
• Benjamin: 💨👼🔥
• Barthes: 📖✍️😵
• Agamben: 🔜⛓😶
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Hayles: “Think of the Turing test as a magic trick” (1999, xiv). pic.twitter.com/W5TCu6GdSB
— Gregory Marks (@thewastedworld) January 16, 2019
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A rare good take on Deleuze & Guattari’s rhizome as an “anti-method” that works against “the puritanical bureaucracy of the academic spirit” (Zourabichvili 2012). pic.twitter.com/zbhQz3OZ2l
— Gregory Marks (@thewastedworld) December 1, 2018
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1- Communicates theory through fictive devices – not philosophical fiction, but fictive philosophy.
— Gregory Marks (@thewastedworld) July 12, 2018
2- Practices theory outside the confines of the “high” academic style.
3- Occupies the growing intersection between reality, fiction, theory, and fantasy.
4- I want to read it.
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A Theory-Fiction Reading List: pic.twitter.com/53rB5CL6Lm
— Gregory Marks (@thewastedworld) July 12, 2018
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I’m putting together a reading list of theory-fiction and looking for more examples. What would you recommend?
— Gregory Marks (@thewastedworld) July 11, 2018
Playing loose with the definition to include both theory-heavy memoirs and more experimental works of speculative fabulation: pic.twitter.com/BHkQhTfs5L
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