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‘When we look at ourselves in relation to the geological, you see how enmeshed and tied up we are with the inorganic,” she explains, using the pigment granules that make her skin brown as an example, or the way stone and skeleton are comprised of the same minerals.

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cleaned up, well-produced electronic music often reproduces white privilege & the hierarchical lies of the expert-making university complex’

-Elysia Crampton

You shall not go down twice the same river, nor can you go home again. That he knew; indeed it was the basis of his view of the world. Yet from that acceptance of transience he evolved his vast theory, wherein what is most changeable is shown to be fullest of eternity, and your relationship to the river, and the river’s relationship to you and to itself, turns out to be at once more complex and more reassuring than a mere lack of identity. You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

White people must carry an Indian deep inside themselves.
If the interior Indian is male
then he must be a warrior, especially if he is inside a white man.
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In the Great American Indian novel, when it is finally written,
all of the white people will be Indians and all of the Indians will be ghosts.

-Sherman Alexie

‘Man, Sartre tells us, is “a being who makes himself a lack of being in order that there might be being.”’

“There is a long-standing relationship between drug consumption and the cultural understanding of landscape. From Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater to the M25 raves of the late 1980s, new perspectives, new uses and new ideas of landscape come about through the way that drug use allows us to see. If we think of Jim Morrison driving into the Mojave Desert to take mescaline, the Beatles with a harmonium in a tree, the situationists hyped on varied substances wandering the backstreets of Paris, or Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters wiring up sound systems around a valley to distort perceptions of distance and proximity, we might be assembling an atlas of drug-induced landscape research.”

‘The etymological origin of the word “recipe” offers a further insight into the nature of the exchange. The word finds its root in the Latin word reciperere, meaning simultaneously “to give and to receive”.

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In these terms, the recipe itself—especially in its embodiment as instructed actions—needs to be understood as a vector for establishing the uncanny barriers of signification erected by the bounds of the cookbook itself as a haunted site of death, enchantment, and revenant signs. In this way, eating, a vital and animated activity, is “disturbingly blended with death, decomposition and the corpse.”‘

“Over 45 years ago Susan Sontag wrote that redundancy—an experience of joblessness or irrelevance—was the chief affliction of modern life”

‘The picture Houellebecq paints across the nightclubs, resorts and restaurants of the West is of a society that understands the facts but won’t spell them out—where concern for the body (health, beauty, sensation, etc.) has been raised to a cultural zenith, only without any corresponding apparatus to give meaning to decline and death. This, he opines, is the bleak consequence of the ongoing march of consumer capitalism—“which, turning youth into the supremely desirable commodity, had little by little destroyed respect for tradition and the cult of the ancestors—inasmuch as it promised the indefinite preservation of this same youth, and the pleasures associated with it.”’

“An academic definition of Lynchian might be that the term refers to a particular kind of irony where the very macabre and the very mundane combine in such a way as to reveal the former’s perpetual containment within the latter.”