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Running on
Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilization.
"Time
is increasingly a key manifestation of the estrangement and
humiliation that characterize modern existence."1a
HUSSERL
BAUDRILLARD
"The
formation of a calendar is basic to the formation of a
civilization. The calendar was the first symbolic artifact
that regulated social behavior by keeping track of time."1b
"
. . . [C]apital
is increasingly technologized. . . The people who think
that it's about surfing the Net and exchanging e-mail with your
cousin in Idaho or something, obviously neglect the fact that
the movement of capital is the computer's basic function."1c
"From
the Latin re, or thing, reification is
essentially thingification."1d
"
. . . Anarchism is the attempt to eradicate all
forms of domination. This includes not only such obvious
forms as the nation-state, with its routine use of
violence and
the force of law, and the corporation, with its
institutionalized
irresponsibility, but also such internalized forms of patriarchy,
racism, homophobia. . .
. . . Most fundamentally I would see Anarchism as a synonym for
anti-authoritarianism."1e
"
. . . Euclid developed his geometry, literally meaning
"land measuring," explicitly to measure fields for reasons of
ownership, taxation, and slave labor. Today the same
imperative drives science, only now it is the entire universe we
are trying to measure and enslave."1f
"The
liberty that remains to us is essentially the freedom to
choose among brands A, B, and C, and the KFC in Tienanmen
Square expresses domination as surely as the suppression of human
rights protesters there in 1989."1g
"A
qualitatively different life would entail abolishing
exchange, in every form, in favor of the gift and the
spirit of play."1h
FRIEDMAN
"The
ultimate pleasure lies in destroying that which is
destroying us, in the spirit of the Situationists, who, when
asked how they were going to destroy the dominant culture,
replied, 'In two ways: gradually at
first, then suddenly.'"1i
"
. . .
[D]istrust of
public institutions is almost total."1j
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Italics in the original.
1 John Zerzan
(b. 1943).
Running on
Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilization.
John Zerzan, 2002. Los Angeles, CA: Feral House.
a
Time and Its
Discontents, at 17.
b Ibid., at 25.
c
Against
Technology, at 46.
d That Thing We Do, at 53.
e
Enemy of the
State, at 67-68.
f
Ibid., at 77-78.
g
The Age of
Nihilism, at 114.
h
Postscript to
Future Primitive re the Transition, at 118.
i
We All Live in
Waco, at 150.
j
We Have to
Dismantle All This, at 159.
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