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there is no longer an identifiable external enemy inspo/misc

[...] it was easy for the advocates of post-Fordist Capital to present themselves as the opponents of the status quo, bravely resisting an inertial organized labor 'pointlessly' invested in fruitless ideological antagonism which served the ends of union leaders and politicians, but did little to ad…

—p.34 Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? October 6, 1979: 'Don't let yourself get attached to anything' (31) by Mark Fisher
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for the pale to hurry across the deck

[...] It's way too easy for the pale to hurry across the deck, past the thick, light-wobbling window, and not once hear rap as anything but the weird anthemic march of one Other'd nation, marginalized and yet trapped in our own metropolitan center, a nation that cannot secede and may not assimilate…

—p.40 Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present by David Foster Wallace, Mark Costello
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capital won archive/dissertation inspo/anti-capitalism

On the contrary, the explanation is far more straightforward: capital won. Sometimes with armies, sometimes with persuasion, sometimes with money, and sometimes by accident, but it won. For at least the last thirty or forty years, and this is increasingly true in nominally "noncapitalist" nation-st…

—p.222 Disassembly Required: A Field Guide to Actually Existing Capitalism Disassembly Required, or, This Will Not Be Easy (199) by Geoff Mann
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of self I had little inspo/interiority
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Maybe that time is so blurry to me--more even than my drinking time--because we remember through a filter of self, and of self I had little, having been flattened like a cartoon coyote by an inner anvil. With no self, experience streams past. Time lags until it's sponged up. [...]

—p.259 Lit Self Help (163) by Mary Karr
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arrests into violent stasis inspo/setting

[...] The room is swirling with our invectives when--in the doorway--there stands Dev in his three-year-old body. He's naked and gap-mouthed. All the raging that swirls around us arrests into violent stasis. The fury in the room dispels itself like smoke siphoned up with a hose.

—p.187 Self Help (163) by Mary Karr