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a trusted friend's eyes, or a mirror archive/silicon-jest

[...] If the examiner looks at the documentarian instead of the camera, it can appear evasive or coerced. It's not optimal, and the prebriefer's advice is to look into the camera as one would a trusted friend's eyes, or a mirror, depending.

—p.105 The Pale King §14 (102) by David Foster Wallace
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the long, dark night of the end of history

The long, dark night of the end of history has to be grasped as an enormous opportunity. The very oppressive pervasiveness of capitalist realism means that even glimmers of alternative political and economic possibilities can have a disproportionately great effect. The tiniest event can tear a hole…

—p.80 Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? Marxist Supernanny (71) by Mark Fisher
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a rival to Capital, but a reaction to it

[...] One of the left's vices is its endless rehearsal of historical debates, its tendency to keep going after Kronsdadt or the New Economic Policy rather than planning and organizing for a future that it really believes in. The failure of previous forms of anti-capitalist political organization sh…

—p.78 Marxist Supernanny (71) by Mark Fisher
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the effects of a single systemic cause

[...] Against the postmodernist suspicion of grand narratives, we need to reassert that, far from being isolated, contingent problems, these are all the effects of a single systemic cause: Capital. We need to begin, as if for the first time, to develop strategies against a Capital which presents it…

—p.77 Marxist Supernanny (71) by Mark Fisher
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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 October 6, 1979: 'Don't let yourself get attached to anything' (31) by Mark Fisher