Amusement under late capitalism is the prolongation of work. It is sought after as an escape from the mechanized work process, and to recruit strength in order to be able to cope with it again. But at the same time mechanization has such power over a man’s leisure and happiness, and so profoundly determines the manufacture of amusement goods, that his experiences are inevitably after-images of the work process itself.
— Adorno & Horkheimer, “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception”, Dialectic of Enlightenment
— Adorno & Horkheimer, “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception”, Dialectic of Enlightenment
👍2
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
Early nature documentary made by F. Percy Smith (1880-1945)
To write is certainly not to impose a form (of expression) on the matter of lived experience. Literature rather moves in the direction of the ill-formed or the incomplete [...] Writing is a question of becoming, always incomplete, always in the midst of being formed, and goes beyond the matter of any livable or lived experience. It is a process, that is, a passage of Life that traverses both the livable and the lived. Writing is inseparable from becoming: in writing, one becomes-woman, becomes-animal, or -vegetable, becomes-molecule, to the point of becoming-imperceptible. These becomings may be linked to each other by a particular line [...] or they may coexist at every level, following the doorways, thresholds, and zones that make up the entire universe [...]
Gilles Deleuze (trans. Daniel W. Smith & Michael A. Greco) Literature and Life
Gilles Deleuze (trans. Daniel W. Smith & Michael A. Greco) Literature and Life
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
Early nature documentary made by F. Percy Smith (1880-1945)
👍2❤1