Saturday, January 31, 2009

End of January













Ruthy is promoted to Ober Storm Bahn Fuhrer at the US Cencus Bureau.

She is presently inspecting fortifications in Rhode Island in preparation for the spring offensive against the Department of Weights and Measures.


I will post this to see if it works and to see what you all think.


Dubord by the drop -

“But for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, appearance to essence . . . truth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred. Sacredness is in fact held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest degree of sacredness.”
—Feuerbach, Preface to the second edition of The Essence of Christianity

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In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation.