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    1. Flower Ornament‏ @msutherl 14 Dec 2019
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      19. I was never one for close readings, but what I took from that encounter was a habit of thinking the psychic, ethical, social, material, aesthetic, machinic, and ecological together as single "plenum" or "space" or "fabric". Every "thing" is all of these things at once.

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    2. Flower Ornament‏ @msutherl 14 Dec 2019
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      20. "The Three Ecologies" is more explicit and clear – certainly easier to decipher. "Ecology" is more than "the set of all 'natural' things" – and as pertains to environmentalism, the social, psychic, and physical inseparably constitute "the environment" https://www.amazon.com/Three-Ecologies-Bloomsbury-Revelations/dp/1472523814/ …

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    3. Flower Ornament‏ @msutherl 14 Dec 2019
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      21. Timothy Morton's "Hyperobjects" adds a useful concept to the toolkit. When we conceptualize, we cleave "things" from this continuous, dense space that is reality – and we might think beyond common "objects" or bounded things conceived in a single register.

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    4. Flower Ornament‏ @msutherl 14 Dec 2019
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      22. A train is a physical object, but what of the train, its passengers, all of their thoughts, how them being together and relocating affects the broader psyche of which they're a part, the track, electrical systems, the business that operates it, its environmental impact.

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    5. Flower Ornament‏ @msutherl 14 Dec 2019
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      23. This train is a hyperobject, and "trains" is a hyperobject. These three trains, here. 'People on trains.' Train wrecks, and all the procedures that surround them. The concept "train wreck."

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    6. Flower Ornament‏ @msutherl 14 Dec 2019
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      24. As such, any description or analysis of the alt-right, or any 'movement,' feels woefully inadequate to me – even not worth putting into words. For me, politics is ethico-aesthetic. It is a way of being, an aesthetics, a language, a languaging, an orientation, an attractor.

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    7. Flower Ornament‏ @msutherl 14 Dec 2019
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      25. And for me – for anyone – something so vast and diffuse only exists as an impression. For a progressive journalist, a conspiracy. Men in a room, a chat room, plotting? For me, a new turn in poetry. A specific way of using images. An emotional tenor.

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    8. Flower Ornament‏ @msutherl 14 Dec 2019
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      26. So, insofar as I can about the alt-right, it's as an art movement. It's something like the Beat Generation – an attitude, and a style – one that feels alive, fresh, generative.

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    9. Flower Ornament‏ @msutherl 14 Dec 2019
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      27. If the left had an equivalent, I'd be into that too. But mainstream power never forms the basis of a meaningful alternative culture. The currency of dissent is taboo.

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    10. Flower Ornament‏ @msutherl 14 Dec 2019
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      28. But I'll contradict myself – the left does have an aesthetic counter-culture. It's called the Contemporary Art World. You've probably never heard of it. It's absolutely as fascinating, rich, and contradictory as the alt-right, but it couldn't be more dissimilar.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 14 Dec 2019
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      Ah getting to duct tape banana 😀

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        2. Flower Ornament‏ @msutherl 14 Dec 2019
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          In my time, @BradTroemel sold Master Locked tacos on Etsy.https://www.papermag.com/artist-brad-troemel-on-his-unusual-online-store-taco-locks-and-why-ets-1426208800.html …

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        3. Flower Ornament‏ @msutherl 14 Dec 2019
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          And before my time, Maurizio Cattelan's entire ouvre was meme-worthy.https://www.perrotin.com/artists/Maurizio_Cattelan/2 …

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