For over a century, wars and technologies have dreamed of being ahead of their day. In reality, however, they are forced to engage in recursions that burrow into ever deeper pasts.

Jussi Parikka, The Anthrobscene [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library]

Hermetic quote Parikka Anthobscene wars technologies dreamed being ahead reality forced engage recursions burrow deeper pasts

Consider also:

  1. “We feed the web, nurture the memepool, tend the light. Always pushing forward, hacking the collective. Never give up. Never surrender.”
  2. “Dionysos: My eyes were wide open. He teaches the mysteries personally. Pentheus: What form do these mysteries take? Dionysos: That’s a secret. Not for the uninitiated. Pentheus: And for the initiated, do they do some good? Dionysos: You cannot know that. But it is worth knowing. “
  3. “A moment later Doyle was reflecting that liquor was even more effective than pain—or, probably, throwing up—in reconciling one to reality.”
  4. “Of such banality was grief made.”
  5. David Tibet’s first solo exhibition in the US “Magog at the Maypole (Sex of Stars)” at White Columns in New York on March 3rd through April 14th