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“It's in the silence after you feel you hear.”

— James Joyce, Ulysses

“Many ancient societies built their governments on the foundations of secretive languages — from hieroglyphs to Latin Bibles — indecipherable to the slavish masses who constructed their pyramids, great walls, and cathedrals. The process of governing was 'secret' in the sense that these secret languag…”

— Michael Truscello, The Architecture of Information: Open Source Software and Tactical Poststructuralist Anarchism

“Cruel it seems. Let people get fond of each other: lure them on. Then tear asunder. Death.”

— James Joyce, Ulysses

“A moral code reduces a bodily multiplicity to a single affective relation.”

— Peta Malins, Machinic Assemblages: Deleuze, Guattari and an Ethico-Aesthetics of Drug Use

“There are several ways of botching your body without organs. If you unleash it with too violent of an action, if you blow apart the strata without precaution, then instead of engendering the plane you will be plunged into a sewn-up hole. The hypochondriac body, the paranoid body, the schizo body, th…”

— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

“Big is relative. Yes, the digital startups have gotten big by publisher standards — but they’re small compared to Google and Facebook. Those companies have formed an effective duopoly, taking in more than 40 percent of the still-fast-growing digital ad business in the U.S. (and probably more in Euro…”

— Ken Dcot, Newsonomics: With new roadblocks for digital news sites, what happens next?

“In the world being born, video content trumps text, and more mere scribes, of all ages and of all digital skill levels, are finding themselves unwanted. The ad tail is wagging the new digital news dog, at a quickening pace.”

— Ken Doctor, Newsonomics: With new roadblocks for digital news sites, what happens next?

“Under capitalism: You will be organized, you will be an organism. You will be a subject, nailed down as one.”

— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

“Remember the Pew study that found that more than 5,000 new, fairly decently paying journalism jobs had been created by digital news startups? I often contrasted that increase with the great losses suffered by the local and regional newspaper industry. Those losses now stand at more than 25,000 acros…”

— Ken Doctor, Newsonomics: With new roadblocks for digital news sites, what happens next?

“The lines of flight coil and start to swirl in black holes, like a snail. Down instead of high. Instead of making a body without organs sufficiently rich for the passage of intensities the creative line turns into a line of abolition.”

— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

“var insert = queryize.insert; var q = insert() .into('users', 'u') .set({name: 'John Doe', email: 'user@example.com'}) .compile();”

— Jarvis Badgley, Queryize.js

“These visions, these auditions, this process of driving words from one end of the universe to the other, it is delirium.”

— Gilles Deleuze, Essays Critical and Clinical

“Admiring an old picture is the same as pouring our sensibility into a funerary urn instead of hurling it far off, in violent spasms of action and creation.”

— Filippo T. Marinetti, The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism

“In the reciprocity of recognition lies the greatness of the concept.”

— Carl Schmitt, Ex Captivitate Salus. Erfahrungen der Zeit 1945/47

“We think that at every moment we are masters of our actions; but if we look back on the course of our lives and in particular bear in mind our unfortunate steps together with their consequences, we often do not understand how we could do this or omit to do that, so that it looks as if a stranger pow…”

— Arthur Schopenhauer, Transcendent Speculation

“My purpose: to demonstrate the absolute oppressiveness of all events and the application of moral distinctions as conditioned by perspective; to demonstrate how everything praised as moral is identical in essence with everything immoral and was made possible, as in every development of morality, wit…”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will To Power

“All ideals are dangerous: because they debase and brand the actual; all are poisons, but indispensable as temporary cures.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will To Power

“Christianity is still possible at any time. It is not tied to any dogma. It requires neither the doctrine of a personal God, nor that of sin, nor that of immortality, nor that of redemption, nor that of faith. Christianity is a way of life, not a system of beliefs. It tell us how to act, not what we…”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will To Power

“Here is a little ideal I stumble upon once every five weeks on a wild and lonely walk, in an azure moment of sinful happiness. To spend one’s life amid delicate and absurd things; a stranger to reality; half an artist, half a bird and metaphysician; with no care for reality.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will To Power

“Locked in the deadly progression of moon and stars.”

— John Gardner, Grendel