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i must say that of all the curious effects of implosion that have visited themselves on conservative ideology, the retreat into some facile relativism is the most interesting.
on the one hand, you have an economic ideology which links to a vision of the social world that naturalizes frame conditions--like infrastructure---so which reproduces a photographic understanding of the world. what's real is what moves between fixed points. what explains that fixity is nature or some god.
on the other, you get a voluntarism: it is thus because i will it.
it's hard to understand how these two positions fit together except in the context of implosion, and that as a way of dealing with implosion by erasing the possibility of experiencing it.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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