Saturday, March 10, 2018

Marcuse on Trumplandia


Herbert Marcuse, describing Nazism in 1941: “This machine, which embraces the life of men everywhere, is the more terrifying since, with all its efficiency and precision, it is totally incalculable and unpredictable. Nobody, except perhaps the few “insiders”, knows when and where it will strike. It seems to move by virtue of its own necessity and is still flexible and obedient to the slightest change in the set-up of the ruling groups. All human relations are absorbed by the objective wheelwork of control and expansion.” “Under the terror that now threatens the world the ideal constricts itself to one single and at the same time common issue. Faced with fascist barbarism, everyone knows what freedom means.” Herbert Marcuse, 'State and Individual Under National Socialism' (1941), reprinted in Technology, War and Fascism, Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse, ed. Douglas Kellner, Routledge, 1998, p. 78. 'Some Social Implications of Modern Technology,” Studies in Philosophy and Social Science, Vol. 9, Nr. 3 (1941): 435f.

Friday, March 9, 2018

order to emerge, from SEAP


order to emerge

after Patrick Doud


Surfaced making axis
traveling
the traveling realm

on the hook
the receiver
repeatedly

where
I saw the new brood of the mole wet
blind & contagious

vital in the depths lake-weed interferes
through the glowing

to
behold the beast's antlered heart wrapped
in thorny vine

unbearable lines developed