Politics Of Everyday Fear by Brian Massumi

By Brian Massumi

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Said the drunken Aztec poet— "when our continent still had no name 41 42 & we had no foreign tongues to lick the things of the world nicaya the funky days of my childhood are over the crystal days of my childhood were shattered by their arrival. "—he screamed while holding a bottle of Sauza as a wireless mike— "who called you by the way? " Chicano shaman freezes in the video screen Chicano murals are X-rays of his memory, no one was there to imagine that this land of encounters called Califas would be mortally sliced in half Chicanes & Mexicanos nos otros & otros los amputados del mas alia del what you say.

JOHN HINCKLEY • CHARLES MANSON • HILLSIDE STRANGLER • MARK CHAPMAN Personalized stationery is one of the small but truly necessary luxuries of life. —TedBundy, mass murderer The mass media work to short-circuit the event. They blur the event's specific content into an endless series of "like" events. ) "Like" events rush past. No sooner does one happen than it is a hasbeen. The who, what, when, and where become a what no? "). Retrospective analysis is replaced by a shudder and a shrug, memory quickly elided by expectation.

Character is the derivative of a power equation. It is power determined, as presence-effect. Emotional makeup is the face power turns toward the predictably unbalanced, salably empty content of an individual life (serialized small-scale capitalist crisis). Life's a soap—when it's not a disaster with your name written on it. JOHN HINCKLEY • CHARLES MANSON • HILLSIDE STRANGLER • MARK CHAPMAN Personalized stationery is one of the small but truly necessary luxuries of life. —TedBundy, mass murderer The mass media work to short-circuit the event.

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