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socialism or barbarism | these fragments i have shored against my ruins | detroit sharedhallucinations.substack.com https://soundcloud.com/life_in_the_rainbow_room

5 Mixes From the Editor's Desk (07/10/26) A new beat masterclass, deep dub cuts, and the origins of a classic mix series Shared's Substack (i hate that it formats like this) SHAREDHALLUCINATIONS.SUBSTACK.COM
Thomas Leer Contradictions
painting of swarms of locusts
podcaster in the video obediently saying "right" to RFK's points as he shamefully looks down and questions his life decisions
The Triumph of Death by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Woah mama they trapped me in the orb Elvis Presley Bowling Ball 75 . Sold
DFW sitting on a stoop holding a book and looking at the camera with an unamused and suspicious look on his face
James Worthy smoking Cigar, packwatch meme
A photo of a table with picnic supplies, beyond it is a view of a couple on a bench and the Detroit skyline
Part 1: "The Dead Flag Blues (Intro)"] The car's on fire and there's no driver at the wheel And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides And a dark wind blows The government is corrupt And we're on so many drugs With the radio on and the curtains drawn We're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine And the machine is bleeding to death
letter in Eyes Wide Shut that reads "Give up your inquiries which are completely useless, and consider these words a second warning. We hope, for your own good, that this will be sufficient."
Front cover of the Penguin Classics edition of Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari's Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism & Schizophrenia which depicts the human body as a series of machines
John Candy in VOLUNTEERS (1985) becoming a Maoist saying "Our enemies are all around us"
the murderer in Fritz Lang's M being confronted with evidence of his serial predation by a jury of The People, they intend to execute him for his preying on children
The living jungle, where no-one has a name, and to survive is to activate mutant lines, become imperceptible in order to perceive, tracking chromatic gradients of intensity across the condo wastelands. Predator. The space-time of hypercommoditisation is a nomoid zone of mad clusters where the polis disintegrates into unintelligible webs of swarmachinery. Schizophrenic capitalism: cultures without a society, a mutant topology of unanticipated connections. Beehivelocity ... and if you think its gonna blow ... you haven't seen anything yet. Wildstyle-wasting the interminable punctual history of the scriborgs.
Maria Corina Machado talking about how Venezuela should open itself up to the 'incredible opportunity of foreign investment'
searching for live footage of music in Detroit and my algorithm showing me side by side: T-1000 - Live at Motor - 2000 and MC5 - Live 1970 - Wayne State University, Detroit MI
Joe Pera Talks With You [adult swim]
Mark Fisher asks a wojack if they like "the pop group, roxy music, siousxie sioux" to which they reply "no sorry im more into like" and Mark interrupts with "shut up im not done burial, scritti politti, japan, goldie, john foxx, tricky, the jam" etc
For Those Of You Who Have Never - Huerco S.
Arshile Gorky. The Liver is the Cock's Comb (1944), oil on canvas
Typewriter from The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror V, in which a spoof of The Shining finds Homer replacing the famous 'All work and no play' line with Feelin' fine.
Bubbles and Michael Jackson circa '87
25.06-07 Slothrop’s Progress . . . a parable "Slothrop’s Progress" echoes John Bunyan’s Puritan allegory The Pilgrim’s Progress. The word "parable," interestingly, comes from the same root as "parabola." Slothrop's Progress may be Time itself. Sir Arthur Eddington coined the term "time's arrow" to describe entropy's progress and time's irreversibility-- i.e. "as the universe gets older, it becomes more disordered, following the second law of thermodynamics." Entropy's progress defines time. Cf. Scientific American, Jan 2008, p.26 for more.
Classroom at University of Lyon, 1968, students have written DE L’HISTOIRE KARL MARX on the wall
Marx in 1848: “there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror.”[1] Engels in 1849: “The next world war will result in the disappearance from the face of the earth not only of reactionary classes and dynasties, but also of entire reactionary peoples. And that, too, is a step forward.”[2]
Marty throwing up the ABSOLUTE CINEMA pose
Still from The Parallax View: a slip that says 'If youre one of those SPECIAL people with BRAINS not just education who is not LIVING UP to your POTENTIAL through No fault of your own you can CHANGE YOUR LUCK Send in this ad for a FREE GIFT THE PARALLAX CORPORATION
audiobok player of Thomas Pynchon's VINELAND
Movie posters, from left to right: KLUTE, UNDER THE SILVER LAKE, DEAD RINGERS, EDDINGTON
Bob Dylan with a suit jacket on exposing his bare chest + sunglasses on wrapping his arm around a smiling, dapper David Bowie circa mid-80s
V. WHAT THE THUNDER SAID After the torchlight red on sweaty faces After the frosty silence in the gardens After the agony in stony places The shouting and the crying Prison and palace and reverberation Of thunder of spring over distant mountains He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying With a little patience
“What we call ‘normal’ is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience. It is radically estranged from the structure of being. The more one sees this, the more senseless it is to continue with generalized descriptions of supposedly specifically schizoid, schizophrenic, hysterical ‘mechanisms.’ There are forms of alienation that are relatively strange to statistically ‘normal’ forms of alienation. The ‘normally’ alienated person, by reason of the fact that he acts more or less like everyone else, is taken to be sane. Other forms of alienation that are out of step with the prevailing state of alienation are those that are labeled by the ‘formal’ majority as bad or mad.” ― R.D. Laing, The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise
“In a world full of danger, to be a potentially seeable object is to be constantly exposed to danger. Self-consciousness, then, may be the apprehensive awareness of oneself as potentially exposed to danger by the simple fact of being visible to others. The obvious defence against such a danger is to make oneself invisible in one way or another.” ― R.D. Laing, The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
Album cover: The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid
EYES WIDE SHUT scene where Zeigler confronts Harford. Harford (Tom Cruise) puts his hand on his head while Zeigler continues to gaslight him from a chair behind the billiard table.
Jenny Holzer billboard lit up with the text "Protect Me From What I Want"
the opening shot of Stanley Kubricks FULL METAL JACKET (1987), army recruits are having their hair shaved down to buzz cuts
Andre Morell as Lord Wendover in Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (1975) exalting that: "When I take up a person, Mr. Lyndon, he or she is safe. There is no question about them anymore. My friends are the Best People."
Fontaines DC performing at Glastonbury with the giant side displays flashing the message "free palestine"
Single artwork for Japan's "Ghosts"
a thumbnail for an instagram reel from a couple that says "WORLD WAR III will NOT be allowed -- the Galactics have GUARANTEED it"
Post from Brian Wilson official account that reads: We are heartbroken to announce that our beloved father Brian Wilson has passed away. We are at a loss for words right now. Please respect our privacy at this time as our family is grieving. We realize that we are sharing our grief with the world. Love & Mercy