God lives on in the sacrament of exchange relations
the nature of spirit: music torture at Guantanamo Bay
power recedes – a church without authority is blessed indeed
eschatalogical art – art of the recessional: it is about last things and a hymn:
it is the last thing in the service
but the work of disarming is incredibly tense
tenser than the other kind, I think
we’re swimming in the heat of a religiosity which infuses everything
the sense of being impotently dragged along in its wake
is no reason to see it as natural, right?
that it’s just the way it is – that’s myth
that’s mythic thinking, right?
there’s a sense that Beckett is an abstract cold playwright
they’re in fact some of the most concrete things you’ll ever see
and New Orleans was the right place
because everyone knew what it meant to wait
and to shoot the shit while you were waiting,
there’s nothing conspiratorial
I mean they’re in plain sight.
the perennial self of domination
how do you survive without dominating?
because you think that only through domination can you survive
