Preliminary Materials

"Society's final moment of socialization, Empire, is thus also the moment when each person is called upon to relate to themselves as value, that is, according to the central mediation of a series of controlled abstractions. The Young-Girl would thus be the being that no longer has any intimacy with herself except as value, and whose every activity, in every detail, is directed to self-valorization. At each moment, she affirms herself as sovereign subect of her own reification. The unquestionable character of her power, all of the crushing assurance of this flattened being, woven exlusively by the conventions, codes, and representations fleetingly in effect, all the authority that the least of her gestures incarnates, all of this is immediately indexed to her absolute transparency to 'society.'

Precisely because of her nothingness, each of her judgements carries the imperative weight of the entire social order, and she knows it."

 

To the witches, crones, hysterics, spinsters, she-wolves, oracles, and misfits: A call to action.

"Our mind does certain things [acts] and undergoes other things, namely, insofar as it has adequate ideas, it necessarily does certain things, and insofar as it has inadequate ideas, it necessarily undergoes certain things."

Remove from your life those who will not let you speak or who cannot listen.

Do not make humanitarian pleas of your oppressors - they do not love you. They can barely see you.


 

Tarkovsky

I never promised you a rose garden.

"I dearly love the form of things. Particularly because forms make light visible and light is a sublime substance. We only see light when it is reflected from the surfaces of forms and the diverse materials of which they are made. It is not only that light pervades the universe and is a kind of messenger of the histories and mysteries of time and space but that it is also the most intimate of phenomena, even as it is the most ephemeral. Maybe the two concepts are inexorably linked, sensuality and transience, intensity of experience and its brevity."

"When a number of bodies whether of the same or of different size are so constrained by other bodies that they lie upon one another, or if they so move whether with the same degree or different degrees of speed, that they communicate their motions to each other in a certain fixed manner, we shall say that those bodies are united with one another and that they all together compose one body or individual, which is distinguished from the others by this union of bodies"

Catherine Ribeiro + 2 Bis - Voyage I