Saturday, April 12, 2025

In the Making / EZE, 2025

 On the Making of a Wikipedia Page

2025 Stock Market Crash (Wikipedia)

Eminent Domain Asemic / EZE, 2025

 Theft, Property, ..., Eminent Domain

Eminent Domain

Eminent Domain

Theft

Theft

Theft

Theft ~ Property

Everybody Drinks Water

Property

Herbert Spencer

Darwin

A Theory of Competition

Social Darwinism

Social Darwinism


Beyond an Asemic Solution? / EZE, 2025

Care


Surveillance Capitalism


tegi / EZE, 2025

 


View-Only Asemics Whereby You Might Like to Join the Alien / EZE, 2025

 


Alien (Wikipedia)

To Serve Man

Alien Intelligence (Popular Mechanics)

Thursday, March 27, 2025

esepora / EZE, 2025

 


An Asemics of Garbage Speech / EZE, 2025

Garbage Speech ~ Trash Talk

GIGO

Refuse

Refusing to Interpret

On the Importance of Being Understood

Interpretation Refused

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On Garbage Speech 

Beyond its aspect of insult as trash talk, which seems, in part, to promulgate the values of one community over the values of another, garbage speech is the excess of the communal. It is performance.

What is the meaning of such performance? Its meaning is in the emphasis of power so embodied. After all, the power to escape interpretation is the power to escape community.

But the power to escape community is also the power to escape an immediate need to be understood as anything other than power(ful) itself.

Not that there is not an excess of non-sense in such performance, but the outcome of acommunal speech is not so much non-sense as much as it is the excess of speech itself. This aspect of excess is waste. This excess is the very act of refuse.

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