alright, your presentation style remains that of a snarling dog who doesn't know if he should approach a stranger or bite him, but regardless, good shit linked here, thanks. i've been reading this on/off since yesterday and it's pretty good, very "french" in style, which is always a pleasure (vs. the angloamerican analytical approach), and the characterization of the "type" is spot-on. at the same time when i read the loose quotes i get the sense that this was written by people who remained involuntarily celibate way into their 20s and slightly resentful towards their unattainable lolitas. however, things come better into context when it's read from the start. and it's good stuff, and i haven't read anything like this in a long time, by which i mean-- it makes one thinks of new things and it's not just recycled stuff and while it repeats a lot of things already said it also
adds something (e.g., although i can't help to be reminded of scenes from masculin/féminin when i read it, it's not the same thing at all). tl;dr- people who read this won't be disappointed, but start from the beginning, i.e.
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Under the hypnotic grimaces of official pacification, a war is being waged. A war that can no longer be called simply economic, social, or humanitarian, because it is total. And though each of us senses that our existence has become a battlefield where neuroses, phobias, somatizations, depression, and anguish are but a kind of defeated retreat, no one can grasp the trajectory of the battle or understand what's at stake in it. Paradoxically, it's because of the total character of this war - total in its means no less than in its ends - that it could be invisible in the first place.
To open force the empire prefers underhanded methods, chronic prevention, and the spread of molecules of constraint through everyday life. Its internal (endo) cop-ization clearly relays the general cop-ization, as individual self-control does social control. The new police are imperceptible because they're omnipresent.
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anyway, i'm rambling, so i'd better get back to reading.