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Aster Şen
@astershen.bsky.social
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Writer, unfaker, beeswax-maker.
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luckoftheharbor.com
August 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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ztul.bsky.social
it's sooooo funny how much social media has bridged this gap, allowing people to perform AND monetize their own (and others') misery along with the spontaneous social performance of cacophonous moralism (from Tiziana Terranova's "Free Labor: Producing Culture for the Digital Economy" 2000)
The text space is not large enough to reproduce the whole snapshotted page, but this is the relevant concluding half of the final paragraph: "From an abstract point of view there is no difference between the ways in which people shows rely on the inventiveness of their audiences and the Web site reliance on users’ input. People shows rely on the activity (even amidst the most shocking sleaze) of their audience and willing participants to a much larger extent than any other television programs. In a sense, they manage the impossible, creating monetary value out of the most reluctant members of the postmodern cultural economy: those who do not produce marketable style, who are not qualified enough to enter the fast world of the knowledge economy, are converted into monetary value through their capacity to perform their misery." Too long for the whole page; final paragraph: "The qualitative difference between people’s shows and a successful Web site, then, does not lie in the latter’s democratic tendency as opposed to the former’s exploitative nature. It lies in the operation, within people’s shows, of moral discursive mechanisms of territorialization, the application of a morality that the “excessive” abundance of material on the Internet renders redundant and even more irrelevant. The digital economy cares only tangentially about morality. What it really cares about is an abundance of production, an immediate interface with cultural and technical labor whose result is a diffuse, nondialectical contradiction."
June 25, 2024 at 8:43 PM
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cubarhodes.bsky.social
Today in poems I think about a lot, "Try to Praise the Mutilated World" by Adam Zagajewski, translated by Clare Cavanagh

www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...
Text of: Try to Praise the Mutilated World By Adam Zagajewski September 17, 2001 Try to praise the mutilated world. Remember June’s long days, and wild strawberries, drops of wine, the dew. The nettles that methodically overgrow the abandoned homesteads of exiles. You must praise the mutilated world. You watched the stylish yachts and ships; one of them had a long trip ahead of it, while salty oblivion awaited others. You’ve seen the refugees heading nowhere, you’ve heard the executioners sing joyfully. You should praise the mutilated world. Remember the moments when we were together in a white room and the curtain fluttered. Return in thought to the concert where music flared. You gathered acorns in the park in autumn and leaves eddied over the earth’s scars. Praise the mutilated world and the gray feather a thrush lost, and the gentle light that strays and vanishes and returns. (Translated, from the Polish, by Clare Cavanagh.)
April 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
astershen.bsky.social
god this game goes so unbelievably hard
corru.observer
January 18, 2025 at 3:03 AM
astershen.bsky.social
Howdy @neilcic.com. In this horrorful season, I made a small MV of Aurora Borealis to celebrate my fave weird unsung unfiction series, Vermis Malum. I wanted to thank you for the inspiration and throw it under your eyeballs. Merry vermis.

youtu.be/PHoqVqumois
AURORA BOREALIS || VERMIS MALUM
YouTube video by MysteriousChunk
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December 18, 2024 at 11:18 PM
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dubdobdee.bsky.social
i have only one vice, sadly its VILENESS
weirdmedieval.bsky.social weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social · Dec 18
maybe my favourite etymology: the phrase “curry favour” originates from a medieval french morality poem about a conniving horse named fauvel who amasses a following of sycophantic humans to groom and tend to him.

over time, “currying fauvel” eventually became “currying favour.”
version. As the horse Fauvel is about to join Vainglory in the bridal bed, the people form a charivari in protest. From the Roman de Fauvel. The romance features Fauvel, a fallow-colored horse who rises to prominence in the French royal court, and through him satirizes the self-serving hedonism and hypocrisy of men, and the excesses of the ruling estates, both secular and ecclesiastical. The antihero's name can be broken down to mean "false veil", and also forms an acrostic F-A-V-V-E-L with the letters standing for the human vices: Flattery, Avarice, Vileness, Variability (Fickleness), Envy, and Laxity. The romance also gave birth to the English expression "curry fauvel", the obsolete original form of "curry favor".
December 18, 2024 at 12:56 PM
astershen.bsky.social
I'm here now.
December 18, 2024 at 3:29 PM