wrkmchn.bsky.social
@wrkmchn.bsky.social
wooden thing.

ad feuerbach 3//on the concept of history 3
pls bring back the dead

https://werkmaschine.wordpress.com
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There is no translation of Capital which is not at the same time a translation of barbarism
November 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM
pained today too how ferlinghetti consistently and stubbornly ignores the things pasolini is using line breaks to think

"exquisite that which unveils the world in trembling // not human(s) - you believe in the world without / another measure than human history"
November 2, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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"Kritisch zu behandeln wäre, um nur ein Modell zu geben, ein so respektabler Begriff wie der der Staatsraison: indem man das Recht des Staates über das seiner Angehörigen stellt, ist das Grauen potentiell schon gesetzt."

Adorno, Erziehung nach Auschwitz

(warum sehe ich den Satz so selten?)
October 16, 2025 at 3:05 PM
roubaud, dreizack/trident 2336

gedicht: in vier kommas

diese wörtr, npaar un
⊗ terbrochen,
viermal halt, und schluss

(poème: aux quatre virgules // ces mots, quelques, dis/continus,/quatre arrêts, et fin)
October 16, 2025 at 8:26 AM
need to find the full story about how horkheimer taught (or thought he had to teach) his dog how to bark. want to know more about that dog that did know know how to (or just (not know how to) want to) bark
October 12, 2025 at 3:52 PM
vielleicht endlich glücklich einen dreizack von roubaud übersetzt (2220, das komma/la virgule):

umkämpftes geländ
⊗ zwischn prosa
und poesie: s komm
a

(terrain disputé/entre prose/et poésie: la vir/gule)
October 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
"The past ist never over when you're poor. Delight is the roof. Minerva's owl never flies. Desire is the wall out of the past. But the goose flies, in loops, to our delight, and looks away, and shuts its eyes, and counts." (keston sutherland, meditations, 49, p163)
September 23, 2025 at 8:51 PM
adorno asking the director of the frankfurt zoo whether they could not maybe acquire some wombats to give him the chance to see again "these friendly and round animals" he recalls "with much identification" from his childhood
September 22, 2025 at 5:55 PM
will alexander: "in my view language need erupt like a burning temperature of moths feasting on themselves so that it grows greater in strength".
September 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
"In general, postponement is the basic model of social denial. The motto ‘Jam tomorrow, never jam today’ is the basic model according to which social and historical denial comes to prevail" to bolster the argument that dorau is doing adorno soundtrack youtu.be/DvIPsN7kFXw?...
Hey Tonight
YouTube video by Andreas Dorau - Topic
youtu.be
September 14, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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"There is no better time than the present when we have lost everything."

Simone Weil
the situation is bleak, a great time for critical theory!
September 6, 2025 at 9:41 AM
roubaud, trident 1776: JR, as of 2006, sq.

mathematician (re
tired) and poet (
not retired, but tired
August 9, 2025 at 10:35 AM
trying to translate my latest attempt at a poem replicating the method used to derive the poem by borrowing words and letters/fragments from some other poem, here from rm haines in the tiny www.thetinymag.com/rm-haines :

flick
ing thr
ough an
oth
er cha
pt
er in ca
pital in my un
pleasant surrounds
RM Haines — the tiny
www.thetinymag.com
August 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
"[...] theory, which I intend to demonstrate down into the detail, becomes a casing of the facts subsumed into it , instead of jumping out of the material itself" (adorno, philosophical elements of a theory of society)
August 2, 2025 at 10:32 AM
roubaud, trident 1706 ("Les maîtres):

Winnicott the Pooh
et Lacan
coyote, hello!
July 30, 2025 at 8:23 AM
roubaud, trident 1641 (I am I), one of the occasional english tridents:

i am i, because
i know my
dog, my little dog
July 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
birthday benjamin fragment: "definition of the present as catastrophe; definition originating in messianic time" (poor fast first attempt at a translation: "defintion der gegenwart als katastrophe; definition von der messianischen zeit aus." (i.e. also from the point of view of messianic time))
July 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM
"and is a form of singing that crosses over into weeping. like the song of the"
July 3, 2025 at 6:37 PM
"but the dialectic is among other things that form of thinking in which we're intrinsically and not merely because of our shortness of breath unable to say all things all at once" (adorno's lectures on questions of the dialectic/fragen der dialektik are all kinds of fun)
July 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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“Nous n’acceptons pas les lois de l’Économie ou de l’Échange, nous n’acceptons pas l’Esclavage du Travail, et dans un domaine encore plus large nous nous déclarons en insurrection contre l’Histoire.”

La Révolution surréaliste, #5, 1925.

fr.m.wikisource.org/wiki/La_R%C3...
La Révolution d’abord et toujours ! - Wikisource
fr.m.wikisource.org
June 30, 2025 at 7:11 AM
adorno arguing (in one of his lectures on epistemology) that the attempt to seriously busy oneself with philosophy actually anyway basically amounts to something like the attempt to restore one's very own childhood
May 31, 2025 at 5:34 PM
5 second sequence from "true crime"
January 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
more mackey working the: "'stella by starlight,' risky stair to the"

(www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI7q...)
Stella by Starlight (Live at Philharmonic Hall, New York, NY - February 1964)
YouTube video by Miles Davis - Topic
www.youtube.com
December 29, 2024 at 5:09 PM
more mackey working the
December 8, 2024 at 6:46 PM
many favorite bits of jacques roubaud, "comme je compose toujours les poèmes/ en silence et dans ma tête et en marchant"
December 5, 2024 at 4:04 PM