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       Post AJWTukoBPQy5pRk03c by az@post.lurk.org
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 (DIR) Post #AJW8H8qGXGX9kMz91c by entreprecariat@post.lurk.org
       2022-05-16T16:13:34Z
       
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       In critical theory books, the last chapter is generally devoted to the hopeful part. A sort of hollywoodian narrative arc turns hope into a mere storytelling component. I&#39;m always suspicious of this technique as I believe that true hope is not to be found in the last pages of a book, but outside of it, in the affinities and alliances built between the author and the readers, and among the readers themselves. This is why I find those rare uncompromisingly hopeless books to be the most authentically hopeful ones.
       
 (DIR) Post #AJWQuSEMBJVELe9Ifo by neauoire@merveilles.town
       2022-05-16T21:17:11Z
       
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       @entreprecariat I really like this quote on hope:Hope, while once a useful trait, is what has condemned us, because we literally cannot see the cliff as we dance off it. Instead of celebrating the failed audacity of hope, it might be prudent to contemplate, in the time we have left, the paucity of hope - because the most we can realistically hope for, trapped by forgone conclusions, is to vanquish fear and find the grace of acceptance.http://witsendnj.blogspot.com/2014/07/a-fine-frenzy-universal-dance-of.html
       
 (DIR) Post #AJWTukoBPQy5pRk03c by az@post.lurk.org
       2022-05-16T21:58:34Z
       
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       @entreprecariat Obligatory Blessed is the Flame reference.&gt; What can stories of resistance inside of the Nazi concentration camps teach us about our own situations? How can we relate to the resistance of those immersed in “the most frightful and hopeless struggle the world has ever witnessed?”https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/serafinski-blessed-is-the-flame
       
 (DIR) Post #AJWVzRtjLTO6XEhay0 by entreprecariat@post.lurk.org
       2022-05-16T22:21:48Z
       
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       @neauoire I like this. Want to read it with a fresh mind
       
 (DIR) Post #AJWZ0mxCqQb7zWesS0 by jplebreton@mastodon.social
       2022-05-16T22:55:40Z
       
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       @entreprecariat @neauoire while a poetic and psychologically useful framing, the person writing it has seemingly built an entire brand around being &quot;the diva of doom&quot; http://doomfordummies.blogspot.com and looking back at earliest blog posts freaking out about random things happening to trees in her backyard it seems like there&#39;s a deep longstanding emotional commitment to &quot;we&#39;re fucked&quot; that makes it harder to take as intellectually honest.agree hope lives outside narratives.
       
 (DIR) Post #AJX9AQF1jzvmnMt37w by thgie@post.lurk.org
       2022-05-17T05:40:47Z
       
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       I feel you @entreprecariat. I have yet to find the people with whom I can share my affinities book-wise. Just finished Vibrant Matter by Jane Bennett and it ends with an epistemological violence that I enjoy quite a lot. It is shaking the fundamentals on which my every day experience is based and it is really refreshing, even exhilarating at times. Is it hopelessness or is it honesty?
       
 (DIR) Post #AJXVBAcNVmlfcaZStM by computersandblues@post.lurk.org
       2022-05-17T09:47:27Z
       
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       @entreprecariat &quot;The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.&quot;