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The lives of lee miller arrived yesterday and kept my awake till early in the morning. Her perception off WW2 is astonishing. With the surrealist eye and the realization that “This is a new and disillusioning world. Peace with a world full of crooks who have no honor, no integrity and no shame is not what anyone fought for.” (1945, Page 147)
And only once the adjective fearless is used to describe her, and i still can no grok the essence of the word.
Please be fearless - it’s the perfect balance.
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“In this book we introduce escape not because we are looking for either a principle behind people’s actions or the hidden principle of historical change. Rather, focusing on escape allows us to imagine, see and interrogate those ordinary moments when people’s actions put processes in motion, processes which are effective in confronting the social order with a force of change that cannot be avoided, silenced, neglected, erased.
In retrospect, such moments can be explained in many different theoretical ways: as resistance, revolt, refusal, revolution, as an event. Rather than draw on these concepts inherited from twentieth-century political theory and practice, attuning ourselves to escape allows us to work with transformation that is more pertinent to process than to event, to skilfullness than to anticipation, to togetherness than to sublimation, to imagination than to logic, to joy than to seriousness.”
— Escape Routes: Control and Subversion in the 21st Century
Gravity's Rainbow
Zak Smith’s Illustrations For Each Page of Gravity’s Rainbow
