"What I have brought back with me from this trip: Pessoa.
How can I believe that I was Pessoa’s contemporary for thirty years?
Basically I never wanted to do anything more than to splinter myself, like Pessoa, into a small number of figures, which I steadfastly retain".

Notes from Hampstead, 1970.

Mass is noise and signal.

Noise and signal are pluriform.

7/7)

~>> the realm of the subjective and that of the objective, between passions and institutions. In each command, all these elements are finally joint ‘in the flesh’ as well as in an uncanny type of ‘memory.’"

6/7)

~>>In this respect, the puzzling temporality of commands also needs to be attended more in depth, as we seek to do in what follows. In sum, commands take place in a time–space that is located ambiguously between ~>>

5/7)
~>> entities rather, they must be considered in the material frame of a direct connection between subjects, bodies and artefacts operating jointly within a shared environment, and subject to shared affects. ~>>

4/7)
~>> to unearth the concrete, immanent set up, which, by prolongation, gives rise to the more abstract configurations one is first presented with. That is why, as detailed below, from a Canetti-inspired perspective, commands cannot be subsumed under simply logical, linguistic or legal ~>>

3/7)

~>> In general, as this book seeks to show, the Canettian gaze is always interested in retrieving the bodily and spatial foundations of power. No matter how disembodied, ubiquitous and ‘hi-tech’ power appears under modern conditions – if one inspects it closely, one is always able ~>>

2/7)

~>> Canetti himself remarks that the first impression of commands is that of a perfectly transparent, self-evident reality. Commands look flat, uninteresting from a cognitive point of view. In fact, these social objects may prove to be more opaque than usually assumed. ~>>

2/3)

~>> Canetti himself remarks that the first impression of commands is that of a perfectly transparent, self-evident reality. Commands look flat, uninteresting from a cognitive point of view. In fact, these social objects may prove to be more opaque than usually assumed. ~>>

Dit citaat uit Wat De Mens Betreft is opvallend. Canetti had een diepe connectie met werk Musil. Deze aantekening is uit 1960, Massa En Macht was net verschenen. Hier koppelt Canetti zijn eigen geschapen orde met het geweldadige

In 3e deel van z'n autobiografie vertelt Canetti dat hij dagelijks in Café Museum kwam en daar kranten las en mensen ontmoette. Onderstaand verhaal gaat over 'n mysterieuze lezer, die voor Canetti leek op zijn held Karl Kraus:

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