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One Hundred Years Ago
02:48
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Multiple voices: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way."
Lily: "What is your idea of being good friend?"
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The End of My Tether
04:28
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Lily: "I like your frankness but I'm afraid our friendship can hardly continue on those terms...."
Lily: "I can't go on this way much longer."
Lily: "There are other worries. Dreadful things."
Grace: "What things?"
Lily: "Poverty."
Lily: "I'm at the end of my tether!"
Lily: "I can't think of anything worse, can you?"
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Are You Willing To?
05:34
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Marcus: "Computer, damage report"
Computer: "Confirmed. Destination?"
Marcus: "Babylon 5."
Sheridan: "Leave her alone."
The Inquisitor: "Why?"
Sheridan: "Just do it!"
The Inquisitor: "What is she to you?"
Sheridan: "I don't have to answer your questions."
The Inquisitor: "No. You don't."
The Inquisitor: "You said you didn't have to answer any of my questions. But there's no reason to exclude you from our deliberations. You're linked at the hip, just as bad as she is. But you're not just a dreamer.
You're a soldier! How far are you prepared to go? How much are you prepared to risk? How many people are you prepared to sacrifice for victory? Are you willing to die friendless, alone, deserted by everyone? Because that's what may be required of you in the war that is to come!"
Sheridan: "Go to Hell!"
The Inquisitor: "This is Hell, Captain, and you are its chief damned soul. What about the people you work with, the people you call friends? Are you willing to sacrifice them? What about your family? [He zaps Sheridan with his cane.] What about your God? [Another zap.] What about truth? [Zap.] What about blood? [Zap.] What about right? [Zap.] What about wrong? [Zap.] What about your future? [Zap.] What about faith? [Zap.] What about sin? [Zap.] What about Hell? [Zap.] What about death? [Zap.] What about etern…"
Delenn: "ENOUGH!"
Delenn: "This is my cause--Life! One life or a billion, it's all the same!
The Inquisitor: "Then you make the sacrifice willingly? No fame. No armies or banners or cities to celebrate your name. You will die alone and unremarked and forgotten."
Delenn: "This body is only a shell. You cannot touch me. You cannot harm me. I'm not afraid."
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Voyagers Without Maps
04:19
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"We know no rule of procedure, we are voyagers, discoverers of the not-known, the unrecorded; we have no map; possibly we will reach haven. Heaven."
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Street Bodies
04:01
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"Indeed the street is not the only site that we can take for granted for certain kinds of public assemblies because the street is also a public good for which people fight – an infrastructural necessity that forms one of the demands of certain forms of popular mobilization, and I would add, certain forms of moblization against precarity.
With or without the street, some basic requirements of the body are at the center of political moblizations. bodies require food and shelter, protection from injury and destruction, healthcare. Bodies require other bodies for support, for passion, for survival. Since in all forms of depedency the body requires not just one other person, but social systems of support that are complexingly human and technical.
Since if we say that some person or some group denies vulnerability, we are assuming that not only was that vulnerability already there, but also that it is - in some sense - deniable.
Of course one cannot make an easy analogy between individual and group formations, and yet modes of denial can be seen to traverse them both. We assume that those who seek to expose others to such position of vulnerability deny a vulnerability by which they are in fact bound to the ones they seek to subjugate.
I want to argue that, first bodily vulnerability presupposes a social world and that this vulnerability constitutes one aspect of the social modalities through which bodies persist. And then secondly, I want to suggest that the issue of my vulnerability or your vulnerability implicates us in a broader political problem of equality and inequality, since vulnerability can be projected and denied (psychological categories) but also exploited and manipulated (social and economic categories) in the production of inequality."
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We Have Become A Nation
04:58
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James Madison: "The biggest danger to our rights today is not from government acting against the will of the majority but from government which is become the mere instrument of this majority. Think about it."
"It's done! We have become a nation!"
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Better Red Than Dead
04:00
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[Lyrics in Korean]
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Killswitch
05:30
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[Various American news broadcasts]
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Walter: "There are no limits except for those that we impose on ourselves. Brain and the mind are capable of so much. Can't you see that the brain is consciousness. The mind is GOD!"
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Michel Foucault: "Je crois que l'homme a été sinon un mauvais rêve, sinon un cauchemar, du moins une figure très particulière, très déterminée, historiquement située à l'intérieur de notre culture."
I. LEISURE:
"What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows.
No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.
No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.
No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance.
No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began.
A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare."
II. HAD I DIED TOMORROW
Foucault: "Quand on regarde les choses de plus près on peut se demander si cette n'est pas une illusion. Jamais on ne s'occupait de l'homme comme tel. Ce qui existait, hé bien c'était un certain nombre de problèmes, de formes de savoir et de réflexion, où il était question de la nature, où il était question de la vérité, où il était question du mouvement, où il était question de l'ordre, où il était question de l'imagination, mais il n'était pas à vrai dire question de l'homme."
"Il me semble que maintenant la philosophie est en train de disparaître... nous arrivons à un âge qui est celle peut être de la pensée pure, de la pensée en acte."
"Paradoxalement le développement des sciences humaines nous conduit maintenant beaucoup plutôt à une disparition de l'homme qu'à une apothéose de l'homme."
"Je crois que nous vivons actuellement la grande coupure avec le XIXe siècle, avec tout ce début du XXe siècle... ce que découvrait la mort de Dieu, c'était l'espace de la liberté, ce que découvre maintenant la disparition de l'homme, c'est le grand réseau des systèmes auxquels nous appartenons et on nous dit alors 'tout est nécessaire'."
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Gospel of Wealth
04:07
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Lip: "Government of the rich people, by the rich people and for the rich people, so help me God."
Frank: "Soon, there is not gonna be any Jew, Arian or Hindu or Muslim or Mexican or Blacks. It's just gonna be the RICH and the FUCKED!"
"Every asshole is entitled to his beliefs that's the yin and the yang of democracy."
"And that my multicultural friends is liberty and justice for all"
"Advanced-level fascism... A little slow between the ears"
"The rich and the fucked!"
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I Welcome Their Hatred
05:05
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F.D. Roosevelt: "And we know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob."
"They are unanimous in their hate for me and I welcome their hatred!"
"We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs."
"And I WELCOME THEIR HATRED!"
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What's Past is Prologue
05:48
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Vox-aligned Patriot: "It is time for the down-trodden to rise up! It is time for the mighty to be laid low!"
"The old order must burn for the new order to grow!"
"The Tree of Liberty must be watered with blood!"
"The revolution is at hand!"
"The People's Voice will be heard!"
"United by rage, bound by blood."
"Hide, because the world is no longer yours!"
"Empty the jailhouses, burn down the mansions!"
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Some By Virtue Fall
03:48
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Angelo: "Blood, thou art blood! Let's write 'good angel' on the Devil's horn, 'tis not the Devil's crest."
Angelo: "And nothing come impartial."
Angelo: "O, what may man within him hide,
Though angel on the outward side!
How may likeness made in crimes,
Making practise on the times,
To draw with idle spiders' strings
Most ponderous and substantial things!"
Claudio: "Thus can the demigod Authority
Make us pay down for our offence by weight
The words of heaven; on whom it will, it will;
On whom it will not, so; yet still 'tis just."
Angelo: "Death for death.
Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure;
Like doth quit like, and measure still for measure."
"My false o'erweighs your true!"
"Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall"
"It is one thing to be tempted Escalus. Another thing to fall."
Isabel: "His filth within being cast , he would appear a pond as deep as hell."
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"We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob."
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iX-Acht France
iX-Acht is a French independent electro-industrial one-man band active since 2010. So far, there have been 14 releases and three LPs. iX-Acht includes elements of aggrotech, trance, rythmic noise and EBM in his music. His third album was published for the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. In Dec. 2018, LAMEDH: EXEGESIS EP was released in prepartion of his fourth album. ... more
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Have listened to their music for year and, damn, is this good! Psy'Aviah is an eclectic band, now perhaps more than ever, that has endured thanks to the quality sound they deliver, keeping hope alive.
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