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Elvis is where pop begins and ends. He’s the great original and, even now, he’s the image that makes all others seem shoddy, the boss.
“One of the many reasons human cultures have long associated sleep with death is that they each demonstrate the continuity of the world in our absence.”
― 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
― 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
“Sumner’s mind keeping the peace abroad was connected with freeing the slaves at home. Repeatedly he tried to convince Lincoln that by issuing an emancipation proclamation he could kill Confederate chances of recognition in Europe.”
― Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man
― Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man
“The denial of sleep is the violent dispossession of self by external force, the calculated shattering of an individual.”
― 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
― 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
“The Victorian Age, for all its humbug, was a period of rapid progress, because men were dominated by hope rather than fear. If we are again to have progress, we must again be dominated by hope.”
― Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
― Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
“24/7 is a time of indifference, against which the fragility of human life is increasingly inadequate and within which sleep has no necessity or inevitability. In relation to labor, it renders plausible, even normal, the idea of working without pause, without limits.”
― 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
― 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
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