Status Updates From Exodus

Kierkegaard. The sickness unto death. The concept of anxiety. Marx’s Capital. Tarkovsky’s Stalker. Perec. Blanchot. The nihilism of Joy Division. Herzog’s Strosczek. Prince Far-I. The anti gravity of dub.

It’s all in here. All mixed up in a melting pot of curiosity and endless playfulness. Magnificent.

“They speak - Of the loneliness of the long distance postdoctoral researcher”

“Postgraduates are the angels of the academic world we agree. They’re between worlds - between the heaven of lecturers and the hell of the undergraduate They teach but they are not part of the teaching staff They study but they’re not entirely students either”

“He’s read of Debord in his later years in his luxurious apartment spending whole days planning elaborate meals and choosing fine wines”

“Private schools with girls in boaters and boys in caps and blazers and mothers at the gates in sparkling Jeeps. W is overwhelmed with class hatred. He recites the names of Marxist revolutionaries to calm himself down”

“But at least the govt recognised philosophy as the enemy in the 80’s. At least they understood the power of philosophy. The humanities are the enemy of capitalism: that’s what they understood in the 80’s. Philosophy is the eternal adversary of capitalism.., “

The final part of the trilogy. It’s hilarious as usual. Exodus reminds me formerly of Bob Marley and the Wailers classic album. I don’t think this is the same kind of exit somehow.