“Junger returned to Heraclitus’s fragments on war because he understood them as pointing… to how war features in history when social, political, and cultural orders exhaust themselves and reach their limits but fail to grasp the significance of the limitations that they reached”

Peter Harskamp

“Le beau monde governs because it has the fastest means of communicating. It is not obligated to read printed three-column bricks of shit. It communicates with sentences in staccato, brief or long, but always timely. Always to the tune of καιρός”

Even talking about the weather is less boring than opining on the various characteristics of different cities you’ve known.

In a moribund culture the act of “negation with no alternative” is actually generative, for then there is a discovery of unknown unknowns.

Bloodlines are trains of thought, and they end when the line of inquiry has been resolved.

Perhaps the genres of shadow sociology that dominated forums (and thinkpieces derivative of those forums) the past ten years can be thought of Kremlinology directed to a fresh target, for Kremlinology is a perpetual motion machine much older than Russia, or palaces, or bricks.

Erna Rosenstein, Burning of the Witch, 1966