This is it, y'all.

We have arrived at my favorite line in the whole book.

Are you ready for it?

Here we go.

"The great virtue of failure is that everyone can do it...."

-- #ToddMcGowan,
#EmbracingAlienation

He's serious. And so am I. That's my favorite. Boom.

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...while forcing the subject to pay for the security with strict obedience. No community offers identity for free."

#ToddMcGowan
in #EmbracingAlienation: Why We Shouldn't Try to Find Ourselves

What do we have and/or want: #community, #commons, or #communion?
(In which I define "communion" a lá #PeterRollins: gathering around shared Lack/alienation. Ftr, that's what I want.)

#fedizens
#Americans
#Democrat
#Republican
#liberal
#conservative
#progressive
#totalitarian
#socialist
#anarchist

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"(T)he community provides protection from the unanswerable questions that subjectivity poses for itself. Subjectivity's nagging question receives a comforting answer in the form of a symbolic identity undergirded by the community. But one must look closely and see how every community ultimately fails to deliver the goods. The more I invest myself in a community the more I sense that I don't belong. This alienation is what we must pay attention to."

#ToddMcGowan
in #EmbracingAlienation

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From #EmbracingAlienation by #ToddMcGowan:

"The struggle against racism requires the translation of symbolic identities back into the acts of alienated subjects. Where race appears, we must see the racist act that creates this racial difference. Racism offers subjects a way of avoiding the confrontation with alienation. To challenge racism is to thrust oneself directly into the position of the alienated subject.

"...Racism only works so long as at least one group of people...

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After a long hiatus due to #Covid #brainfog, I am back to #EmbracingAlienation by #ToddMcGowan.

I'll share more thoughts as I go along. But for now, I'm all about this in the back of the book:

" #RepeaterBooks is dedicated to the creation of a new reality. The landscape of twenty-first-century arts and letters is faded and inert, riven by fashionable cynicism, egotistical self-reference and a nostalgia for the recent past. Repeater intends to add its voice to those movements that...

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