bold marauder

‘allegories in the realm of thought are what ruins are in the realm of things’
- benjamin

horsemouth is just waiting for the rush hour to die back before heading off to paint his new room. thursday he moves - in so he’s on the clock.

horsemouth has been reading jameson's marxism and form - he’s completed the adorno chapter (featuring a concise and pithy hegel deviation) and is onto the benjamin. he made progress because yesterday he hung around waiting in the sun. he finds parallels between Jameson's writing on adorno and ranciere (dialectical sentences/ surrealist juxtaposition - ‘its strength increases proportionately as the realities linked are distant and distinct from each other’) and parallels between benjamin's the origin of german tragic drama and Foucault's discipline and punish.

There is (in particular) s a fine plot synopsis of game of thrones; ‘'as a form trauerspiel reflects the baroque vision of history as a chronicle, as the relentless turning of the wheel of fortune, a ceaseless succession across the stage of the world’s mighty: princes, popes, empresses in their splendid costumes, courtiers, masqueraders, and poisoners - a dance of death produced with all the finery of a renaissance triumph.’ says jameson.

‘baroque drama knows historical events only as the depraved activity of the conspirators. not a breath of genuine revolutionary conviction in any of the countless rebels who appear before the baroque sovereign...’ says benjamin.