Day thirty-three, thirty-four

The breath night expectorate and moon tide leaks, the shadow of the angel of the pestilence; doorlight porchlight and live air

It has been nine years since I was last in Egypt and this is disconcerting.

My one concession to Passover this year is that I made charoset and I am rereading Totem and Taboo which I am reminded is a book that is both about obsessive neurosis and an obsessive neurosis of a book and that obsessive neurosis is almost invariably about origins and that is how we keep the demons at bay because if we go back and perform the ritual correctly the forces of evil will be mollified and all will be well.

This is the plot of every time travel movie, ever.

Raja Shehadeh: ‘There have been more than 257 reports of settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank since the first U.S. airstrikes on Iran...In these attacks (and all the others over the decades in the West Bank), settlers take advantage of the approximately 898 military checkpoints and obstacles that severely restrict Palestinian mobility—permanent checkpoints, iron gates that close off villages, earth mounds, and roadblocks—knowing that, in the wake of their violence, ambulances will not be able to reach the victims in time.’

We are all ‘aliens who are just passing through’

Israel bombed Jnah on Wednesday. At least five people were killed. Twenty-one were wounded. Because “Hezbollah” is everywhere they need it to be. And often in the produce aisle at Spinneys.

Also, the Times has decided that Jnah is a suburb of Beirut. Which leads to the question: Where is Beirut?

South of the Litani, the Israelis are issuing evacuation orders for Shiite communities, and encouraging Orthodox Christians and Druze leaders to expel their Muslim neighbors.

AI is absolution, as is Trump. This is not our rage. These are not our crimes. They belong to the machines. They belong to the Leader.

Maurizio Lazzarato: “The form of the revolutionary process had already changed in the 1960s but it had come up against an insurmountable obstacle: the inability to invent a different model from the one that, in 1917, had begun the long string of 20th century revolutions. In the Leninist model, revolution still had the form of realization. The working class was the subject that already contained the condition of the abolition of capitalism and the installation of communism. The passage from ‘class in itself’ to ‘class for itself’ needed to be realized through the prise de conscience and the seizure of power, organized and led by the party that brought in from the outside what was lacking in the ‘trade-union’ practices of the workers.

Since the 1960s, however, the revolutionary process has taken the form of the event: subjects, instead of being already there in the making, are ‘unforeseen’...they don’t embody history’s necessity, but only the contingency of political confrontation. Their constitution, their ‘coming-to-consciousness,’ their program, their organization are formed on the basis of a refusal (to be governed), a rupture, a radical here and now that aren’t satisfied with any promise of democracy and justice to come.”

Elsewhere, the IRGC has named Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Palantir, and others as “legitimate targets” given their role in facilitating the US-Israeli war on Iran, Lebanon, and Palestine. The real estate fabulists who are selling off farmland for data centers should take note.

A healthy reminder that the Internet was brought to you by the military-industrial complex.

“‘My nerves are bad tonight. Yes, bad. Stay with me.

Speak to me. Why do you never speak. Speak.

What are you thinking of? What thinking? What?

I never know what you are thinking. Think.’

I think we are in rats’ alley

Where the dead men lost their bones.

‘What is that noise?’

The wind under the door.

‘What is that noise now? What is the wind doing?’

Nothing again nothing.

‘Do

‘You know nothing? Do you see nothing? Do you remember

‘Nothing?’

I remember

Those are pearls that were his eyes.”

April is.

Twenty-six, eight