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Eternal recurrence (n.) makes ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠for a life inside a magic circle that never emerges from the auratic.

Eternal recurrence (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the nightmare of historical consciousness — the last stand against the idea of progress.

Eternal recurrence (n.) conjures ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the phantasmagoria of happiness out of misery, trying to reconcile the two warring tendencies of desire: repetition and eternity.

Eternal recurrence (n.) in ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠Zarathustra is a stylization of the worldview that in Blanqui still shows its infernal features — existence stylized down to the tiniest fractions of time.

Eternal recurrence (n.) turns ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the historical event itself into a mass-produced article — and it shone just when, amid accelerating crises, conditions could no longer be expected to recur in any span shorter than eternity.

Eternal recurrence (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠where the historicism of the nineteenth century capsizes: every tradition, even the newest, becomes the legacy of something that ran its course in the immemorial night of the ages.

Eternal recurrence (n.) appeared ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠in Blanqui's prison cosmology ten years before Zarathustra — a vision of hell in which progress turns out to be the phantasmagoria of history itself, ancient novelty dressed as the latest thing.

Eternal recurrence (n.) appeared ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠once the bourgeoisie no longer dared count on the future of the system of production it had set going — Zarathustra belongs with the embroidered pillow motto "Only a quarter hour."