Become Less Interesting With Age

Become Less Precious When You Own Them

Become Less Real With Age

Become Less Valuable After Use

Become More Precious When They End

Brighten Then Dull

Create Disorientation

Create Divergence

Create Doubt

Create Forgetting

Create Friction Across Generations

Create Illegibility

Create Impermanence

Create Instability

Create Oblivion

Create Surface

Decay

Erode

Escape

Escape Gravity

Expire

Forget

Have Short Memories

Invite Suspicion

Make Coordination Difficult

Make The Future Invisible

Occupy Attention

Quietly Contract

Resist Attachment

Resist Interpretation

Slow Trust

Spoil

Tempt

novelty

phobia

boredom

meat eating

possession

buying

one-liner

nonsense question

starting

ADHD

finishing

following through

is a fetish which ended up rendering history itself into a commodity.

when newness became a fetish, history itself became a manifestation of the commodity form' (Buck-Morss 1989:82)

is new can we live with an intensity in which everything becomes new.

new can we live with an intensity in which everything becomes new.

is not a new standard or a new order, but a new mode of life.

another way of approaching this is to say that D&G are proposing not a new order nor a new standard, but rather a new usage, or maybe a new way of life, a new mode of life' (Hardt's notes of TP 20).

is not the feeling of encountering something new, but feeling the recognition of what we were waiting for.

It is less a question of counting up quotations than of determining and objectifying this phenomenology for ourselves which has given a number of our contemporaries, while reading Husserl or Heidegger, the feeling less of encountering a new philosophy than of recognizing what they were waiting for. (Merleau-Ponty 'what is phenomenology' : 56)

is something old that has been long forgotten.

something old that has been long forgotten.

The mixing of genres present as something entirely novel, a hybrid between nature and cullture' (We've never been modern 20ish).

is always but oblivion if there is nothing new under the sun, as Soloman held, and if all knowledge is but remembrance, as Plato holds.

Solomon saith: There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance... so Solomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion. Francis Bacon: Essays, LVIII Jorge Luis Borges, The Immortal

is always impossible before it is possible. The history of man is filled with ideas which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared.

How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared' Fyodor Dostoevsky

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