#jarrett kobek

[sammeldeineknochen]

Identität ist porös. Es geht nicht nur darum, wer du bist. Es geht um den Schaden, den andere dir zufügen können.

Jarrett Kobek: "Unsere wunderbar kurze Zukunft", S.554

#jarrett kobek #unsere wunderbar kurze zukunft #identität #leid #schaden

[irockirockirock]

Nothing says individuality like 500 million consumer electronics built by slaves. Welcome to hell.

Jarrett Kobek, I Hate the Internet

[medicaldoctordana]

Trigger warning for "I Hate The Internet" by Jarrett Kobek

#I hate the Internet #trigger warning #I can't believe my prof is making me read this #but I can't wait to read it

[ashtray-girl]

Fuck anyone who believes it is their duty to lecture poor people about the inappropriate terminology! You bags of shit put forth your commentary on platform technologies owned by your enemies! You are making money for White dudes! Every critique of the racist cisgender homophobic mysoginistic patriarchy that you post on Tumblr just makes money for Tumblr! All you're doing is advertising for the very people and companies that perpetuate the economic system of injustice which you are supposedly challenging! It's so easy to demonstrate your own righteousness and it's so easy to challenge the social order when all you're doing is picking on idiots who are better off ignored and left to wither in the stench of their own lives! You have transformed activism into high-school politics! You are no better than nothing! To Hell with all language police! Maybe it's not the fault of the people who use these elaborate mechanisms of the Internet! Maybe it's the fault of the people who engineered these systems to prey on the worst instincts of the human race because preying on the worst instincts of people is a much better way to generate advertising revenue than appeals to the angels of our better nature!

Jarrett Kobek - “I Hate the Internet”

#jarrett kobek #i hate the internet #quote #i only read this bc stewart lee talked abt it on a podcast & the author is also a fan of stew #it's very weird & convoluted & not perfect but it def makes a point #also... all of you ppl obsessed with The Discourse should 100% read it

[lithub]

“How many literary novels have you read which deal with police brutality? How many serious novels published by one of the majors in 2015 were written by someone who was working class? How many literary novels have you read not by an Islamophobic Frenchman which address something as simple as mass tourism? Basically, how many literary novels not in translation have you read that deal with anything except the melodrama of meaningless sex and death made meaningful only by the social class in which it occurs?”

Chelsea Hodson and Jarett Kobek discuss hating the Internet, literary novels, and the terrible choices of the men who have bequeathed us a grotesque world.

#chelsea hodson #jarrett kobek #i hate the internet #interviews #literature #jordan catalano

[unnamedpress]

The Untold Writer's Encyclopedia Recommends: If You Won't Read, Then Why Should I Write? by Jarrett Kobek. Entirely uncertain as to whether the contents of this book are real. A little disturbed at that? Yes. Amused? Also yes. 

Actually we're pretty sure it's all real. 

#untold #unnamedpress #jarrett kobek #friday reads #news #paris hilton #pamela anderson #colin farrell #tommy lee

[sammeldeineknochen]

Jedes Wesen ändert sich oder stirbt.

Jarrett Kobek: "Unsere wunderbar kurze Zukunft", S.356

#jarrett kobek #unsere wunderbar kurze zukunft #veränderung #tod

[sammeldeineknochen]

Historisch gesehen sind böse reiche Menschen und dumme Menschen der Feind.

Jarrett Kobek: "Unsere wunderbar kurze Zukunft", S.428/429

#jarrett kobek #unsere wunderbar kurze zukunft #hisorie #feindbilder #dummmheit #reichtum #bosheit

[sammeldeineknochen]

Die Demütigung des menschlichen Daseins, das Gefangensein in einem Körper. Es gab keine gute Art zu sterben.

Jarrett Kobek: "Unsere wunderbar kurze Zukunft", S.280

#jarrett kobek #unsere wunderbar kurze zukunft #demütigung #mensch #dasein #gefangenschaft #körper #tod

[sammeldeineknochen]

Doch man kann sich nie ändern, weil es immer jemanden gibt, der sich unbedingt an das alte Ich erinnern will.

Jarrett Kobek: "Unsere wunderbar kurze Zukunft", S.264

#jarrett kobek #unsere wunderbar kurze zukunft #erinnern #veränderung #statik