Wednesday, 4 August 2010

soft targets

Introduction to Civil War [fragments]

1. The elementary human unity is not the body—the individual—but the form-of-life.

2. The form-of-life is not beyond bare life, it is its intimate polarization.

3. Each body is affected by its form-of-life as if by a clinamen, a penchant, a leaning, an attraction, a taste. What a body leans toward also leans toward it. This goes for each and every situation. All inclinations are reciprocal.

4. This taste, this clinamen, can either be conjured away or assumed. To assume a form-of-life is not simply to recognize such a penchant, but to think it. I call thought that which converts a form-of-life into a force, into a sensible effectivity.
In every situation there is one line that stands out among all the others, the line along which power grows. Thought is the capacity for singling out this line, and following it. That a form-of-life can only be assumed by following this line means: all thought is strategic.

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the destructive character

The destructive character sees no image hovering before him. He has few needs, and the least of them is to know what will replace what has been destroyed. First of all, for a moment at least, empty space – the place where thing stood or the victim lived. Someone is sure to be found who needs this space without occupying it.

November 1931

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chakra transmitter















Naruto
There’s no more hiding for Pain. He’s now visible to everyone and the only thing he could do is fight and prevent them from tracing back Nagato’s location. But it’s too late because Naruto has figured it out as well. He came in contact with Pain and all of a sudden, grabbed a chakra transmitter and pinned it to himself. Now he was able to receive signal from Nagato and also able to trace his location.

Monday, 2 August 2010

stumbling block





























A line of trees felled across a road by the Germans to slow the Australian advance towards the Hindenburg Line, France, 1917. [AWM H08797]