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The Fall and Rise of Nobody’s America

(P–R)

Carlos Reyes

Intro :: A–C :: D–F :: G–I :: J–L :: M–O
P–R :: S–U :: V–X :: Y–Z

 

 

Red
Red II
Agon… Ekstasis…
 
Making strange again (To Bakhtin, my brother)
Becoming is becoming because becauseless (To Deleuze, my double)
A passion for unknowing (To the Buddha, nobody’s nobody)
The Mark of X
 
In the beginningless after God killed himself
On the streets, in the sheets
This one only belongs with those who don’t belong
(R={x:x∉x}→ R∈R↔R∉R)
Somebody Wins, Somebody Loses
 
Your money or your time
The rich get
Losing is for losers
Patience Not a virtue anymore.
Philippines America is not an empire.
Play Hard.
Police Kings of pain.
Politics This one seduces interns. That one is a Terminator. This one is a homosexual who hates fags. That one talks to Jesus.
Politics The business of manipulating ignorance. (How to keep all eyes on the trivial while the machinery of power grinds its gears elsewhere.)
Pollyanna The extraordinary kindness and cruelty of those who want so badly to be good.
President In search of a father.
Privacy 1. Reality shows.
2. Facebook.
Privacy So last millennium.
Progress Mene, Mene, Tele, Visio.
Promised Land Home of the rave, land of free trade.
Prozac In 1987, sadness became a disease.
Portmantoes
 
PALIMPSIESTINA PALIMPSIESTINA PALIMPSIESTINA PALIMPSIESTINA PALIMPSIESTINA PALIMPSIESTINA PALIMPSIESTINA PALIMPSIESTINA PALIMPSIESTINA PALIMPSIESTINA PALIMPSIESTINA
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Queer
(See Illegal Alien.)
Scapegoat politics.
Queery
 
QUANTUMESCENCE QUANTUMESCENCE QUANTUMESCENCE QUANTUMESCENCE QUANTUMESCENCE QUANTUMESCENCE QUANTUMESCENCE QUANTUMESCENCE QUANTUMESCENCE QUANTUMESCENCE
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Recognition Scene Been there, bought that.
Religion Believe it… or else…
Repetition As long as it looks different.
Repetition Truth factory. (The one-strategy-fits-all of advertising, politics, mass media, etc.)
Retirement Perpetual deferment.
Rhinoplasty
(See Halitosis.)
A genius for neologism.
Rock‘n Roll Desire both hero and villain in the great American epic.
Rock‘n Roll Made in Africa.
Rugged Individualism Buying conformist nonconformity. (A nation of shoppers who just want to belong.)
Remarscramble
 
RITMOROMERO RITMOROMERO RITMOROMERO RITMOROMERO RITMOROMERO RITMOROMERO RITMOROMERO RITMOROMERO RITMOROMERO
SCHIZOSCOPE SCHIZOSCOPE SCHIZOSCOPE SCHIZOSCOPE SCHIZOSCOPE SCHIZOSCOPE SCHIZOSCOPE SCHIZOSCOPE
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YINYANGYES YINYANGYES
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Intro :: A–C :: D–F :: G–I :: J–L :: M–O
P–R :: S–U :: V–X :: Y–Z
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