Quote of the day

Towards the Stranger-Subject or Angel (Absolunaut Navigating in Gravitational Extraterrestrial Levitation):

"The angel has nothing but his pure subjective capacity of going beyond himself, dissolving any appropriating retention, and mediating any essentialization of his existence: having no country, the angel is a stranger without nostalgia; having no profession, he can systematically abolish the division of labour; always speaking in a sort of foreign language, he can practice a generalized translatability between the local modes of thought and aspire to ‘pure language’ (Benjamin); in short, being nothing but a local germ of subjectification, he can be everything." (GC 2011: 366)

"The angel is a subjective typology synchronous with modern science, which is to say a barred, errant, (trans)finite, mutant, and outcast human being; an unidentified flying subject lacking any transcendental at-homeness; an alien whose transcendental structure, far from being the enclave of an immediate and apodictic experience, is the condition of possibility of its irreversible alienation in an uncanny immanental plane." (GC 2011: 367)

Both quotes are taken from the following text:  

Catren, Gabriel, "Outland Empire: Prolegomena to Speculative Absolutism", in Speculative Turn: continental materialism and realism, ed. by Levi Bryant, Nick Srnicek and Graham Harman, Melbourne: re.press, 2011.