[-empyre-] pirates, pirating pirates/duration tangent - dread

[simon]

Dear soft-skinned,

pushing my luck, I would also like to suggest that from the piratical 
point of view attention is dread. Neither do rum, sodomy and the lash 
constitute a lifestyle choice that will suit everybody, nor however does 
the sacking of cities. Fast Life, from the piratical point of view, 
correlates with Bare Life; bringing early death: which, when paired with 
Nick Land's - then Reza Negarestani's - necrotizing tendency of 
capitalism, encourages a dreadful and novel possibility, an avant-garde 
accelerating capitalism's death-wish.

I don't see anything nasty here - a morality in fact resolving a dynamic 
field of potentials for practical piratical action. [pace Protevi, 
2009:190] Resolving it, indeed, in the image, since capture here means 
taken up in the image. The piratical point of view escapes by forming an 
image; in a durational sense, like the dandiacal, and the ad, it is the 
image. But only in so far as the image never gets old, belonging to Aion.

I suppose I am trying the problem of the image - a dead plate, in Gilles 
Deleuze's conception, according to Dorothea Olkowski, a dead affective 
plate. What, I am asking, does this have in common - except difference - 
with the ad by the interpellation of which one's living presents are 
captured?

In other words, walking with death, attending with dread, comprise 
escapes, alluded to by Michel, but by capture. The piratical has no 
respect - its chief characteristic? - for the dead, for the living, for 
the difference.

Best,

Simon Taylor

www.squarewhiteworld.com
www.brazilcoffee.co.nz