Mario Breskic @mario@mastodon.mariobreskic.de

Starting a thread here for the Playlists. This post is an index for that. All playlists will appear beneath this post.

an inhuman future where things exist in our ruin, our destroyed world, creatures whose superiority to us they celebrate by not building, not bearing, not creating themselves, but who always destroy, even each other, seemingly with joy.
i find my spirit embodying such an empty creature, and i feel how aloof it is, recalling its ethics and morals as almost incomprehensible to my now waking mind, but only almost.
these beings are our descendants if everything goes wrong. if we fall to war.

their singular purpose shared with all weapons: to maim and murder those who live, who love; to kill the beauty of life, to kill us.
our escape is only temporary, the automata are everywhere, crude mockeries of our bipedal forms, built by hands who have betrayed life to war. and we die.
we die, being clinged to and cleaved by these replacement soldiers, these bombs who hold onto us and just explode. i die. further visions of a more distant future: roads nobody travels, death fields, no love

i woke from visions of the old enemy war spreading its influence of death on life further across our beloved europe.
impressions of being refugees, seeing embedded reporters among resistance. fleeing from anonymous and automated destruction, explosions, fire and smoke on green fields of grass next to autobahnen, in broad daylight.
Fleeing, always fleeing alongside those who want to protect us, our beloveds, together ever lessening in numbers. and then unliving things found us: death automata.

Hello. I am me. Who are you? Hello

It took me a little more than fourty years to realise that I know nothing

I wonder how working with the two kinds of books will work out, especially when it comes to note-taking.

I wonder if keeping digital ones within Notability will work out in such a way that what I find noteworthy will find its way into my new Zettelkasten system. Then again, I’ll see how working with print books will work out in 2023, too

Continuing with working on my edge by recapitulating my study material and literature references. Things are clicking together, I am taking note of that.

And I don’t think that that is healthy for me

Undoing all of my blocks on instagram just illustrates the amount of time spent on doing that, instead of, well, not using the thing when I don’t need to post anything.

Others just scroll, I am the same, but instead of scrolling, I look for things to block.

I was going about social media wrong, so I am removing all blocks and filters on my end, allowing things to just be.

At the end of the day, I realise that putting in this kind of work, of adding blocks and filters, only creates a setting of disquiet, which ironically simply increases the time spent on things I would rather not spend time on.

Everything is a privilege, nothing is a right, aside from the Grundgesetz of course

I am a graphic designer with a deep interest in graphic design. I will forever enjoy being this, a craftsman and scholar.

The idea of enlightenment is to not only strive to progress towards it, but to leave some hints and stepping stones and landmarks behind for others.

After having completed every lecture in my graphic design study, Iʼve finally given in to the desire to revisit and recapitulate everything. I am teaching myself to not think about time spent on something, but about valuing what I do. How much time do I need per lecture? How many books will I read? These questions do not concern me anymore.

“Bernadette Mayer recording Wednesday night reading by Elio Schneeman and Rebecca Wright on January 28, 1981. Still from ‘New York Poetry Project’ episode of Swiss TV show ‘Schauplatz’, aired February 9, 1982. From: Nick Sturm, Swiss TV Documents The Poetry Project, August 7, 2020”
@kid37 https://youtu.be/OSqOlgY-OaU