Never mind the machinery. Remember the men. The men make the machines, and they make their own tragedies too.
Harvey Swados.
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Man created the machine.
A machine does not feel love, hate or fear; it does not suffer from ulcers, heart attacks or emotional disturbances.
Perhaps man's only chance of survival is to become a machine.
Some men have succeeded.
A machine who passes for a man often rules societies--a dictator is a power machine in his country. A dedicated artist can turn into a talent machine.
Sometimes this evolution occurs without the man realizing it.
Jacqueline Susan
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La máquina acosa a los jóvenes: Los encierra, tortura, mata. Ellos son la prueba viva de su impotencia. Los expulsa: Los vende, carne humana, brazos baratos, al extranjero.
La máquina, estéril, odia todo lo que crece y se mueve. Sólo es capaz de multiplicar las prisiones y los cementerios.
No puede producir otra cosa que presos y cadáveres, espías y policías, mendigos y desterrados.
Ser joven es un delito. La realidad comete ese delito todos los días, a la hora de la alborada; y también la historia, que cada mañana nace de nuevo.
Por eso la realidad y la historia están prohibidas.
Eduardo Galeano
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Flashing lights, rattling scoreboard - there was a voluptuous Amazon on the painted display above, which announced FIRE QUEEN in gaudy fairground calligraphy. The boy's beatific wide eyes flickered as the tumblers clicked and the numbers rolled. Trying for the bonus ball. More than a game of chance - not the fruit machine or the one-armed bandit, there's no solid currency to be gained, only the pleasure of winning. A rarefied skill that could only be developed in the inverse work ethic of Playland. An industrial trade of sorts, a mystery if you like. Like all skilled work it permits the human to imagine that he is working the machine, not the other way around.
Jake Arnott
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About Me
- Sailor Hugo
- A Master in Comparative Literature (New York University), and a Bachelor Summa Cum Laude (4.0 GPA) Phi Beta Kappa & Interdisciplinary Honors in English and American Literature (& Creative Writing), plus a minor in Classical and Political Philosophy (City University of New York). At New York University, he has taught for the Comparative Literature and the Spanish and Portuguese Departments. In 2013 he published Belleza Terrible; in 2014, The Latin American Literature of the Neoliberal Crisis: The Emergence of a Postmodern Posthegemonic Heterotopy? In 2015, he published Occupy La Rive Gauche: R-evolution; Paris, May 1968. His most recent work is titled Del lado de allá. He writes bi-monthly columns in some Spanish-language newspapers. Also, a painter, he has described his style as "concrete expressionism." In January of 1988 he came to live in Manhattan (the Irish writer Emer Martin called his Central Park West apartment “the inside of Hugo's head"), after having resided in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro. In 2004 lived in Paris, where he did research at the Sorbonne and at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.