Readings: Essays, Articles & Short Stories Pt. 2

“Humanity’s self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.”

— Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,“ 1936 (via infiniteradius)

George Seferis, Mythistorema (Trans. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard)

“This Afghan Hound gets a final brush-up before the start of the judging.”

09 February 1974.

I could do both it just feels insane

Bwaa there’s life drawing tmr but I kinda want to draw my grandmas bleeding heart flowers

it’s okay to say ‘this isn’t for me’ or ‘I’m not happy here’ and leave… you don’t have to wait for things to be really bad

But I'm a Cheerleader (1999) dir. Jamie Babbit

the things that we've been forced to manage through crowdfunding websites are insane. victims of a genocide are having to market themselves as someone who is worthy of being saved.

living for more than a year under an active genocide while seeing your oppressors cruelty and disregard for your life increase is so horrendous.

every single person in gaza has lost too much. i don't think everyone must have to share their personal loss in order to be deemed as a person worthy of safety. i think we should try to help those we can see asking for it.

i request you to help alaa and her children. she needs to buy supplies and remain safe. her area was bombed very recently. her fundraiser has been verified.

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