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The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives. It is within this light that we form those ideas by which we pursue our magic and make it realized. This is poetry as illumination, for it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are, until the poem, nameless and formless – about to be birthed, but already felt. That distillation of experience from which true poetry springs births thought as dream births concept, as feeling births idea, as knowledge births (precedes) understanding. As we learn to bear the intimacy of scrutiny, and to flourish within it, as we learn to use the products of that scrutiny for power within our living, those fears which rule our lives and form our silences begin to lose their control over us.
– Poetry Is Not A Luxury (1985), Audre Lorde
CrimethInc. : Shutting Down the Port of Tacoma : Reflections from the Salish Sea
Reposting this tweet from Abdalhadi Alijla عبد الهادي العجلة (@alijla2021):
"Via Scott Long. For those interested, I've uploaded my entire library of books on Palestine/Israel to the cloud, in digital form (mostly pdf and epub) so you can access them. It's a little over 1700 books, a lot of them good and important, some of them historical or political curiosities. Nearly all are in English, I'm afraid. You can download any that interest you individually, or the whole library (about 13 GB). And feel free to share this."
Link to the drive
Massive fuck you to everyone who is talking about Palestinians as if we’re already all dead and sharing more solidarity with our corpses than us living. “We will never forget the beautiful Palestinian people-“ how about you stop “making peace” with Palestinian extermination. My people are not going to be forgotten because we are going to live. Palestinians have already survived one genocide and have been surviving one ever since.
Do not ever let the idea that all Palestinians are going to die exist in your mind. Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living.
MYSELF/LESBIAN/ANGELIC/HOLY by kathy acker
happy fourth of july to the philippines ONLY
what are your thoughts on the magic system of our reality (1.0 version for clarification)
I really like how you can impose meaning into symbols. That's pretty dope.
I like how you can trigger emotions by making sounds
Really dig how literally anything can become language. People are still figuring out the tech there.
Been really enjoying the recent rebalances to organized religion. Hopefully they keep nerfing it.
At the same time, I'm loving the new God loadouts. Considering maining Ignosticism.
It's dope that numbers can be manipulated to predict specific sorts of actions, but it's balanced with an extremely high skill ceiling
Big fan of love.
i need to get more masc so i can present feminine
remember when tumblr was "relevant".. I´m talking 2015, 2016
and people would make these info posts on a social issue in X part of the world in the most annoying moralizing tone "why the FUCK is no one talking about this and I have to scroll through 20 cat GIFs" type of shit
that was crazy
also it has travelled on to insta, I think
3 Jul 23
an art piece with a poem by Victoria Amelina – a Ukrainian author who's been injured in the recent strike on Kramatorsk and is currently in a hospital (photo credit)
an air raid alert
across the whole country
as if every time
they line everybody up for an execution
but only aim at one
usually the one standing
to the side
not you today. all clear
“The written word is alive too (you just have to prick it with a hatpin to see it start to bleed), but it enjoys its autonomy and physicality, it can become three-dimensional, polychrome, can rise up from the page hanging on to balloons, or drop on to it in parachutes. There are words that, in order to stay attached to the page, have to be sewn on to it, the thread passing through the loops in those letters that have spaces in them. And if you look at the writing with a lens, the thin sliver of ink turns out to be permeated with a thick flow of meaning: like a motorway, like a swarming crowd, like a river brimming with fish.”
— Italo Calvino on Luigi Serafini’s Codex Seraphinianus, tr. Martin McLaughlin, from “The Encyclopedia of a Visionary,” Collection of Sand (Mariner Books, 2013; orig. pub. in Italian, 1984)
HAPPY APRIL 14TH
“Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is some thing quite different from what we read when he is there (or when we think about him). Or rather, to read in him that he is certainly something different, perhaps something completely different, from from what we read in him. Every being cries out silently to be read differently.
We read, but also we are read by, others. Interferences in these readings. Forcing someone to read himself as we read him (slavery). Forcing others to read us as we read ourselves (conquest). A mechanical process. More often than not a dialogue between deaf people.”
—Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace (tr. Emma Crawford & Mario von der Ruhr)
this site definitely doesn't allow you to paste the link to any article blocked by a paywall (say, a NYT article) so that you can read it free of charge! that would be illegal and would benefit broke college students too much. it definitely does not do that. promise.
Garden City, Cairo, EGYPT
The Ring (Opposite Direction), Guillermo Kuitca, 2002-03, MoMA: Painting and Sculpture
Gift of Diane and Bruce Halle from the Thomarie Foundation Size: Each panel 6’ 6 ¾" x 6’ 6 ¾" (200 x 200 cm), overall 6’ 6 ¾" x 26’ 3" (200 x 800.1 cm) Medium: Oil on canvas, four panels
http://www.moma.org/collection/works/143630
girl help i’m starting over again for the 1000th time & i’m beginning to think that life is a never-ending cycle of starting over & i actually have to make peace with that in order to move forward
Lyotard, libidinal economy