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“Morality has fundamentally falsified all psychologica to the point where you get complete nonsense, like the claim that love is something unegoistic.”

—F. Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, “Why I Write Such Good Books” §5 (edited excerpt).

matadorrecords

don’t want to make a fb post about this for various reasons but i just got accepted to Delaware’s English Ph.D program and my life is actually coming together and no longer seems like a 20-car pileup on a damp backroad in an abandoned midwestern shantytown

currently bumping #hottrax

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@alackalack

alackalack

I thought squidward's eyes were eggs

@bearnomadwizard

Magritte

Vasilij Kandinskij - Rosa Rot, 1927. Watercolor and gouache on paper laid down by the artist

But at the same time I was what you might call open-ended. That is to say, Henry to some extent was in the situation that we are all in in actual life—namely, he didn't know and I didn't know what the bloody fucking hell was going to happen next. Whatever it was he had to confront it and get through. For example, he dies in Book IV and is dead throughout the book, but at the end of the poem he is still alive, and in fairly good condition, after having died himself again.

John Berryman on his Dream Songs, qtd. in the Paris Review (1972)

#john berryman #poetry #paris review

lifeinpoetry

oh god it’s wonderful to get out of bed and drink too much coffee and smoke too many cigarettes and love you so much

Frank O’Hara, from “Steps,” Lunch Poems (via lifeinpoetry)

lifeinpoetry

all i want is a room up there and you in it

Frank O’Hara, from “Steps,” Lunch Poems (via lifeinpoetry)

quietlee

White History

There should be a White History Month in America. That way we can teach all about the things White Americans have done in history, like: 1 Cherokee Trail of Tears 2 Japanese American internment 3 Philippine-American War 4 Jim Crow 5 The genocide of Native Americans 6 Transatlantic slave trade 7 The Middle Passage 8 The history of White American racism 9 Black Codes 10 Slave patrols 11 Ku Klux Klan 12 The War on Drugs 13 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 14 How white racism grew out of slavery and genocide 15 How whites still benefit from slavery and genocide 16 White anti-racism 17 The Southern strategy 18 The rape of enslaved women 19 Madison Grant 20 The Indian Wars 21 Human zoos 22 How the Jews became white 23 White flight 24 Redlining 25 Proposition 14 26 Homestead Act 27 Tulsa Riots 28 Rosewood massacre 29 Tuskegee Experiment 30 Lynching 31 Hollywood stereotypes 32 Indian Appropriations Acts 33 Immigration Act of 1924 34 Sundown towns 35 Chinese Exclusion Act 36 Emmett Till 37 Vincent Chin 38 Islamophobia 39 Indian boarding schools 40 King Philip’s War 41 Bacon’s Rebellion 42 American slavery compared to Arab, Roman and Latin American slavery 43 History of the gun 44 History of the police 45 History of prisons 46 History of white suburbia 47 Lincoln’s racism and anti-racism 48 George Wallace Governor of Alabama 49 Cointelpro 50 Real estate steering 51 School tracking 52 Mass incarceration of black men 53 Boston school busing riots I encourage everyone to look some of this stuff up, if I missed something, go ahead and add!

54. Jim Crow 55. Church Bombings and fires in deep south to Blacks 56. Church Shootings 57. How the Irish and Italians became white 58. The Perpetuation of the idea of the “model minority” 59. Housing discrimination 60. Systematic placement of highways and building projects to create ghettos 61. Medical experimentation on poor poc especially Blacks including surgical and gynecological experimentation 62. History of Planned Parenthood 63. Forced Sterilization 64. Cutting children out of pregnant Black mothers as part of lynchings 65. Eurocentric beauty standard falsification 66. Erasure and eradication of all achievements of Ancient Africa and Kemet 67. White washing of history and cultural practices of pocs 68. Media manipulation and bias 69. Perpetuation of the myth of reverse racism 70. The history of white cannibalism 71. White fragility Since there’s this thing called “pro-white” now.

black-atheists

Hmmm…

afloweroutofstone

The book I’m reading right now (“Winner-Take-All Politics,” which y’all should read) points out how significant it was that the Democratic Party had a major wing- the Democratic Leadership Council- actively pushing it to the right for well over a decade. The Republicans had no equivalent organization pushing it to the left, and but in fact had many organizations doing the opposite (the Christian right, Newt Gingrich’s wing of the party, the increasing influence of the Heritage Foundation, etc.)

This is what allowed for what Stuart Hall famously called the “great moving right show,” giving neoliberalism a position of ideological hegemony.