Question All Authority

Interested in Critical Theory

[artist-malevich]

Mystic, Kazimir Malevich

https://www.wikiart.org/en/kazimir-malevich/mystic-1

[artist-kandinsky]

Small worlds II, Wassily Kandinsky

Medium: lithography

https://www.wikiart.org/en/wassily-kandinsky/small-worlds-ii-1922

[violaslayvis]

“One of the most important things the [Black Panther] Party did was to make it really clear who the enemy was: not white people, but the capitalistic, imperialistic oppressors. They took the Black liberation struggle out of a national context and put it in an international context…. It was also clear to me that without a truly internationalist component nationalism was reactionary. There was nothing revolutionary about nationalism by itself-Hitler and Mussolini were nationalists. Any community seriously concerned with its own freedom has to be concerned about other peoples’ freedom as well. The victory of oppressed people anywhere in the world is a victory for Black people. Each time one of imperialism’s tentacles is cut off we are closer to liberation… Imperialism is an international system of exploitation, and we, as revolutionaries, need to be internationalists to defeat it.”

— Assata Shakur, “Assata: An Autobiography” (via violaslayvis)

[whisperthatruns]

“A capitalist society requires a culture based on images. It needs to furnish vast amounts of entertainment in order to stimulate buying and anesthetize the injuries of class, race, and sex. And it needs to gather unlimited amounts of information, the better to exploit natural resources, increase productivity, keep order, make war, give jobs to bureaucrats. The camera’s twin capacities, to subjectivize reality and to objectify it, ideally serve these needs and strengthen them. Cameras define reality in the two ways essential to the workings of an advanced industrial society: as a spectacle (for masses) and as an object of surveillance (for rulers). The production of images also furnishes a ruling ideology. Social change is replaced by a change in images. The freedom to consume a plurality of images and goods is equated with freedom itself. The narrowing of free political choice to free economic consumption requires the unlimited production and consumption of images.”

— Susan Sontag, On Photography

[brainstatic]

“Don’t call Trump supporters nazis, it hurts their feelings.”

[jewish-privilege]

Yes, this is real (link to tweet). Yes, Tucker Carlson is literally repeating Nazi propaganda that aided the genocide of the Romani during the Holocaust. Yes, I am furious. 

(Also, although there is a large population of Romani in Romania, they aren’t indigenous to Romania. They’re a diasporic group originally from northern India.)

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

Romani and Jewish have been screaming at the top of their lungs for years about neo-fascism in Europe, and Americans were totally aloof.

Then neo-fascism reared its head in America, but Roma and Jews were left out of the conversation in terms of people being impacted, because our oppression was “over.”

Now Tucker Carlson is on live TV using slurs and Nazi propaganda about Romani people, and I’m 90% most people on the left are just going to ignore it.

[volaee]

It’s fucking starting y'all. It’s happening again.

If you’re not Jewish or Roma PLEASE BOOST THIS.

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[determinate-negation]

wow i just yelled at henry kissinger like in person

[determinate-negation]

context, thats me speaking after the first person: https://twitter.com/esorfas/status/1052324341629767680?s=21

Esor🌹 on Twitter

“Comrades at NYU disrupting Henry Kissinger’s talk at the Stern School of Business. #NoWarCriminalsAtNYU https://t.co/FbgkmXGbY3”

[la-laborista-republiko]

[oncelerfucker69-deactivated2019]

hell yeah finally seeing a headline about ecosocialism

[artist-munch]

By the Deathbed (Fever) I, Edvard Munch

Medium: oil,canvas

https://www.wikiart.org/en/edvard-munch/by-the-deathbed-fever-i-1915

[artist-malevich]

Mystic, Kazimir Malevich

https://www.wikiart.org/en/kazimir-malevich/mystic

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[blackqueerblog]

Texas definitely needs Beto 

[gravity-rainbow-deactivated2024]

Thomas Pynchon

[guattarian-egirl-deactivated202]

“The good old days of exploitation, where the boss was interested in the worker only to the extent that they produced a commodity which could be sold at a profit, are long gone. Work then meant the annihilation of subjectivity, your reduction to an impersonal machine-part; it was the price that you paid for time away from work. Now, there is no time away from work, and work is not opposed to subjectivity. All time is entrepreneurial time because we are the commodities, so that any time not spent selling ourselves is wasted time.”

— Mark Fisher, “Suffering With a Smile” 

[artist-schiele]

The Family, Egon Schiele

Medium: oil,canvas

https://www.wikiart.org/en/egon-schiele/the-family-1918

[talesofpassingtime]

“The real problem is the intellectual’s inaptitude for real life, methodically cultivated through reading, thinking and dialectic. It is deformity by stages, a systematic habituation, day by day, a slow atrophying of the reflexes and instincts, a step-by-step destruction of the natural vital power that allows us to pass untroubled through storms.”

—

Mihail Sebastian, For Two Thousand Years 

(via talesofpassingtime)