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matsuzaki akemi

lightnessandbeauty

André de Dienes, Model getting out of the bath, 1950′s.

m-elloncollie

noa (2010)

milksockets

black + white magazine april 2000

theredjenny

Threesome between you, me, and who I used to be

#text

precious-silly-thing-deactivate

Eduardo Andres Crespo

#the thing that is both mr how and mrs why

iinterlxne

Get blasted by my YURI BEAMMMM

#they're soooo <3333 #the summer hikaru died

thebellekeys

europeans be like “omg north americans are so racist it’s horrible” and then elect fascists

thebellekeys

I would like to emphasize that I agree with all of these tags by the way. My post wasn't aiming to pin all of Europe's grotesque racism on the new elections.

dailymanners

A few weeks ago I was at a board game night with some of my old classmates from various mainland European countries. They started talking about how horrible Trump's treatment of immigrants is and how they're so glad to be in Europe where nothing like that is happening right now. I asked them what they thought about the fact that their own governments were complicit in turning the Mediterranean into a mass grave of asylum seekers, and some of them legitimately didn't even know and were surprised to hear that their own governments had enacted policies that caused the deaths of thousands of asylum seekers.

Even here in Iceland, almost nobody has been talking about the fact that some of the far right populist parties have legitimately been talking about wanting to establish detainment camps to keep asylum seekers in.

barishal

Additional readings:

Greece suspends asylum applications for migrants from North Africa by Laura Gozzi (BBC).

Greece passes draconian legislation with prison terms for rejected asylum seekers by Helena Smith (The Guardian).

Greek coastguard threw migrants overboard to their deaths, witnesses say by Lucile Smith and Ben Steele (BBC).

Bill on Detention Centres for Asylum Seekers Published by Jelena Ćirić (Iceland Review).

Italy sends 40 rejected asylum seekers to Albania by Karl Sexton (DW).

Record number of migrants, refugees reached Canary Islands by sea in 2024 (Al Jazeera).

Portuguese government announces major migrant expulsion plan by ANSA (InfoMigrants).

dailymanners

This post is a few months old now, and the bit about Iceland is now outdated, because Alþingi (the Icelandic parliament) passed the bill approving the detention center for asylum seekers. It will be legal to handcuff and detain children there.

Never let anyone from Europe feed you the lie that racism and fascism are unique to North America in the 21st century.

random-brushstrokes

Dmitry Mochalsky - Girlfriends (1957)

#<3 #art

communistkenobi

it’s awesome talking to anthropology graduate students because they will so confidentially brag about the ‘decolonial turn’ of their own discipline and then in the next breath describe ‘culture’ as a coherent unit of analysis. I would say that’s nice dear but to be honest it’s not very nice.

rain-rome

whats your criticism of culture as a coherent unit of analysis? i can think of several angles to take here but im curious what yours is.

communistkenobi

For me I would say it’s similar to the criticisms you would make of “the individual” as a unit of analysis - there are many methodological problems with how you try to draw a boundary around what constitutes a culture (or an individual). It allows one to formulate phrases like “Canadian culture” or “queer culture” as if such a thing coherently exists. And I use “methodological” here specifically to mean a set of assumptions that allow you to determine what your unit of analysis is, what the “thing” is that you will study. What assumptions underly the conclusion that “culture” (much like the individual) is an object that can be studied?

This comes from an idea of culture-as-object, as something distinct from other object-ified social phenomena and can be bounded by the borders of “culture.” I think it was Aime Cesaire who called ethnography a “white method”, for example - the presumptions underlying ethnography as a method comes from the perspective of a scientist who is external to “the culture” under study, who comes in from outside to document, observe, and even “participate” in a given “culture” before going back to the academy and reporting on “the culture of Papua New Guinea” or etc. The analogy of the individual is similarly fraught when we think about how western psychology often talks about things like addiction, mental illness, the very concept of a “personality disorder” and so on, as these things that affect and originate from “individuals”. The “individual,” like “culture,” is a thing you can map causal claims onto - some individuals are disordered, some cultures are backwards, because they are “objects” with “properties” that can be described, much like you would describe the colour and texture of a basketball.

this is obviously not unique to anthropology - Dorothy Smith, a feminist sociologist, talks about this in The Everyday World As Problematic in the context of women being “an object of study” in sociology, a configuration that presumes an external masculine Sociologist who is inherently ignorant of women. Men are subjects (capable of reason and writing, capable of study), women are objects (inert phenomena to be studied, which is how we get claims like “women are irrational”). Applying this back to a colonial context, anthropology’s origins as a data-gathering tool for colonial powers (Said talks a bit about this in Orientalism iirc) positions “cultures” as objects that exist to be studied by white, Anglo, western subjects. I’m not that familiar with anthropology’s role within shaping colonial policies, so idk much about that side of it, although I do know in Canada that there have been recent pushes for indigenous policies of data sovereignty, where indigenous nations, if engaged as research subjects by universities, are given powers to restrict, control, or withhold data/results/research access from researchers if they don’t like the way the research is being conducted or written about (I think the book Decolonising Methodologies by Linda T Smith discusses this, although it’s been a while since I read anything from it).

this doesn’t mean that “culture” is never a relevant or useful concept (much like “the individual” can be useful/helpful/relevant), but that it’s a concept that emerged for the purposes of articulating a given set of colonial interests and powers (when talking about anthropology’s use of “culture” anyway - idk what other histories the concept has outside of that). And this specific post was spurred by hearing an anthro grad student talk about “the homogeneity of Quebecois culture,” a phrase that may sound innocuous but is one that is currently being deployed for extremely Islamophobic purposes in Quebec (eg their ban on “religious symbols” being worn in certain professions, a ban that primarily target muslims, under the guise of maintaining a ‘secular’, homogenous Francophone “culture”)

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