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The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The spectacle’s estrangement from the acting subject is expressed by the fact that the individual’s gestures are no longer his own; they are the gestures of someone else who represents them to him.

Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle (via socialmaya)

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Amy Talluto

The Fair Full Moon Doth Turn, 2019

Oil on canvas, 50 x 55 inches

fairycosmos

i hate how they market alexa as a ‘member of the family’ like that’s SO fucking blatantly insidious and terrifying also if i wanted an untrustworthy/cold/emotionless machine in my life i’d just talk to my fuckin father

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dappermouth

Find it deep inside the house, where no one ever goes—down a lightless hallway, in the darker rooms below.

probablyasocialecologist

“When we see violent characters who kill for primarily political reasons, they are often anti-heroes at best, outright villains at worst. The idea of the full circle revolution - of the secret dictator hiding in the throat of every rebel leader, waiting to leap out and betray the non-ideological hero - is utterly pervasive. It appears in videogames, where good old-fashioned all-American heroes like Jim Raynor of Starcraft or Booker DeWitt of Bioshock Infinite are betrayed by villainous revolutionaries Arcturus Mengsk and Daisy Fitzroy (and after all they’ve done for them!). It is common in films, from supervillains like Magneto and Killmonger, liberationists written as would-be conquerors, to the rebels of The Hunger Games, who vote to continue the games as soon as they’re in power, except with the children of the dethroned elite rather than the children of the poor. The same reversal is mentioned in A Song of Ice and Fire, where rebel slaves, once liberated, enslave their former masters; in the TV version, an evil fundamentalist visits the kind of cruelty on the King’s Landing nobility that they visited on others. In all these examples we see an echo of the primal fear of every oppressive class, the nightmare at the heart of modern white supremacy: what if someone did to us what we’ve done to them? Liberation is re-imagined as the world turned not so much upside-down but mirrored.”

— Alister MacQuarrie, Outlaw Kings and Rebellion Chic

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The detention suffered by immigrants is yet another abuse suffered by immigrant poultry workers employed by Koch Foods Inc in Morton, Mississippi.

In 2018, following a nearly eight-year-long legal battle, Koch Foods Inc. settled a $3.75 million brought by the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against Koch Food Inc at the plant. The lawsuit alleged that Koch Foods Inc supervisors engaged in both racial and sexual harassment of Latina workers at its Morton, Mississippi plant.

The lawsuit brought by the EEOC against Koch Food Inc’s alleged “that supervisors touched and/or made sexually suggestive comments to female Hispanic employees, hit Hispanic employees and charged many of them money for normal everyday work activities.”

As part of its settlement, Koch Foods Inc. agreed to a three-year federal consent decree to change its discriminatory practices. As part of the consent decree, Koch Foods Inc. was forced to create a 24-hour-a-day bilingual hotline for workers to use to file complaints.

Many immigrants rights advocates have speculated that workers are targeted for raids after their facilities get investigated for worker abuse.

In June of 2018, ICE raided a unionized Fresh Mark meatpacking plant in Salem, Ohio; arresting 140 workers.

A week before the raid on a Fresh Mark’s Salem facility, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fined Fresh Mark $211,194 for three separate incidents in which proper guards for dangerous machinery were not in place. OSHA found that the lack of safety guards resulted in the death of an undocumented worker.

In December of 2017, Domingo Ramos, a 49-year-old undocumented worker from Guatemala, was killed in the plant when his foot was sucked into a rotating auger, ripping off his lower leg and leading to him bleeding to death.

Suspicious was also raised that workers complaining about working conditions in plants lead to raids when the Southeastern Provision in Morristown, Tennesse. The raid came after federal authorities were tipped off by a local bank that the owner of the plant may have been paying undocumented workers under the table.

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Bard of Death by kleinerHai .

Romantic Landscape 15 - Ola Billgren, 1981 83.

Danish, 1940-2001

Colour lithograph, 55 x 62,5 cm

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Translations of poems by Xu Lizhi (许立志), the Foxconn worker who committed suicide on 30 September 2014, at the age of 24, in Shenzhen, China. The translations are by friends of the Chuang and Nao p…

Poet, industrial worker, a young life that ended in this capitalist nightmare.

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《我就那样站着入睡》

“I Fall Asleep, Just Standing Like That”

眼前的纸张微微发黄

The paper before my eyes fades yellow

我用钢笔在上面凿下深浅不一的黑

With a steel pen I chisel on it uneven black

里面盛满打工的词汇

Full of working words

车间，流水线，机台，上岗证，加班，薪水……

Workshop, assembly line, machine, work card, overtime, wages…

我被它们治得服服贴贴

They’ve trained me to become docile

我不会呐喊，不会反抗

Don’t know how to shout or rebel

不会控诉，不会埋怨

How to complain or denounce

只默默地承受着疲惫

Only how to silently suffer exhaustion

驻足时光之初

When I first set foot in this place

我只盼望每月十号那张灰色的薪资单

I hoped only for that grey pay slip on the tenth of each month

赐我以迟到的安慰

To grant me some belated solace

为此我必须磨去棱角，磨去语言

For this I had to grind away my corners, grind away my words

拒绝旷工，拒绝病假，拒绝事假

Refuse to skip work, refuse sick leave, refuse leave for private reasons

拒绝迟到，拒绝早退

Refuse to be late, refuse to leave early

流水线旁我站立如铁，双手如飞

By the assembly line I stood straight like iron, hands like flight,

多少白天，多少黑夜

How many days, how many nights

我就那样，站着入睡

Did I – just like that – standing fall asleep?

creeppygreen

Blooming

hyperions-fate

Identity has become the axis of so much university activism because, for all the radical posturing associated with it, identity politics does not threaten the established order of society. It promotes a moralistic and self-indulgent anti-politics, where a person’s use of language and the purity of their thinking matters more than confronting collectively the material conditions and social relations under which they are forced to live. It creates a simulation of political struggle - one that doesn’t merely fail to challenge the material inequality and unfreedom of late capitalism, but fundamentally aligns with the dynamics and interests of its atomised, spectacle-driven society. It is a perfect mirror of consumerism, playing-upon the individual’s desires for real freedom, only to perpetuate and prettify the conditions of their alienation.