Utopian Rapport

  

[toiich]

Age Is… (2012), dir. Stephen Dwoskin

[toiich]

That Obscure Object of Desire (1977), dir. Luis Buñuel

[toiich]

I Married a Witch (1942), dir. René Clair

[havingapoemwithyou]

Hunger by Ruth Awad

[improvisedliturgy]

If philosophy wants to become a system, it will have to develop a mechanism allowing it to resolve the threat posed by contingency. If the a priori laws become contingent, then the system will collapse immediately. The system would therefore better respond to contingency by not having predefined rules, and instead allow rules to emerge during its confrontation with contingency and irregularity. We pass here from a transcendental characterized by rules to a transcendental characterized by teleology, analogous to the movement from Kant’s first to his third Critique. At the center of this systemic thinking is the concept of the organic, which comes from discoveries in the natural sciences, especially biology. Being organic is not merely maintaining part-whole relations, but also designates self-organization and autopoiesis, which we want to call recursivity.

Yuk Hui, Recursivity and Contingency

[dyingenigma]

https://vkvideo.ru/@club240402299

I put up African films here

[calvinandhobbes]

“Anything too perfect has to have a mistake or the gods will take it away.”

—Cy Twombly, quoted in Cy Twombly: The Ceiling; Un plafond pour le Louvre

[majestativa]

“Odysseus returned, full with space and time.”

— Osip Mandelstam, Tristia

[gravalicious]

Maida Springer-Kemp

[gravalicious]

Musician and writer Francis Bebey.

[ssegundosombra]

"'Someone has fired, on the corner, an ice bullet over the body of a murdered woman, the sound of which will barely begin to be heard ten generations from now, when the empty apple falls onto the asphalt surface and rolls without end, immodest to the point of innocence, from one echo to another. Now, the nocturnal militia places a beautiful horse at each extremity of her body to draw it to the morgue in four opposite directions, between frozen fish and orthopedic bellies, to rest in peace.  

"'An umbrella in a state of siege declares, and her window voice flutters throughout the street, driven mad, chased by two trees disguised as witnesses: she had climbed the stairs with a letter; then she got naked to facilitate the autopsy and immediately afterwards she discharged upon her temple all the suicidal shadows that might burst from the walls of a room merely by flipping the light switch. That which is seen inside the window display of the funeral parlor isn’t a sound either, nor the footsteps that receded farther with each farewell, but rather the fervent notary who sews the cadaver with a black needle, until she begins to groan and from her opened breasts our memories come running out, our dates, the hands that plot lies, and then she, carefully sleepwalking, covers my skin with lips.'"

José Revueltas, Nocturne: Everything is Heard

[davidhudson]

Philip Seymour Hoffman, July 23, 1967 – February 2, 2014.

[kropotkindersurprise]

June 17, 2024 - Palestine Action members cut through 3 security fences to get inside Elbit Systems 'highly secure' compound and break into the Israeli company's weapons factory in Kent, UK. Once inside, they began dismantling machinery, technology and parts used to arm the Gaza genocide, causing more than a million pounds worth of damage. [video]

[neoyorzapoteca]

Ibeyi - Aset (Official Music Video) - YouTube

[ssegundosombra]

Ernesto Halffter / Homenaje a Federico Mompou

[a-quiet-green-agreement]

In vain I sought to persuade myself that the clouds passing above me were identical to those of my childhood, that the sky of my distant city was not different from the azure vault now looming over me, that the air was the same, the wind's breath identical, identical the birds' voices. Clouds, sky, air, wind, birds—in truth, they all appeared new and different things to me. And I felt myself a stranger.

– Dino Buzzati, from “The Seven Messengers,” The Bewitched Bourgeois: Fifty Stories (NYRB, 2025)

[tearsofrefugees]

In Morocco, 1,000 mothers and sisters join forces to speak about their loved ones' disappearances

For nearly a decade, Moroccan mothers and sisters of missing persons have been running an association to make their voices heard in a countr