Impúreo, blasfemo de la razón y alcahuete

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[stroebe2]

[zinesbycee]

(nods sagely) (nods basily) (nods rosemarily) (nods saltly) (nods star anisely)

[hotvampireadjacent]

[art-femmes]

Tetyana Yablonska Evening. Old Florence 1973

[louisegluckpdf]

i think every publisher should have to institute a ban on books that fail what i’m calling the “little life” and “what else?” tests

[louisegluckpdf]

for reference.

[sivavakkiyar]

[ssegundosombra]

“Whatever qualities at present genuinely anticipate a more human existence are always simultaneously, in the eyes of the existing order, damaged rather than harmonious things.”

Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life

[fatehbaz]

passing thought at work: by-now-a-cult-classic "missionary eaten by jaguar" by Noe Leon (from 1967; Leon was from Caribbean coast of Colombia) as inversion of earlier colonial-era depictions.

considered that piece by Guaman Poma (circa 1535 to 1616, who was Quechua, from Viceroyalty of Peru), seen here with a person, presumably Indigenous/Andean, besieged by "beasts" (including jaguar?) representing a notary, a parish priest, judicial figures, and other Spanish colonial administrators.

beasts (unsympathetic agents of coloniality) attacking person (sympathetic):

beast (sympathetic) attacking person (unsympathetic agent of coloniality):

[fatehbaz]

like Poma's illustration because that's what it's really like: being attacked from multiple angles by varying agents of empire which, despite how they might collectively act in service of an ultimate centralized-ish hegemony, are still diverse in their methods and characteristics.

the notary and the judge and the policeman, like a jaguar's fangs and bull's horns and a snake's venom, all dangerous in their own distinct way.

something here like a lesson about "never losing sight of power" and understanding the specificity of each colonial institution and how it operates. otherwise, how else do you defend life against it?

[ernaux]

They need to invent some kind of working/posting balance

[oldfilmsflicker]

new-to-me #165 - Función de noche

[superimpositionsonfilm]

Función de Noche (Josefina Molina, 1981)

[stroebe2]

[stroebe2]

[sivavakkiyar]

Walter Benjamin, from One-Way Street

[saladgl0ve]

this is how this website sounds sometimes

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[nineinchmales]

Did you know that um…. (remembers that words are very unnecessary, they can only do harm) …………