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It’s not just that the internet distracts you from making art: the situation is much worse than that. It sidles into the process itself. It replaces your thoughts and words with the thoughts of a digital entity that is not quite yourself but not quite something else either.

-sam kriss https://thepointmag.com/criticism/alt-lit/

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via

[elexecution]

there is so much to learn about everything

[havingapoemwithyou]

Keeping Quiet by Robert Bly

[vorpalfae]

[f4kef4airy]

We Need to Talk about Family Annihilators

Men killing their children and wives is a recognizable, and common, pattern—and it has a name.

The Shreveport Mass Killing Isn’t Just About ‘Mental Health’

When a man shoots his wife and children, the term you are looking for is patriarchy.

Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny

Abstract. What is misogyny? And (why) is it still occurring? This book explores the logic of misogyny, conceived in terms of the hostilities

[f4kef4airy]

you’ve been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress).

i was not going to publish this essay because i don’t like to yell but here the fuck i am.

[the-reconciliation-of-all-things]

how terrifying metamorphosis must be for the caterpillar has no concept of what it is doing, or what a butterfly is, or what will happen to it as it spins itself the cocoon. we r more alike than different

[importantandunavoidable]

there are parts of your future self in you waiting emerge but you have to become unrecognizable slime first

[f4kef4airy]

Jean Baudrillard - Otherness Surgery

This document discusses the modern production of otherness and changing conceptions of sexuality and gender. It argues that in modernity, ot

[f4kef4airy]

Liberationmaxxing

Identity and belonging as pyramid scheme.

[antimanifesto1973]

in the back of the club observing gender relations

[medievalreligiousfanatic]

a solar halo over hexigten banner, inner mongolia, china

[ecrituria]

Ever since I took a class on material culture and the significance of things and objects in our lives, I’ve started taking note of relevant readings I come across. For those interested, below is a partial list:

Objects of Despair: Inspired by Roland Barthes, Meghan O’Gieblyn’s monthly column examines contemporary artifacts and the mythologies we have built around them.

Fake Meat | Mirrors | Mars | Drones | The 10,000-Year Clock

Concrete: The Most Destructive Material on Earth (more on The Guardian’s “Concrete Week”)

The Unfortunate Fate of Childhood Dolls by Rainer Maria Rilke

AirPods Are a Tragedy

Thinging the Real: On Bill Brown’s “Other Things”

Sum Effects: “Personal or real, tangible or intangible, durable, hard, soft, consumable, or perishable: my grandmother owned none of it. Goldyne Alter died with no possessions.”

A janitor rescued migrants’ possessions from a border facility’s trash. Now they’re art.

Evocative Objects: Things We Think With, ed. by Sherry Turkle

Friendly Floatees

Great Pacific garbage patch

Plastic: an autobiography by Allison Cobb

Curating the Anthropocene: “Imagine a future archeologist on a dig in what was once downtown Los Angeles, excavating, exposing layers of history, like the paleontologists at the La Brea Tar Pits are doing today, finding bones of saber-toothed cats, mammoth, and dire wolves. What does the archeologist of the future find?”

[camillepagliadisliker]

The System of Objects by Jean Baudrillard

My master thesis on The Bed

[f4kef4airy]

Comrades Help Yourselves

Leftists seeking to change the world are increasingly also trying to change themselves via self-help frameworks for emotional and romantic i

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[honey-venom]

[fuckyeahvintageneon]