But I could not think of what.

ongoing tags: listening humming red body () mud unreal city side blog In N. I lost what had been dear to me. I searched high and low wondering where I'd left it and gave up hope of finding it and the fear of never finding it again. [...] and I forgot a year and a day, sat on a bench in the park for as long as I could remember, could no longer find time, no longer knew who I was, that man sitting there so thoughtfully as if he were thinking of something dear to him. -Toon Tellegen, from "I" in In N. First it starts with the eyes to spare the man from witnessing his own vanishing. He would not believe it if he saw it. Then the hearing goes. This ensures that he does not hear his own groans, the complaint of the loved one telling him he’s left his foot by the door. Then the memory recedes. The man cannot remember his foot or ever having a foot. The man does not remember seeing it attached, despite the failure of his vision. The man cannot recall hearing the floorboards creak beneath his weight. This makes the man sad, though he can’t remember the cause of his sorrow. And so it goes… and so it goes. -Oliver de la Paz, "How Domingo Disappears"

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celine s diaz, In_Between

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Akira, ch. 20

[scavengedluxury]

Egg-throwing contest planned at the unveiling of statue of Margaret Thatcher in her hometown

The unveiling ceremony could cost up to £100,000 and has caused outrage

[gendernihilistanarchocommunist]

Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (1971), dir. Shūji Terayama

[kate-jam-and-diamonds]

by Mert & Marcus for British Vogue January 2021

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(Sonido Trópico)

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“as a child, I was always scared of human beings stuck to other humans. and not just humans -- chameleons atop chameleons, dogs attached to dogs in late summer. years later I got the logic and logos of the natural phenomenon of affixation. of white feathers to a swan, the nib to sacred papery white, fingers to the keyboard etc. the same message gradually spoke out with greater plural strength accumulated from each event. the same finger that knows the sticky touch of gum, sends warm imagination to the cold core of life’s dead stars. every search reveal a want for familiarity. For something that’s accomplished, felt, dense, scaly, warm, unspoken, open, empty, smooth and silvery. succus or blood. oreic and oneiric. clove-like and love-like. constantly brushing against the other. ceaselessly intersecting.”

      Aryanil Mukherjee, from Code Memory

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whose lands touch the sea

  original work and experimentation but also that close touch be kept     78 Solace. In their close touch     78   not touching     172 indirectly touches     201 life. That touches a point     261 just touching a molten quantity     271 which electricity has hardly yet begun to touch notwithstanding its many advantages     273   and the running water should never actually touch the plants or trees     281   need not touch     303 can touch only     400 touched upon     405 touched upon may     429 here touched upon     454 through the eye or through the touch     1     579 thus appealing to vision, touch and the kinesthetic sensations.     579   in touch with     600 touch upon those changes     699 constant touch     705   touched     717 whose lands touch the sea or who have any interest     796 touching the water     799

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1 Frank B. Gilbreth and Lillian M. Gilbreth, “Chronocylegraph motion study devices for measuring achievement.” : 574-580

touches, in Proceedings of the second Pan American scientific congress (Washington, Monday, December 27, 1915 to Saturday, January 8, 1916), vol. 6, Section V (Engineering), W. H. Bixby, chairman (1917) University of Wisconsin - Madison copy, digitized November 29, 2007 same scan, same copy (minus photographs, opening to the Gilbreth paper) at archive.org

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this, refloated from old drafts, run aground

all tagged touch all tagged water all (two) tagged F. B. and L. M. Gilbreth  

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Rodrigo Valenzuela, Sense of Place No. 35, 2018, Upfor

[bostonpoetryslam]

this is where I crawl into meadows with an axe where my tongue is one flower among many & the game is to find it  | to make confession though I root in unmappable silence

Melissa Atkinson Mercer, “girl with diagnosis or gun, #7,” published in Yes Poetry (via bostonpoetryslam)

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[cruciform-solidarity]

If the word “God” no longer speaks to you, he [Tillich] once wrote, say “depth.” Instead of “sin,” say “separation.” Instead of forgiveness, say “acceptance.”

[stoicmike]

The question of when you become an adult is preceded by the question of what is an adult? – Michael Lipsey

[sicknare]

[hypocrite-lecteur]

“Man does not think with his soul, as the Philosopher imagined. He thinks as a consequence of the fact that a structure, that of language—the word implies it—a structure carves up his body, a structure that has nothing to do with anatomy. Witness the hysteric. This shearing happens to the soul through the obsessional symptom: a thought that burdens the soul that it doesn’t know what to do with. Thought is in disharmony with the soul.” 

> Lacan, Television: A Challenge to the Psychoanalitic Establishment

[fuckyeahdialectics]

One thing fairly fills me with surprise. In fact, I’d even say that it leaves me dumbfounded, and that’s at the scientific moment in which I write, after countless experiences and daily scandals, there can still exist in our dear France […] one voter, one single voter — that irrational, inorganic, hallucinatory animal — who agrees to take time out from his affairs, his dreams, and his pleasures in order to vote in favor of someone or something. If we think about it for just one instant, is this surprising phenomenon not one fit to upset the subtlest philosophies and confound reason? Where is the Balzac who can give us the physiology of the modern elector, or the Charcot who will explain the anatomy and mentality of this incurable lunatic? […] He voted yesterday, he’ll vote tomorrow, and he will always vote. Sheep go to the slaughter; they say nothing and expect nothing. But at least they don’t vote for the butcher who will kill them and the bourgeois who will eat them. More bovine than cattle, more sheep-like than sheep, the elector names his butcher and chooses his bourgeois. He has fought revolutions in order to enjoy this right. […] So, my good man, go home and strike against universal suffrage.

Octave Mirbeau, Originally published in Le Figaro, 28 November 1888, and republished in Octave Mirbeau, La Grève des électeurs [The Electors’ Strike] (Montreuil-sous-Bois: L’Insomniaque, 2007)

[allslost]

“The body- a prison, perhaps? But as Weil wrote, the wall that separates two prisoners is also, when they tap on it, their means of communication.”

Palle Yourgrau’s  introduction to Aliens and Anorexia (via allslost)

[thesovietbroadcast]

The study found a growing acceptance of socialist and Marxist viewpoints among a younger generation of Americans who did not grow up during the Cold War. When considered alongside the broad support among millennials for Bernie Sanders and his ideals – the poll, for example, found more support for quotes of Sanders than Milton Friedman and the Bible – socialism has growing support in America. Fewer younger Americans, in turn, had a favourable view of capitalism and its tenets versus their older counterparts. The report also found a substantial gap in basic knowledge about communism and its history, with more glaring knowledge gaps especially among millennials .

Liberals, reactionaries, and neo-fascists alike fear the growing anti-capitalist sentiment within the United States of Amerika and the wearing off of anti-communist propaganda from the Cold War. They, of course, establish this as a question of “ignorance” or lack of “education” on the horrors they, anti-communists, have spent decades fabricating and spoon feeding to the masses.

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oh now the increasingly anti-russia/putin media framing efforts in the u.s. make sense