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so metropolitan museum of art has a register of books they’ve published that are out of print and that you can download for free! they’re mostly books on art, archeology, architecture, fashion and history and i just think that’s super useful and interesting so i wanted to share! you can find all of the books available here!

rthwrms

i want my fantasy city to have VIBES yknow???? ive been doing some vis dev for handler au and the city of Massacre is certainly glowing up with each one lol

theinternetarchive

a few psychoanalytic sources on the Internet Archive that i personally vouch for

Freud

an outline of psychoanalysis

the origin and development of psychoanalysis

the complete psychological works

the ego and the id

the interpretation of dreams

introductory lectures on psychoanalysis

a collection of critical essays

Lacan

four fundamental concepts (other edition here)

the ethics of psychoanalysis

the limits of love and knowledge

the language of the self

seminar i: freud's papers on technique

Sartre

existential psychoanalysis

being and nothingness

Žižek

the sublime object of ideology

violence

everything you always wanted to know about lacan (but were too afraid to ask hitchcock)

the plague of fantasies

in defense of lost causes

enjoy your symptom! lacan in hollywood and out

others

Read My Desire: Lacan Against the Historicists – Joan Copjec

Imagine There's No Woman – Joan Copjec

gaze and voice as love objects – Žižek et al

jacques lacan and the other side of psychoanalysis – Žižek et al

a clinical introduction to lacanian psychoanalysis – bruce fink

lacan: the absolute master – mikkel borch-jacobson

lacan and contemporary film – todd mcgowan et al

tamarrud

I cannot stress enough how important it is to understand the strikes on Venezuela within the wider US colonial context.

It is incredible how obvious it is that the language tactically selected, the methods employed, and justifications regurgitated are all replicated from across the US empirical violence throughout the years, from Iraq to Gaza to now Venezuela and beyond.

I highly recommend reading chapter 6 of Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine (PDF linked) to really see in details the history of this and lengths of violence that the US is willing to commit in order to advance its disaster capitalism complex.

targetedknowledge

boltedgarlic

Dolphin Studio Calendar - 1999

communist-ojou-sama

I guess I've made my point well enough but at times like these what I remember is the Iraq war, specifically that while what is emphasized so often is the brutality of it and how it was waged just for oil, but I think portraying the US as this all-powerful, implacable bandit on the world stage is a form of usamerican propaganda in itself. Instead, what I think of are the results.

Did the US actually end up getting Iraq's oil? Well, not really. They planned to privatize the state oil company but the intensity of the insurgencies in the wake of the fall of the Baathist state immediately forced usamerican planners to contend with the political impossibility of such a thing. Did they change Iraq into a staunch usamerican ally? No. The US still maintains a presence in the country by force but they're hated throughout the political spectrum and at most tolerated on a temporary basis. By contrast the country who gained the most geopolitically from the usamerican war on Iraq was, in fact, Iran.

These people in their offices in Langely, they're capable of marshalling lots of resources, yes, they're good at dropping lots of bombs and killing lots of people, yes, but remember that they are not actually very good at actually winning and bending the world to their will, and they've arguably been getting worse at it every year since the 80s, or even from their retreat in disgrace from Vietnam. Mao wasn't kidding or showing a strong face when he said the imperialist powers were paper tigers. The US can be fought and beaten, and in fact it loses more often than it wins. You've Gotta get out of this defeatist frame of mind.