to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield

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memories

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Moche necklace with gold beads in the shape of toads (1-800 AD) | Museo Larco – Lima, Peru

[renamonkalou]

Sneaky catto | Cecilie Wessman Larsen

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Armani Prive Couture Fall 2012

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we performed at a jewish day camp the other day and there was this GREAT mural by a kid artist, check out these righteous puppies

[lyshtola]

Shots of rural USA, 1978-2001 (c. National Geographic)

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So I finally read Against the Logic of the Guillotine, and it is quite good. It’s not just about the titular guillotine so much as “revolutionary” leftists revenge fantasies of mass violence when We Finally Win.

Which I am getting real fucking tired of.

And more importantly, it talks about useful alternatives which don’t negate, for example, the necessity of self-defense or collective action.

Anyways, here’s an excerpt:

The guillotine has come to occupy our collective imagination. In a time when the rifts in our society are widening towards civil war, it represents uncompromising bloody revenge. It represents the idea that the violence of the state could be a good thing if only the right people were in charge.

Those who take their own powerlessness for granted assume that they can promote gruesome revenge fantasies without consequences. But if we are serious about changing the world, we owe it to ourselves to make sure that our proposals are not equally gruesome.

For what it’s worth I think this similar kind of imaginary-violent-revenge-justice-thing logic is why some ostensible leftists (especially younger ones) will argue in favor of incarceration or the death penalty but Only For Really Bad People and miss the point that state violence is bad regardless of who is doing it. Another quote to this effect:

Then, as now, there are people who want to think of themselves as radical without having to actually make a radical break with the institutions and practices that are familiar to them. “The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living,” as Marx said.

Anyways; a good read on some stuff that’s been bothering me lately.

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'A Zeppelin raid, 8 October 1915', (circa 1915-18) done by Fraser, John

[shewhofeelstoomuch]

"...and your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing."

- Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky

Tr. Constance Garnett

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Slovak Renaissance by Petra Lajdová (2012-2014)

Contemporary art photography of the beauty and artistry of Slovak traditional costumes, specifically headpieces and the upper parts. The multi-colored character of these parts of Slovak folk costumes has its origins in Slovakia’s wealth of natural beauty – it’s diverse terrain, mountains, valleys, green lowlands, wide meadows, rolling hills, mountain pools and lakes. In addition, the costumers’ richness emerges from the ethnically, socially and religiously diverse character of the country.  All of this is reflected in their colorful patterns and the richly or simply decorated headpieces.

[megairea]

Louise Glück, from Departure; Meadowlands, 1996

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Hi, I’ve made a new set of hi-res phone wallpapers from my recent illustrations! They’re free for personal use, as always ♡

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—Eduardo C. Corral, “Saint Anthony’s Cathedral” from Slow Lightning

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Primavera (detail), Sandro Botticelli, tempera on panel, late 1470s or early 1480s.

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London, United Kingdom (detail), Jane Vivian (British, active 1869–1877)

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[bauliya]

arundhati roy is an Indian leftist activist and author, and this is a criticism of Gandhi and Gandhian politics. this context is important. she's lived through the failure of gandhi-esque politics.

[suhaylah]

sunset & cloud studies (2021) oil pastel on paper

shop: suhaylah.bigcartel.com instagram: @suhaylah.h