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[naomicampbellisagemini]

“The condemnation of liberation movements for resorting to violence or armed struggle is almost invariably superficial, hypocritical, judgmental, and unfair and tends strongly to represent another example of the generalized phenomenon of “blaming the victim.” The violence of the situation, the per-existing oppression suffered by those who eventually strike back, is conveniently ignored. The violence of the oppressed is a form of defensive counter-violence to the violence of conquest and oppression. In no armed national liberation movement I know of in history has this not been the case.”

— Jeff Sluka | National Liberation Movements in Global Context (1996)

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[naomicampbellisagemini]

“State strategies for managing the warehoused surplus evince characteristics that are distinctly settler colonial in relation to other forms of colonialism. In particular, the spatial confinement of unwanted populations recapitulates the territorial adjacencies of settler colonialism, which differs from blue-water colonialism in its spatial imbrication of metropolis and periphery. In expanding across continuous territory, settler colonialism seeks to render the outside inside, a process that necessarily produces enemies within. The intimacies of conquest militate against indiscriminate procedures, encouraging the spatial confinement of populations targeted for repression. In such ways, we believe, the ongoing history of settler colonialism forms a crucial terrain through which to understand the systemic harmony between military occupation as a further version of colonial intervention and the formations and practices of the neoliberal state that have emerged to regulate and promote a new regime of capital accumulation.”

— David Lloyd and Patrick Wolfe- Settler Colonial Logics and the Neoliberal Regime  

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M FATCHUROFI AKA ROOOVIE / 2019 stoop low, going deep rather than high. andhap asor~

[becoming-unvegetable]

“Go always further in the direction of deterritorialization, to the point of sobriety. Since the language is arid, make it vibrate with a new intensity. Oppose a purely intensive usage of language to all symbolic or even significant or simply signifying usages of it. Arrive at a perfect and unformed expression, a materially intense expression.”

— Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature, 19 (via deleuzeandphilosophy)

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IT IS NEITHER THE TRADITIONS NOR THE UNWRITTEN LAWS OF FASHION THAT DETERMINE WHAT HAPPENS, BUT THE DESIGNER HIMSELF. 

[naomicampbellisagemini]

“Sustained grief is particularly disturbing in a culture that offers a quick fix for pain. Sometimes it amazes me to know intuitively that the grieving are all around us yet we do not see any overt signs of their anguished spirits. We are taught to feel shame about grief that lingers. Like a stain on our clothes, it marks us as flawed, imperfect. To cling to grief, to desire its expression, is to be out of sync with modern life, where the hip do not get bogged down in mourning.”

— All About Love by bell hooks  (via naomicampbellisagemini)

[mizoguchi]

“Nothing in my view is more reprehensible than those habits of mind in the intellectual that induce avoidance, that characteristic turning away from a difficult and principled position, which you know to be the right one, but which you decide not to take. You do not want to appear too political; you are afraid of seeming controversial; you want to keep a reputation for being balanced, objective, moderate; your hope is to be asked back, to consult, to be on a board or prestigious committee, and so to remain within the responsible mainstream; someday you hope to get an honorary degree, a big prize, perhaps even an ambassadorship. For an intellectual these habits of mind are corrupting par excellence. If anything can denature, neutralize, and finally kill a passionate intellectual life it is the internalization of such habits. Personally I have encountered them in one of the toughest of all contemporary issues, Palestine, where fear of speaking out about one of the greatest injustices in modern history has hobbled, blinkered, muzzled many who know the truth and are in a position to serve it. For despite the abuse and vilification that any outspoken supporter of Palestinian rights and self-determination earns for him or herself, the truth deserves to be spoken, represented by an unafraid and compassionate intellectual.”

— Edward Said  (via muzahmat)

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By Erika Kamano for Acne Paper Nocturne Issue

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[antinousmondragone]

Photographs by Nan Goldin

Bruce and Philippe on the beach, Truro MA, 1975 David at Grove Street, Boston, 1972 Ivy in the Boston Garden, Boston, 1973 David by the pool at the Back Room, Provincetown, 1976 Kim in her dressing room at Le Carousel, Paris, 1991 Ivy with Marilyn, Boston, 1973

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reminder

[ficheras]

Chinese-Mexican showgirl, Lyn May was one of the most iconic figures from the Disco era of Mexico. She was the lead female in numerous cabarets and appeared in over 100 movies. Her measurements were 38, 23 and 47. 

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children’s dreams / al-yarmouk, palestinian refugee camp in damascus, syria 

little palestine; diary of a siege (2021) dir. abdallah al khatib 

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[minouminouminou]

“Our only real pleasure is to squander our resources to no purpose, just as if a wound were bleeding away inside us; we always want to be sure of the uselessness or the ruinousness of our extravagance. We want to feel as remote from the world as we can. As remote as we can: that is hardly strong enough; we want a world turned upside down and inside out. The truth of eroticism is treason. De Sade’s system is the ruinous form of eroticism. Moral isolation means that all breaks are off; it shows what spending can really mean. The man who admits the value of other people necessarily imposes limits upon himself. The respect of man to man leads to a cycle of servitude that allows only for minor moments of disorder and finally ends the respect that their attitude is based on since we are denying the sovereign moment to man in general.”

— Georges Bataille, Erotism: Death and Sensuality (via androphiliadetox)

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