[petersolarz]

Untitled © Peter Solarz

[petaltexturedskies]

Clarice Lispector, from Água Viva (tr. by Stefan Tobler)

[foxeia]

Julia Juste

[mournfulroses]

Mahmoud Darwish, from "In the Presence of Absence," originally published in 2006

[fullofpoems-deactivated20241230]

[qano]

[barcarole]

Lisbon, Portugal, 1998. Photos by Gueorgui Pinkhassov.

[thesovietbroadcast]

Tajik SSR, 1960’s ☭

[dispirits]

bazaar in peshawar, pakistan in 1986. photo by cricrich.

[lotusinjadewell]

Hà Nội in autumn. Credit to Như Như Ý.

[probablyasocialecologist]

“Academics love Michel Foucault’s argument that identifies knowledge and power, and insists that brute force is no longer a major factor in social control. They love it because it flatters them: the perfect formula for people who like to think of themselves as political radicals even though all they do is write essays likely to be read by a few dozen other people in an institutional environment. Of course, if any of these academics were to walk into their university library to consult some volume of Foucault without having remembered to bring a valid ID, and decided to enter the stacks anyway, they would soon discover that brute force is really not so far away as they like to imagine—a man with a big stick, trained in exactly how hard to hit people with it, would rapidly appear to eject them.”

— David Graeber, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology

[mdsrk]

[kafk-a]

Sharon Hayes EVERYTHING ELSE HAS FAILED! DON’T YOU THINK IT’S TIME FOR LOVE?, 2019

[periodicult90s]

Andre Passos for Nylon magazine, April 1999.

[tokyostreetphoto]

Book Store, Naka-meguro 中目黒

[paper-fairy]

“To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.”

— Mary Oliver, from “In Blackwater Woods”, in American Primitive

[thewriterscaravan]

“The vocabulary of volcanoes is anthropomorphic. Volcanoes are alive, sleeping, or extinct.”

— Michelle Bailat-Jones, ‘Walking in the Kirishima National Forest of Kyūshū, Japan’