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I remember getting done with reading these and then linking them. Then I deleted so the links went away too. Here they are again, for fellow design/architecture enthusiasts with a Marxist slant like myself.
Against architecture
Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory
Marx, architecture and modernity
Capital and architecture: Mediations between the economic and the aesthetic
Also: Wall, space and violence and On Architecture Under Capitalism.
Reblogging to return to this.
A Leonora Carrington Biopic Traces the Surrealist Icon’s Life and Work
There are few color palettes my eyes love more than the original Gilbert Baker pride flag
Like dang, nailed it the first time, A+++ 0 notes
I’m having déjà vu but I really don’t think I already posted this, so here goes.
Not only was Baker’s flag gorgeous, he had some fascinating and poignant ideas about what the colors he used symbolized.
This is from page 82 of Queer X Design: 50 Years of Signs, Symbols, Banners, Logos, and Graphic Art of LGBTQ by Andy Campbell, which I highly recommend.
the productivity creatures
Me: *Removes my cat from my lap to do something else.*
My cat: Father is...evil? Father is unyielding? Father is incapable of love? I am running away. I am packing my little rucksack and going out to explore the world as a lone vagabond. I can no longer thrive in this household.
The spiritual successor to Miette
Might I also add
May i add the piece from artist Verbal Vomit
Glad to see we’re all in agreement that cats talk like disparaged victorian children
I am so incredibly glad we finally moved on from "i can has". Cats are clearly smart enough for advanced sentence structure and dumb enough to draw entirely incorrect conclusions about what they're talking about.
My cat, banging the cabnet door over and over and over: bang bang bang
Me: you will not earn what you desire by banging the cabinet door.
My cat: This is a test of wills, is it not? We shall see if your ability to put up with my incessant banging outlasts my eternal lust for snackie treats. Years of conditioning have hardened me for this purpose. bang bang bang
Me: ksst!
My cat, throwing herself to the ground like she's been shot: Oh! Oh I have been assailed in my own home! Have mercy, have pity! Surely in the cruel darkness of your heart there is some mote of goodness that might stay your hand! Do not strike me, I pray you!
Me: ok
My cat, after waiting about 3 minutes: bang bang bang
Can haz snackytreat
(source)
Source
#the ancient texts
... My reblog was only six years ago!
if you’re having a bad day, here’s a cute little marching band
It just keeps going and getting better. *^^*
Me two minutes ago: “cry with joy? an animation of cats playing instruments made someone cry with joy?”
Me now: (sobs into a tissue) “OH MY GOD THAT ONE IS PLAYING TWO RECORDERS AT THE SAME TIME” (blows nose)
CAT PARADE IS BACK
ALWAYS reblog Cat Parade! 💕💕💕
And one of them has a little duck on its head 🤣
I’ve been blessed with the kitty marching band! I love them 💚🥰
GIVE YOURSELF A 2 MINUTE PRESENT.
YOU DESERVE TO STOP AND EXPERIENCE A SIMPLE JOY.
Never not reblogging the cat parade!
Mildly annoyed that this isn’t actually the full video, so here it is:
#i vaguely that there was a sequel to this that was HD
Apparently you correctly!
#i vaguely
that there was a sequel to
this that was HD
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
“bits to use in everyday conversations”
I've reached the point where cynicism is a major turn-off for me. You're not smarter than idealists, and you're not helping.
Funny that the stereotypical cynic is an idealist who aged out of it. In my experience, the reverse is true. I was an extreme cynic as a teenager and then I noticed how profoundly limiting it was, and also that "cynics are cool and smart" was a message that was being constantly reinforced by corporate media for some reason.
#yes! cynicism reads as very juvenile to me#and yes prev often stemming from teen pain
Yeah, like I see black-pilled people on here and my default reaction isn't "oh, these must be world-weary old warriors who've lost their faith in humanity", it's "these people are in their 20s and need a hobby"
I also think that the present era has proven that authoritarian leaders don't actually want a population of wide-eyed idealists, they want a population of jaded assholes who are convinced that everyone is lying, any resistance is either a scam or doomed to failure, and nothing can ever get better.
I’m going to level with you. I have listened to The Devil Went Down to Georgia for most of my life. We were a country music household, this was a staple of my childhood along with Johnny Cash, Garth Brooks, and that one Chipmunks country album.
I have no idea what “Fire on the mountain run boys run/The Devil's in the house of the rising sun/Chicken in the bread pan picking out dough/Granny does your dog bite no child no” means and at this point I’m too scared to ask.
For once I can be of assistance.
Each of the lyrics comes from an old-time hickory song for fiddles, and is a lyric from that corresponding song.
"Fire on the Mountain" --> "Fire on the Mountain, run boys run"
Fire On The Mountain - Fiddle Player POV
"The House of the Rising Sun" --> "The Devil's in the house of the rising sun"
House of the Rising Sun
"Ida Red" --> "Chicken in the bread pan peckin' out dough"
Ida Red - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
"Granny Will Your Dog Bite" --> "Granny does your dog bite? 'No child, no'."
FTC #149 Granny Will Your Dog Bite
And for your furthered education, The Mountain Whipporwill.
Mountain Whippoorwill (aka How Hillbilly Jim Won the Great Fiddler's Prize)
this is the key part of the song, that a lot of people miss. people have this misconception that the contest between Johnny and The Devil is about who is the better fiddle player. but it isn't. its about who is the better fiddler.
in a time before things like radios and record players, every time you heard music was because there was somebody in the room with you playing an instrument. and many, many, many social events involved dancing, which requires music. so, if you're planning any kind of gathering in the american south or appalachia, you need to find a fiddler. and the fiddler's job is to play music that everybody knows and likes and can dance to.
the mistake The Devil makes in his bet with Johnny is that he misinterprets the contest as being about technical ability, so he has this big flashy song. he plays fast and impressively with a band of demons playing unfamiliar instruments in unfamiliar rhythms. he's definitely more skilled at playing than Johnny, and thinks he has it in the bag.
but Johnny wins because the contest is about being the best fiddler. the song uses these lines mentioned above as a shorthand for saying that Johnny is playing these songs. Johnny launches into a set of the most popular songs, played well, and that's what gives him his big win. A good fiddler knows all the hits, and can read the room to know what to play next. The Devil loses because he completely fails to read the room, and doesn't know the right songs.
Doesn't help the Devils case that he played with a full band accompanying him.
Whereas Johnny played solo, so you could actually HEAR Johnny's fiddling.
Whereas Johnny played
solo, so you could actually
HEAR Johnny’s fiddling.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
It is always a shock to see that everyone's idea of "black horror" on here begins and ends with Jordan Peele and Ryan Coogler
Robin R. Means Coleman's book Horror Noire: A History of Black American Horror from the 1890s to Present has a Creative Commons licensed downloadable PDF available over on OAPEN:
If you're interested in further exploring this subject, the producers of the Shudder documentary of the same name collated a Horror Noire syllabus that has been reproduced for consultation here:
This syllabus was originally curated in 2018 & 2019 by the producers of the Shudder Original documentary, Horror Noire. There are fi
100 open access books on JSTOR
African American Studies
An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans, Revised and Updated Edition
Disrupting Colonial Pedagogies: Theories and Transgressions
J. A. Rogers: Selected Writings
The Race for America: Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny
African Studies
Ethnicity, Identity, and Conceptualizing Community in Indian Ocean East Africa
Lagos Never Spoils: Nollywood and Nigerian City Life
American Indian Studies
Book Anatomy: Body Politics and the Materiality of Indigenous Book History
The Urgency of Indigenous Values
Anthropology
Graceful Resistance: How Capoeiristas Use Their Art for Activism and Community Engagement
Lacandón Maya in the Twenty-First Century: Indigenous Knowledge and Conservation in Mexico's Tropical Rainforest
Maya-British Conflict at the Edge of the Yucatecan Caste War
Neobugarrón: Heteroflexibility, Neoliberalism, and Latin/o American Sexual Practice
Our Hidden Landscapes: Indigenous Stone Ceremonial Sites in Eastern North America
Power and Place: Preservation, Progress, and the Culture War over Land
Voices of Indigenuity
Archaeology
Living Ceramics, Storied Ground: A History of African American Archaeology
New Deal Archaeology in the West
The Cretan Collection in the University of Pennsylvania Museum, volume III: Metal Objects from Gournia
Violence and Inequality: An Archaeological History
Architecture
Waterhouses: Landscapes, Housing, and the Making of Modern Lagos
Asian Studies
Hong Kong Public and Squatter Housing: Geopolitics and Informality, 1963–1985
Communication Studies
Covid and…: How to Do Rhetoric in a Pandemic
Hillary Clinton's Career in Speeches: The Promises and Perils of Women's Rhetorical Adaptivity
Influential Machines: The Rhetoric of Computational Performance
Migrant World Making
Nuclear Decolonization: Indigenous Resistance to High-Level Nuclear Waste Siting
Serial Mexico: Storytelling across Media, from Nationhood to Now
Stories of Our Living Ephemera: Storytelling Methodologies in the Archives of the Cherokee National Seminaries, 1846-1907
Unsettling Archival Research: Engaging Critical, Communal, and Digital Archives
Cultural Studies
Cultural History of British Alternative Cabaret (1979-1991)
Middlebrow 2.0 and the Digital Affect: Online Reading Communities of the New Nigerian Novel
Reconstructive Memory Work: Trauma, Witnessing and the Imagination in Writing by Female Descendants of Harkis
Toward a Gameic World
Development Studies
Hottest of the Hotspots: The Rise of Eco-precarious Conservation Labor in Madagascar
Urban Indigeneities: Being Indigenous in the Twenty-First Century
Education
Limiting Privilege: Upward Mobility Within Higher Education in Socialist Poland
The Vulnerability of Public Higher Education
Environmental Studies
Ecologies of Imperialism
Unsettling Agribusiness: Indigenous Protests and Land Conflict in Brazil
Feminist & Women's Studies
Reclaiming Time: The Transformative Politics of Feminist Temporalities
Recovering Women’s Past: New Epistemologies, New Ventures
Film Studies
Han Heroes and Yamato Warriors: Competing Masculinities in Chinese and Japanese War Cinema
Monsters on Maple Street: The Twilight Zone and the Postwar American Dream
The Rise of Central American Film in the Twenty-First Century
Mapping the Stars: Celebrity, Metonymy, and the Networked Politics of Identity
Food Studies
The Visible Hands That Feed: Responsibility and Growth in the Food Sector
Gender Studies
Masculine Pregnancies: Modernist Conceptions of Creativity and Legitimacy, 1918-1939
Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770–1940
Women, Nationalism, and Social Networks in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1848-1918
History
Captivity's Collections: Natural History and the British Transatlantic Slave Trade
Our People Are Warlike: Civil War Pittsburgh and Home-Front Mobilization
Reimagining the Educated Citizen: Creole Pedagogies in the Transatlantic World: 1685-1896
Southern Enclosure: Settler Colonialism and the Postwar Transformation of Mississippi
Language & Literature
Abraham Lincoln and the Bible: A Complete Compendium
Blood and Ink: The Barbary Archive in Early American Literary History
Ethical Crossroads in Literary Modernism
Faking It: Victorian Documentary Novels
Genre Networks and Empire: Rhetoric in Early Imperial China
The Lost Texts of Confucius’ Grandson: Guodian, Zisi, and Beyond
Understanding Agatha Christie
Latin American Studies
Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution
Law
Creating a More Perfect Slaveholders’ Union: Slavery, the Constitution, and Secession in Antebellum America
Linguistics
Cantonese Since the Nineteenth Century
Publishing Contemporary Foreign Poetry: Transnational Exchange in the Italian Publishing Field
Middle East Studies
Outcasting Armenians: Tanzimat of the Provinces
Music
Fantasies of Music in Nostalgic Medievalism
Imagining Musical Pasts: The Queer Literary Musicology of Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prime-Stevenson
Lieder in America: On Stages and In Parlors
On Music Theory and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone
Peace & Conflict Studies
Remaking the World: Decolonization and the Cold War
The Coup and the Palm Trees: Agrarian Conflict and Political Power in Honduras
The End of the Future: Trauma, Memory, and Reconciliation in Peruvian Amazonia
Uniting Against the Reich: The American Air War in Europe
Unwilling to Quit: The Long Unwinding of American Involvement in Vietnam
Performing Arts
Sonic Strategies: Performing Mexico's War on Drugs, Mourning, and Feminicide
Staging Existence: Chekhov's Tetralogy
Philosophy
Phenomenology in an African Context: Contributions and Challenges
Violence and the Mimetic Unconscious: Vol. 2 The Affective Hypothesis
Violence and the Oedipal Unconscious: vol. 1, The Catharsis Hypothesis
Political Science
Beyond Othering: A Gandhian Approach to Conflict Resolution in India and Pakistan
Local government and democracy in the United Kingdom
Paradoxes of Emancipation: Radical Imagination and Space in Neoliberal Greece
The Cost of Voting in the American States
The New Star Chamber and Other Essays: Annotated Edition
Population Studies
Central American Migrations in the Twenty-First Century
Psychology
Ferenczi Dialogues: On Trauma and Catastrophe
Public Health
Irish Fever: An Archaeology of Illness, Injury, and Healing in New York City, 1845–1870
Tuberculosis Control and Institutional Change in Shanghai, 1911–2011
Religion
Christan Colleges and Universities: An Empirical Guide
From Jesus to J-Setting: Religious and Sexual Fluidity among Young Black People
The Hispanic Faculty Experience: Opportunities for Growth and Retention in Christian Colleges and Universities
Science & Technology Studies
Composting Utopia: Experimental Infrastructures for Organics Recycling in New York City
Sociology
Apartheid’s Leviathan: Electricity and the Power of Technological Ambivalence
As Legend Has It: History, Heritage, and the Construction of Swedish American Identity
Continuous Pasts: Frictions of Memory in Postcolonial Africa
Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana
Research as More Than Extraction: Knowledge Production and Gender-Based Violence in African Societies
The Souls of Jewish Folk: W. E. B. Du Bois, Anti-Semitism, and the Color Line
Technology
Transnational Families in Africa: Migrants and the role of Information Communication Technologies
Urban Studies
Living Politics in the City: Architecture as Catalyst for Public Space
failure by design
my carrd is now ladynormalgirl.com! (i feel very professional)
ladynormalgirl.com is now your one-stop-spot for all my social media links, checking whether commissions are open, and probably some other stuff when i get round to it!
other stuff now includes an archive of (most of) the Lady Normalgirl comics! very useful if you need to show the comics to your non-tumblrina friends or prove to people that you're not crazy, there's actually a reallly good reason why you talk to your cat in shakespearean english
ladynormalgirl.com/#comics
Yet another new study debunked the basis for the anti-trans sports bans. It was never about sports but for creating legal avenues for exclusion and abjection. This is one of the largest analyses ever conducted, involving 52 studies and 6,485 trans people. Read the study here.
post so nice had to reblog it twice and force it down everyone's throats
post so nice had to
reblog it twice and force it
down everyone’s throats
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Can we include darebee.com with ao3 and wikipedia on our list of really good nonprofits with excellent services that we stan?
It's a free, no sign-up, no ads fitness resource created by professionals who view this as activism (fitness should be accessible to everyone), and it's very thoughtful and thorough.
Features I really like:
- all instructions for workout routines are diagrammed on single pages with a clean, easy to read layout
- there's 30 or 60 day programs you can follow if you, like me, don't know what to do. they take you through a rotation of workouts so you're working different muscle groups on different day for a specific purpose
- there's so much variety and there's a filter so you can find the level and your goals and type of workout you wanna do
- you don't need any equipment
- some of the programs are RPGs or adventure stories! How's that for motivation. There's also badges and achievements or something but I haven't looked that closely at how that works yet
- they're nerds. they name workouts after D&D classes. There's a Lannistrr workout, a batcave workout, a witcher workout
- I've only scratched the surface
I'm doing this really easy one to start out
Darebee, darebee, fitness, visual workouts, workouts, fitness challenges, fitness motivation, training tips, recipes, nutrition
If you don't understand from the picture they have an Exercise Library playlist in YouTube so you can see what all the moves look like in motion!
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQSMS0J6JbrKdSOSbyJXaQ_zN_HSSp7zZ
I've mentioned how important it is to be active. So here's a resource!
And remember to brush and floss!
They are in major need of funding so if you've got a few dollars and this has been useful, then go get the paid app or chip in a few dollars! The fit tap app looks like it's an easy way to keep active during the day.
Spring has sprung and here are some poems
Well hey, here's some spring poetry for everyone. 21 poems, all free and open, no login needed!
Image by Yunyao Chen from the SVA COVID Collection on JSTOR
Spring William Carlos Williams (1919)
Spring Symphony Walt Whitman (1919)
One Spring Eda Lou Walton (1920)
Early Spring John Moreland (1923)
Spring Poems by a Fifth Grade Elsa Miller (1907)
Ode to Spring Henry C. Watson (1866)
Spring Has Come Eleanor Hatch (1922)
Spring Fever Faith Shearing (2002)
Spring in Canterbury Charlotte F. Babcock (1927)
Pulse of Spring Mark Turbyfill (1917)
Spring Albrecht Reu (1915)
An English Spring S. F. Hopkins (1907)
A Forward Spring Lisa Williams (1988)
A Spring View Kokan Shiren, translated by Marian Ury (1992)
Spring Sounds Mercedes de Acosta (1925)
Arpeggio—Spring Winifred Waldron (1923)
Spring Morning Marion Strobel (1922)
One Spring Eda Lou Walton (1920)
Spring Torrents Sara Teasdale (1919)
Spring Day Grace Hazard Conkling (1917)
And we end with:
The End of Spring Lisa Williams (1988)
