freeing, flowing, Abundant

[iamheavymeta-lll]

Anuradha Thakur

[louisegluckpdf]

labs that are also churches. to me

(1. annie dillard, teaching a stone to talk 2. the deep underground neutrino experiment, a.k.a. DUNE 3. the large hadron collider 4. the sudbury neutrino observatory)

[smile-at-the-stars]

@nablah

[kingfisherprince]

thinking about how a CERN in switzerland, a particle physics lab has shiva / natarajan in front of it.

[alexanderpearce]

on that note, the barcelona supercomputing centre, in an old chapel

[federalbureauofislam]

“A call to disorder, which is a kind of prayer”

— Fred Moten & Wu Tsang, Who Touched Me? (via proustiansleep)

[thingsworthsaving]

The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light. Gentle work. Steadfast work. Life-saving work in those moments when life and shame and sorrow occlude our own light from our view, but there is still a clear-eyed loving person to beam it back. In our best moments, we are that person for another.

-James Baldwin

[smokefalls]

Settler-colonialism ruptures the forms of times and spaces cultivated by the indigenous to the land; these times and spaces splinter and become carried in different ways, from oral narrativization to cultural production. The time and spaces which were violently uprooted change in forms, textures, gestures, tongue, memory and touch—it is experiencing shock and disorientation on every level.

Sarona Abuaker, "Suture Fragmentations — a note on return" from Why So Few Women on the Street at Night

[chiefaccelerator]

A poem scribbled on the back of a truck in China, apparently written by the trucker. Translation by me

I love eating lamb kebab,

and I can judge from its texture

the age of the lamb.

This lamb today is

about as old as I am,

both full of youthful vigor

to be slaughtered at will.

[eatmangoesnekkid]

“In order to make radical shifts, silence has to enter your body and life.”

— India Ame’ye, Author

[hauntedhookah]

my aunt sent me these photos of the subway in Armenia because she thought I would love it

[federalbureauofislam]

“Time, as Einstein and other physicists have explained, is not linear but circular. Our lives are not points on a line—a line that is today being amputated by the Instant Greed of the unprecedented global capitalist order—rather, we are the centres of circles. The circles surround us with testaments addressed to us by our predecessors since the Stone Age, and by texts that are not addressed to us but that can be witnessed by us— texts from nature, from the universe—and they remind us that symmetry coexists with chaos, that ingenuities outflank fatalities, that what is desired is more reassuring than what is promised. Then, sustained by what we have inherited from the past and what we witness, we will have the courage to resist and continue resisting in as yet unimaginable circumstances. We will learn how to wait in solidarity. Just as we will continue indefinitely to praise, to swear, and to curse in every language we know.”

— John Berger, from ‘How to Resist a State of Forgetfulness’, Confabulations (via soracities)

[luthienne]

Alice Oswald, from Memorial: A Version of Homer's Iliad [ID'd]

[edwordsmyth]

Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin

[psikonauti]

Janusz Grabiański (Polish,1929-1976)

[anya-ip21]

Agnes Denes, Map Projection: The Snail, print, 1978

In 2015, Interview Magazine asked Agnes Denes whether her concerns about the environment had changed since the 1960s and ’70s. “No,” she responded. “It’s just that some of the things I talked about 40 years ago have become reality.”One of the first pioneers of environmental art, Denes has been warning us about our unsustainable relationship with the planet for over half a century. A recent retrospective at The Shed felt like long-overdue recognition for the artist, who is now 89. A foil to her male counterparts within the early land art movement, Denes was always more invested in how her work could minimize humanity’s ecological footprint.

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-10-artists-making-urgent-work-environment

[nyaa]

2007-11-01

[11990904]

11990904

[persimmonyglitchet]

[luthienne]

Mahmoud Darwish, from A State of Siege (2002) (tr. from the Arabic by Fady Joudah)