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Anne Carson, The Albertine workout

#possessability #Anne Carson

Jean-Pierre Gorin, Routine Pleasures

#stills #jean-pierre gorin

"To seek refuge in silence is to taste it"

Daniella Valz Gen, "Slipknot tongue", Subversive Economies

savagedefectives

On Headaches by Roque Dalton

It’s great being a communist

although it gives you many headaches.

Because communists’ headaches

are historical, that is

they won’t go away with painkillers

only with the realization of Paradise on Earth.

That’s how it is.

Under capitalism our heads hurt

and our heads are ripped off.

In the struggle for Revolution the head is a delayed-action bomb.

In the construction of socialism

we plan for the headache

which doesn’t alleviate it – quite the contrary.

Communism will be, among other things,

an aspirin the size of the sun.

#poetries

Guillaume Apollinaire , Letters to Lou

‘Reconstructing the Crippled Soldier’ McMurtrie, 1918.

#cyborg series

"use me": an enunciation of vertiginous simplicity that isn't mystical but rather materialist. I'll be your sacrifice and your tissues, you be my orifices, my palms and my membranes. Let's get lost and let's leave the power and the abject justifications of the redemption dialectic behind. "Let's be dead"

Jean-François Lyotard, Use me

bustakay

The Big Cabbage in Liaocheng, Shandong.

#what isn't nature

The depressing thing about the Christmas season--isn't it?--is that it's the time when all the institutions are speaking with one voice. The Church says what the Church says. But the State says the same thing: maybe not (in some ways it hardly matters) in the language of theology, but in the language the State talks: legal holidays, long school hiatus, special postage stamps and all. And the language of commerce more than chimes in, as consumer purchasing is organized ever more narrowly around the final weeks of the calendar year, the Dow Jones aquiver over Americans' "holiday mood." The media, in turn, fall in triumphally behind the Christmas phalanx: ad-swollen magazines have oozing turkeys on the cover, while for the news industry every question turns into the Christmas question--Will hostages be free for Christmas? What did that flash flood or mass murder (umpty-ump people killed and maimed) do to those families' Christmas? And meanwhile the pairing "families/Christmas" becomes increasingly tautological, as families more and more constitute themselves according to the schedule, and in the endlessly iterated image, of the holiday itself constituted in the image of "the" family.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Tendencies, 1994, p.5

#fuck Xmas