#eula biss

[sicknessinmotion]

YOUR DAD NEVER STOPPED LOVING YOU, HE STOPPED SHOWING IT; ON FATHERS

simone de beauvoir // hera lindsay bird // jayn // eula biss // unknown // desireé dallagiacomo // mary ruefle

[need-grows-teeth]

[opusculums]

— the pain scale by eula biss

[anarchistin]

Capitalism, the scholar Cedric Robinson argues, was not a revolutionary departure from feudalism but an extension of it, a new permutation.

Under feudalism, the English rehearsed a racial hierarchy based on blood and birth, and this was the first stage in the development of an economic system dependent on racism.

Later, Southern planters in the U.S. would imagine themselves as landed gentry and their slaves as feudal subjects. Capitalism here was built on slavery, and capitalism everywhere has depended on the idea that one group of people is entitled to extract profit from another, an idea that is often expressed in terms of us and them."

— Eula Biss, The Theft of the Commons

The Theft of the Commons

Across centuries, land that was collectively worked by the landless was claimed by the landed, and the age of private property was born.

[unalteredgraces]

aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe by benjamin alire sáenz // father and son dancing by brian kershisnik // the pain scale by eula biss // the last of us part II // folding a five-cornered star so the corners meet by li-young lee // x //  funeral by phoebe bridgers // trista mateer 

[loveakii]

[dk-thrive]

I’m filled with a strange unspecific desire. I want everything and nothing.

In the furniture stores we visit, I’m filled with a strange unspecific desire. I want everything and nothing. The soft colors of the rugs, the warm wood grains, the brass and glass of the lamps all seem to suggest that the stores are filled with beautiful things, but when I look at any one thing I don’t find it beautiful. “The desire to consume is a kind of lust,” Lewis Hyde writes. “But consumer goods merely bait this lust, they do not satisfy it. The consumer of commodities is invited to a meal without passion, a consumption that leads to neither satiation nor fire.”

— Eula Biss, Having and Being Had (Riverhead Books, September 1, 2020)

[outof1emons]

Blueming (2022) // eula biss, the pain scale