the timeflies

flyin around

[granstromjulius]

Etel Adnan

[ymutate]

Inks and Varnishes, 1930-1931

Winold Reiss ( 1886 - 1953 )

[mybeingthere]

Reading Egyptian hieroglyphs in 1927, Karnak Temple, Egypt.

[overdose-art]

Night Scenes by Ferdinand Loyen du Puigaudeau (French, 1864-1930)

[overdose-art]

gustave moreau, jupiter and semele (details)

[timeflies-notes]

Star Trek Socialism - Private Property & Underclass

The Next Generation: S1E21 - “Symbiosis”

[jacobwren]

When, in 1953, Zhou Enlai, the Chinese Prime Minister, was in Geneva for the peace negotiations to end the Korean War, a French journalist asked him what he thought about the French Revolution; Zhou replied: “It is still too early to tell.”

(via jacobwren)

[the-timeflies]

Data sees the Starship’s social formality upended for the first time by visiting guests. (The Next Generation S1 E10)

[entrextremos]

Solar eclipse seen from the Moon - Lucien Rudaux

[weirdlandtv]

Evolution of Earth (1955).

The Earth as it moves through space, until it disappears into a spiral galaxy. Illustration by Chesley Bonestell for the Time-Life book, The World We Live In.

[fuckingfreud]

The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings, 1882

Étienne Léopold Trouvelot

[my-pastel-paradise]

American Music Awards, 1991

[unencumberedbylogic]

“Not to sleep during the night means to be aware every moment of your abnormality …”

— Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), from “A Boring Story: from an Old Man’s Notes” (1889), translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky “Не спать ночью – значит, каждую минуту сознавать себя ненормальным … ” (via finita–la–commedia)

[whentherewerebicycles]

“For my part, I no longer accept invitations to critique the work of others. This is because critique no longer interests me, and as Karen Barad explains, ‘critique is over-rated, over-emphasized, and over-utilized, to the detriment of feminism’ (Dolphijn and Van Der Tuin 2012, 49). Critique is just another way we teach our students or our readers to trash the work of another author, to pick holes in their oeuvre, their arguments and their concepts. It has very little to do with close reading or 'serious engagement’ since very often critique is just too easy or plain lazy. Barad points out the negative critical valences of critique and warns that it is 'all too often not a deconstructive practice, that is, a practice of reading for the constitutive exclusions of those ideas we can not do without, but a destructive practice meant to dismiss, to turn aside, to put someone or something down—another scholar, another feminist, a discipline, an approach, et cetera’ (49). In place of this all too automatic form of dismissal Barad suggests we employ 'diffractive’ practices of reading, modes of attention which are not motivated by the hermeneutics of suspicion but are rather 'suggestive, creative, and visionary’ (50).”

-Michael O'Rourke, “Objects Objects Objects (And Some Objections)”

[protoslacker]

“I see despair as another variety of disavowal. By throwing up our hands about the calamities that could one day afflict us, we disguise and distance them, converting concrete choices into indecipherable dread. We might relieve ourselves of moral agency by claiming that it’s already too late to act, but in doing so we condemn others to destitution or death. Catastrophe afflicts people now and, unlike those in the rich world who can still afford to wallow in despair, they are forced to respond in practical ways.”

—

George Monbiot in The Guardian. Only rebellion will prevent an ecological apocalypse

No one is coming to save us. Mass civil disobedience is essential to force a political response

[timeflies-notes]

Ursula Le Guin - diversified hierarchy is still hierarchy

In feudal times the aristocracy had sent their sons to university, conferring superiority on the institution. Nowadays it was the other way round: the university conferred superiority on the man. They told Shevek with pride that the competition for scholarships to Ieu Eun was stiffer every year, proving the essential democracy of the institution. He said, “You put another lock on the door and call it democracy.”

Le Guin, Ursula K.. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (Hainish Cycle Book 5) (p. 128).

[chthonicly]

“I hope you live without the need to dominate, and without the need to be dominated. I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people. And when you fail, and are defeated, and in pain, and in the dark, then I hope you will remember that darkness is your country, where you live, where no wars are fought and no wars are won, but where the future is. Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing — instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.”

—

Ursula K. Le Guin, “A Left-Handed Commencement Address” (Mills College, 1983)

this passage planted itself in my consciousness when i was 24, and 10 years later, it informs so much of my approach to living, thinking, creating.

(via quantumcorean)