dioramas of doubt (don't worry)

mental health, academia, philosophy, etc. you can email me: [email protected]

[threepennypolly]

pretty much me writing my phd proposal these past months

cartoon from red rosa a graphic novel on the life on rosa luxemburg by kate evans 

[asoftwrongness]

[a-wicked-wandering-witcher-blog]

OH LOOK IM ALL OF THEM

[budapestagram]

louangesdorgueil // http://ift.tt/1aGqppo

[threepennypolly]

this is the view from my university these days. 

foggy blue grey budapest

[nevver]

Bukowski

[tabulasar]

[nevver]

The maddening crowd, Peter Martensen

[shihlun]

Cultural theorist Stuart Hall (right) and his comrades of New Left Review, 1960s.

[versobooks]

NLR battle bus in the background

[nevver]

Probably

[humansofnewyork]

“I’ve got a PhD in classical history. I think the goal of most academics is to publish something that moves the line of scrimmage ever-so-slightly. But instead of participating in the discussion, I spend all my time comparing myself to top scholars that I’ll never measure up to. So my goal now is just to be a good teacher. I figure that teaching is about forming relationships, and that’s harder to measure.“

[wordsnquotes]

People who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book (via wordsnquotes)

[culturetrash]

[observando]

[re-interpellated]

Herbert Marcuse and Angela Davis

[mayhap]

“The image of industrial conflict is shaped by the waystrikes are presented on television news.  As we saw, news tends to concentrate mainly on the most dramatic and violent aspects of confrontation, rather than on long-term causes or consequences. All strikers are militants, all strikes are irrational, every picket line is violent, whereas, every settlement looks like a victory for common sense because it’s represented as in the national interest.”

—Stuart Hall, The Stuart Hall Project (2013), Dir. John Akomfrah

[fuckyeahdialectics]

A bed for the night I hear that in New York At the comer of 26th Street and Broadway A man stands every evening during the winter months And gets beds for the homeless there By appealing to passers-by. It won’t change the world It won’t improve relations among men It will not shorten the age of exploitation But a few men have a bed for the night For a night the wind is kept from them The snow meant for them falls on the roadway. Don’t put the book down on reading this, man. A few people have a bed for the night For a night the wind is kept from them The snow meant for them falls on the roadway But it won’t change relations among men It will not shorten the age of exploitation.

Brecht, Bertolt, ‘A bed for the night’ (via fuckyeahdialectics)

[listafeminista-deactivated20180]

To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize “how it really was.” It means to take control of a memory, as it flashes in a moment of danger.

Walter Benjamin, On the concept of history (1940)

[nevver]

Peanuts