The moon in my bed

Poetry, art, fashion and other beautiful imagery

[ghozydes]

كلما ابتعدت عوقبت..!

@ghozydes

[thunderstruck9]

Fred Tomaselli (American, 1956), Blue Olana, 2025. Acrylic, photo collage and resin on wood panel, 48 × 48 in.

[nousrose]

In contemporary American self-help literature, the magic word is healing. The term refers to self-optimization that is supposed to therapeutically eliminate any and all functional weakness or mental obstacle in the name of efficieney and performance. Yet perpetual self-optimization, which coincides point-for-point with the optimization of the system, is proving destructive. It is leading to mental collapse. Self-optimization, it turns out, amounts to total self-exploitation. The neoliberal ideology of self-optimization displays religious - indeed, fanatical - traits. It entails a new form of subjectivation. Endlessly working at self-improvement resembles the self-examination and self-monitoring of Protestantism, which represents a technology of subjectivation domination in its own right. Now, instead of searching out sins, one hunts down negative thoughts. The ego grapples with itself as an enemy.

Psychopolitics

Byung-Chul Han

[ymutate]

Scott Prior (American, born 1949)

Autumn Window, 2022

oil on panel

30 x 26 inches

[acuratedlife]

[psikonauti]

Sharan Ransi

[mindofserenity]

[universalacceptor]

Sorry guys this doesn't say 'O tired soul, be patient'. It just says 'be patient'.

[cynthia-viv-deactivated20240204]

"Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. Some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. Some lose both and become accepted."

Bukowski

[cynthia-viv-deactivated20240204]

..like a summer touch ☀️

[cynthia-viv-deactivated20240204]

All they were–all they had ever been–was a pair of sunflowers who each believed the others was the sun .

Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

[cynthia-viv-deactivated20240204]

"Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was just red."

– Kait Rokowski

[cynthia-viv-deactivated20240204]

You will never be able to experience everything. So, please , do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.

– Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1935-1951

[firstfullmoon]

Ada Limón, “It’s the Season I Often Mistake,” in The Hurting Kind [ID in alt text]

[weltonboys]

intangible - madisen kuhn

[universalacceptor]

[universalacceptor]

stuck between the oppressor and the coloniser.

#Wordsthatcameoutofmybrainmouth.

[universalacceptor]

There is no word in Arabic for "perfect"

[universalacceptor]

Where you live is so arbitrary when all the front doors are unlocked