[vjeranski]

Margo Wolowiec 

“Cluster” (2018), Handwoven polymer, linen, dye sublimination ink, 38 x 28 inches

[valentinedussaut]

Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown (1975) ❤︎

[forestgreenlesbian]

JAMES CASEBERE, 2009-2015

[hifructosemag]

Li Songsong, known for using thick layers of paint to craft scenes that appear similar to fragmented memories, brings his historical look at China to Pace Gallery with the show “One of My Ancestors.” See more here.

[formlab]

Stephen Doherty, Blue Flower

[arsvitaest-deactivated20260111]

Stephen Doherty, ink and watercolor on paper

[ihaveemotionalmotionsickness]

[emptiable]

HOT Mesopotamian singles in YOUR AREA !

[sovietpostcards]

Ice rink in Gorky Park. Photo by Viktor Akhlomov (Moscow, 1950s).

[nobrashfestivity]

Herbert Matter, Calder’s Untitled (1936), resting then set in motion, c. 1939

© Calder Foundation, New York

[wagtailwail]

[holybeings]

[dostoyevsky-official]

russia’s rural libraries and the women who run them | ksenia inverse

[sun-death]

The cultural class logic in bourgeois society is always rooted in the democratic alibi of universals. Religion was a universal. The humanist ideals of liberty and equality were universals. Today the universal takes on the absolute evidence of concreteness: today the universal is human needs, and all the cultural and material goods that respond. It is the universal of consumption.

Jean Baudrillard, For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign (Trans. Charles Levin)

[probablyasocialecologist]

“From the 16th century, the European population grew while welfare deteriorated and food access declined. But this must be understood within the context of the emerging capitalist system. Productive capacities that could have been used to meet people’s needs were instead diverted to service elite accumulation. Land that could have been used for food cultivation was enclosed and used for other commercial purposes. Furthermore, capitalist elites seeking to increase the size of their labour force used pro-natalist state policies to prevent women from practicing family planning. Similar considerations pertain to Latin America. Mexican wages fell to subsistence levels in 1800, when the population hit 5 million people. But pre-Hispanic Mexico had a population of up to 18 million people. If in 1800 the land could only support 5 million at bare subsistence, it was because the colonial economy was geared towards elite accumulation rather than local food needs. We should not ignore the relationship between population growth and ecology, but we must not treat these as operating in a social and political vacuum.”

— Dylan Sullivan and Jason Hickel, Capitalism and extreme poverty: A global analysis of real wages, human height, and mortality since the long 16th century

[wagtailwail]

When I was 18 and voted for the finnish green party my dad called me a commie... little did he know that the green party in Finland is considered right-wing

[wagtailwail]

I have for quite some time been thinking about how I should quit teaching... and pursue something entirely different... like interior design or art. Preferably in Finland...

[probablyasocialecologist]

“From the 16th century, the European population grew while welfare deteriorated and food access declined. But this must be understood within the context of the emerging capitalist system. Productive capacities that could have been used to meet people’s needs were instead diverted to service elite accumulation. Land that could have been used for food cultivation was enclosed and used for other commercial purposes. Furthermore, capitalist elites seeking to increase the size of their labour force used pro-natalist state policies to prevent women from practicing family planning. Similar considerations pertain to Latin America. Mexican wages fell to subsistence levels in 1800, when the population hit 5 million people. But pre-Hispanic Mexico had a population of up to 18 million people. If in 1800 the land could only support 5 million at bare subsistence, it was because the colonial economy was geared towards elite accumulation rather than local food needs. We should not ignore the relationship between population growth and ecology, but we must not treat these as operating in a social and political vacuum.”

— Dylan Sullivan and Jason Hickel, Capitalism and extreme poverty: A global analysis of real wages, human height, and mortality since the long 16th century