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Jules of Nature
shark vs the universe
i don't do bad sauce passes
wallacepolsom
almost home
YOU ARE THE REASON
todays bird
pixel skylines
Monterey Bay Aquarium
noise dept.
if i look back, i am lost
@theartofmadeline
Sweet Seals For You, Always
2025 on Tumblr: Trends That Defined the Year
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@wordchasing
“Grief will come to you. Grip and cling all you want, It makes no difference. Catastrophe? It’s just waiting to happen. Loss? You can be certain of it. Flow and swirl of the world. Carried along as if by a dark current. All you can do is keep swimming; All you can do is keep singing.”
— Gregory Orr, from How Beautiful the Beloved
ursula k le guin affirmations for your day:
it is our differences which make us dearer to one another
it is never too late to start loving
the enemy is not the foreigner, but the ones who tell you to hate the foreigner
everyone should have food, shelter, and work
everything is a yin and yang metaphor if you try hard enough
sci-fi is important
The disenchantment of the world means first and foremost that our relationship to the world is reduced to causality. But causality is only one kind of relationship. The hegemony of causality leads to a poverty in world and experience. A magical world is one in which things enter into relations with each other that are not ruled by causal connections — relations in which things exchange intimacies. Causality is a mechanical and external relation. Magical and poetic relationships to the world rest on a deep sympathy that connects humans and things. Byung-Chul Han. 2024. The Crisis of Narration. Cambridge: Polity Press.
“We only become what we are through the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre in his introduction to Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth (Grove Press, 1963, p. 17).
Hélène Cixous, from Stigmata: Escaping Texts
“For I am the first and the last. I am the honored one and the scorned one. I am the whore and the holy one.”
— Unknown Gnostic poet, from The Thunder: Perfect Mind
Simone Weil
I remember getting done with reading these and then linking them. Then I deleted so the links went away too. Here they are again, for fellow design/architecture enthusiasts with a Marxist slant like myself.
Against architecture
Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory
Marx, architecture and modernity
Capital and architecture: Mediations between the economic and the aesthetic
Also: Wall, space and violence and On Architecture Under Capitalism.
Reblogging to return to this.
Solzhenitsyn
she put a touch of perfume at her temple and between her breasts; the earth was perfumed with the aroma of a thousand crushed leaves and flowers
Clarice Lispector, from "The Beginning of Spring" in The Book of Delights
“Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn’t already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.”
— Thomas Merton
In today's state of hyperactivity, where boredom is not allowed to emerge, we never reach the state of deep mental relaxation. The information society is an age of heightened mental tension, because the essence of information is surprise and the stimulus it provides. The tsunami of information means that our perceptual apparatus is permanently stimulated. It can no longer enter into contemplation. The tsunami of information fragments our attention. It prevents the contemplative lingering that is essential to narrating and careful listening . . . In the process of digitalization, . . . information acquires an altogether different status. Reality itself takes on the form of information and data. For the most part, we perceive reality in terms of information or through the lens of information. Information is an idea—that is, a re-representation. When reality takes the form of information, the immediate experience of presence withers. When digitalization gives everything the form of information, reality is flattened.
Byung-Chul Han, The Crisis of Narration
água viva, clarice lispector
“A capitalist society requires a culture based on images. It needs to furnish vast amounts of entertainment in order to stimulate buying and anesthetize the injuries of class, race, and sex. And it needs to gather unlimited amounts of information, the better to exploit natural resources, increase productivity, keep order, make war, give jobs to bureaucrats. The camera’s twin capacities, to subjectivize reality and to objectify it, ideally serve these needs and strengthen them. Cameras define reality in the two ways essential to the workings of an advanced industrial society: as a spectacle (for masses) and as an object of surveillance (for rulers). The production of images also furnishes a ruling ideology. Social change is replaced by a change in images. The freedom to consume a plurality of images and goods is equated with freedom itself. The narrowing of free political choice to free economic consumption requires the unlimited production and consumption of images.”
—Susan Sontag, On Photography
Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
