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things i found in my bag: rum journey to the end of islam,...

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:16:00 -0500

things i found in my bag:

rum
journey to the end of islam, michael muhammad knight
dumpstered french bread
a study on authority, herbert marcuse
[not pictured] people’s history poster flâneries bought me.

what, best bag ever.

fuckyeahblood: marshallstaxx: peopleinurbanmotion: (via...

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:11:51 -0500

fuckyeahblood:

marshallstaxx:

peopleinurbanmotion:

(via soviet)

i need to cross-stitch so i can embroider joanna newsom lyrics and theory passages (really,...

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:35:11 -0500

i need to cross-stitch so i can embroider joanna newsom lyrics and theory passages (really, everything i would tumblr about), and give the embroideries to my friends and loved ones.

forgivensin: meh

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:24:58 -0500

forgivensin:

meh

"I would eat out her pooper with a melon ball scooper"

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:14:33 -0500

“I would eat out her pooper with a melon ball scooper”

- via alisonstevenson

"It is as if he had spent his entire life wondering what he looked like, without ever discovering..."

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:13:48 -0500

“It is as if he had spent his entire life wondering what he looked like, without ever discovering there are such things as mirrors.”

- Walter Benjamin on Franz Kafka. (via dailymeh:unburyingthelead) (via vruz) (via fuckyeahexistentialism) (via 12000boxes) (via crashinglybeautiful)

billyjane: mardi gras via verhext

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:12:08 -0500

billyjane:

mardi gras

via verhext

"We no longer believe in Europe. We no longer have faith in its political system or in its..."

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:11:40 -0500

“We no longer believe in Europe. We no longer have faith in its political system or in its philosophies. Worms have eaten into its social structure as they have into…its very soul. Europe for us - we backward, ignorant, impoverished people - is a corpse.”

- Ahmad Ali Said, Lebanese poet (1967) [via g.], via beetx

via delavallee

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:11:27 -0500

via delavallee

somethingintellectual: Marie: Me first! Me first!Toulouse: Why...

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:09:57 -0500

somethingintellectual:

Marie: Me first! Me first!
Toulouse: Why should you be first?
Marie: Because I’m a lady. That’s why.
Toulouse: Oh, you’re not a lady.
Berlioz: You’re nothing but a sister!

and it’s the fire, it’s the fire that’s burning down everything:feel that fire,...

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:12:14 -0500

and it’s the fire, it’s the fire
that’s burning down everything:
feel that fire, the fire…

jah say this judgement - it could never be with water,
no water could put out this fire
go deh, dready, go deh,
‘cause now the fire is out of control,
panic in the city, wicked weeping for their souls!
everywhere this fire is burning,
destroying and melting their gold,
destroying and waisting their souls.

bob marley - “ride natty ride”

billyjane: Man Ray ~ Gun and key no.37,1922

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:08:21 -0500

billyjane:

Man Ray ~ Gun and key no.37,1922

"To me, this writing about “affective” struggle, while neglecting “effective” struggle (the maligned..."

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:05:15 -0500

“

To me, this writing about “affective” struggle, while neglecting “effective” struggle (the maligned ‘movement, strategy, politics’ referenced above), resembles an intellectual rehashing of crimethinc’s original platform—that being a privileged young persons’ pursuit of empowerment and pleasure. Not that fighting alienation is a bad thing—but we can’t afford to forget why deposing alienation is our priority and not, say, working towards livable housing. I say this not to induce a liberal guilt trip (how banal would that be!), but rather to remind myself and any other readers how small a group this text, and the animosities that surround and produce it, are actually resonant with. I would love for this not to be the case, but it is, and I think that requires severe consideration on our part. For example: beyond the lack of promotion (or does the lack of promotion also speak to this?) why did only 50 people show up to the UC solidarity ‘dance party’?

In fact, I would posit that this divide between affective and effective struggle—constructed almost entirely by our own rhetoric and actions—serves Capital and Empire’s project of biopolitical expropriation more than it furthers our desire to launch devastating (“devastating”, insofar as it implies both affective and effective ends) attacks on Capital and Empire. Again taking last Thursday as an example, a march that had even 50 more participants would not have been broken up by one gutsy police sergeant and his partner. (Of course, other cops arrived seconds later, but the momentum of the event was shattered by that one officer’s actions! Honestly, how sad!) Sometimes, really, it seems like we don’t even WANT to win—and mystifying that underlying lack with aesthetic flourishes doesn’t make it go away.

”

- comment on Affective Disorder @ New School (via beetx)

"In a historic letter, a teenaged Rimbaud writes, “Je est un autre”, which translates to “I Is..."

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:04:52 -0500

“In a historic letter, a teenaged Rimbaud writes, “Je est un autre”, which translates to “I Is another” or “I Is Somebody Else”. The beauty and horror of these few words lie in their phraseology in that they are fundamentally grammatically incorrect. If Rimbaud meant to say “I am somebody else” he would have written “Je suis an autre”. The use of est suggests a lack of self that suis could not convey, because est like the English is can only be used in this way as regarding something other than oneself. We say such things as that is, it is, she is, life is, time is, and desire is but never I is because we otherwise would be committing a cultural faux pas whos consequence is perceived ignorance. From birth, children are immersed in complex grammatical structures which convey a sense of distinct separation of self from society as a whole—a separation which isn’t really there. At the same time, we accept “we are” as our one and only tool for attaching ourselves to an outsider or to a whole. By saying I is another Rimbaud rejects that he is a self outside this other.”

- Affective Disorder @ New School (via beetx)

billyjane: Man Ray~Self portrait with a gun

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:03:55 -0500

billyjane:

Man Ray~Self portrait with a gun

"23. You follow the same paths of thought as before. Only they appear strewn with roses."

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:57:29 -0500

“23. You follow the same paths of thought as before. Only they appear strewn with roses.”

- walter benjamin - “main features of my first impression of hashish”, 1927

billyjane: liquidnight:Luis Scafati - Illustration from his own...

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:53:22 -0500

billyjane:

liquidnight:Luis Scafati - Illustration from his own edition of The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

crashinglybeautiful: liquidnight: W. Eugene Smith -...

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:53:19 -0500

crashinglybeautiful:

liquidnight:

W. Eugene Smith - Dreamstreet, 1956

billyjane: for liquidnight somewhere in Berlin,’80s via billy’z...

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:18:12 -0500

billyjane:

for liquidnight

somewhere in Berlin,’80s

via billy’z faves

delavallee: bunnysuit: baby owl

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:17:34 -0500

delavallee:

bunnysuit:

baby owl