Latest Posts by zerkalno - Page 2
maybe I need to accept that I´m more of a thinker with impulse control issues than a doer
the way Hannah Arendts Vita Activa is the perfect book to procastinate reading
the way i´m posting unaware of current memes and 7 followers
broke: no love lost (derogatory)
woke: no love lost (as a spell)
But nothing expresses this restless and exitless present better than this ancient phrase that turns completely back on itself, being constructed letter by letter like an inescapable labyrinth, thus perfectly uniting the form and content of perdition: In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni. We turn in the night, consumed by fire.
Guy Debord, In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni (1978)
Eurovision is a spectacle of laboured cringe produced by and for the Eurotrash descendants of Gestapo collaborators. Boycotting it is an easy one.
Ipana atronivea
north island lichen moth - 29.02.24
Paul Celan, Psalm
Martin Boyce, Like Snow, (lacquered steel, painted plywood, painted steel), 2023 [Esther Schipper, Berlin, Paris, Seoul 서울. © Martin Boyce]
Mohammed El-Kurd, from Rifqa; “Elderly Woman Falls Asleep on My Shoulder”
[Text ID: “Under occupation, walking feels barefoot. / Here, walking feels like attempting to run / in water. / The soldier, blonde and sunburnt, asks her for her permit. / My permit: these wrinkles / older than your country’s existence. / My smile is a sun.”]
The obvious is defenseless like a gazelle stabbed by safety, like you. Like you in this field wide-open to armed archaeologists who never cease to interrogate you: Who are you? You check all your body parts and say: I am myself. They say: Where is the proof? You say: I am. They say: This is not enough. We need lack. So you say: I am both perfection and lack. They say: Say that you are a stone so we can end our excavation. You say: If only the young man were a stone. But they did not understand you.
Mahmoud Darwish, from In the Presence of Absence
“Kill them with kindness” wrong. Arson
“You don’t know whether people relate to the breakfast program, because you’ve never fed anybody. You don’t know anything about the free health clinic because you never asked anybody. You don’t know anything about the good that a gun does you, because you never tried one. And we say that if you was born and if you said you didn’t like pears and you never tasted pears, you’d have to be a liar. You don’t know whether you like pears, but you can’t claim that you don’t like pears. The only way that anybody can tell you the taste of a pear is if he himself has tasted it. That’s the only way. That’s the objective reality. That’s what the Black Panther Party deals with. We’re not metaphysicians, we’re not idealists, we’re dialectical materialists. And we deal with what reality is, whether we like it or not.”
— Fred Hampton speaking about how you must practice your theory, or else it’s irrelevant, 1969.
— Children of Shatila (1998) by Mai Masri
enrolling my russian chicken egg homunculus at the local elementary school
from "11 POEMS—TITLES BY AZIZ SHIHAB—FROM HIS NOTEBOOKS" as featured in Naomi Shihab Nye's Transfer: Poems
Carlos Estévez — Non Stop Journey (oil, watercolor and pencil on canvas, 2012)
GONZALEZ CAMACHO
your favourite ukrainian poem?
I don't know a single Ukrainian poem. I never had time to dive that deep into Ukrainian culture and never encountered one just randomly. The arts haven't been my priority here, but I'd love to read some Ukrainian poems.
Ukrainians, please feel free to send me your favorite ones.
“Where is my house
Where is my mother
Where is my father
Where is my sister and my brother
Where is humanity!”
Graffiti seen on the rubble in Gaza
Tár (2022)
its laying absolute egg
oops! it seems i tripped and dropped several million free books, papers, and other resources
https://annas-archive.org
https://sci-hub.se
https://z-lib.is
https://libgen.is
https://libgen.rs
https://www.pdfdrive.com
https://library.memoryoftheworld.org
https://monoskop.org/Monoskop
https://libcom.org
https://libretexts.org
http://classics.mit.edu
https://librivox.org
https://standardebooks.org
https://www.gutenberg.org
https://core.ac.uk
It's so sad that I am hearing of Bosnian genocide survivors talk about how they are triggered by the genocide denial happening around gaza. That the rhetoric that is being thrown around in the media and the rationalization for killing thousands and the talk of "let's be careful of what we call genocide. Let's wait before we call it that" is repetitive of what they were hearing when they were living through it
And Holocaust survivors who were protesting in DC and feeling the burden of having to come out and protest another genocide being done in their name except the media has completely sidelined them because it does not fit the narrative.
I have no other words except how terrible this is but it feels comforting in a weird way that genocide survivors are standing with Gaza. Who needs the acknowledgement of governments when you have them
Anne Boyer