Posted 1 month ago

Posted 1 month ago

Adorno, Brecht and Debord: Three Models for Resisting the Capitalist Art System by Gene Ray

Posted 1 month ago

Never Before Seen Color Photos Inside Hitler's Private Home

Color photographs of Adolf Hitler, his houses and the Wolf’s Lair bunker - the article describes his domestic tastes as “baroque, often sentimental,” which seems accurate. No shortage of oppressive ornamentation, plenty of enormous flower arrangements.

Posted 3 months ago

Making Someone Else's Art by Haniya Rae

“From Tara Donovan to Jeff Koons, many of today’s art stars never lay a finger on their own art. Haniya Rae spoke with some of the laborers working in “factories” underneath these well-known artists.”

Posted 3 months ago

How to be a Person in the Age of Autoimmunity by Carolyn Lazard

“We police our own bodies for the greater social order in a variety of ways. Only clean, sanitized bodies are allowed to participate. There were many things that I was unable to do while I was sick. For a whole year, I fucked no one. There were some technical issues, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t want to. I had the stamina of someone on her deathbed, but beyond that, to be sick and to desire is a faux pas. My doctors were anxious for me to get back to work, but some human activities were never discussed. Sexuality is the right of those designated as “healthy” in our culture. A quick scan of contemporary popular culture suggests that aside from the most able-bodied (white, straight, cis-bodied, and of means), it is repulsive and “unnatural” for the sick, the disabled, or the elderly to talk about or openly engage in sexual conduct.”

“Following the logic of SPK, being ill appears to be a de facto resistance to the established social order, to capitalist production and subsequently to the engendering of material relations between humans. Disease necessitates unemployment and unemployment is a social disease. When we are sick, we enact unintended resistance to an economic system that privileges efficiency over resilience.”

Posted 3 months ago

"The three characteristics of minor literature are the deterritorialization of language, the connection of the individual to a political immediacy, and the collective assemblage of annunciation. We might as well say that minor no longer designates specific literatures but the revolutionary conditions for every literature within the heart of what is called great (or established) literature."

— Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature, p. 18 (from “What Is a Minor Literature?”)

Posted 4 months ago

My Blog On Tumblr: One Day...

sailoralecs:

One day, non-binary-gendered people will be mourned, celebrated, campaigned for, and generally acknowledged like our binary-gendered siblings on days of protest like TGDoR. Phrases like “brothers an sisters” will be changed to ‘folks”, “family”, perhaps even “comrades”. Gender markers like “Mr”,…

(via yourheartisamuscle)

Posted 4 months ago

Char the Butcher: [TW] One Year Personal Estimated Monetary Cost of Transphobia & Transmisogny*

yourheartisamuscle:

[How much money I’ve spent this year in 2012 dealing with and/or trying to avoid discrimination and violence on the basis of gender/ trans-status]

[*I’m agender and I’m not sure if I experience transmisogyny (non-binary phobia may be more accurate) but I still literally…

Posted 4 months ago

A Rebuttal to Nina Power’s Infuriating Review of Preliminary Materials For a Theory of the Young-Girl

By Seth Oelbaum. Precisely what it says on the tin.

Posted 4 months ago

She's just not that into you

An essay on Tiqqun’s Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl, by Nina Power.

Posted 4 months ago