February 2012
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“Not insensitive to the problem of this subject, The Coming Insurrection sets out...”
– “What are We to Do?” by Endnotes, in Communization and Its Discontents: Contestation, Critique, and Contemporary Struggle
This is a problem that I see with a lot of PoMoish stuff about identity. H
“Barely twenty years have passed since the collapse of actually-existing...”
– “The Fabric of Struggles” - Benjamin Noys in Communization and Its Discontents: Contestation, Critique, and Contemporary Struggle (via effusionofbiopower)
Glad to see that you got the link I sent you via fb. I found out about it via this article (which is also worth a read).
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“Texts such as Call or The Coming Insurrection however, do not even properly ask...”
– “What are We to Do?” by Endnotes, in Communization and Its Discontents: Contestation, Critique, and Contemporary Struggle
January 2012
1 post
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“The police officers who discovered the bodies of Applewhite and his followers...”
– Dominic Pettman, After the Orgy: Toward a Politics of Exhaustion
November 2011
1 post
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“The first political conversation I ever recall took place when I was six in an...”
– Eric Hobsbawm, “Intellectuals and The Class Struggle”
October 2011
2 posts
taoofsleaze asked: I meant Peter Lamborn Wilson. Have you read anything by Michael Muhammad Knight? He talks at length about Peter Lamborn Wilson in the book I'm reading right now.
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Tor.com » The Problem With “Asian Steampunk” →
wildunicornherd:
Jess Nevins urges steampunks to expand their historical horizons, citing intriguing facts like
Zeppelin pirates are a staple of steampunk, but nautical pirates were a reality in the waters of Southeast Asia. Notable among these were the female pirates, from Zheng Yi Sao and Cai Qian in the beginning of the 19th century to Lo Hon Cho and Lai Choi San in the early part of the...
September 2011
2 posts
“The use—or abuse—of “comfort women” constituted part of military discipline. It...”
– Sonia Ryang, Love in Modern Japan: Its Estrangement from Self, Sex, and Society
I think this is the most depressing book about love ever written. Sonia Ryang’s ability to substantively address the Rape of Nanjing and Love Hina in the same book is frankly terrifying.
Notes toward an anarchist school of the hidden...
This is an old list, and I don’t really feel like rummaging through it to add more recent acquisitions or to divide it further. It hopefully will give an idea as to where the necronautic assassin library is currently at.
Western Occult Tradition
The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation, Including the Demotic Spells - Hans Dieter Betz (trans)
Ancient Mystery Cults - Walter Burkert
Masks...
August 2011
12 posts
In the event your family lived in the United...
message me with their ethnicit(ies) and geographic location(s) during this time period, and I will do my best to find charming pictures and documents related to radical cultural/political organizing in their communities when I ransack the Ithica archives for the detritus of the American left. I will then post them on Tumblr, and tag you in the picture.
Guidelines/Advisements:
There will be more...
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Precaritariat Biopolitical Rantings: The Rules of... →
effusionofbiopower:
1. Regarding Purpose:
To find that place out of which we come.
a. Explanation:
“Gaja” (“elephant”) means “the origin and the goal.”
i. “ga” = “goal” ii. “ja” = “origin”
2. Regarding the Identity of All Those Who Undertake the Acts or Infiltrations of Piracy: Half-human half-beast.
a. Explanation: According to the story, which is the only truth around these miserable...
mixing memory and desire
Tedious full time job + never leaving my room meant that I don’t have any clear memory of the past month or so. Now I’m trying to reconstruct it via saved text messages, my goodreads account, and facebook.
Lets see how this works out.
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RIP, "Queen Amidala's Revenge"
2006-2011
Beloved intellectual companion and pirate. Also lost were .pdfs of virtually every book produced as part of Pathfinder role playing game system, numerous articles related to Indian Marxist archeology, and several hundred .jpgs of my cat.
I wonder if my neighbors like Japanese noise...
I suppose we’ll find out.
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The Denationalized Have No Class: The Banishment... →
In a recent article by Bumsoo Kim entitled “Bringing class back in: the changing basis of inequality and the Korean minority in Japan,” I read:
“[…] this study shows that the legal/institutional and socioeconomic structural changes in Japan for the past few decades, by decreasing ethnic inequality between Koreans and Japanese while increasing class inequality among Koreans, have made class...
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“Catering to such tastes, brothels provided courtesans who imitated the...”
– Gary Leupp, Male Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan
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Debauch the currency!: What anarchists should know... →
determinatenegation:
“The dictatorship of the proletariat [is] an immense expansion of democracy, which for the first time becomes democracy for the poor, democracy for the people, and not democracy for the money-bags, the dictatorship of the proletariat imposes a series of restrictions on the freedom of the oppressors, the exploiters, the capitalists. We must suppress them in order to free...
It sounds lovely, but...
foucaultscat replied to your post: what I mean when I say I’m tumbling
I am think of starting a pen pal network. Real stamps, real stationary, real cursive writing, real people. What do you think?
I never learned how to write in cursive. Or I did, but promptly forgot. I have pretty severe dysgraphia (motor subtype), so holding a pen is rather awkward and uncomfortable, and writing for...
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what I mean when I say I'm tumbling
Step one: Stare blankly at newsfeed.
Step two: Scroll, in order to simulate the act of reading.
Step three: Write half an entry, become discouraged.
Step four: Doubt that the simulacrum of sociality hosted on tumblr.com actually offers any meaningful solution to my pervasive feelings of isolation.
Step five: Close tab, feel fleeting smugness at my rejection of spectacle-commodity society.
...
July 2011
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“Is it the future pouring into the present that shatters yesterday and makes of...”
– Samuel R. Delany, The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village
Afterwards we talk about what Walter Benjamin...
Patrick: I have an idea
Patrick: and we are going to be so rich
Kat: yes? do tell
Patrick: tenured professorships for all of us
Kat: professors aren't rich
Kat: but that's okay
Kat: the ego trip is worth more
Patrick: theoretically and academically rigorous literary analysis of the twilight series
Kat: if it hasn't been done by now i'd be so shocked
Kat: but i'm in anyway
Patrick: I can't find any
Kat: let's do it
Patrick: most of it is seriously some lazy undergrad shit
Kat: wait, this means i have to read the whole thing
Patrick: like, I posted a link on my wall. they only cite one book by foucault
Patrick: vol one of the history of sexuality. I mean seriously, volume 3 is so much more relevant to the cullens
Kat: no discipline and punish? relationship power trips sooo hard!
Patrick: right! and in madness and civ, the whole thing about the relationship between desire, animality, and madness
Patrick: or we could bring in some bakhtin shit about genre and dialogue. drop that russian shit on them
Kat: but it still means i have to read the series
Patrick: because she's not consciously writing within a genre tradition
Patrick: she has little familiarity with it
Kat: okay, i've heard that
Patrick: but she can't help but be read within that genre
Patrick: so what is different about her vampires vs. what is the same is potentially interesting
Kat: oh we can go all the different meanings and values of intention all up on that and inderterminacy
Patrick: or some queer theory about "passing" and "assimilation" and its relationship to mormon ideas about desire
Patrick: or the construction of indigenous people as being, on the one hand, closer to nature, but on the other hand, not really human
Kat: how many people do you think we can get in on this?
Patrick: I don't know
Wild Unicorn Herd: Like somewhere along the line... →
wildunicornherd:
I’m not any of those.
(I used to be an artist but not any more.)
You’ve got to accept that it is OKAY to not be an activist, that there are SOME PEOPLE who feel that for THEM, PERSONALLY, just blogging and shit does not constitute activism, that it is totally possible to be “enlightened” or have the right politics or whatever and not automatically be an activist, that...
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“Another counterintuitive notion: The writer does not project his or her...”
– Samuel R. Delany, “The K. Leslie Steiner Interview,” Silent Interviews: On Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction, and Some Comics
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“For in this city there is still a monster all expect me to speak of as...”
– Samuel R. Delany, “The Tale of Plagues and Carnivals,” in Flight from Nevèrÿon
““Actually,” Tak was saying, “I suspect the whole thing is science fiction.”
...”
– Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren IV.5 Thinking about science fictional cities… (via wildunicornherd)
My copy of Silent Interviews just arrived today!!!1!
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Tumbling is Hard o.O;: Book reccomendations? →
tekanji:
I’m looking to do some world-building for fantasy worlds I may or may not ever write about. I do not want these worlds to be eurocentric or otherwise white-centric. To this end, I’m looking to get some resource books that would be able to give me a good grounding in various real-world cultures:…
OMG, I can help. Maybe. Do you want general reference type books, or books about...
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“While the anticapitalist nature of his project is very explicit and his...”
– Göran Therborn, From Marxism to Post-Marxism
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“That was the privileged point of equilibrium between the precariousness of...”
– Jacques Ranciere, The Nights of Labor: The Workers’ Dream in Nineteenth-Century France
On the other hand, if steampunk has an implicit emancipatory vision, maybe it’s something like this?
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“Riding a tourist camel by the pyramids, I pictured these mismatched characters...”
– Michael Muhammad Knight, Journey to the End of Islam
June 2011
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“At a Harlem parliament, ABG told me that the Father had tried leading Gods away...”
– Michael Muhammed Knight, The Five Percenters: Islam, Hip-hop, and the Gods of New York
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“Matteawan offered the worst conditions in both America’s criminal justice system...”
– Michael Muhammed Knight, The Five Percenters: Islam, Hip-hop, And the Gods of New York
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“Here we have a flagrant example of what it means to supply a productive...”
– Walter Benjamin, “On Tumbling The Author as Producer”
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“What defines the personages of my book as proletarians is not their...”
– Jacques Ranciere, The Nights of Labor: The Workers’ Dream in Nineteenth Century France
Next time you go to your shitty temp job, pretend that you’re LARPing 19th century labor relations.
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“The helpless fixation on notions of security and property deriving from the past...”
– Walter Benjamin, “One-Way Street”
An apt comment on both Tea Party conservatism and middle class liberalism.
“Can the hungry go on a hunger strike? Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You...”
– Arundhati Roy (via mllanders)
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“And one thing, therefor, can never be made good: having neglected to run away...”
– Walter Benjamin, “One-Way Street”
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“The ancients’ intercourse with the cosmos had been different: the ecstatic...”
– Walter Benjamin, “One-Way Street”
Io! Evoe! Io Iakchos! Io Bromios!
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“Each morning the Christian Era crumbles the rock, but between the walls below,...”
– Walter Benjamin, “One-Way Street”
Under the cathedrals, the mithraeum!
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“Under these circumstances true literary activity cannot aspire to take place...”
– Walter Benjamin, “One-Way Street”
Although I have no doubt Benjamin would have appreciated the immediacy and collectivity of the blogosphere, I have a feeling he would have preferred the tangible materiality of punk zines.
english workers: how u make class conciousness?
I’m about 1/3 of the way through E.P. Thompson’s 836 page epic, The Making of the English Working Class. Other than an unfortunate gender blindspot (the working class is constructed basically as male wage earners), this book def deserves its status as a classic.
You can follow my progress here:
http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/4549686-patrick
Check out Joan Wallach Scott’s...
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“Liberty of conscience was the one great value which the common people had...”
– E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class