“Es ist dies eine konsequent ausgebaute These [dass die Erkenntnis der Welt der einheitlichen physikalischen Sprache bedarf], die sich durch immanente Kritik kaum erschüttern ließe. Man kann jedoch ihre historische Herkunft und ihre damit zusammenhängenden dogmatisch-metaphysischen Züge aufweisen.”
— Jan Patočka, Die natürliche Welt als philosophisches Problem, p. 47.
5:40 pm ❦
22 September 2011
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
That is why I am here
not among the ibises. Why
the permanent city parasol
covers even me.
It was the rains
in the occult season. It was the snows
on the lower slopes. It was water
and cold in my mouth.
A lack of shoes
on what appeared to be cobbles
which were still antique
Well wild wild whatever
in wild more silent blue
the vase grips the stems
petals fall the chrysanthemum darkens
Sometimes this mustard feeling
clutches me also. My sleep is reckoned
in straws
Yet I wake up
and am followed into the street.
—Barbara Guest, “A Reason”
2:10 pm ❦
8 September 2011
Ghanaian bootleg movie poster for Army of Darkness, found here (via).
11:00 pm ❦
5 September 2011
Inhambane district, Mozambique, July 2011.
11:12 pm ❦
19 August 2011
Sammy Sosa skin cream / Michael Jackson disease
Maputo, August 2011.
11:09 am ❦
10 August 2011
“The purpose of this little program is to expose the seductions of rhetoric, not to criticize actions taken. Despite my admiration for many of the actions taken in the name of insurrection, I’m suspicious of how easy it is to substitute style for substance in the communiques describing these actions. And this is not to say that all “insurrectionist” texts are meaningless, despite its difficulty, I found the Coming Insurrection to be, with all its excesses, a serious (if contentious) contribution to revolutionary thought. And, to point out just one other exemplar, the recent “Communique from an Absent Future: The Terminus of Student Life” is by and large an excellent piece of analysis. This program is intended only to demonstrate the pitfalls of language which sounds too good to be meaningful.”
— Automatic Insurrection
11:20 pm ❦
22 May 2011
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“Imagine a man who buys a chicken from the grocery store, manages to bring himself to orgasm by penetrating it, then cooks and eats the chicken.”
— The infinite wisdom of David Brooks
11:09 am ❦
4 May 2011
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