You've got to dig to dig it, you dig?
What makes “Good Girl” so powerful as a novel of development or bildungsroman is that it respects self-destruction as an effective tool of self-discovery.
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In her wild behavior, her pursuit of chaotic situations and turbulent relationships, there is exhilaration with a purpose. She is cutting ties with safety to fling herself into life.
Nersessian reviews “Good Girl,” by the German-born writer Aria Aber.
Tratado de geometría, Tana Oshima, menoslobos taller editorial, S.L., 2025.
An excerpt/(earlier version) was in LL Journal, 2021.
Satellogic announced an open satellite feed programme and named their dataset “Satellogic EarthView”. marksblogg
The Black Outdoors: Humanities Futures after Property and Possession, 2016.
“Anybody who thinks that they can understand how terrible the terror has been, without understanding how beautiful the beauty has been against the grain of the terror, is wrong.” Fred Moten
via Sarah Jane Cervenak’s IG
It was only thirty-three seconds long, this “satirical” video, but it is one of the most comprehensive depictions of what I want to call the American Imaginary that I have ever seen. Within the American Imaginary, there is and always has been a subcategory of people in this world who are not only born to suffer but are habituated to it. They come from the “shithole countries,” as previously defined by the president, during his first term.
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In America, AI is a copyright issue, an uncanny video, a propaganda tool. Through the portal, it is the destructive, extractive and violent contest to get sufficient cobalt and coltan out of African ground.
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strong case Fanon made for a radical humanism as the necessary basis of any progressive socialist politics. “What matters today,” Fanon claimed, “the issue which blocks the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity will have to address this question, no matter how devastating the consequences might be.” Not us, not them: humanity.
“Trump Gaza number one”, Zadie Smith in New York Review of Books.
Kishin Shinoyama, Shoku
Publisher by Ushio Shuppan, 358 pages, 1993, Hardcover under dust jacket, in a slipcase, 32,5 x 24,5 cm.
To temper an obstinate and wicked
Pain that has been burrowing into me for some time
I try, now and again, to cry out piteously
To the one who, oh miserable me, preys upon my heart.
But, a disciple of desire, my voice
Is scarcely heard, and already it moans and shouts.
What a harsh refrain, and so inimical to my longings,
I am deterred from begging for mercy.
And a thought says to me: fool, do you not see
That you always receive both scorn and injury
If you throw yourself meekly at the feet of someone cruel?
Thus, in silence, I breed a poorly concealed
Affliction in my heart, which is where the seed
Of that cruel love that gives me such despair took root.
Paolina Secco-Suardo Grismondi translated from Italian by Alani Rosa Hicks-Bartlett via swwim everyday
i am a promise awake with knowing
a pull in a thread
sprawling
a sputtering
a stuttering
a slant
a song
a rising
a falling
[…]longing for the pierce of stars
tonguing the night
brushing away the darkness
til there is light
around
beneath
inside
Desire [even in the time of the tyrant], Leah Umansky
Wilky Toussaint narrates a biography of Frankétienne. Jean-Pierre Basilic Dantor Franck Étienne d’Argent, 12 April 1936 – 20 February 2025.
Haiti Inter : “adieu maître du spiralisme poête de l’infini”
Ultravocal, September 5 – October 3rd, 2024, Central Fine.
Radio Aporee, the platform radio aporee is online since about 2000, the project radio aporee ::: maps has started late 2006. it is a global soundmap dedicated to field recording, phonography and the art of listening. it connects sound recordings to its places of origin, in order to create a sonic cartography, publicly accessible as a collaborative project.
A curve nearly naked
an arc of almost,
a wisp of becoming
a wand—
tiny enough to change me.
The Way We Love Something Small, Kimberly Blaeser
For the artist’s fourth solo exhibition at the gallery, cordova has developed a multi-media installation seeking to explore “the juxtaposition of past structures to more contemporary structures that illuminate the ephemeral nature of our existence, as beings who create material culture as a means of documentation and memory” (Monique Moss).
Press release, william cordova, on the lower frequencies I speak 4u (alquimia sagrada), January 23–February 29, 2020, Sikkema Malloy Jenkins.
