A desire to bring the absent into presence, or to collapse far and near, is also a desire to foreclose then upon now. Anne Carson
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the need to leave, to rebel, to escape is so great it fills him to his very outer edge
Let him think kindly of her, always.
Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell
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“Whatever names the doctors attached to our kids didn’t matter—they were all just hurt children, suffering from developmental delays, who needed our help.”
The Four Spent the Day Together, Chris Kraus
Intervals — Marielle Plaisir, The Duck; Pepe Mar, Silver Dust; Ricardo Alcaide, Liminal; Emil Lukas, #2023 Radiant; Troy Simmons, SPORE (Durchbruch Hybrid Series).
AG2026_1144564a is composed of Nows
Pessimism of the intellect; Optimism of the will! Antonio Gramsci via “Il faut avoir le pessimisme de l’intelligence et l’optimisme de la volonté” Romain Rolland.
Radio AlHara TAKEOVER FOR IRAN
City of Miami, Art in Public Places, originally launched in 1967, relaunched in 2017.
Forever is composed of Nows —
’Tis not a different time,
Except for infiniteness
And latitude of home.
From this, experienced here,
Remove the dates to these,
Let months dissolve in further months,
And years exhale in years.
Without certificate or pause
Or celebrated days,
As infinite our years would be
As Anno Domini’s.
Freedom is our natural state
“Pourquoi le peuple consent-il à la servitude ? La servitude n’étant pas naturelle en politique, elle ne peut donc être que volontaire !” Ecrit par Etienne de La Boétie (1530-1563) , à 16 ou 18 ans, mais publié intégralement en 1576, le Discours de la servitude volontaire entend comprendre pourquoi les sociétés acceptent, voire veulent la domination. Paul Audi explique pourquoi il a été “frappé comme la foudre” à la lecture de ce texte , qui ne parle pas du pouvoir mais de la liberté que les hommes et les femmes sont prêts à abdiquer. Une œuvre qui, quand on la lit aujourd’hui, nous saisit, tant sa question reste d’actualité.
Paul Audi on Le Souffle de la pensée (radiofrance)
Discourse on Voluntary Servitude. Text. In English.
Therefore it is fruitless to argue whether or not liberty is natural, since none can be held in slavery without being wronged, and in a world governed by a nature, which is reasonable, there is nothing so contrary as an injustice. Since freedom is our natural state, we are not only in possession of it but have the urge to defend it.
hurts to imagine it
Imagine
the weeks it takes to wind
nacre over the red
seed placed at another
heart’s mantle. The mussel
become what no one
wants to:
vessel, caisson, wounded
into making us
the thing we want
to call beautiful.
Vessels, Paisley Rekdal
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MLK day!
Kevin Rodgers. YYZ Artist’s Outlet. Modern Fuel.
Andor!!! Finaly saw the last two episodes.
There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Remember this. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they’ve already enlisted in the cause. Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. And then remember this. The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that. And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire’s authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege. Remember this. Try.
(Cassian listens to Karis Nemik’s recording…) S1E12
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An overabundance of memory paralyses action, … , and encourages melancholy; deja vu is thus a ‘public pathology’ resulting from an excess of memory, a surfeit of history.
The basic structural unit of reproductive technology … is the rectangle
– Claire Bishop