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Freestyle exhibition. April 28 – June 24, 2001. Curated by Thelma Golden with the support of curatorial assistant Christine Y. Kim.
The Scholl lecture series, featuring the premier cultural creatives of our time, kicks off 2025 with one of the most influential people in the contemporary art world—Thelma Golden, Ford Foundation director and chief curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem. Streamed live on January 31, 2025.
Perhaps what we’re all looking for, …
though beautiful, was untenable in the long term.
the more beautiful the setting, the purer the horror.
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, translated from the french by Lara Vergnaud
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
