Light filtering through thin plant–mostly green, some yellow, some browning leaves and branching stems–casting soft shadows on a wall. Image was shot in Saint Augustine, at night, March 2020.
What is most near? Ah, sweet dead year- Thy fallen leaf And gathered sheaf, The presence that is fled, The vows that once were said- These are most near.
Swift speeds away Rose-crowned To-day. So far, so far Her light feet are! I look and see thy face Haunting the upland place, Dear Yesterday.
The blooming flowers, The sunny hours- These cannot rest, These are half blest. But thou forevermore Art mine, love, as of yore, And time is ours.
Le Jardin aux Habitants, Robert Milin. (tracé, matériaux de récupération, terre végétale, végétaux, peinture, installation dans espace urbain, actions d’habitants.) 2002. Palais de Tokyo. In 2022.
Book published in October 2022. (les presses du reel)
he used one hand to hold it by its gills and the other to drive a small metal stake between its eyes and directly into its brain—a technique known in Japan as ike jime. The bonito’s body twitched until Yamasaki slid a thin metal wire down the column of its spinal cord, a second step called shinkei jime, which arrests its nervous system.
The method is considered significantly more humane than the standard alternatives for killing a fish (thwacking it on the head, letting it suffocate), and is analogous to halal and kosher butchery, which both require that animals be slaughtered with a swift, decisive cut to the throat. It also results in fish that tastes better and stays fresh significantly longer.
When the Social-Democratic worker found himself in the economic crisis which degraded him to a coolie, the development of his revolutionary feelings was inhibited by the conservative structure which had been cultivated in him for decades. Either he remained in the Social-Democratic party, in spite of all his criticism and rebellion. Or, oscillating between his revolutionary and his conservative feelings, and disillusioned by Social- Democratic leadership, he followed the path of least resistance and switched to the NSDAP, hoping to find better leadership there. In this situation, it depended on the correct or incorrect mass leadership of the revolutionary party whether or not the worker would give up his conservative tendency and would develop the full consciousness of his responsibility in the production process, that is, his revolutionary consciousness. The Communist contention that it was Social-Democratic politics which had helped fascism come to power was—mass-psychologically— correct. Disillusionment in Social Democracy must, in the presence of a conflict between pauperization and conservative thinking, lead into the fascist camp if there are no effective revolutionary organizations. Thus there was, for example, a fascization of the workers in England after the fiasco of the Labor party in 1930–31; in the elections of 1931, the workers, instead of swinging to Communism, shifted to the right. Democratic Scandinavia, also, was threatened by such a development.
“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).
