Category: landscape

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For my people walking blindly spreading joy, losing time

     being lazy, sleeping when hungry, shouting when

     burdened, drinking when hopeless, tied, and shackled

     and tangled among ourselves by the unseen creatures

     who tower over us omnisciently and laugh;

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For my people standing staring trying to fashion a better way

    from confusion, from hypocrisy and misunderstanding,

    trying to fashion a world that will hold all the people,

all the faces, all the adams and eves and their countless generations;

Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born.

Margaret Walker, “For My People”

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The subjunctive is a lovely mood (Joshua Clover)

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Yahdon Israel on The Critic and Her Publics. (Aaliyah Bilal’s Temple Folk. Merchants of Culture by John B. Thompson)

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space, too, is a temporal concept. Paul Klee, Creative Confession and Other Writings

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You know all my angels.

How could I say no to you, 

– Kaveh Akbar

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lose himself in the mechanics of the ordinary (CK)

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The longing to stay, to reach out and touch her was deep (CK)

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limited utopias uphold the practice of artmaking as a performance of non-fulfillment

… deputize for political thought the collection of formal, rhetorical, and tropological maneuvers

Paulò majora canamus—let us sing, of slightly greater things.

-AN

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ICE’s War on Home, (LRB). “… at once an autonomous phenomenon and a continuation of the George Floyd rebellion of 2020 and the student-led campaign against the war on Gaza.”