March 2012
2 posts
“It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on...”
– Gandhi
February 2012
3 posts
1 tag
etiquette as vengeance
In August of 1865, a Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee,had the temerity to write to his former slave, Jourdon Anderson, requesting that he come back to work on his farm. Jourdon responded in a letter of superb etiquette, excerpted below:
“I want to know particularly what the good chance is you propose to give me. I am doing tolerably well here. I get twenty-five dollars a...
January 2012
3 posts
“IF YOUR FRIENDS AREN’T SILENTLY SOWING THE SEEDS OF VIOLENT UPRISING THEN...”
– Jenny Holzer, Mom (jennyholzermom) on Twitter
December 2011
6 posts
“Karl Marx:
His mode of living consisted of daily visits to the British Museum...”
– Daily Routines
November 2011
5 posts
“We have technical means such that everyone on the planet could have adequate...”
– Kim Stanley Robinson, interview here
“The future is disorder…it’s the best possible time to be alive, when...”
– Tom Stoppard, Arcadia
In other news, FUCK I hate capitalism.
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via littlefoxpaws)
(via honeykin)
“Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“ride ten thousand days and nights
till age snow white hairs on thee”
October 2011
4 posts
“We are instructed by these petty experiences which usurp the hours and years....”
– Emerson, “Prudence” (1841)
4 tags
September 2011
4 posts
4 tags
sabbatofwolves:
I think that maybe “the personal is political” is what politically fucked us all over. No the idea in itself really, but the fact that all of these “anti-oppression politics” and “privilege call-outs” are seemingly originating from this feminist-consciousness-raising about-daily-life thing. But I think the real issue is that people’s understanding of “the personal is...
August 2011
1 post
July 2011
8 posts
"every map brings a world into being" →
WE SPEAK A DIALECT NO ONE ELSE CAN UNDERSTAND, ALTHOUGH AT FIRST GLANCE IT IS INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM PLAIN ENGLISH: “my semiotics are totally out of place here”
June 2011
35 posts
“P.S. I forgot, you are quite right: one of the paradoxes of destination, is that...”
– Jacques Derrida, The Post Card (via fuckyeahtheorists)
