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Thanks to mediation, we are surrounded with communication situations that are interpretive rather than dialogic. Only the Lonelyhearts of the world expect a personal reply from the movie, phonograph record, or radio program. Or to be more precise, we are all Lonelyhearts inasmuch as we ‘interact’ with books, pets, infants, or distant correspondents.

John Durham Peters, Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1999), 150–51. (via erkjhnsn)

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The task is to find an account of communication that erases neither the curious fact of otherness at its core nor the possibility of doing things with words. Language is resistant to our intent and often, in Heidegger’s phrase, speaks us; but it is also the most reliable means to persuasion we know. Though language is a dark vessel that does not quite carry what I, as a speaking self, might think it does, it still manages to coordinate action more often than not.

John Durham Peters, Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1999), 21–22. (via erkjhnsn)

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My beautiful daughter = me My perfect mother. = bestie 

i feel like the porn debate is still largely kind of yawn white lib feminist arguments around sexual"freedom" “empowerment” and so forth My beautiful daughter yes yes exactly “choice” etc…… i find it disturbing…

My perfect mother. and a weird understanding and homogensing that sexual expression is a core and fixed expression amongst people (a white sup. rendering of sexual relations) My beautiful daughter yes!

My perfect mother. and yes, choice, agency, and so forth are given and free by all and that sexual expression some how equates to personal freedom? lol fuck off My beautiful daughter totally and i feel as tho it’s only ever in response to white/christian narratives on women’s bodies/sex ?

My perfect mother. yep… My beautiful daughter like they’re being super subversive cos it’s the most exaggerated departure from that or something yes it’s v white suprem ^ ^ ….

My perfect mother. and also that diverging from mainstream (abusive, misog) porn…aka, queer or “feminist porn” aids in a flow-on narrative where people are more ethical in their own sex lives…i dont think it works like that My beautiful daughter yES !!!!!!!! read a tweet not long ago that was like “as if ppl think being horny is radical?”

My perfect mother. yeah it’s funny the ‘resistence’ or departure from xtian/organised relig values seems to be a marker, despite christian and catholic institutions being actually rampant with allusions to sex and also in itself an institute of sexual abuse…like…

#porn culture #feminism

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“…the body has been for women in capitalist society what the factory has been for male waged workers: the primary ground of their exploitation and resistance, as the female body has been appropriated by the state and men and forced to function as a means for the reproduction and accumulation of labor…. the body can be for women both a source of identity and at the same time a prison, and why it is so important for feminists and, at the same time, so problematic to valorize it.”

from Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici (via gildadavidian)

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Thomas Sankara in Concerning Violence (Olsson, 2014)

I love the perspective on the film/Fanon presented here: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/21/-sp-frantz-fanon-documentary-concerning-violence

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Remember, forgiving others is something you’re doing for yourself, not for them. Forgiveness does not mean that you forget the events of the past, nor that you condone any actions; rather, it frees you from being controlled by them.

Don Miguel Ruiz Jr. (via samxcamargo)

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I’ll never forget the most valuable piece of advice I was given, “if you feel like you can’t make it through the day, only focus on the next hour. If you feel like you can’t make it through the next hour, only focus on the next few minutes. If you feel like you can’t make it through the next few minutes, take it one breath at a time.” I have to remind myself that, you’re gonna be okay, try to see through the cloud of doubt that is harboring all of the negative energy. It’s gonna get better. You are not alone. You are loved. So many people care about you, and want to see you happy and smiley. It’s okay to feel like this. Your feelings are valid. It’s okay to feel nothing at all. You’re not going to feel like this forever.

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not doing great?

clean your room

open curtains/windows

take a shower

put on clean clothes

get out of your room a bit

stretch

drink a glass of water

get the hard/important stuff out of the way while you have energy

set some (any!) goals

remember that it is okay to have bad days

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this floored me

#Anne Carson #the glass essay

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There is nothing mysterious or natural about authority. It is formed, irradiated, disseminated; it is instrumental, it is persuasive; it has status, it establishes canons of taste and value; it is virtually indistinguishable from certain ideas it dignifies as true, and from traditions, perceptions, and judgements it forms, transmits, reproduces. Above all, authority can, indeed must, be analyzed.

Edward W. Said, Orientalism (via astranemus)

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I had no clue Black Europeans history was so rich and complex ! 

So glad to have discovered this article. 

Power to the people. 

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yes

“What the white working class wants is a return to the prosperity of the 1950s and 1960s when strong unions, good jobs and high taxes on the wealthy made all that possible. But instead of turning to politicians who might actually want to bring those things back, they turn to loud mouths and liars who have convinced them that the cause of their problems is rooted in abortion, lack of love for Jesus, lazy minorities, immigrants and rich liberals. This diverted attention from the real causes, many of which are mentioned in this column. Automation, the shift in demand for cleaner, cheaper energy, corporations that horde profits at the expense of workers, politicians who pander to donors not voters and the rise of a news media that takes all of its orders from the propagandists at Fox News. Well, the GOP is now in total control. Who will the white working class blame now that they have put the real causes of their problems in charge of everything?”

– a terrifically insightful comment left on Paul Krugman’s latest piece for the New York Times.

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A documentary based upon Franz Fanon’s classic work “The Wretched Of The Earth”. Narrated by Lauryn Hill.

WATCH THIS BEFORE THEY TAKE IT DOWN I LOVE THIS MOVIE

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Giant amethyst geode from Uruguay

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Be picky about vibes. Be picky about the energy you surround yourself with. You owe yourself that much

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AZURITE and MALACHITE (Copper Carbonate) from Hubei Province, China.

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i want to b soft ! i want to appear like i am floating. i never want my feet to touch the ground again