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For what is a brat, What has she got When she wears hats she cannot Say the things she feels But only words Of those who kneel The record shows, I've stuffed a bloke And did it my way

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Full fathom five, Jackson Pollock

Medium: oil,canvas

https://www.wikiart.org/en/jackson-pollock/full-fathom-five

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Kira Roessler of Black Flag

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“Sovereignty, after all, is a fantasy misrecognized as an objective state” - Lauren Berlant, Cruel Optimism (2011)

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Warhol; Hammer and Sickle with Vibrator, 1975

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John Cage, 49 Waltzes for the Five Boroughs, 1977

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“Jim Cooper, a former LAPD officer turned sociologist, has observed that the overwhelming majority of those who end up getting beaten or otherwise brutalized by police turn out to be innocent of any crime. ‘Cops don’t beat up burglars,’ he writes. The reason, he explained, is simple: the one thing most guaranteed to provoke a violent reaction from the police is a challenge to their right to, as he puts it, ‘define the situation.’ That is, to say ‘no, this isn’t a possible crime situation, this is a citizen-who-pays-your-salary-walking-his-dog situation, so shove off,’ let alone the invariably disastrous, ‘wait, why are you handcuffing that guy? He didn’t do anything!’ It’s ‘talking back’ above all that inspires beat-downs, and that means challenging whatever administrative rubric has been applied by the officer’s discretionary judgment. The police truncheon is precisely the point where the state’s bureaucratic imperative for imposing simple administrative schema and its monopoly on coercive force come together.”

— David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy.  (via locusimperium)

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Robert Rauschenberg, Rush 20 (Cloister), 1980

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“The “Theses [On The Concept Of History]” reflect [Walter] Benjamin’s apocalyptic vision of European politics in the late Thirties and his disappointment with communism’s betrayal in the Hitler-Stalin pact…. Stalin’s pact with the devil finally shattered any illusions he may have had about communism’s redemptive mission. In the Twenties Benjamin had played with the ideas of divine violence, radical decisionism, and political nihilism; in the early Thirties he could still idealize the frenzy of what he called “the destructive character.” But now the real apocalypse approached, bringing with it satanic violence, not the Messiah. At a deeper level, the “Theses” represent the last dramatic encounter between Benjamin’s theological metaphysics and his historical materialism. The essay opens with an image of the philosophy of history as a chess game, which a puppet called historical materialism can win only “if it enlists the services of theology, which today,” he says, “is wizened and has to keep out of sight.” And what can materialism learn from theology? Essentially that the idea of historical progress is an illusion, that history is nothing but a series of catastrophes piling wreckage upon wreckage, reaching up to the heavens. The members of the working class had been corrupted by the idea of progress, which blinded them to the regressive social consequences that accompanied increased domination of the natural world. They were lulled into ignoring the “state of emergency” caused by the rising forces of fascism, and failed to respond. Materialism must now withdraw with “monastic discipline” from this belief in a progressive historical continuum, replacing it with a conception of history closer to that of traditional Judaism, which believed that “every second of time was the strait gate through which the Messiah might enter.” As [Gershom] Scholem later remarked, nothing remains of historical materialism in this hermetic text but the term itself.”

— Mark Lilla, The Riddle Of Walter Benjamin

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“The unfinished and open body (dying, bringing forth and being born) is not separated from the world by clearly defined boundaries; it is blended with the world, with animals, with objects. It is cosmic, it represents the entire material bodily world in all its elements. It is an incarnation of this world at the absolute lower stratum, as the swallowing up and generating principle, as the bodily grave and bosom, as a field which has been sown and in which new shoots are preparing to sprout.”

— Mikhail Bakhtin, Rabelais and His World (via astranemus)

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Patti Smith and Lizzy Mercier Descloux by Michel Esteban, Paris, 1976.