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“There is no sadness and no cruelty in that gaze; it is a gaze without adjectives, it is only, completely, a gaze which neither judges you nor appeals to you; it posits you, implicates you; makes you exist. But this creative gesture is endless; you keep on being born, you are sustained, carried to the end of a movement which is one of infinite origin, source, and which appears in an eternal state of suspension.”

— Roland Barthes, “The World as Object” in A Barthes Reader, various translators (via proustitute)

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Anonymous asked: My biggest problem with philosophy is people think that if they just put enough question marks on the end of words, it'll make them 'deep' or 'philosophical,' or it'll validate their ideas or make other people look silly for not being able to respond.

Song: Answering The Phone It’s a really bad idea to bring potted plants into this before I even have a chance to get over how great nature is outside my window! And it turns out even the most ridiculous apparitions indeed have their grounding in the most subtle of gardens, I mean, where else but this great metaphysical beyond can one find the basis for our most amazing television dramas? Mussolini has been acting funny lately, I think it’s the weather, or my new suntan lotion. Hair is a concern of mine, has been since I can’t even tell you when, but obsession has led me to lunch with the most interesting historical figures without even being late! Is it offensive to have considered ordering pizza? But in a sense we’re all writing poems about the same thing, that’s what my analyst told me in the ski lodge where indeterminacy was invented. You’re welcome to join us as we loll merrily through painterly abstraction as a concept and then wait hours at a time in veritable agony, but don’t expect to eat a meal with me because I don’t do that sort of thing anymore. 

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Nikki Giovanni, from “Poem”

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where do resonances go after their lifetime?

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“I with my sackful of dreams my heart never puts down”

— Frank Stanford, line 4349 from The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You (Lost Roads Publishers, 2000)

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“Although a landscape can be rendered / As a repository of memory, I come empty / And empty-handed, remembering nothing of the-once-before.”

— Eric Pankey, from section 6 of “Cold Mountain Meditations,” Witness (vol. 23, no. 1, 2010)

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“Days like drops of mercury merge, / The particular subsumed into the general / And soon there is no unoccupied space. / The past, so it seems, vast, everlasting:”

— Eric Pankey, from “To Confirm the Earth’s Rotation,” Copper Nickel (no. 23, Fall 2016)

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Ramadan Kareem. Wishing you poetry in all your worship and mercy in all your moments.

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If you’re a Christian, have a happy Easter, and remember that most Christians from the holy land are excluded today and every other day from worshipping at the place of the resurrection because Jerusalem is illegally occupied by the sectarian state of Israel.

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I am essentially a political woman, but above all I am a poet. I am a poetess. The word exists in Portugal, and I use it all the time. An interventionist poet, a poet who fights for freedom. Because you can only be a poet in freedom.

The Third Maria, Oona Patrick and Dean Ellis interview Maria Teresa Horta - Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics (via guernicamag)

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“The night is long and the Lord is Generous.”

 (Arabic proverb)

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Amer Zahr and ensemble @Arab americanmuseum

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First, human rights literature relies on a framework of a modernized first world that should go in and rescue, civilize and liberate those facing yet another crisis in the third world, always imagined as a ‘region of aberrant violence’. Second, human rights discourse presumes women only as individual, autonomous beings who can be rescued, rather than as members of families or other group identities. This demonizes socioeconomically disempowered men in particular ways as the oppressors of women, pits marginalized groups against and in competition with one another, and promotes international organizations as the saviors when marginalized men, as a group, also lack systematic access to resources and decision-making power. Third, this paradigm presumes that women can be identified as a group. In other words, to argue the collective rights of women ‘assumes women live their lives solely as women, a universalizing move that ignores the fact that women are not all gendered in the same ways’

Elora Halim Chowdhury on the silences embedded within the universalising rhetoric of human rights (via kawrage)

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sext: want to overthrow the bourgeoisie with you

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hey guys

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