luthienne:

Special Problems in Vocabulary  There is no single particular noun for the way a friendship, stretched over time, grows thin, then one day snaps with a popping sound.  No verb for accidentally breaking a thing while trying to get it open —a marriage, for example.  No participial phrase for losing a book in the middle of reading it, and therefore never learning the end.  There is no expression, in English, at least, for avoiding the sight of your own body in the mirror, for disliking the touch  of the afternoon sun, for walking into the flatlands and dust that stretch out before you after your adventures are done.  No adjective for gradually speaking less and less, because you have stopped being able to say the one thing that would break your life loose from its grip.  Certainly no name that one can imagine for the aspen tree outside the kitchen window, its spade-shaped leaves  spinning on their stems, working themselves into a pale-green, vegetable blur.  No word for waking up one morning and looking around, because the mysterious spirit  that drives all things seems to have returned, and is on your side again.ALT

Tony Hoagland, Application for Release from the Dream: Poems

louisegluckpdf:

louisegluckpdf:

they should invent a profound love between two people that doesnt involve the power and chance of doing profound hurt

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lunchboxpoems:
“SARAH RUSSELL
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lunchboxpoems:

SARAH RUSSELL

sealedbeastnue:
“mapsontheweb:
“Ancient Greek geographer Strabo’s map of the known world.
”
bad work strabo”

sealedbeastnue:

mapsontheweb:

Ancient Greek geographer Strabo’s map of the known world.

bad work strabo

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Sigmund Freud

invertebrates:

bogleech:

regular lobsters start out as just little lobsters but spiny lobsters start out as these beautiful weird larvae that also evolved to ride on top of jellyfish. This jellyfish is too small though!!!

imagine some other guy evolving specifically just to annoy you. what the fuck

César Rendueles - OMNIA SUNT COMMUNIA? Reflexiones en torno a la crisis ecosocial y las políticas de lo común

Prólogo a ‘¿Comunismo sin crecimiento?’ – Manuel Sacristán

La cuestión no es si el sistema financiero va a colapsar: ya ha colapsado: si sigue vivo es por un dopaje inmenso de anabolizantes en forma de dinero público.

Revolución como reparto del lujo: urinarios de oro - Lenin

En caso de necesidad - Omnia sunt communia - Santo Tomás de Aquino

Recetas de hoy para las cocinas de mañana - Marx

Principal problema de lo común: no ser privado-propietario pero tampoco público-estatal

Pero el neoliberalismo ha sido una teoría y una práctica del Estado

Profesor de lógica de Rendueles: “los tiburones y los submarinos se parecen mucho por fuera pero muy poco por dentro”

Las políticas comunales requieren comunidades censitariamente cerradas y estables, vínculos fuertes y permanentes. Gestión del conflicto y la exclusión: la burocracia, en tanto que “gestión racional de las organizaciones” (Weber), precisamente es moralmente positiva pues avala la igualdad de trato y garantizar condiciones democráticas en sociedades de masas; no está nada claro que una cooperativa pueda cumplir esa función, porquen última instancia son clubs privados a los que no tiene acceso cualquiera. En tercer lugar, los comunes son técnicos: ¿hay que abrir a lo común la gestión aeroportuaria? No es que la complejidad esté fuera del alcance de lo cooperativo, sino que las que son complejas reproducen los problemas burocráticos de una institución pública: la participación se vuelve periférica y ornamental, etc.

El atractivo de los comunes es la construcción en primera persona de horizontes alternativos de sociabilidad, por residuales que sean, con paciencia y confianza (lujos que no tenemos en una crisis).

La “Opción 0” de Cuba mostró el poder del Estado para reaccionar con rapidez y eficacia a una reconversión energética sin combustibles fósiles. Incluyendo aquellas acciones necesariamente restrictivas y autoritarias contra privilegios insostenibles. Básicamente el Estado es fundamental para construir alternativas no estatales.

La reacción rápida ante una escasez sobrevenida requiere o racionamiento y burocracia o sistema de precios y desigualdad.

El colapsismo como posición inmoral e impolítica, que elucubra con una ventana de oportunida comunal-pastoral idílica técnicamente absurda.

Raymond Williams: “Ser verdaderamente radical es hacer la esperanza posible, no la desesperación convincente”.

Dar ejemplo como rompehielos ideológico.

songsintheattic:

anthropoetics:

being in the pool while it’s raining should be considered an emotion

that emotion is called Being A Frog

dreg-heap:

dreg-heap:

Can’t let British people have air conditioning because first they’d call it something twee like “the climate fixer” and then in 20 years they’ll call it “the climb” or “the climmy”

French kids would call it “le climot”, frustrating language officials who would prefer they call it “machine pour le contrôle du climat froide à l'interieure de l'édifice”

thoodleoo:

when will somebody designed a birdfeeder shaped like prometheus where the birds eat out of where his liver will be

fixingher:

abladeofgrass:

larchcoin:

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[ID: a wikipedia article about “prophetic perfect tense”. it reads, “the prophetic perfect tense is a literary technique used in the bible that describes future events that are so certain to happen that they are referred to in the past tense as if they had already happened.” below is a timeline diagram illustrating the point of the text. there are two markings, one at the left marking “time prediction is made” and the other at the middle marking “prediction is fulfilled”. there is a yellow arrow that goes from the first marking to the second. there is also an orange arrow that goes from the first marking beyond the second, then circles back to the second marking. it is labelled, “predicted future event described as if past event”.

script text, spoken by orestes, that reads “this was always going to happen. she’s been dead since the beginning.”

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