May 2013
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Ellison, Jackson, & Love
machinic:
For Ellison, love was a mysterious force whose potential he could not quite grasp, but which he imagined could be something with and in excess of individual love: as a radical politics. After the death of Clifton, the invisible man wonders, “could politics ever be an expression of love?” (452). But even to the novel’s end, he remains incapable of harnessing such a force,...
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@racework asked for the list of books...
i’ve been purchasing recently. i’m prepping for a few different courses, so here’s the list of books i’ve purchased, in random order:
Marx on Religion Karl Marx
Mystical Languages of Unsaying
Michael Sells
The Theological Origins of Modernity
Michael Gillespie
Mysticism: Christian and Buddhist (Routledge Classics)
D. T. Suzuki
Meister Eckhart, from Whom God Hid...
April 2013
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my face when huck’s son gave him a dollar …
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"black sacred breath" -- my dissertation in a few...
I believe in Black Study and “Black Sacred Breath” is about the possibility for such a collective intellectual project.[1] Black Study is the force of belief in blackness set loose in the world, disrupting the institutionalization and abstraction of thought that produces the categorical distinctions of disciplinary knowledge. To make a claim for belief – in and of Black Study – is to already...
March 2013
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Quick Action Step For Folks Charged by NYPD
thespiritwas:
from FIERCE:
Thank you to everyone from the building who mobilized last night to the 71st Precinct after the arrests and beatings of dozens of people at the Kimani Gray vigil and arrests of Cop Watch organizers from Justice Committee and MXGM. Thanks especially to folks from ALP (Chelsea, Elliott, Irma, Lorenzo, Share), SAS (Andrea) and FIERCE (Emerson) for helping to do cop...
January 2013
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A Brief History of the Hammond Organ
strangebrewblog:
The sound of the Hammond Organ is as good as ubiquitous with the music of the late 60’s and early 70’s. For a fleeting instant, organ players took center stage, keys replaced strings , and a decent organ player became as lucrative as a contract to privatize the public water system of Tehran in 2014 [mark my words, it’ll happen].
The origins of the Hammond Organ date back to...
December 2012
2 posts
“love is a place
—
love is a place
& through this place of
love move...”
– e.e. cummings (via machinic)
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November 2012
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October 2012
1 post
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moth's powder [05.10.10]
from: a to: a Monday, May 10, 2010, 4:33 AM subject: Re: mp
of course tonight, because i had no one to talk to, i missed you just a bit more than usual. things with girlfriendofthreeyears, of course did not pan out as i’d hoped, but rightly so. too embarrassed to even talk to anyone about it. so here we are. or, really, here i am. i should delete all this shit soon.
September 2012
2 posts
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August 2012
4 posts
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moth's powder [04.25.10]
from: a to: a Saturday, April 25, 2010, 3:36 AM subject: Re: mp
dear moth’s powder,
we had trust issues. they were my fault. and, sure, i waited until too late – like now, like yesterday – to explain why. i’m sorry. but you’ve never had someone in an aol chatroom – someone with whom you didn’t even initiate conversation say to you – “you’re so ugly…please leave this...
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“”Often when I thus suddenly think of you I am dumbstricken and overpowered with...”
– Jenny von Westphalen to Karl Marx [before they were married]
the politics of avoidance is the sustained look of and as love.
(via readingandwritingtoday)
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“Man emancipates himself politically from religion by banishing it from the...”
– Karl Marx “On the Jewish Question” (1843)
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[baldwin] -- happy birthday!
whatijustread:
“Thirty [years old]. And I was alone, had been for a while, and might be for a while, but it no longer frightened me the way it had. I was discovering something terrifyingly simple: there is absolutely nothing I could do about it. I was discovering this in the way, I suppose, that everybody does, but having tried, endlessly, to do something about it. You attach yourself to...
July 2012
11 posts
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moth's powder [04.24.10]
from: a to: a Saturday, April 24, 2010, 2:11 AM subject: Re: mp
moth’s powder,
curious what an old email can do, what an old email can make you feel. curious how an old email might hold all sorts of answers and even more questions. i was searching for something in my inbox and because i haven’t needed to delete an email since i got gmail years ago, an old exchange popped up that i...
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“The modern labourer, on the contrary, instead of rising with the process of...”
– Marx & Engels “Manifesto of the Communist Party”
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the communist manifesto [and me! lol]
readingandwritingtoday:
“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”
If this is true, and the purpose of the project is to document the historicity of performance practices, the historicity of pentecostal aesthetics, then foundational to any analysis is the claim that the embodied behaviors — dance, song, whooping, tongues — make evident an ongoing class...
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“The nervous system is not contained within the body’s limits. The circuit from...”
– Susan Buck-Morss (via readingandwritingtoday)
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“What she liked was candy buttons, and books, and painted music (deep blue, or...”
– Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks
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“This misplaced sense of black loyalty to the black president, who doesn’t return...”
– Hortense Spillers “Destiny’s Child: Obama and Election ’08” (via readingandwritingtoday)
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“The first three figures (stockinger, cropper, weaver) are the three crafts...”
– Peter Linebaugh Ned Ludd & Queen Mab: Machine-Breaking, Romanticism, and the Several Commons of 1811-12
this particular passage allows me to think about the “Three Jennys” that i’m working through presently — an enslaved woman Jenny, Jenny Marx and Jenny Seymour — and i want to consider them as...
June 2012
2 posts
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“I have to - and that’s an unconditional injunction - I have to welcome the Other...”
– Jacques Derrida, Politics and Friendship (via rhizombie)
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“The Karl Marx who was being hatched in that heady environment was known as Mohr....”
– Mary Gabriel Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution
May 2012
4 posts
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The terms of order : political science and the...
“Thus the anarchisms as articulated in the Western tradition of anarchism were not a true opposition but, instead, an analytically consistent alternative. It was an alternative of the social order, not to it. It did not contradict the language of civil society but like Marxism, more specifically the vulgar Marxism represented by the economism of the late 19th-century German Social Democrats,...
reading | writing | today
I’ve created a tumblr “Reading | Writing | Today” where anyone can “Submit” (http://bit.ly/LwG0hO) a post. What I have in mind for us all is that we each commit to at least one submission of ONE SENTENCE a day. This sentence can be either something that you read that you are working to complete that is representative of the piece OR it can be a sentence that emerges...
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[baldwin]
“Thirty [years old]. And I was alone, had been for a while, and might be for a while, but it no longer frightened me the way it had. I was discovering something terrifyingly simple: there is absolutely nothing I could do about it. I was discovering this in the way, I suppose, that everybody does, but having tried, endlessly, to do something about it. You attach yourself to someone, or you...
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[rant] on "gay marriage" & "the black church"
when did the Seventh Day Adventists, the Southern Baptist Church, the American Baptist Church (USA), the Christian Reformed Church in North America, the Mennonites, the Methodist Church, the United Pentecostal Church, the Church of God (Cleveland, TN), the Church of God (Anderson, IN), the Assemblies of God — pretty much, when did mainline white christian organizations — begin...
April 2012
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moth's powder [04.21.10]
from: a to: a Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 4:13 PM subject: Re: mp
mp,
it happened again and i don’t know what to make of it. not staring but the sorta moment you feel someone looking at you from across the room and you look up from the convo you’d been engaging and, sure enough, there he is, looking. you make brief eye contact, he takes a deep breath and looks away, almost as if his...
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Praises to whoever found out about this alt/reblog...
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moth's powder [excerpt 2]
remember how we’d lay in bed all night talking until three or four, you falling asleep mid-sentence in my arms as i spooned you only to wake up an hour later and begin again? me, right behind you, my left leg covering your lower body, my left arm on your stomach, your left arm right under mine, your left hand on top of mine almost getting a bit too balmy so we’d separate our hands and...
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moth's powder [rambling]
like when singing congregational songs during the testimony portion of a church service, when we go from one tune to the next because they have the same form, the same chord structure. going from
this is the day
to
in the name of jesus (we have the victory)
to
victory is mine
to
bless that wonderful name of jesus
to
there is power, power, wonder...
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W.E.B. Du Bois & the People's College
”Soon after [WEB] Du Bois joined Atlanta University in the 1930s, he and Ira Reid instituted what was called a People’s College open to any resident in Atlanta who could read; it was taught gratis by a few faculty members of the university. The tuition was ten cents a course; classes were held in the evening and attended by Black working people. Du Bois had written about a projected...
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ssitara:
withrevolutionarycries:
ssitara:
whoosh: withrevolutionarycries: ssitara: To Be Anti-Racist Is To Be Feminist:…
navigatethestream:
withrevolutionarycries:
ssitara:
To Be Anti-Racist Is To Be Feminist: The Hoodie and the Hijab Are Not Equals
*F*eminism at it again.
Normally this BS just glides right over me now but they actually invoked Shaima Alawadi and Trayvon Martin...
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Matt Taibbi: “Why Obama's JOBS Act Couldn't Suck... →
The “Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act” (in addition to everything else, the Act has an annoying, redundant title) will very nearly legalize fraud in the stock market.
In fact, one could say this law is not just a sweeping piece of deregulation that will have an increase in securities fraud as an accidental, ancillary consequence. No, this law actually appears to have been specifically...
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moth's powder [03.26.10]
from: a to: a Thursday, March 26, 2010, 1:18 AM subject: Re: mp
so i was just looking over things i’d written in my sent box … and figured i should tell you that i started painting – or really, attempting to make art – again. so what i thought was really sweet was the way i took you to my parents’ home, how i showed you the tiny room in which i grew up and the paintings i made when i was just a...
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titled moth’s powder, the fiction i’m presently writing seeks to think through a protocol for writing to absence, for writing about absence. a collection about the enunciative force of love, of queerness, of blackness, the main character — a. — continually writes about his love for the gone person, the gone institution, the gone way of life. to figure out a method to make...
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"Nic at Night" - Lynice Pinkard
“the call to a new way of wild and radical believing…the first problem is that you don’t believe earthly things. you don’t really believe that the death system is a death system; that the suicide machine is a suicide machine. no wonder you cannot conceptualize an alternative, much less believe in it. […] the word ‘believing’ seems too soft a strategy for...
